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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: birth labor pre-eclampsia
Views: 1755
Part 2 of a 4 part series. See part 1.
On the way to the hospital, my husband commented that he didn't think this was really it. I wasn't curled up in a ball crying or cursing him out. Nothing like what he had seen on TV or heard about from his friends. It couldn't be the real deal. I wanted to choke him, but he was right.
As soon as we got to the hospital, the contractions stopped.
My blood pressure, however, was another story. It started climbing and continued to climb throughout the morning. Since women with diabetes are more likely to develop pre-eclampsia, the doctor ordered a 24-hour urine collection to check for protein. That meant spending the night in the hospital for observation. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: birth birth plan labor and diabetes
Views: 2226
They say if you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans. Well, my birth plan must have had Him in stitches.
After nine months of cramming for the "final exam," I had developed a good picture of what I wanted my son's birth to be like, and drew up a birth plan as instructed in Lamaze class. I knew flexibility was key, but I didn't realize it was the only thing I could count on.
The plan was to try to go as naturally as possible, with the option of pain meds if needed. I wanted mobility, a birthing ball, comfort techniques and the labor positions we had practiced for weeks. I wanted to let gravity do its job. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Accutane birth control college endometriosis stress
Views: 237
It's my time...to rejuvenate my life.
November is always a crazy month for me. First, it's my birthday month. Second, it's also like 5 of my friends' birthday month. Third, it's Thanksgiving! Fourth, it's the busiest month in school as projects, papers, and exams take place all right before final exam season in December. Fifth, it's American Diabetes Month!
So here we are at the 2nd already...wasn't it just September last week? Sheesh...this year is flying by faster than I can even say it's flying by. I have lots of plans for American Diabetes Month. And I'm definitely excited to start checking some things off the list while exploring some new fun ideas.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Accutane acne birth control encouragement endometriosis fatigue PCOS
Views: 313
My life is on a peg. It's hanging, waiting to be pulled off and move forward. But it's not there yet. I'm not there yet. I'm waiting, so impatient and so anxious for the future, so annoyed by the past...I'm waiting to move forward and be myself, to stop hanging on this peg.
The past three years have been an incredible roller coaster of a journey in regards to my health. I've made so many changes, tried so many things. And at what cost?
Right now, I'm extremely impatient with the future of my skin and the future of pain. I have some major decisions to make in the next couple of months...decisions that I wish I could have made months ago. I'm waiting on the endometriosis diagnosis/surgery. And I'm waiting to decide on Accutane/birth control pills...extremely impatient about this one.
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Categories: Type 2 Women's Issues
Tags: Diabetes pregnancy
Views: 1148
As a type 2 diabetic woman, I was shocked to discover how little information is available about pregnancy and diabetes. At first glance, it looks as if there's a ton on the topic. Google "pregnancy and diabetes" and several million pages come up. But dig a little closer and you'll see the majority of those pages are about diabetes of pregnancy, or gestational diabetes. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: children diabetes nothing to do with it life decisions
Views: 1947
I'm often told what a wonderful mother I would make.
I'm often asked if Bob and I plan to have kids of our own.
My answer is usually something along the lines of "Who knows? Maybe someday we'll decide to adopt or foster children, but it's not likely I'll be giving birth anytime in the future."
This is around the time in the conversation that I get "the look." Sometimes, the person will express out loud what "the look" says so clearly. "It's the diabetes, isn't it?" (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: blood sugar monitoring
Views: 1070
One week into my revised blood glucose monitoring plan and the results are scary. Actually, "atrocious" is the word I used when e-mailing my doctor begging for help. The numbers are so bad that I found myself hiding my logs from my mom when she came over last week. It's that bad.
Prior to having a baby, I was very much in control of my diabetes. I have been a more than compliant patient from diagnosis through the birth of my son. So when my doctor suggested I need to take it easy and lay off the obsessive testing for a while, I took his advice.
Of course, I tend to do things in extremes. "Take it easy" turned into "don't test at all, unless you're feeling low." Now I can see how easy it is to ignore a disease that has virtually no symptoms. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Emotions
Tags: depressed grumpy obsessive
Views: 941
I've been in a snit since my post about early burnout last week. I think it is lifting, but please allow me to vent all over the Blogabetes pages. By the way, snit is the technical term. (haha) It is defined as a state of agitation or irritation.
I had been doing very well with my food and glucose control and routines since my daughter was born 3 months ago. About a month ago I reached 40 pounds lost since her birth. I started thinking maybe I could win my lifelong battle with weight. I started reading more about weight loss, I signed up for several support sites, posted to forums. I logged my food on paper, sometimes online and sometimes in a spreadsheet. In other words, I went completely overboard.
Then I started eating more and justifying it by the fact that I was logging it. Somehow all the pressure I put on myself to perform, i.e. lose weight, just backfired. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: me split lantus doses why
Views: 286
Tuesday night, I switched my Lantus over to a once-per-day shot instead of the split doses I'd been using previously. I started with 22 units of Lantus at 8pm. I knew I'd see some highs, but I didn't want to risk an unexpected night low after making the first switch.
And I did see some elevation. I ran mostly in the 180-290 range all through Wednesday, which wasn't as high as I was expecting really. I made sure to consider food in the highs, along with the usual post-breakfast spike. And I was confident that a few more units of Lantus might do the trick (or at least get me closer).
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: camp endocrinologist school
Views: 928
I've been feeling overwhelmed by life lately, not just on the diabetes front, but on all of them. My toddlers are making me nutty, my 20 year old son is making decisions that I think are really unwise and my job bores me to tears most of the time. The only thing not driving me nuts is Olivia. Considering she's a 14 year old girl who's just been dumped by her boyfriend of six months, she's been pleasant to be around most of the time.
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