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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Women's Issues
Tags: Side effects
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At the end of this month, I'll see my endocrinologist for the first time since leaving the hospital with that adorable little bundle of joy. Prior to getting pregnant, I started taking insulin and I'm still on it. When I see the doctor again, I'll have the opportunity to change things up. Now that I'm done breastfeeding, I can go back on oral medications and put the insulin behind me.
Today, I started questioning if I really want to do that. What are the pros and cons of oral meds versus insulin? The obvious is a pill versus a shot, but after 15 months on insulin, I really don't have a problem with needles. Insulin is natural and the only real side effect is low blood sugar. Most oral meds have much worse side effects, like upset stomachs, headaches and rashes, in addition to hypoglycemia. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds
Tags: Oral Meds Real Life Type 2
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For a variety of reasons that all add up to a perfect storm of unfortunate for yours truly, I have gone off my diabetes medications and shall be off of them for a few days. I ran out of both at the same time, and it happened on a weekend, and a holiday weekend, no less, so there was no one at my doctor's office to call. Furthermore, if I'd been paying attention (and really, why would I? It's only my health we're talking about here), I would have seen that I had no more refills on my prescription, meaning that in order to get more, I would need to make an appointment and go in to see my doctor again, which of course I should have done a few months ago, but my book came out and I've been busy being Mister Fancy Pants, etc. etc. etc., blah blah blah. Really, there are a number of excuses, but they all come down to my own personal dedication to being the very best cautionary tale I can be for the rest of you. No need to thank me, I do it out of love. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Complications Real Life
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I mentioned the other day that there were some issues with my health during my blogging hiatus, and I thought I should share a bit about what was going on during that time.
I've written previously about the trials and tribulations that I've had with oral medications; they've either worked great as far as blood glucose control is concerned but had horrible side effects that I couldn't handle, or they just didn't work well at all. It's been an on again/off again struggle for the last couple of years and, unfortunately, I dealt with more of that during my time away.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: Blogabetes
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Welcome to Blogabetes!
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Food Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Atkins Diet and exercise low carb
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After fighting lows on Glyburide last week, my doctor suggested trying just diet and exercise again. I thought he was crazy, it hasn't worked the last two times that I tried it, so why should it work this time. He gave it 80-percent odds of working. I jokingly asked if he wanted to put a friendly wager on it. I'm glad I didn't.
I am amazed to report that after one week without any anti-diabetes medication, my blood sugar had remained pretty normal for the most part. Granted, I'm only testing before meals, but still 90 percent of those readings have been under or close to 100. The one or two higher numbers I had were the result of a very bad night's sleep with a teething boy. Everything else, even bedtime numbers, was right in range. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
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I've been mysteriously absent from the blogging world again. My apologies! I've been busy with baby and holidays, and keeping myself healthy despite the viral-cold-winds that are a-blowing. With a school teacher husband, it's hard to keep germs out of the house!
I thought I'd touch base with a quick recap of the last few weeks.
I took the month of December off of blood sugar management to focus on weight loss. I rejoined Weight Watchers (I'm a lapsed lifer) and found a meeting that's more like family with a great leader, Kim. Despite the holidays, I managed to stick to the program. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: emotions Oral Meds Real Life Type 2
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One day. I'll learn to start listening to that voice, the one that occasionally gives me advice, the voice that I largely ignore. It's a tiny little internal voice, coming (I presume) from a tiny little internal smart guy. In my imagination, he dresses much better than I do.
Let's call him... Tiny Rob.
Now, to be fair, Tiny Rob has a pretty spotty record. Sure, he may have been the one who sent me to the doctor five years ago, but he's taken more on-the-job vacations since then than George W. Bush. Tiny Rob has left me to my own devices for months at a stretch, only popping by occasionally to ask, "So, what'd I miss?"
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: death hypoglycemia Oral Meds
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Several prominent dBloggers have posted this week about issues related to Driving While Low (DWL) and premature death. The subjects of these posts were people with Type 1 diabetes, which is the group with which we normally associate rapid-onset dissociative hypoglycemia. While this sort of hypoglycemia is certainly most common in Type 1 diabetes, it is occasionally seen in insulin-dependent Type 2. Most of the time, these lows would seem to be related to insulin activity peaking early or late -- or at least not in synch with one's food and drink.
Unfortunately, insulin is not always the culprit.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Women's Issues Real Life
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It has been a week of disgustingly high blood sugars for no apparent reason. It started on Monday night when I woke up twice and tested over 600 mg/dL at 3 a.m.
I have done everything I can possibly think of to keep my sugar in check: changed my site, drowned myself in water, taken an injection, cut out snacks, barely eat carbs. There have been a handful of blood sugar checks that were normal and that caused me to jump for joy. Which also lead me to believe my site is not the issue, nor is my diet, nor that I'm not bolusing correctly.
The only thing I haven't done is to either set a temporary basal rate, change my basal rate and/or call my endo to see what the heck I can do.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: depression
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I’ve found myself emotionally exhausted lately. Mostly the last week. I primarily assumed it was because I’ve been at the ready being Nurse Michelle for The Mr. since he returned home from having gastric bypass surgery. There were several nights that I was up at least twice helping him to the bathroom or changing a bandage. I slept lightly those nights. And when he said he needed me, I was right there.
I tended to his needs during the day, too. Happily. But trying to take care of an adult, three children and yourself can be emotionally taxing. And me without sleep just is no good. And then there’s the part that’s like a blood sugar crash: you are so “on” for so long that a crash is inevitable.
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