Type 1 diabetes

Good Morning,

Stacy
You’ll do fine! Come back soon, let us know how it went…

Joan,
Thanks… (: ) pleased I could offer a chuckle. There were “other” images I had that would work, but that was the first of many… (I.e. a subconscious suggestion to XYZ (magically) once our body(ies) reached 70 for example. More Jim Carey images come to mind ala in a diabetic context)

Steve
Its not that ~wild a ride~, that’s merely one of the annoyances-nightmares of the pump game. (Btw, how come you had nothing in your bedside table??? Going from bed to kitchen, is a dangerous game when low… known several who ended up in the garage and couldn’t figure out how to get the OJ from the OJ box filled now with penny nails instead, etc., etc.). Heck, known several who knew they were low, meandered into the kitchen, and had a nice huge cup of SALT instead of sugar, they were too low by the time they got to the kitchen… so forth, and so on.

Once they’ve got the micro-management stuff figured out, it will give you a basic idea what your needs are should you ever remove from the pump!
<<The other reason was the four to five needles a day.

And myself I would far prefer the shots (given choice “P” or “S”) with zero hesitation rather than being hooked up 24-7. Infusion sets were NOT ~friendly~ shall we say?
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Hi Everyone,
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Our email sites at work have
been blocked so I sneak when I can. But just a quick note to share
what’s been going on in Maddie’s world.
Guess who went on the pump today? Me, ok just as a practice. Maddie
will start practicing next week, then go “live” on June 24. She is
soooo excited. I wasn’t too excited until I actually started wearing
it myself today. What an amazing little machine. How did we get to
the pump? Well her six month check up in April showed an A1C of
8.2. I thought we had been doing better than that, but after a week
of around the clock testing it was determined she’s having hidden
highs. I suggested we switch to lantus, the doctors said go right to
the pump. In the past few weeks she’s been requiring lunch time
shots, and some middle of the night shots, it’s getting to be alot on
her. The both of us have reached that “I hate diabetes” point in the
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I sure do… Being Diabetic, and trying to keep your BG levels in a good realm is sometimes almost impossible somedays. It seems for me, that one day I could be High, and take extra insulin, and then a couple of days later, cannot keep mine high enough, and keep on having problems with lows.

Like for example yesterday, we had Pizza for lunch, so I took my Lantus… before Lunch (I now take it before my first meal in the day, as I was dropping at night from it.) Then after we ate, we went grocery shopping. When we got home, I tested and was just over 200 so I took a few like 5 units of Insulin… (I take Novolog), and then ate a Banana. Later we ate dinner, and I had some Yogurt for desert. I took the normal amount of insulin I usually take at dinner time, and dropped Big time. My husband asked me if I was ok, and I was like I think I had better test. I was almost at my Dangerously low point.

So it is frustrating, and what I really wonder, is how come when you first start going back up when you have been low, is sometimes when you might feel the worst… as in Yucky, light headed sometimes?

~~TINA~~

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I remember when we had the discussion about writing and how mispelled
words could still be read. My sister just sent me the thing I remember
reading about that. Here it is.
Subject: interesting stuff or Itneserintg suftf
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was
rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the
liteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses, and
you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn
mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig, huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!
Just thought I would share.
Lori

Morning Steve,

Ok, the most important thing first.

A person by the name of Cox out of the University of Virginia (sic. Medical Center?) has done excellent work on the Diabetes loss of awareness problem. There were two doctors names attached to the research but I can never remember the other persons name

Its good stuff. Most loose degrees of the symptoms, sometimes more once we’ve had diabetes 20 years I believe is the current basic time frame. Could be 15 years now, but I believe its the 20 mark….

Bottom line, it is very possible and relatively simple to regain some of them BACK, through ridiculously simple stuff. I don’t have the data in front of me this second, but memory vaguely remembers its simply 3 days without being low, period.

The gist (again by memory 8 Z) was that the body got too used to low numbers and failed to set off the warning signals. (The body got used to being on a “danger setting” and simply failed to send up the normal flares so to speak) Regardless, look up the term B.G.A.T. (Blood Glucose Awareness Training) and obviously use the search term diabetes and you’ll find the basic research and discussion on it.

