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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 10:43 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 10:52 PM
BRENDA
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Well, I did it. My stuff is off to a publisher in Ontario. *gulp* Just hope I did everything right. I'm sure you did, Brenda. Congrats, and good luck! -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Well, I did it. My stuff is off to a publisher in Ontario. *gulp* Just hope I did everything right.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 11:02 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2023 1:54 AM
Quote: Exercising regularly and keeping a healthy weight The goal is to keep the blood sugar level as close to normal as possible to delay or prevent complications. Generally, the goal is to keep the daytime blood sugar levels before meals between 80 and 130 mg/dL (4.44 to 7.2 mmol/L). After-meal numbers should be no higher than 180 mg/dL (10 mmol/L) two hours after eating.
Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:14 AM
Thursday, May 11, 2023 12:11 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Interesting thing to note about my levels today... Including the 2 glucose tabs, I ate almost 50 grams of carbs around lunch time when I was mowing the lawn after having a 15 minute workout this morning and I did not take any insulin for it. I had a brief spike to the mid 150's after taking those two glucose tabs which started coming right back down as quick as it went up, but here we are a little over 3 hours later and I just got an alert that I'm back down to 76. In addition to the 20 units of long-active, 8 units of rapid-acting is all I've had since I woke up almost 13 hours ago, and I figure I've had about 105 grams of carbs in that amount of time. AND I'm low. Could this maybe be a good sign? .... Maybe? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Thursday, May 11, 2023 12:13 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:36 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Well, I did it. My stuff is off to a publisher in Ontario. *gulp* Just hope I did everything right. I'm sure you did, BRENDA. But publishers are notoriously picky so now the question is whether you'll get a positive response. Fingers crossed!! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:38 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:42 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back from mah jong this morning and no luck what so ever. Very rough when playing with 4 people at a table. Though one good thing. Got my results from my mammogram which was last Thursday and all is clear.
Thursday, May 11, 2023 4:43 PM
Thursday, May 11, 2023 5:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Interesting thing to note about my levels today... Including the 2 glucose tabs, I ate almost 50 grams of carbs around lunch time when I was mowing the lawn after having a 15 minute workout this morning and I did not take any insulin for it. I had a brief spike to the mid 150's after taking those two glucose tabs which started coming right back down as quick as it went up, but here we are a little over 3 hours later and I just got an alert that I'm back down to 76. In addition to the 20 units of long-active, 8 units of rapid-acting is all I've had since I woke up almost 13 hours ago, and I figure I've had about 105 grams of carbs in that amount of time. AND I'm low. Could this maybe be a good sign? .... Maybe? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it. It sounds like you have one more factor to consider: activity level? the insulin is shuttling sugar into your muscles, where it's appropriately being burned up? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Thursday, May 11, 2023 7:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back from mah jong this morning and no luck what so ever. Very rough when playing with 4 people at a table. Though one good thing. Got my results from my mammogram which was last Thursday and all is clear. Congrats on the mammo! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Thursday, May 11, 2023 10:28 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Interesting thing to note about my levels today... Including the 2 glucose tabs, I ate almost 50 grams of carbs around lunch time when I was mowing the lawn after having a 15 minute workout this morning and I did not take any insulin for it. I had a brief spike to the mid 150's after taking those two glucose tabs which started coming right back down as quick as it went up, but here we are a little over 3 hours later and I just got an alert that I'm back down to 76. In addition to the 20 units of long-active, 8 units of rapid-acting is all I've had since I woke up almost 13 hours ago, and I figure I've had about 105 grams of carbs in that amount of time. AND I'm low. Could this maybe be a good sign? .... Maybe? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it. It sounds like you have one more factor to consider: activity level? the insulin is shuttling sugar into your muscles, where it's appropriately being burned up? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Maybe? I'm keeping a log of the questions I will be asking next week during the education courses. I'm hoping that my Nutritionist/Nurse will have some 1 on 1 time for me after the class(es) are over. Same thing is happening to me again today, but the numbers are even better than yesterday. I only spiked over 200 for a few minutes right while I was in the parking lot to see the general practitioner. I was 180 by the time the nurse pulled me in, and already down to 135 by the time the Doctor came in. When I got my blood work done, I was 85. 