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Categories: Fitness
Tags: exercise food health
Views: 1095
As some of you may have read in my biography, I am very active. I really enjoy exercising. Really. I actually do enjoy it. And I am not talking about just getting on a treadmill everyday. Honestly, I haven't even been on a treadmill in months. I just love moving around. I have found it is great for my body and for my diabetes. I do so many things that I don't have enough room on this page to tell you about all of them. To name a few though, I particularly enjoy weight-lifting, martial arts and doing just about anything involved with the outdoors. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: lows overnight testing
Views: 1896
His knees are bent.
Like a frog.
His nostril whistles.
He sleeps peacefully.
He's 56.
"Charlie," I whisper into the dead of night, giving him a slight nudge.
The ceiling fan hums.
"Charlie, you're low. Have some juice."
"Charlie!"
So many nights I've whispered these words into his sleeping ears. So many nights for four-and-a-half years. So many nights Susanne has. So many nights other moms and dads around the world whisper the very same words to their children in the darkness. We need a cure.
He keeps his eyes closed.
He just nods and opens his mouth when he feels the straw poking at his lips.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetes intuition meter usage
Views: 1172
Over the past month, it seems like I've had a lot of "intuitive" feedback. No, I'm not talking about my own psychic revelations. I'm talking about diabetics citing intuition and their body's signals as their diabetes beacon. It seems readers across the web are using their body's feedback as their guiding light to treat blood sugars. And I have to say...I'm not all that pleased.
I can definitely understand where they are coming from in these statements, but I also have to say that I don't think it's a wise choice. At least not for me. For me, it could be a life or death situation.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: averages carb counting daily life thinking
Views: 1619
Diabetes is hard work. Everyday I use my brain to survive and thrive. Every day I'm a mathematician, nutritionist and doctor.
I add carbs together, often so naturally I never give it a second thought (until three hours later when my levels leap up to 250). I subtract and add boluses to achieve an accurate dose. I figure percentages of basal rates to achieve a better A1c. I find the averages of blood sugars, insulin totals and daily carb counts (or let my high tech meter and pump do it for me). My brain is full of numbers and levels just waiting to be added, divided and analyzed. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: acne bioidentical hormones PCOS
Views: 1019
Today I had a breakdown. Not the sobbing, woe is me kind. But the kick it to the curb, throw it out the window kind. I'm ready to kick my health to the curb...once and for awhile to get everything straightened out and stop stressing over hormones and supplements and money. So here's what I decided to do:
Since starting the bio-identical hormone treatment, I've seen great improvement in several areas. My fatigue is generally improved (unless I'm under high stress). My periods are less irregular. My joint and muscle pain is usually completely gone (had a few bumps while they moved things around). And a lot of the odds and ends of pain that struck my body at random moments vanished. Plus we all know that after starting these treatments I lost weight that wouldn't budge before then.
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: guilt
Views: 1314
Sometimes I joke that my self-worth is wrapped up in my eyebrows; when they're well groomed, I feel great, but when they need to be tamed, I think I'm ugly. These days, my self-worth is wrapped up in my blood sugar readings. And I'm not sure that's a good thing.
Do you ever do that? The day is going along fine, then you get a reading that you don't "deserve" and the day just falls to pot? It's happening to me more and more lately. Some days, even before I lift my head off the pillow, the day is "ruined" by a high fasting number. My mind starts racing to what I did (or didn't do) to "earn" such a high number. Did I eat something I shouldn't have last night? Did I not exercise enough? It's first thing in the morning and already I'm feeling bad, guilty, like I did something wrong. Even if I hadn't. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 876
Happy New Year Everyone!
Today is the first day of 2011, and as such, it is a day when many people are thinking about their New Year’s Resolutions. I’m one of those people.
There are many things on my list for 2011, from better diabetes management and losing weight to getting more involved in diabetes advocacy. As far as Blogabetes is concerned, I have but one goal, and it is to get my act together and try to write more often.
A lot of things have been going on in my life the last several months that have prevented me from being able to devote much time or energy to writing. Simply put, I couldn’t give what I didn’t have.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 1033
I've always been used to humidity. I may not appreciate what it does to my curly, frizz-prone hair, but I'm used to it. Sixty to seventy percent humidity was fairly common growing up. I just never realized how much my skin appreciated the high humidity of my area.
My mom always said to like it since people in high humidity areas wrinkle less. I didn't make the connection until I moved and started experiencing the irritation of dry skin. Moving, just four hours away, sent me into a completely different climate where the air is typically dry and a lot colder than what I'm used to (except in summers when it's so much hotter than what I'm used to but without that humidity it's actually tolerable at 115 degrees).
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: complications eating exercise health
Views: 2060
I am sometimes disappointed by the things my body can't do or by the things my does because of my diabetes. Like yesterday, when a downward cruising bloodsugar derailed my plans for a solid workout at the gym.
I was let down by my body's inability to stabilize.
I was let down by the fact that what has been working very well in terms of late afternoon/early evening basal dosing failed me.
And I was let down by the fact that even after juice and an early dinner of 40 carb grams with no bolus, I barely got thirty five minutes of exercise in before my rapidly dropping bloodsugar forced me to stop...
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Some days, I feel like I am in a war against my body. The body zigs, I zag. It comes with a sword, slashing at the order I'm trying to create and I succumb to its chaos, slashing right back. It lays in wait, in a foxhole in a ditch, I get comfortable with its hiding and then it blitzes - ambush.
I've been dealing with overnight lows of late again. In spite of major basal rate adjustments, diabetes (and in my mind, my own body) keeps charging at me like a bull.
I've realized of late that waging war against my body is probably not at all the best course of action. Maybe this is a realization that I have on an occasional basis, and then forget (as people sometimes do) when I'm in the thick of a particularly difficult diabetes time.
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