It truly is easy to do…. and hey until we can program ourselves to sing Old MacDonald (or some such) in order to indicate a low coming on…. and our perceptions, emotions don’t prevent us from getting said BIG signals. Until they are severely melodramatic, lows can, will, do occur. Just wish it would be something real melodramatic that I could catch, and only I would catch, I don’t know suddenly grabbing a pen with my left hand and writing rapidly in Greek, until such time as I grabbed a soda would be a nice easy trigger

Welcome back brother. Glad to hear you made it back to us…
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Hi everyone,
I was fired from my job on Wed., and applied for unemployment
benefits Thurs, and the Bucks County office sent me a form for
Medicaid. I’ve been a nervous wreck for the last 2 years, had
trouble eating and sleeping, and was in the hosp last year because
of chest pain. The doc found it was only stress. My sugars were
always running way up, so I felt crappy a lot. I just couldn’t do
the job because they were harrasing me constantly. They said it was
my “work performance”, but it was really my diabetes they didn’t
like. Anyway, I’m both scared and relieved.
I had already booked a hotel room in Richmond for Thursday, so I
headed down there to visit a grad school, and I decided to go for
it! (I also went down there to see the Poco guys, I designed a board
game for them). My question is, has anyone ever taken a couple of
years off and gone to grad school, and if so, did U have medical
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Hello, friends!

I’m sending out this email to keep you all up to date on things around here. It will probably seem like I am sending this out earlier than necessary, but I figured some of you may have questions,and since I will be offline for a while, I can try to answer you before that time. On 22 June 2005, I will be having outpatient surgery to correct a macular hole in my left eye. Because of this, I will not be able to access my email for about 2 weeks, starting with the day of the surgery (due to the need to remain in a face down position for healing & recovery). I would like to request that, starting June 21st, you hold any unnecessary emails until after July 6th. At that time, I will be returning to work & be able to check my emails again. I will be available by my cell phone after the day of the surgery. Luckily, this will not interfere with my annual trip to Oshkosh. (Well, at least not too much. I won’t be able to fly for 6 weeks after the surgery.) I hope you are all
well. Talk to you all soon.

Regards,

Stacy

Hello Tina,
<<Isn’t a A1c over 7 dangerous?

Being alive is dangerous stuff…. : z

But to answer your question directly, there is strong growing evidence that “higher” numbers indicate long term damage. I would go so far to say there is consensus in the medical community on that one theory, (and “they” cannot agree on much)!

What they have no evidence of as yet (to my knowledge anyway), when does XYZ number become directly causal of that “future problem”? Let me ask this another way….

How long do we have have to “be there” (XYZ) in order to guarantee some future problem? Is it three months continuously and we are “toast” or does it have to be 8 years day after day continuously in order to ~open that door~? Or if you, I go there once in a while over say 15 years, every once in a while… does that guarantee the problems? Or does it need to be daily, habitually over a single continuous timeframe?

You’d never get an argument out of me that 10, 12, 15 was something you have to attack and do everything possible to bring down. What I am asking is when does <shrug

Do we go insane, trying to cross below the “7.0″ magic threshold? Can we be better served, softening the lines just a tad? At what point does ~zealotry~ no longer make us vigilant and simply make us obsessive, crazy (insane hyper-vigilant, “insano” pin-cushions)?

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Hi, everyone,

My husband just polyurethaned a counter top in the kitchen. I was unaware it is oil based until my head starting to leak. Are we, as diabetics, able to take claritin? What does it do to our sugars?

I am thinking of sleeping in the tent tonight to avoid the fumes…. and headache and stuffiness and leaking.

Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Joan

Hey, all…..just a question. I’ve never heard of it referred this way before….

Blood Ketones?

Does that relate to the spilled ketones the same way BG relates to sugar spill in the urine? I Just completed a survey that was asking about glucose meters & how valuable it would be if a meter would measure glucose and ketones in the blood at the same time. If my theory is right, wouldn’t that be a huge help in preventing DKA in diabetics after diagnosis?