Hello Folks,
Was reading the emails this morning and wanted to try and get a thread started hopefully that’ll stay unique and on track as they say ; )
How many of us RESIST when we are low….? How many resist…. “passionately”?
Love to hear more discussion as to what tricks get used when the “resistance” is meaningful….
Part b), WHY DO WE “resist”… what in the blazes is that all about??!?!?!?!?
Jeff
Hello Rhonda,
Unfortunately the horemones <sp.?
The body is trying to protect us from being killed and goes into the fight flight phenomina. If stress lowered our sugars the human race would be dead… ie anytime the saber tooth tiger showed up in the cave, we’d get eaten because we’d be too confused, disoriented with lows… stress raises numbers.
Sorry, wish, wish it worked that way, I’d be LOOKIN for stress if that were the case : 9
Jeff
Hello Friends,
Sydney and I go this Friday at 5:30pm for her costume fitting. We enter through the stage door and wait in the green room. CBS news will be there to tape the meeting. (and I have to cancel my hair appointment to make the fitting!)
The date of the performance Syd will be in is Thursday, December 30th at 7pm. We are so excited we can hardly stand it! We also found out it is PA Ballet’s 50th Anniversary of the Nutcracker. That is pretty cool too!
Thanks for all the encouraging words and for being almost as excited as we are.
Thanks for caring and sharing,
Rhonda
Mom to Sydney, 7
type 1 since April 7, 2003
Hello Jenny, Joan, others…
Joan… let me get this straight…. someone had the gaul to tell you it was your GLOTTANY, meaning I take it your eating that was the “certain source” of a series of highs you were/are having ????? Just need to get that straight, in my own head…
Are you eating such that eating could be the trigger of your highs? Did you ever have a past habit that direction?
Jenny,
DKA and the pump is a known phenomina, at least when I where I was trained. Everytime the pump didn’t work 100% textbook perfect… DKA was guaranteed to follow, period. It was 100% guaranteed. If a high hit and couldn’t be knocked down, DKA was hiding in a corner and happy to have a seat….!
Stress to the degree you seem to be talking could definitely do the job. However, the short acting insulin should have brought it down. I don’t care how high, I can knock it down unless I am developing something? Any chance it could be that time of the month? Stress added to your period could do the trick as well.
If you can’t knock the number DOWN………SKIP the pump bolus to bring the numbers down.
Use injections instead to cover see if the numbers come down that way.
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Hello All. Hope your holidays are healthy and happy thus far. My
Maddie (age 5) who was diagnosed on 10/28 has been doing pretty well.
However I have seen an amazing and sometimes troubling occurrance
with her weekend numbers. The endocrinologist say she should be
between 80 and 180, which she does all week. Monday through Friday
she is awesome, right on the mark. Come Saturday morning, and each
weekend morning since we have come home from the hospital, Maddie
wakes up over 200, and hovers around 300 the whole weekend. For
instance, last night her bedtime number was 275. But then on Monday
mornings, and this morning in particular back to 110 like clockwork.
It’s almost like her body knows that on the weekends she can relax a
little bit, there’s no school, and is already preparing itself for
it. It’s the strangest thing. I have also looked back to see what
I’ve been feeding her on Friday nights to see if that’s the culprit,
but I can’t make rhyme or reason of it. Has anyone else seen this
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: report
Sun Dec 12, 7:14 PM ET Health - AFP
LONDON (AFP) - A vaccine against the most serious form of diabetes
is to be tested on humans for the first time, raising the prospect
that a cure could be widely available within 10 years, The Times
reported.
Eighteen sufferers of type 1 diabetes, which usually appears before
the age of 40, will begin the trial in August, the daily newspaper
reported, citing scientists from the University of Bristol in
southwest England, and King’s College London.
“If the principal works, we will then want to conduct a further 18-
month full clinical trial,” Colin Dayan, a consultant senior
lecturer in medicine at Bristol, told The Times.
There are 300,000 sufferers of type 1 diabetes, which develops when
the pancreas stops producing insulin, in Britain. They need daily
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It all started a week ago Monday…no matter what I did, I could not get my sugars under 300. And I tried everything…first sliding scale w/ my pump every two hours, then with regular injections. I changed my infusion set and my site…nothing. Tuesday I was up over 400, and I took myself to the ER. They wanted to keep me, but I HAD to be at school the next day so I signed out AMA. I dragged myself to school the next day then went directly back to the ER. My sugars were actually better, but I still have some ketones in my blood, so they kept me. Did some tests, no signs of infection anywhere. My best guess is that it was all the stress of the last two weeks of school. The doctor that admitted me (not my own) doesn’t believe that stress alone can cause that kind of trouble. I disagree, and so did the diabetic educator that came to visit me. What do you guys think? I know I’m really brittle and it doesn’t take much for me to be in DKA these days. In my prepump
days I walked around at 300-400 all the time and never developed ketones. Now in no time flat I need to be hospitalized. 
What do you guys think….could stress have been the culprit?
Jenny
–
All who see me jeer at me; they
toss their heads and sneer…
Oh God, my God, why have you
abandonded me?
–Psalm 22
I am new at computer things. I have had one for about a year, but
haven’t gotten into any groups yet. This is a first for me. I am 42
years old and have had diabetes for most of my life. There have been
a few complications over the years, but I am getting very nervous
about my kidneys. They are in pretty bad shape. I am on an insulin
shot regimen, 3 shots of humulog with my meals and lantus at bed
time. It does seem to help a lot. Hopefully I can find my way around
here to be of help to others as I know you will be to me. Some of the
things I like to do are reading, movies, crocheting and church. I
teach the adult Sunday school class at my church. The people there
are very supportive of me and of great help when I need it.
Hello April, Liz, Joan
< I do not feel comfortable with all of her treatments
Such as???
<I started the Lantus I have been constantly hungry and can’t stop eating.
<Puzzled look
Now weight gain… that I’ve come across before… and not merely with the Lantus. Insulin in any form chemically bonds with everyones fat cells regardless of their eating habits. Its how the stuff works…. so the more insulin one takes the better the chance of weight gain because apparently it attaches to the fat cells waiting to be used.
Insulin can cause weight gain… the DNA stuff, being the closest to the stuff most people produce… I would think has the best chance to cause it…
Can any of our list chemists confirm in REALLY simple lay terms
Because we won’t be attending any rehearsals I think she just gets to be a child around the tree. We don’t know when the date is yet, but the lady who called today said she would be in touch for our costume fitting date and the show date.
Someone said they tape this every year and show it as a special on the news, that is freaking me out a bit, but it is just a rumor.
Thanks to all who sent well wishes, you all are so sweet. I’ll be sure to post pictures!
Thanks for caring and sharing,
Rhonda
Mom to Sydney, 7
type 1 since April 7, 2003