“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?”
It does seem to be easier for some than for others. But, being judgmental here, anyone who says it’s a piece of cake doesn’t have an ounce of empathy or caring. Sure, attitude is important, but it’s darn HARD to have a good attitude when you’re suffering! And diabetes affects you both physically and emotionally.
So, Gina and Karen, you DON’T have to suck it up, but you can say it sucks! I’m totally with you on the I HATE diabetes club!
Are you channeling Michelle Bachmann???
Is there anyone who doesn’t say it sucks? I was LOLing @ the “cake” PWD juxtaposition?
My thoughts exactly.
They do segregate those on death row; otherwise you will find murderers and many types of offenses spread out among the general population. I don’t think you would be happy in prison; the prison of Type 1 would be far preferable, IMO. You seem to have a very tight range where you feel normal and do not feel ill. Don’t know why that is. Can the endo help find a reason for this and help you feel more comfortable outside the blood sugar ranges of 80 to 100? That is the issue the medical professionals need to help you with. Most diabetics do not feel the blood sugar swings in such a way as to feel physically ill if they don’t stay in that very tight range. If someone could help you feel better you would find life more enjoyable. I am convinced there must be some medical professional who can help you.
Be patient re the Smart Insulin. Must be Smart is not working as well as it had been thought; they may need to work with it until they market it. I am convinced Merck will bring Smart Insulin to market if it is viable. Merck does not distribute ANY insulin. There is no reason why they would not market this and reap millions or billions in profits. Must be a problem with Smart Insulin regulating blood sugars after a high consumption of carbs, I’m guessing… In other words, the postprandial aspect of Smart Insulin.
Yeah, HELL yeah,
I can relate to what you are saying. I have felt inprisioned by and have been inprisioned by diabetes in many ways over the years. i would trade some time for it to be gone. i feel like i cant do much because of the diabetes. i could do some time and not loose much. Even in prison -Peace- Joy & personal growth would be my mantra.
YES- I Hear loud and clear and i feel ya brotha
This is the key factor right there. If your body can handle the highs and they and they don’t cause any kind of physical and mental distress like they do to me and your completely comfortable your so far ahead of the game. I would say its pretty easy most of the time to keep levels in between 70-200 but try keeping them 80-100. It’s crazy to me that most diabetics don’t seem to get the nasty side effects of elevated sugars. I feel horrible and the same with the lows. I prefer the lows only because they are less harmful and generally much easier to fix quicker.
Well, after 40 years of this I would say I am glad I dont get sick. I’ve never once needed a paramedic or gone to the hospital. Of course it isnt entirely good to not know when your bG is going up either!
But I cant see at 60, and I cannot balance at 80. So for myself, I have to set things up a tad. I wont drive a car at anything less than 100 because it wont steady out and hold steady.
The only thing that helped is having a pump I can turn down. Btw, Animas in one of their webinars suggested even turning your insulin delivery down 50 percent for some activity. I use it all the time.
You just have to know that your situation is not the same as anyone else’s. I run a fibromyalgia support group and we tell people we share what works for us, but we never ever say it will work for anyone else.
One other thing, Minimed pumps used to have a chart showing that a swing high, was equally bad as a severe swing low. You have to find your ground on that one.
I don’t get get sick either but I feel horrible or at least bad enough to ruin my time and put me in a depressed state of mind. The lows can put me almost in a psychotic state. It’s really debilitating though yes there are times where I feel relatively ok and even great once in while. If anyone could experience exactly what I go through they’d understand why this is so debilitating for me. I really wish it was something else then my sugar levels but I know that’s what the problem is and sadly no one including myself can do anything to resolve that. At least not now.
Best you can do is take whatever tools you have (and we do not all have access to the same ones) and use them to help yourself out.
ie if you go low every night, you have to eat a snack or check before bed or whatever.
If you can find a trusted medical professional that you like working with that will help.
And you can always vent on this board!
