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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Real Life
Tags: cures diagnosis diet DKA holidays insulin pills symptoms Thanksgiving
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In response to Mike Durbin's Diabetes Blessings Week, I've put together some first "thanks" we might have given upon our diagnoses...
The DKA Survivor — Thank goodness I'm alive!
Symptomatic Solly — Thank goodness we know what it is!
The New Type 1 (adult) — Thank goodness there's insulin!
The New Type 2 — Thank goodness I don't need insulin!
Type 1 (at Thanksgiving dinner) — Thank goodness I have insulin, so I don't have to say "no" to anything!
Just a Touch of "The Sugar" — Thank goodness there's a pill for that!
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Food Highs & Lows In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management diet Family food choices quitting smoking smoking tight control
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One of the earliest "grown-up" movies I remember seeing in the cinema was a comedy called Cold Turkey, starring Dick Van Dyke. The premise was that a small town would win what, for them, was an obscenely large amount of money if everybody in the entire town could stop smoking, "cold turkey" — that is, suddenly, as if the "off" button had been pressed and the power disconnected — for an entire month. The lengths the town fathers went to, to win, and the lengths the tobacco company went to, to ensure they didn't, made for laughter and hijinks that were accessible to even middle-school children.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: diagnosis doctors insulin LADA misdiagnosis type 1.5
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What would you say if you had the symptoms of a common medical condition, but if after a year, none of the usual therapies worked?
What would you say if your doctor insisted that he had correctly diagnosed the disease as something chronic, but not necessarily debilitating, and was giving you medicines that all should be working?
Now, what would you say if there was a less-common form of that medical condition that had all the same symptoms, but was caused by a completely different disease -- one that was immediately life-threatening -- and which required a different form of therapy? What would you say if your doctor refused to consider the possibility of that less-common disease? And what would you say if there were two common tests that could confirm whether or not the less-common diagnosis was correct, but your doctor refused to order them?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: cholesterol levels complications diabetes diet diabetes treatment diagnosis hypertension MODY Obesity type 1 Type 2
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In observance of D-Blog Day, diabetes bloggers all over the world have been asked to identify six things they'd like people to know about diabetes. The following are mine:
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: Anxiety
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"It’s classic OCD," the therapist said.
I wish I could blame diabetes for this, but I don’t think I can. While diabetes didn’t cause Charlie to have OCD, it did provide him with something to be obsessively compulsive about. The thought that his blood sugar could go dangerously low at any time provides the anxiety which triggers the compulsion to test his blood sugar all day long.
He’s showing other behaviors associated with OCD, but it's probably best that I keep those private.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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I'm 21 years old. As much as I like to consider myself an adult, I know I've barely lived. Yes, I've been in love, traveled to multiple countries, held a steady job, and seen the sunrise. But I haven't held my own child in my arms, said "I Do" in a white dress, walked across the university commencement stage, or owned my own home.
I have spent the last four years of my life fighting against my health though. A fight that has beaten me down, bruised and broken me both physically and emotionally. A fight that I'm ready to give up on.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: A1C endo visit increasing carbs
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The nurse slapped the small piece of paper down on the table.
I glanced at the 8.2 and then looked away, disinterested. I figured as much. Like I said, it’s been a high summer.
I spoke to the nutritionist first, then the CDE and then the doctor.
Charlie’s height is trending fine, but his weight had dipped in the last three to six months. Despite the A1c of 8.2, Charlie couldn’t have heard better news from the dietician.
"Let’s up his food. Make it more like 185 to 200 carbs per day."
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Categories: Type 2 Children Fitness Real Life
Tags: unemployment
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No, not THAT kind of change of life! I was laid off from my job 10 days ago. Boy, talk about a life change! I am doing a little contract work, so I don't know what to call my current position. "Stay at home Mom" has such negative connotations and I find "Full-time Mother" offensive because I've been a full-time mom since my son was born, regardless of my employment status.
My 4 year old has gone from 9-10 hour days at a daycare center, to 3 hours at a small local preschool. The rest of the time he's with me. My 14 month old is with me 24/7, or so it seems. My husband does step up so I can maintain some other adult relationships. What those will be and how often I'll get a night off remain to be negotiated.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness
Tags: children with diabetes personal experiences spreading the word
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Because I was diagnosed at age 14, I can only speak about not having diabetes from the perspective of a child. I lived 14 years free of diabetes. As a young kid, I did experience a few random episodes of hypoglycemia, but never did I imagine myself becoming a person with diabetes. I didn't even know what the word was. I remember one distinct conversation that I had with a friend's mom. She was talking to me about a guy that we both knew named Curtis. Curtis was a soccer referee and before I knew about my diagnosis, I remember her telling me that he was, "a diabetic and that he had to take shots everyday". Looking back I can remember my exact feelings and reaction to this. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blood diagnosis high sugar
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I'm an information junkie. And I think I'm one of those people who always wonders why some people don't at least watch the news once a day or scan the headlines on any reputable news web site. I tend to fall into the habit of making sure people are in the loop. I'm not a know-it-all, but I'm happy to tell people what's going on.
And that includes what's going on in my life. However, I recently discovered that letting my mom in on every detail of my diabetes management is not necessarily a good thing. There are some things moms just don't want to know-even if they think they do. (READ MORE)
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