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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: basal testing
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It's Spring break. The kids are home from school and the sun is shining (well, not really, but just go with it). Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yeah, I know it's crazy, but hey, it's Spring Break. You're only young once. Let's get a little wild!
I'm talkin' one full week of all-inclusive, inverted, unadulterated, topless …
BASAL TESTING!
Woo-hoo! Par-tay!
How awesome is this gonna be? Charlie will get the full Spring Break experience. Unlimited Jell-O shots; binge testing; zany contests to see how long he can go without eating. It will be like being in Cabo San Lucas only from the comfort of our own home.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: diabetes burn out hypoglycemia lack of patterns
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Diabetes management is really getting under my skin lately. I'm just so exhausted with it all. I never can seem to find a balance. I take one step forward then seem to take three hundred steps backwards. I know that it's all perspective and my control isn't bad, but it just feels like all the work I do has no payoff. But do I need to keep in mind that the pay-off may be 40 or 50 years from now?
If that's the case, I'm not so sure I want to make it. It isn't that I'm burnt out (and gee, don't think I'm suicidal). I'm just stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. Sadly, it seems like I've been stuck there for quite some time.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: break chips endo stress
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The combination of applying a new insulin pod and watching the nineteenth century framed classic, “Sense and Sensibility”, left me in a peculiar state of English tongued thought:
Can the trials bestowed by diabetes ever leave a notion of temporary withdraw from its present course, lest we imagine the worst? At what point would one reprieve to dwindle its preoccupation? And namely- how the heck do you take a break from diabetes!?
Not seeing the doc for most of the year is a start.
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Categories: Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Fitness Real Life
Tags: dieting exercise lows new pump users pumps weight
Views: 1824
Spring Break is coming up in three weeks. I'm heading out to the tropics. My wardrobe: swimsuits, shorts, tank tops and short skirts. Of course, I'm thinking about how my body is going to look in a bikini and hip-hugging shorts. I decided I need to lose the extra pounds I put on in the last few weeks (amazing how fast it jumps up without you even noticing). (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: acne bioidentical hormones PCOS
Views: 952
Today I had a breakdown. Not the sobbing, woe is me kind. But the kick it to the curb, throw it out the window kind. I'm ready to kick my health to the curb...once and for awhile to get everything straightened out and stop stressing over hormones and supplements and money. So here's what I decided to do:
Since starting the bio-identical hormone treatment, I've seen great improvement in several areas. My fatigue is generally improved (unless I'm under high stress). My periods are less irregular. My joint and muscle pain is usually completely gone (had a few bumps while they moved things around). And a lot of the odds and ends of pain that struck my body at random moments vanished. Plus we all know that after starting these treatments I lost weight that wouldn't budge before then.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps
Tags: pumps taking a break
Views: 1143
I've been on the pump for nine months now. There are still things that I don't know about it and still things I don't do to make it work efficiently. Overall, I'm still happy that I jumped into getting it and that I stuck with it past the initial adjustment phase.
I do miss things about multiple daily injections, like the clothes I could wear or the ease of being prepared. Mostly, I miss that I could be completely free. No tubing to worry about, no infusion sets, no reservoirs to fill.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: Siblings
Views: 1327
"Come on, baby, hop up here. I need to check your sugar."
"No, mama, no check sugar." She cries and tries to hide her fingers in her clenched hands.
"Yes, honey, we have to. I know you don't like it, but we have to do it."
"I don't yike it," she replies.
"I know, but the doctor says we have to do it." She loves the doctor, so she complies, gingerly holding out a finger.
I cock the lancing device and push the button. She flinches as the spring thwongs the lancet into her tiny, little finger. Crimson blood pearls out on to the test strip, the meter beeps and does its quick backwards count from five.
She sticks her finger in her mouth, sucking the blood off, as she's seen her big sister do countless times. Then she holds the finger up to me.
"You tiss it, mama."
I kiss her finger and tousle her hair.
"Put a yid on it, mama."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 535
I learn best by "doing." I need to watch something first and then actually do the task myself to get the most out of my learning experience. Reading books, articles, blogs, etc. usually just aren't enough for me. Oh, and I must take notes.
So when I found myself with the opportunity to be a fly on the wall during a newborn photo session I jumped on it. I've done a little "advertising" on CraigsList to try to generate clients. There is another photographer in my area who I also see ads for. I have admired her work and felt that I could emulate the style and tone, while still having my own personality to the work.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 719
Today was my last dermatology appointment for the Accutane. I'm a mixture of excited and sad. I'm excited because the Accutane has been such a hassle. Monthly doctor's appointments and blood draws, debilitating side effects, and just the stress of putting this into my system. So now it's over. Awesome.
Except that my dermatologist isn't exactly happy with my results. Yes, I'm much improved. 90% in fact. But according to him, he likes to end things at 100%. He even suggested staying on it longer or switching brands.
Right now, I'm just not up for that though. My body needs a break. I need a break. To just feel normal again. To not be so tired, so fatigued. To go one day without a headache or muscle ache or joint pain. For my body to just feel closer to whole rather than endlessly worn out.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management high blood sugar Metformin
Views: 682
It has only been a couple months since I took an unintended break from Metformin. I had taken about a week off because I couldn't seem to get to the pharmacy to pick up the prescription, and when I finally did start taking Metformin again it upset my stomach something fierce. So I decided to take a longer break. Actually, I figured I could just give it up completely because spending that much time in the bathroom and feeling as rotten as I did wasn't worth it.
At first my sugars seemed to be doing fine. But lately I'm not doing so good in the blood sugar management department. Particularly with fastings. Whoo boy have they been high. I figured it was a pattern of eating slow-absorbing carbs in the evening. I have been going to bed with acceptable readings and waking with atrocious readings. I didn't think about Metformin until this morning.
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