“Lost that Loving Feeling” ie Low, shocky, HYPO, la-la land, t
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…
It is very possible to regain some symptoms…
Do not lose hope!
Jeff
November 15th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Lori!
I have a completely off topic question for you! Is the name of the movie with the song “Singin’ in the Rain” the same as the song? Gene Kelley, I think is the dancer. My daughter’s dance team did an Austin Powers number in competition this year, and she did that part. But, she has never seen the real dance or the theme behind her part of the dance.
Sorry to take the time to find this out on-group. I am leaving in a few minutes for Charleston, West Virginia to take boards for my nursing license. My sugars are creeping up with the stress… I either pass it, or don’t have a job and $40,000 in loans to repay. It’s now or never. Just a little pressure.
gotta run!
Joan
November 20th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Thank you, Lori! Kaitlin will enjoy that, too, I am sure.
: )
Joan