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Categories: Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions
Tags: Blogabetes depression Openness your help
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Blogging is difficult for me sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love this website and everyone associated with the Blogabetes community. Each and every one of you continue to be an enormous help. I can come on here and rant and rave to the ENTIRE WORLD about my life with diabetes. I make friends, I laugh, I tear up, and it's all wonderful. It's fantastic and I have no doubt this will continue to be an extremely helpful thing for me and everyone else too. At times though, the only thing I crave is complete and utter privacy, freedom from the world of diabetes and from everything. The last thing on my mind is the desire to share one more personal diabetic experience with the world. (READ MORE)
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"Do you see symptoms of low blood glucose? Shakiness, sweating or disorientation?"
"Well, sure, of course. My son has type 1 diabetes. I'm sorry, who are you again?"
"This is a free service from your insurance provider. We'll be calling occasionally to check in with you to see how things are going."
"Oh."
"How often do you see low blood sugars?"
"I'd say we see at least one low almost every day."
"Whoa! Every day???"
"Well it's a long day."
"Do you see elevated blood glucose levels?"
"Well, yeah. I did mention my son has diabetes, right?"
"Yes. How often do you see high blood glucose?"
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: A1c result quarterly exam
Views: 992
"Go get it!" I said to Susanne, pointing to Charlie’s medical chart that was placed outside the exam room by one of the nurses.
Over time we have learned that the chart gets placed in the slot as we are taken to the room and then approximately six minutes later, a nurse returns with a post-it note with Charlie’s A1c written on it, and tucks it into the thick folder.
"Go get it!" I nudged her forward.
"No. I’m scared," she said with a nervous smile.
"Fine, I’ll do it!" I said, marching to the doorway and looking both ways to see if the coast was clear.
I snagged the folder, dashed back into the room, opened and then closed it quickly and put it back.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: A1C categories college Lantus
Views: 916
As I looked at my averages last night in preparation for my Friday endo check-up, I couldn't help but complain to myself that there is no pattern. Every day is different, often drastically so. I can't find any constant area. There aren't variables causing these random shifts, at least not to the naked eye.
First, there's my morning blood sugars. Sometimes I wake up low even after a bedtime snack with no bolus. And sometimes I wake up in the 200 or 300 range with no apparent cause. Because of my history of seizures and severe lows, I lean towards the lows though. At this point in my life, I'd rather wake up 300 occasionally instead of trying to raise my insulin to counteract those highs.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management data analysis glucometers high blood pressure Logging
Views: 783
There are enough issues with the data from our diabetes devices to make the average PWD's head spin.
First off, there's the sheer volume of it. Consider that the average glucometer burns through 1500 readings a year -- which hikes up somewhere closer to 6000 if you have type 1 diabetes and don't have a continuous monitor you can rely on. Then there are the carb counts, food data bases, multiple basal rates, special basal rates, bolus wizards, special bolus calculations, and the smartphone calendar alarm to manage them all. Those of us with type 2 diabetes may not have all the insulin data to collect, but we have instead the blood pressure data, and along with the caloric impact of the foods we eat, we have to capture the fat distribution and the sodium levels. For all of us who exercise regularly, there are the heart-rate monitor data, the treadmill, elliptical, and cyclocomputer statistics, and the rep charts for weights.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Food In the News Real Life
Tags: online communities support twitter
Views: 607
Every year, the "blue versus red" argument comes up as diabetes bloggers and patient advocates discuss the relative merits of the American Diabetes Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Diabetes Research Institute, the International Diabetes Foundation, and World Diabetes Day. This week, however, the color of diabetes is pink.
Diabetes UK pink.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Fitness Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 473
I'm a bit behind over here so I'm wishing all of you a late Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all the best for 2012. This holiday season I was fighting an upper respiratory infection that completely side swiped me. I was voiceless for almost 6 days, had constant coughing for three or four, and still have a lingering cough at certain points.
For the past week and a half, I've slept as much as possible. By that, I mean constantly. I was sleeping 12 hours at night, napping through most of the day, and just making it out of the house in the evening to see Marvin and some friends that were in town. I'm back to work tomorrow and sincerely hoping that I haven't ruined my sleep patterns (which are completely off thanks to this craziness).
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