80 by the time I left the hospital and right when I got home my meter started beeping at me that I was low and 67. I had a banana and a half cup of peanuts and I'm back slightly over 100 now (with no insulin required to keep it low). And my hope is that this will be the first day since Thursday that I don't have to "save" myself with the chewable glucose tablets. Doctor's visit went great. Everything else, including my lungs and heart are great, with oxygen absorption at 98%. In his write up that I can see online, under "Physicality", he wrote "He is well developed and looks healthy". EKG was good. Metabolic Panel was perfect with everything right near the middle of the normal range. Hilariously, my glucose level was 81 at that point and if you didn't know I was diabetic that result would lead you to believe I wasn't. It just so happened that on my way down the timing was perfect. And the best part is that my blood pressure was a perfect 120/80. I've NEVER had a perfect 120/80 before. We're going on 5 weeks of working out, eating right and taking my vitamins daily now. It's nice to know that it shows. Whenever I finally get this sugar level evened out and the whole process becomes second nature to me, in an odd way the diabetes diagnosis might just be the 2nd best thing that's happened to me after getting sober. Chances are, it's probably going to add a lot of years onto my life since my days of avoiding the doctor like the plague are forcibly over. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Thursday, May 11, 2023 11:31 PM
Friday, May 12, 2023 1:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Interesting thing to note about my levels today... Including the 2 glucose tabs, I ate almost 50 grams of carbs around lunch time when I was mowing the lawn after having a 15 minute workout this morning and I did not take any insulin for it. I had a brief spike to the mid 150's after taking those two glucose tabs which started coming right back down as quick as it went up, but here we are a little over 3 hours later and I just got an alert that I'm back down to 76. In addition to the 20 units of long-active, 8 units of rapid-acting is all I've had since I woke up almost 13 hours ago, and I figure I've had about 105 grams of carbs in that amount of time. AND I'm low. Could this maybe be a good sign? .... Maybe? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it. It sounds like you have one more factor to consider: activity level? the insulin is shuttling sugar into your muscles, where it's appropriately being burned up? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Maybe? I'm keeping a log of the questions I will be asking next week during the education courses. I'm hoping that my Nutritionist/Nurse will have some 1 on 1 time for me after the class(es) are over. Same thing is happening to me again today, but the numbers are even better than yesterday. I only spiked over 200 for a few minutes right while I was in the parking lot to see the general practitioner. I was 180 by the time the nurse pulled me in, and already down to 135 by the time the Doctor came in. When I got my blood work done, I was 85. 80 by the time I left the hospital and right when I got home my meter started beeping at me that I was low and 67. I had a banana and a half cup of peanuts and I'm back slightly over 100 now (with no insulin required to keep it low). And my hope is that this will be the first day since Thursday that I don't have to "save" myself with the chewable glucose tablets. Doctor's visit went great. Everything else, including my lungs and heart are great, with oxygen absorption at 98%. In his write up that I can see online, under "Physicality", he wrote "He is well developed and looks healthy". EKG was good. Metabolic Panel was perfect with everything right near the middle of the normal range. Hilariously, my glucose level was 81 at that point and if you didn't know I was diabetic that result would lead you to believe I wasn't. It just so happened that on my way down the timing was perfect. And the best part is that my blood pressure was a perfect 120/80. I've NEVER had a perfect 120/80 before. We're going on 5 weeks of working out, eating right and taking my vitamins daily now. It's nice to know that it shows. Whenever I finally get this sugar level evened out and the whole process becomes second nature to me, in an odd way the diabetes diagnosis might just be the 2nd best thing that's happened to me after getting sober. Chances are, it's probably going to add a lot of years onto my life since my days of avoiding the doctor like the plague are forcibly over. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it. I wonder if insulin dependent diabetes has ever reversed itself... i.e. that the insulin producing cell recovered from some sort of insult. Everywhere online says "no". I suppose it would be too much to hope for (sigh)
Friday, May 12, 2023 10:11 AM
Friday, May 12, 2023 12:42 PM
Quote: SIGNYM: I wonder if insulin dependent diabetes has ever reversed itself... i.e. that the insulin producing cell recovered from some sort of insult. Everywhere online says "no". I suppose it would be too much to hope for (sigh) SIX: Not "everywhere", actually. I was just reading a study about a woman who was 30 and diagnosed with diabetes 10 years prior. It looks as though through daily fasting and some other stuff I didn't understand she actually got her c peptide count up. Mine, BTW, looks to be .3 (or .03... I don't remember the decimal placement from the test results). That IS very low, but it's also on the cusp of type I and type 2, which makes sense since nobody can tell me what the hell I've got. They say that less than or equal to .2 is Type 1 and greater than or equal to .3 is Type 2. I think this makes sense since even though we went straight to insulin, there were clearly visible results from the original 500mg of Metformin I was taking twice per day (The weight loss stopped immediately, and the thirst went away). That's the good news. The bad news is that the girl who gave me the EKG lied to me and said it was good. It's not good news. Searching online for my results, it looks as though I had a silent heart attack at some point. It's not acute and they mark it as "old". I sure as hell hope somebody tells me what's going on with that tomorrow. Shit... I hope I don't have to have heart surgery now too. ------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Friday, May 12, 2023 12:57 PM
Friday, May 12, 2023 1:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:Some things (like kidney failure) just kind of silently creep up, and by the time it's symptomatic you're practically dead. So when nurses ask me "How are you doing today?" in that chipper tone of voice, I give them a humorous but qualified answer: I don't know, I'll have to ask my doctor.
