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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Relationships Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: discrimination stereotypes weight loss
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On Friday I had an appointment with my endocrinologist. I was looking forward to talking to him about some new ideas I had thought about especially Symilin.
When I told him he was very receptive to the idea of trying Symilin and thinks it may help with some weight loss.
"Most type 2's don't have a problem using Symilin. I have subscribed it often," the doctor said to me.
"Oh but I am a type 1," I tell him in the nicest voice I can muster since I know why he said what he did.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I am just fat." I had this same discussion with his nurse the last time I was here and I thought then that at least it wasn't my actual doctor saying something so stupid.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Complications In the News
Tags: coma DKA untreated
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Thursdays have become Racquetball night for me and my friends. As the four of us drove out to play all of my friends kept asking me what was wrong.
"Nothing. I am just thinking." I replied while staring out the window.
I was lost in thought all day after reading the article about the 11 year old girl who died. I wrote about it on my blog and went along with my day still keeping the article in my mind.
There is something that happens to me when I am in a car and I am not driving. I find that I become very reflective looking out the windows and seeing all the people driving by. I wonder what is going on in their lives. Are they in a happy place right now? What is their story? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships In the News Real Life
Tags: A1C c-peptide new endo
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I have to take issue with something my new, wonderful treatment team seems to think. Dr. A said, "It really doesn't matter what type of diabetes you have as long as you have an effective treatment method." While I mostly agree with him, I have to say that a lot of people with diabetes want the distinction; we want to know the label. Because even though the treatment method may be the same, it’s still different.
Despite me rattling off a list of drugs meant for people with Type 2 that I tried and that didn't work, and telling him my c-peptide result (<0.1), Dr. A still said, "I think you are Type 2."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Complications Real Life
Tags: blood glucose testing hypoglycemia unawareness
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"I totaled my truck”
I looked at my friend in shock. He did not look hurt or anything but his lower lip quivered enough to tell me it was bad.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Complications Emotions Fitness Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: children of diabetics Family support
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My son came to me the other night and asked if he could ask me some questions about diabetes. One thing I never do is turn away an opportunity to talk to my kids about diabetes. I want them to understand, as much as they can, about what diabetes is.
Maybe this is not true for other people with diabetes but a part of me is waiting for this disease to go after my kids. I am guessing that it's normal to not want your kids to deal with what you have to but sometimes I worry that I worry too much!
When I asked what brought on this interview he explained to me that it was for a paper he is working on for school. And with that the interview began.
He asked me to tell him all about diabetes to which I responded with something like, "We do not have enough time for that dude. Tell me what you know and I will fill in and add from there." (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Highs hormones insulin resistance unexplained trends
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One of the most frustrating aspects of diabetes management is the fact that diabetes has a mind of its own. At any given moment, your body can do the strangest things that you have no control over. Stress, hormones or the weather can have a huge impact on blood sugars and insulin levels. And it's the worst when it's completely unexpected.
Every so often I have weeks where I run higher than normal. I've never found a correlation to one specific trigger, but usually I notice it's when multiple triggers seem to go off at the same time. Whether it be a combination of increased stress and decreased sleep or change in hormones and a change in exercise or maybe even all four, I run high for a few days. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: CDE diabetes training finances
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Yesterday, I sat in on a diabetes education training class at one of the local children's hospitals. My mentor suggested participating in order to better understand what a CDE does on a daily basis. That way I would know exactly if I wanted to go forward with this as a career.
It was definitely a great experience. Not only did I get to see a close up view of a CDE's job, but I also met some new contacts and opened my eyes to the real world. I don't think CDE is what I want to do, but it's still a possibility.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions
Tags: depression Diabetes emotions
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Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year but for so many it is not. The holidays tend to be a time that people reflect on the past year and sometimes that can be a real downer.
This Christmas will not be so “Holly Jolly” for me.
My health was pretty good as far as my diabetes goes. I had no major incidents like DKA or hospitalization of any kind so that front has been pretty good. In fact, I may have some really good news to share soon but I will wait for the official word on that.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: college life emergency preparedness parents of diabetic children
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The day that I moved out of my mom's house, my mom cried the entire way home from my new apartment. Not only was she losing her daily companion, but she was scared. All moms get scared when their kids move out, of course. But moms of diabetics have a completely different perspective.
She had seen me have two seizures before. She'd been there when I blacked out in the grocery store when moments earlier I was feeling fine. She'd driven me to the emergency room when I was sick, in fear of DKA. She'd watched me grow up with this disease, in the highs and lows, quite literally.
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Categories: Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: Diabetes Education Doctor visits medical news primary care doctor
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While waiting for Olivia to take her swim test at Clara Barton last week, I was eavesdropping on a couple of girls standing in front of me. They scared the crap out of me.
They were both talking about how they hated having to take insulin because insulin makes you fat. "It's true," one girl said, "I read it on the internet." The other girl was amazed, but believed her readily.
Then they started discussing how they both let themselves run high - so high that their meters just say HI - in order to maintain or even lose some weight. They both said that they rarely checked themselves, maybe checked a couple of times a week, lied to their parents about the frequency of their checks and made up bg readings. At this point, my eyebrows were practically at my hairline and I was trying to unobtrusively move a little closer so I could continue to listen. (READ MORE)
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