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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: Lantus pen P.A. prescriptions
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I don't find it common place when I get excited about diabetes, but yesterday, oh boy. I had my first appointment with a new P.A. and I think I gave him a hand cramp!
This visit marked my first day with a new bout of medical pros. I signed up with a new primary doctor, new endocrinologist, new P.A., and even new crabby dr.'s office receptionists that somehow came with the package. (They are another story though). (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Highs hormones insulin resistance unexplained trends
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One of the most frustrating aspects of diabetes management is the fact that diabetes has a mind of its own. At any given moment, your body can do the strangest things that you have no control over. Stress, hormones or the weather can have a huge impact on blood sugars and insulin levels. And it's the worst when it's completely unexpected.
Every so often I have weeks where I run higher than normal. I've never found a correlation to one specific trigger, but usually I notice it's when multiple triggers seem to go off at the same time. Whether it be a combination of increased stress and decreased sleep or change in hormones and a change in exercise or maybe even all four, I run high for a few days. (READ MORE)
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I had a headache when I got home from work around 3:30 Monday morning. I don't know what brought it on; I thought maybe it was stress or tension, or that I hadn't eaten in a while, or maybe even sinus related. I did know that my blood sugar numbers were good, so that wasn't it.
Whatever it was, I just wanted it to go away. So, I found something to eat, took some Tylenol, and climbed into bed, hoping that the headache would just go away after a good night's sleep. Much to my dismay, that's not what happened.
I woke later Monday morning with what can only be described as a migraine from hell. It felt like someone had hit me in the head repeatedly with a baseball bat or something. It was immensely painful, and was accompanied by sensitivity to light and sound. Oh, and nausea, too. It's been a long time since I've had a headache that bad, and frankly, I could have gone a whole lot longer without it, too.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: Cumbersome facts triggers
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Am I a man, or even a person- or just a type with an age? Should I be mad at what they think-what kind of war should I wage?
"You can overcome diabetes and make it part of your past" But as an autoimmune, I declare that their thinking should not last!
"Check your blood sugar; you seem to be having a bad day" Must it always be related to diabetes in every way?
"Should you be eating that brownie, too much sugar you know" Should I explain the meaning of bolus and my expertise in insulin flow?
"Why, here, did you go so low- you really deserve this excessive blame" It is just one bad day- not always easy to play this daily game! (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: Anxiety
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"It’s classic OCD," the therapist said.
I wish I could blame diabetes for this, but I don’t think I can. While diabetes didn’t cause Charlie to have OCD, it did provide him with something to be obsessively compulsive about. The thought that his blood sugar could go dangerously low at any time provides the anxiety which triggers the compulsion to test his blood sugar all day long.
He’s showing other behaviors associated with OCD, but it's probably best that I keep those private.
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Categories: Type 1 Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: promise of a cure research breakthroughs
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I received the normal JDRF research newsletter the other day. As usual, I perused the updates on diabetes. There was a large article on the new stem cell legislation movement, but I quickly passed over it. But two articles did catch my eye.
One was regarding "Insulin Fragment" Therapy, which I hadn't heard about before this newsletter. A study from the UK showed that "proinsulin peptide" therapy could seemingly restore the immune system without any adverse side effects (like the immunotherapy treatments for pancreas and cell transplants). More research had to be done, but it was still an important milestone.
The other article had to do with protein regeneration for adult beta cells. It was a snippet of an article regarding the prospect of regeneration and replication of beta cells for type 1s. All it did was leave hope. Hope for regrowth. Hope for a life without diabetes.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: cure genetic risk immune system insulin insulin resistance nutrition Oral Meds prevention triggers
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It's so easy to fall into the trap of thinking that just because I don't have to take a pill to control my Type 2 diabetes, I'm "cured". After all, that's what so many people in my condition were told, so many times, over the past half-century. Some are still told that today. And given that most of the time, my blood glucose levels stay between 85 and 120, with the occasional high postprandial excursion (which occasionally -- like, when I'm low and having dinner at a restaurant -- will lead to a high fasting reading the next morning), there's nothing to alarm the unsuspecting practitioner that back in 2002, at fifty pounds heavier than I am today, the doctor's meter read 170 mg/dl after a ten-hour fast, with an HbA1c of 7.8. Or in lay terms, "I had diabeetus".
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Food Highs & Lows Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management diet holidays insulin insulin resistance LADA low-carb MODY Obesity pills songs Type 2
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"The human race can be divided into two groups: those who produce their own insulin, and those who don't."
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
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Monday and Tuesday, I took some time to myself. I didn't do anything spectacular. I just developed my new plan and recouped from the last week's health turmoil. But mainly, I was giving my emotions a little space, a little time to cool off.
You see, my moods have been all over the place in the past month or two. Marvin has unfortunately been right in the midst of all these changing emotions. He's the one person that I see most often now. And he's high on the list of emotional triggers right now as well. The kind of attraction or affection that makes you value every word that comes out of their mouth.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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It's like I don't even know you anymore.
Something strange is happening. Our last two attempts at pizza have not been disastrous. At first, I thought I was on to something when I ordered a white pie with extra-thin crust. I wondered if it was the red sauce that was playing a role in the terror.
But then, we tried it again - this time just a regular cheese pizza. Same result. Blood sugars peaked in the mid-200s but then came down nicely. Â Three hours postprandial, four hours, five hours, six ... I kept waiting for pizza to rear its ugliness but it never did. We were actually in the clear.
Then it occurred to me that perhaps this wasn't a fluke. On both occasions, Charlie was extremely active earlier in the day with hockey. Combined with pizza crust so thin you can see through it, we found a formula for success. Â That is, until next time, when all findings get debunked.
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