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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Real Life
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I just returned from yoga, the exercise that I absolutely have loved from the first time I ever tried it back in my junior year of college. Each time I do a practice, I feel invigorated, relaxed, and splendid all at the same time. It's the kind of work out that leaves me both sore, cleansed, and strong.
I was pretty religious about my yoga practice when I first started. That lasted about a year and a half then I moved and lost access to my regular yoga classes. Doing yoga at home just isn't the same for me.
So about a month ago, I decided to try out a studio here in town that modeled the kind of principles that I like. It's a donation based studio that operates on the whole premise that we should be responsible and honest to give what we can and what we feel is appropriate. This amazes me since most yoga studios are so expensive (compared to a gym membership where you have access to classes).
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: low blood sugar
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I've gotten into the habit lately of bolusing for a meal more toward the middle or the end instead of before. It depends on a number of factors, including what and when I ate last, what I'm getting ready to eat, and what my pre-meal blood sugar is. This mid-meal bolus stems from several instances when I've either gone low or started to go low before I even finish eating. It's pretty unnerving to feel a low so close to a meal.
Like today, for example. I tested at 130 not long before we headed downstairs to eat lunch. Since there are few tables for the amount of people who typically choose to eat lunch in the lobby, I went ahead of the microwave-users to secure a place for the five of us.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Complications Emotions Real Life
Tags: carb counting cooking frustrations
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I was reading through the dLife Viewpoints section today and saw a post that really hit home.
It's called "Bested by a Can of Tomato Soup" by Scott Johnson and I think it should be required reading for type 3's and other people without diabetes.
Counting carbs can sometimes be a difficult and maddening situation.
And we do it for virtually every meal every day. I mean, we are supposed to.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Fitness Real Life
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Many of you know that I started yoga back in college (around 2007). It was a way to get my Physical Education credits and also help my health. I was struggling at the time to manage a lot of joint pain, fatigue, and other symptoms that we couldn't pinpoint a cause.
After my first class, I was hooked. I realized that I'd been doing certain yoga poses all my life to stretch and relieve pain (shoulder stand and plow pose specifically). I took a second class and continued my practice at home. When I graduated and moved, I eventually found a studio to practice in which has completely transformed my mind on yoga.
But since taking my new job and dealing with a lot of stress last year, I fell out of my practice in the studio. I've worked out regularly at home, but I haven't done much yoga other than gentle stretching after my usual workouts. I haven't focused, meditated, or kept with my balance.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 In the News Real Life
Tags: media Private Practice episode
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I'm always on the lookout for media representation of diabetes. I appreciate the media feedback that we get, although sometimes it infuriates me at how things are portrayed. Generally, I really don't see many movie or TV shows that feature diabetics in any great length.
However, as I was flipping through the channels last night, ABC's Private Practice caught my eye. One of the medical stories of the episode featured a diabetic little boy on an insulin pump. His infusion site had become infected and his blood sugars were elevated.
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues
Tags: Doctor visits frustrations
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As if it weren't bad enough that I'm in a group OB practice and see a different doctor just about every visit, they've added a new doctor to the mix. So today's visit was with yet another doctor, who doesn't know me, and doesn't bother to read the chart...
For eight months now, another doctor, in another office, with another specialty (ie endocrinology), has followed my diabetes. Last OB visit was the first time they wanted to actually see my logs. So this visit I bring them, one chart for pre and post meal numbers, which don't tell the whole story, and another one that shows everything. You know, those lows between meals and the random highs that come out of nowhere.
Doctors who are not specifically trained in diabetes management have no business at all whatsoever looking at my blood sugar charts. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications
Tags: hyperglycemia hypoglycemia insulin pump
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Last night at church before band practice I yanked my infusion set out. How? I am not sure. Here’s what happened.
On Sunday our projector at church overheated. The only way to reset it after an overheat is to unplug the unit. The problem is that unit is mounted to the ceiling which is extremely high! We have a giant ladder that seems to weight a ton that we can use to get up there but it takes 4 men to move this thing down into church and into position.
Somewhere in the set up of the ladder or break down I must have pulled it out but honestly I never remember anything tugging it.
About an hour and a half later during band practice I started feeling warm. I am never warm. Then my head felt like it was going to explode. I stopped in the middle of a song, one that I could not figure out how to play even though we have played this song a bunch of time, and I tested my blood sugar.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children In the News
Tags: humor
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Low-Fat Vegan Diet for Reversing Diabetes - WebMD
Cool. Easy enough.
Halt diabetes in just six days! - Financial Express
Awesome! Just in time for that pizza party Charlie has next week!
Kiss-a-Pig for Diabetes Campaign Underway - Charleston Gazette
"Hey, Lady! Lady! I know you want a cure, but that’s enough! And please! The sign says ‘No Tongue.’
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Relationships Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: complications relationships support
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Sometimes I am shocked at how invisible diabetes can be. I was having practice at church the other night for the contemporary band when my Bass player asked us to pray for him.
"Of course! What is going on?"
He explains to me that he is having surgery on his eye to drain fluid in it and would just like us to keep him in our prayers. He started telling us about how he had this same surgery on his other eye and that it worked really well so he his hopeful that this surgery will be another success. I asked him what causes the problem he is having.
"Diabetes." (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues
Tags: pregnancy
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I know I said never again, but lately I'm finding myself thinking, "Next time, I'll do this, that and the other thing differently."
Yes, I'll admit it. My little boy is so ridiculously cute these days that I'm actually thinking about doing it again. I know, crazy. But for the next few paragraphs, I'll at least entertain the idea.
Next time, I will see fewer doctors. I was in a group OB practice, a group Maternal Fetal Medicine practice and a group PCP. Not counting a dermatologist and chiropractor, I saw no less than 13 different doctors during my pregnancy. Seven different OBs, three maternal-fetal medicine specialists, two PCPs and one endocrinologist. If I were to do it over again, I would find an obstetrician or perinatologist who specializes in diabetic pregnancies and was not a member of a group practice. Maybe a team of two, but not a group. (READ MORE)
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