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Categories: Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: Diabetes Education Doctor visits medical news primary care doctor
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The theme for this week is "Manage Your Healthcare Team".
For me, and for many others with Type 2 diabetes, this is a laugh. Team? What team? I have a primary care physician who handles everything from soup to nuts, including my diabetes care. She'll refer me to specialists and labs as needed, but she doesn't have any direct correspondence with my ophthalmologist (for whose checkup I am long overdue), and I've never had a CDE or an endo.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Women's Issues Real Life
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In April 2008, I went to my urgent care doctor for several reasons. The first was a strange side pain that I'd been having for two days. The second was that my blood sugars were just not budging from the 200s and 300s. Then there was an intense shoulder pain.
The side pain started out tolerable on my lower right side. It was just a burning twinge that I noticed throughout my day. It got a little worse and the blood sugars seemed to follow over the next day. By the morning of my doctor's visit, I was wanting to curl in pain and forget the world.
It turned out that I had a ruptured ovarian cyst. It was bleeding into my ovary which was causing the intense pain. It was most likely brought on by an aggressive workout that I did a few days prior (the rupturing, not the cyst). It eventually helped me obtain my diagnosis with PCOS (that and the acne, irregular periods, hair growth, hair loss, and other lovely symptoms).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: compliance diabetes management good control self-care
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As people with diabetes, we are tasked by our medical teams with conducting our lives in a manner such as to minimize or mitigate the destructive effects of our medical condition. A lot of press is given to the concepts of "patient compliance" and "patient adherence" -- enough to raise the blood pressures of many of us past the levels covered by our antihypertensive, renal-protective pharmaceuticals. The idea of being "a diabetic in control" (or "out of control") has also been known to raise the hackles of a number of the T1s among us, whose blood glucose levels vary with the tempo and dynamic (but none of the grace) of a Mahler symphony.
Like the four movements of a symphony, or the members of a string quartet, the cornerstones of diabetes self-care are:
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Real Life
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Today has been yet another day in which I've had to deal with the stomach issues I've written about previously.
I don't know what's causing the problems; maybe they are side effects of the mix of medications I take each day, or maybe there's something within me that's just not working properly. Whatever the source, I'm tired of the frequent nausea, diarrhea, and those lovely sulfur smelling burps.
It’s hard to get anything done around my house or at work when I’m constantly running to the restroom for one reason or another. It’s hard to stay hydrated and nourished when everything wants to come back out. And I’m exhausted because of the lack of sleep that the issues are causing.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: caregiver diabetes police empathy Type 3
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Whether or not we recognize it explicitly, we are all caregivers (aka, T3s). Whether we serve a family member, someone in our neighborhood or church, or just others on the dLife forums and in the dLife community, we are each part of someone else's diabetes support team.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: depression loca
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I’m beyond exhausted on my quest to find a new psychiatrist.
I’m adament that I see a female psychiatrist. I often don’t mind the gender of my medical providers, but I am finding that I have a much better connection with female doctors. Also, I want to see a provider who is not out of my way: her office needs to be either near where I live, near where I work or on the way. That’s not too much to ask, right?
I logged on to my insurance company’s web site to find a new provider and my choices were actually pretty limited, but I found a female psychiatrist near Dr. L’s office. I was in no rush to get an appointment because I have a follow up with Dr. L in late July, but I knew I needed to go ahead and get on the books with a new doctor so we could start the new patient process.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: binge eating blood glucose management carbohydrates diabetes police diet Doctor's orders eating disorders finances food choices hypertension overeating Snacking sodium
Views: 560
I got a bit of flak from a number of folk in the type 1 community for juxtaposing the You Can Do This project with the "you CAN eat this if you have diabetes" mentality of, well, many of the same folk. The issue is, the same folk who are, on the one hand, encouraging us to test and inject and correct are the folk who are talking about Food Police and Diabetes Police and how we, as people with diabetes, have to fight against those stereotypes by -- well, by eating all those things we should never touch with a ten-foot-pole.
This may work for people with type 1 diabetes, but it can be deadly for those of us with type 2.
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