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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Fitness Women's Issues
Tags: diagnosis gestational diabetes Metformin
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I have many friends with type 1 diabetes. I have a few friends and many relatives with type 2 diabetes. I possibly have the MOST boring diagnosis story I have ever heard.
In 2003 I was pregnant with my son. I was given a glucose tolerance test at 28 weeks gestation. If you've never had one of these; they make you fast 12 hours and go to the lab first thing. They draw blood, then you drink a nasty syrupy concoction that is 75 grams of glucose.
They draw blood again after 1 hour and again after another hour. Then I asked the nurse for a place to lie down and I crashed out (my first clue my results might be high). In an hour, they woke me and drew more blood then sent me on my way. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: diagnosis hospital hypoglycemia
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It has been three years, seven months, and fourteen days since I was first sitting on that powder keg in the emergency room. I sat with my parents as my blood sugar was checked for the first time and the diagnosis was made. As plain as day, the doctor said the string of words I had never known before that time, type-1 diabetes. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: LADA latent autoimmune diabetes in adults type 1 type 1.5
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When I opened my e-mail at work this morning, the blood test results that I was planning to e-mail my endo about first thing were already there. This was a series of blood tests my insurance company required before I can go on the pump. The first thing I saw was "A1C - 6.8".
"Kick Ass!" I thought, and saying something more work appropriate outloud. I was down from 7.9 in October, which was down from 9 three months before that. I was definitely doing good, definitely on the right track.
The actual test my insurance required was a C peptide. This measures the amount of insulin my pancreas makes. The less insulin you make, the lower your C peptide level.
For the last three years, I've been living life as a person with type 2 diabetes. My c peptide result of <0.1 shows otherwise. Essentially, I make little--very little--insulin. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: diagnosis high blood sugar oral medicine
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I got the call at work. I can't remember the date, but I'm pretty sure it was the day after No. 1's fifth birthday.
I have a pretty casual relationship with the nurse practitioner I see. I'm sure that's why he felt comfortable giving me the news at work instead of calling me into his office to drop the diabetes diagnosis bomb on me. I had been seeing Harry for several years, mainly for a host of small things and because it was pretty easy to get in to see Harry on short notice. Need to see the doctor? Can you wait two days? Need to see Harry? Can you be here in 20 minutes? Not to take anything away from his skills or anything, but I've established that I'm not a patient person. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: Byetta diagnosis stories insulin pump novolog
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First, an apology: I left you hanging a month ago with part two of my diagnosis story and haven't written the rest of it. So, I'm sorry, and here's what I hope to be part three of four.
I went through nearly two trimesters of my third pregnancy managing my blood sugar with Lantus, good food choices and exercise. Sometime in late September 2005, my blood sugars started not responding well enough to what I was doing, so my educator added Novolog to the mix. I loved it.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: diagnosed with type 1 diabetes symptoms
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Charlie was diagnosed with diabetes four years ago today.
Charlie never was a good sleeper. So when his twenty-minute naps changed to two-hour naps in the late summer of 2003, we saw it as a godsend. By September and into early October, we had to wake him from naps approaching three hours.
Suddenly he lost interest in eating. Susanne thought he surely had some sort of stomach virus brewing. But he never got sick.
Soon after, his appetite for fluids increased greatly as he voraciously guzzled tall glasses of milk and clawed at the refrigerator for more. It was never enough. This was followed by Charlie often waking up in the middle of the night drenched in urine from neckline to toe. I can remember Susanne constantly changing the sheets in the crib. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: diagnosis Metformin miscarriage
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When I wrapped my last entry, I had just received my diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, in a non-standard manner.
In hindsight, I'm sure she was just trying to scare me straight. Maybe I'm not really a type 2, but that's what the paperwork says and as you'll see; if it's not 1000% correct today, chances are very high that it will be within the next 10 years.
Gosh, definitely don't tell my insurance company, or I'll be scrounging for strips like my friend Julia. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: burnout community diagnosis psychology support
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Wednesday I was stuck on nursery rhymes. Thursday, it was fairly tales. Reading the Wikipedia entry on Red Riding Hood, I followed the link to an entry on something I'd never heard of before: liminality. While Wikipedia has not nearly evolved into something rigorous enough to be considered a sole source for research, sometimes a new word or concept can shift something known and comfortable into an entirely different perspective; this is what that definition did for me.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children In the News Real Life
Tags: Causes children diagnosis flu gestational diabetes illness
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I don't believe in vaccines. Perhaps it was the family that I grew up in. Or the disease that I've lived with every day since a series of regular, routine vaccines when I was 4 years old. Maybe it's just my own understanding of health and traditional thinking.
But I don't believe in them. However controversial that might be and however many of you might hate/ban/harass me for it, I cannot bring myself to believe in them. And trust me, I have done my research.
When I was 4 years old, my mother took me in for all the regular vaccines. The most memorable for both of us is the MMR because it has since been linked to autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Almost immediately, my mom noticed a change in me. I was sick, unlike myself, and in ill health.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Real Life
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I've wanted to start a blog series for awhile now. So I've decided to do an acronym blog series. I'll be spelling the word DIABETES in my blog posts while I focus on a topic that pertains to the letter of the day. So here goes with the letter D!
D: D represents diagnosis for me (how fitting to start the series with the start of diabetes!). Not only is D about the initial diabetes diagnosis, but it's about the subsequent diagnoses that have followed. It's about every diagnosis I have or will ever receive.
Diabetes all started back in 1993 for me. I was four years old. I can't remember any of it. Sometimes I wonder if I blocked out the diagnosis by choice. Or maybe the ketones had sunk into my brain for a little too long, blocking my ability to remember the fateful diagnosis moment.
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