Quote:But I suspect you won't need any corrective surgery for your heart, at least not for a "historic" event. They probably detected an area of heart muscle damage, which - unlike other areas of the body- doesn't repair itself. But what's done is done. The heart compensates and if you're active and you don't feel overly tired or have chest pain or breathless on exertion you shouldn't stress about that. (You should see all the dents, calcifications and broken toe bones I've collected over the years that they found adventitiously!)
Quote:What you need to be doing in looking for ONGOING problems - yanno, cholesterol, calcium deposits in the arteries around your heart etc - and just correct it moving forward.
Quote:Congrats on the blood sugar BTW!
Friday, May 12, 2023 2:00 PM
Friday, May 12, 2023 3:52 PM
Friday, May 12, 2023 3:59 PM
Friday, May 12, 2023 4:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNY I get fuckin' twitchy about test results. SIX: I get twitchy about EVERYTHING healthcare related. I might have mentioned I finally got that tetanus booster I was worried about not having a few years back when I took a nail to my palm, but I know I forgot to mention that I also got a pneumonia vaccine yesterday too. A BIIIIIIIIG part of me wanted to tell them to stick a pin in that one until I was able to do some research on it, but I'm not in 20-year-old-and-super-healthy-who-gives-a-fuck mode anymore and this is some serious shit. Also, it's been my experience that trying to do any medical research online is a shitshow anyhow, and it would just leave me with more questions than anybody in the medical community would have any answers for anyhow. I've had pneumonia before. Bad. It's not fun. My grandfather almost died from it when I was a kid. I've got diabetes now and I didn't even know it when I got the shot but I also had heart problems in the past as well. At least they didn't try pushing the Covid vax on me because that would have been a hard no.
Quote:SIGNY: Some things (like kidney failure) just kind of silently creep up, and by the time it's symptomatic you're practically dead. So when nurses ask me "How are you doing today?" in that chipper tone of voice, I give them a humorous but qualified answer: I don't know, I'll have to ask my doctor. SIX: SUGNY: But I suspect you won't need any corrective surgery for your heart, at least not for a "historic" event. They probably detected an area of heart muscle damage, which - unlike other areas of the body- doesn't repair itself. But what's done is done. The heart compensates and if you're active and you don't feel overly tired or have chest pain or breathless on exertion you shouldn't stress about that. (You should see all the dents, calcifications and broken toe bones I've collected over the years that they found adventitiously!) SIX: It said something along the lines of "Probable ____________ infarct, old". I don't remember the word in the blank above, but when I googled what it meant it said "on the front side".
Quote: SIX: Looks like, at least from what I've seen online, this means that I had a silent heart attack at some time in my past. I wonder if that has anything to do with those weird "adrenaline spike like" events in my chest area that make me bolt out of bed all the time when I almost fall asleep or the area of numbness on my middle-upper left side of the back that happens when I'm really stressed and/or doing heavy work? Both of those sensations started happening in my late 20's, which would have been right around the time I got strep throat and let it get so bad my throat looked like it had two grody looking and smelling golf balls on the sides and it felt like razor blades going down even just drinking water (once my fever hit 103.5 I had my brother take me to immediate care to get it fixed).