Just keep in mind, as we all should here, that what you have access to may not be what others have access to. If they say pump, and you cant get one, it doesnt do you any good.
You have to work with what you have.
I’m surely sorry you end up feeling so badly, and I know a lot of folks here are praying and pulling for you!
Gary, do you drink enough?
Just last night I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep. I was nervous, felt sick, actually the symptoms of high blood sugar. My meter said 165 - that’s not a “high” but it’s one for me at night time.
What helped me was not so much the insulin I took but more the water I drank.
Recently I started getting something to drink whenever I react more sensitive to my bg than I should. 110, 120, 130 - you don’t call medical help at these numbers! But in a lot of cases they make me feel bad. I found that something to drink helps - water, tea, even coffee.
Just an idea.
Pulling for me…huh… Well I’m not dying but the reality is I am overly sensitive to the sugar levels and there is really nothing anyone can do. My well being depends on how my levels run which varies from day to day, hour to hour and moment to moment . I do what I have to under all circumstances, even inject up to 8 times a day but I am just flat out tired of going through it. Its taxing for not only me but my mom who getting old and dealing with her own health issues. I also hate the feeling I relying on insulin for life support. I always worry if god for bid I ended up stranded somewhere or thrown in jail for that matter. Yeah 165 and It would be impossible for me to fall asleep. It is what it is and the only solutions in my mind is disease reversal, beta cell transplant or glucose responsive therapy.
You just reminded me Gary.
It’s August.
I was diagnosed in August 1970.
I’ve survived, despite those same kind of thoughts (the what if’s).
Granted we do not all endure the same kinds of problems, or complicaitons (or lack of complications), but we are all pretty much on a ride with this. All us type I’s rely on insulin, that is pretty much a given.
Sounds corny, but you cant live with waiting for the some day.
You have to take it day to day. Your Mom will actually benefit from your perseverance (my Mom has two diabetic girls, type I so I know a bit about moms and diabetes).
Do you have a hobby, or job skills , volunteer work or something you really enjoy? Maybe try putting your heart into that, and then take the diabetes along with you. It was never meant to consume your every waking moment, and it doesnt have to. Corny again I know, but even spending time with someone who is worse off than you, can show you what you can do! You might be the lifeline someone else needs.
One day I was in a store, and someone must have been checking their BG. I heard a Mom tell a young boy, you dont want that honey. That person has diabetes and they all die horrible deaths.
Yeah right.
I wanted to choke her, but instead it just made me more determined to educate other people, educate myself and keep pressing on. Cause she couldnt have been more in error.
Very puzzling. It sounds like it may not be diabetes at all. People without diabetes can get 60-70 and also 120-140 blood sugar levels sometimes. So even if you didn’t have diabetes, logically you could still get to those levels and feel like crap anyways?
Just a theory.
Maybe food allergies?
Gary I know you don’t think a pill will help but would it hurt to try an antidepressant? It does not sound like it could make things worse.
As someone who has gone thru a major depression or two I know in the worst of it I was convinced there was no hope. I was fortunate that in one not so bad moment i made an appointment and saw someone who kept after me and would not let me give up, they helped me and yes that meant taking a pill in my case and it gave me the hope to fight thru and deal with the other issues that were contributing to my depression.
Maybe in your case if you lift some of that depression you can start to try to find out why you are so sensitive to the swings or find a way to build up a tolerance or maybe even learn it is some allergy or random neurological thing.
Just a thought and please know I am hoping and praying things get better.
I think it is anxiety.
Well, there’s a peculiar kind of anxiety that goes w/ diabetes? Dianxiety or something like that? Anxiety message boards would probably be useless as I can hear them all going “oh, it must be the diabetes, we can’t help with that” but here, I’m not sure what to say about that degree of anxiety. I’m glad we cut walking the dog short as I was 50 when we (MrsAcidrock too…) got home and, of course, I didn’t bother bringing a snack along because “it’s just a walk…”. The dog was probably running low too, as she hadn’t eaten anything hardly all day…