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My blood sugars seem to have a mind of their own (more than normal) these past few days. I'm bouncing all over the place, doubting my meter's accuracy, and questioning my own ability to manage this stupid disease. I can't seem to stabilize and insulin doesn't seem to be working the way it needs to. Worst of all, I think it's really wreaking havoc on my body as my fatigue has increased and I'm waking up with sore throats.

 

Last week I noticed a few bouncing numbers, but nothing out of the ordinary. I'd been running high trying to get my insulin stabilized and figure out my problem areas. I'd also been snacking too much before bedtime for fear of lows since I was going to sleep with numbers like 104 and 111. Those left my morning numbers high setting my days off on the wrong diabetes foot.

 

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Now that I no longer have to fret about my diabetes, I have a new worry: What if I gave it to my son?

 

I have to assume that is a pretty common worry among mothers (and fathers) with diabetes. Did my son inherit my faulty diabetes gene along with my ticklish feet?

 

On the Diabetic Mommy support group I belong to, it is very common for moms to start freaking out that their child may have diabetes. He's drinking too much, he's peeing too much, he falls asleep after meals, etc. With these worries, a mom will then test her child, usually at the exact wrong moment, like when he has juice all over his fingers or just ate a big bowl of cornflakes, to get a higher than normal reading. Usually anything over 100 will do a sufficient job of bringing a diabetic mom to a full panic. 

 

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Yesterday I posted about my toe problem and I wanted to dig a little deeper into the fear that accompanies any little thing like a spot on my toe.

 

Ever since I was diagnosed with this stupid disease I have be told horrible stories of all the complications that can happen to me. Going blind, losing a limb, kidney’s failing, heart disease, neuropathy, stroke and more. All very real and very scary stuff.

 

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I am severely lacking motivation here lately. My diabetes is all over the place with blood sugars like 223 or 345. I am one big diabetes mess. Because I just don't care.

 

Which is a total lie. I hate having numbers that high. I do care. I cringe every time I see it on the meter screen. I avoid checking just because I know that it's not going to be pretty. I do care.

 

I just apparently don't care enough to put diabetes on the priority list. I don't care enough to log the past two months of numbers that I've skipped out on. I don't care enough to give the right boluses to cover the high carb snacks that I'm consuming. I don't care to raise my Lantus to offset those carbs or even sometimes take my Lantus.

 

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My blood sugars are in a world all their own lately. Last weeks averages are in the 200's...something I haven't experienced in probably three to four years. Even between sick days, periods, and holidays, my averages never top 190.

 

But last week was a total landslide in the diabetes realm. My body is telling me something, although I'm not positive what it is. And unfortunately, those blood sugars are now telling my body something else as they've wreaked havoc on my immune system, my energy level, and my concentration.

 

I really did try to work on my list of diabetes "to-do's" over the past week. I stopped forgetting my Lantus injections and I only let a bolus slide once or twice. I didn't check as much as I should have, nor did I get any more workouts into my routine. But I was hoping the slight increase in positive diabetes behavior would have a decreasing effect on those blood sugars.

 

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Dating has a lot to do with how comfortable you feel in your own skin and especially around that other person. Diabetes, PCOS, and any other health condition really can make comfort an extremely troubling thing. It's something that I've become very familiar with over the past few years.

 

Diabetes can make feeling "okay" or "right" a distant thing, a rare thing. Each range of numbers can throw your moods into tailspins. Lows make you weak, anxious. Highs make you irritable, crabby. Just knowing the number, even without the biological effects, can upset a perfectly even keel.

 

There are the bruises and bumps from years of insulin injections. The calluses on fingertips. Those things don't make you feel comfortable, sexy in your own skin. They remind you, they remind your lover that you aren't whole.

 

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My road to diagnosis began with an infection; a yeast infection to be exact. That’s right, I, a male, had a yeast infection.
Now, I’m like most guys when it comes to the plumbing, and was rather embarrassed by the fact that something was wrong downstairs. And, like an idiot, I delayed going to the doctor by trying “home remedies” first, in hopes that I might be able to avoid having to go the doctor. After reaching the end of my rope with the problem, I broke down and went to the doctor December 5, 2008.
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I wasn't at all pleased with how switching to a 1:30pm Lantus injection was working for me. It was just too stressful to make sure I took it exactly then and too bothersome to compete with a post-breakfast high and a lack-of-Lantus high. So I switched.

 

I split the dose for 1:30pm and roughly 11:30pm (I say roughly because the last two days I've been scrambling around the mall or at Christmas tree lots getting my mom's house ready for Friday's party). I started with a 20 unit and a 15 unit split (originally was on 36 units). I haven't had a chance to sit down with the logbook (see said scrambling), but I have felt some differences.

 

First of all is my morning numbers. Those morning lows are back. This morning, a nice and early 55 woke me up...along with my mother on the phone and the cat in my ear. And this is after a 64 yesterday morning which made me lower the 15 units to 12 units.

 

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