Quote:SIX: I'm such an asshole. It sucks getting old and finding all of these things you've done to yourself after there's not much you can do to fix them anymore.
Quote: SIGNYM::What you need to be doing in looking for ONGOING problems - yanno, cholesterol, calcium deposits in the arteries around your heart etc - and just correct it moving forward. SIX: Yeah. I have some blood work that I still need to go back for. I got all the stuff for Doc Endo yesterday because it didn't require fasting, but I'm going to have to fast for his blood work. I just got the EKG while I was at it because I didn't need to fast for that. They're in the process of getting a Cardiologist involved for me as we speak. (Oh, and I'm not very worried about needing to fast in the morning because of the diabetes after what's going on today... More on that in the next post. :smile)
Quote:SIGNYM: Congrats on the blood sugar BTW! SIX: Thank you. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Friday, May 12, 2023 11:21 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2023 11:11 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Anterior?
Quote:I think every one of us, if we're honest, can deeply regret things we've done in the past.
Quote:They probably want to check your cholesterol, which also needs to be measured fasting.
Saturday, May 13, 2023 11:30 AM
Saturday, May 13, 2023 11:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Sounds like a difficult balancing act, SIX Sigh.
Quote:Hubby is maxed out on two oral meds and his blood sugar is getting harder and harder to control. he's on a strictly controlled lower carb diet, which is why- aside from cost - we almost never eat out. But it sure means a lot of cooking and dishwashing.
Saturday, May 13, 2023 1:22 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2023 5:31 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2023 6:19 PM
Saturday, May 13, 2023 8:10 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2023 1:21 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Good luck! Fingers crossed!
Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:26 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I also set my monitor now to alert me for LOW levels at a higher 90 than the 80 I used to have it set at. This gives me time to eat something and for it to process before I dip too low. It worked twice today. I ate that last banana at 11:09PM. By 11:33 I was down to 80. By 11:48 I was back up to 110. Based off of previous results, I fully expect this to bring me to around the mid 130s for a while and get me through the night.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 1:40 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2023 3:32 PM
Sunday, May 14, 2023 7:00 PM
Monday, May 15, 2023 1:19 PM
Monday, May 15, 2023 1:59 PM
Monday, May 15, 2023 4:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I hope things are going well for you both! Meanwhile, I've been attempting to fulfil everyone else's priorities and soothe their anxieties w/o making much progress on my own projects, and spoke rather sharply to the family about being burdened with all of their priorities but being left high and dry on mine. I wonder if the message "took" or if it will need to be repeated. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Monday, May 15, 2023 4:42 PM
Monday, May 15, 2023 11:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I hope things are going well for you both! BRENDA::Well, I am almost finished with my medical stuff. Just have to get my thyroid test done.
Quote: Got a notification from the publisher that they received my stuff and now I wait and look for someone else to send too.
Quote: far where I am the heat hasn't been too bad.
Monday, May 15, 2023 11:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: : Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I hope things are going well for you both! BRENDA::Well, I am almost finished with my medical stuff. Just have to get my thyroid test done. WOO HOO! Quote: Got a notification from the publisher that they received my stuff and now I wait and look for someone else to send too. Sounds worse than waiting for final exam results! Quote: far where I am the heat hasn't been too bad.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 11:55 AM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 1:09 PM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 2:52 PM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 4:38 PM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 6:28 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Believe it or not, your info is helpful for hubby. Taking blood sugar readings in the AM might not be reflective of his average.
Quote:I wonder if an implant would be helpful for him, at least in the short run? Maybe isolate what is causing his blood sugar to read too high, or maybe just demonstrate that it's not his diet but that he needs some other med, bc I know for a fact that he's eating somewhere in the realm of 80 grams of carbs a day. I know doctors are used to patients cheating, but maybe a monitor would convince doc that his isn't a diet problem.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 8:04 PM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023 8:33 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Exercise. That too! He's been so wigged out about his back he's basically been chairbound. Afraid he's going to fall and snap a rod or pull out a screw. But I took him to Home Depot and he picked out some wood and today he was planing. (He has a smallish project in mind, turning an old door into a table.) So maybe that'll help bc diet-wise there's not much else I can do, unless he's prepared to starve himself.
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