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By: FatCatAnna

The Roller Coaster Ride of Diabetes! Whoo! Whoo!

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes back in 1968. Since then, the way diabetes is treated has changed for the better. Compared to the days of testing your urine, boiling glass syringes, sharpening the needle on a stone, it feels like the Stone Age when I see how things have progressed.

The most important thing for PWD's (people with diabetes) I feel is to educate ourselves on our condition, and try not to let it bring us down. Posting here at Diabetes1.org and the other DOC (diabetic online communities) that I am involved with, I hope to bring a smile to each and everyone of your faces.  I also hope that you question the things that we do to keep going on this roller coaster ride of life that we all lead  (and I'm afraid of heights).  Plus share your thoughts with us all!

Hopefully one day we will find a cure for diabetes, but until then, we plod along with the new technology.

 


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Nighttime drink of a vampire - juice boxes rule!!!
Posted: Sep 9, 2009 10:30:01 2 Comments.
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    The New Full Moon

    I'm a late bloomer, I'm not ashamed to admit this (or should I be?).  I took up reading the first of 4 books of the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, which Laura, my niece is telling me are really good - PLUS she's got 2 tickets for the midnight premiere of New Moon on Nov 19th at 12:01.  Sweet.

    I am so involved in the characters, that I think they are in my dreams.  So much so, that last night, 02h30 to be precise, I woke up in abit of a sweat, heart thumping away, thinking to myself "Would Edward know that my blood isn't smelling sweet anymore (aka am I going low)?"  LOL - I mean, I'm not a teenager anymore - which is who these books are aimed at - am I regressing back into childhood here?

    I tried something different for treating my hypo.  No getting out of my cozy bed (it went down to 12C/54F last night) - going into the kitchen to test my BG to confirm what my reading is - then consume perhaps more then I should to treat it.  No, I was a wise ol' "teenage heartthrob" diabetic gal - I drank a juice box - 22 grams of carbs - to treat my low.  Meanwhile as I sipped away on my juice box, Manouchka my cat aka crotch cat - where she sleeps for most of the night - just purred away.  Too easy, I thought to myself - it's like having 1st class service on an airplane - not having to move.  About 5 minutes, no more passed, and then I was off to sleep again into la la land.

    I woke up this morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed, wondering to myself, "will I have elevated BG's?"  Which is sometimes common for me when I've had a hypo - but in this case with treating it  just with a juice box - I was amazed to see I was reading 5.3 mmol/l (95 mg/dl ) .  Wow!  Maybe in future I will treat my BG's this way - it's too easy!

    So, how many of you treat your overnight hypo's this way - right from your bedside without confirming your readings with your BG meter, etc.?   Just curious.

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    By: JoseeF: Oct, 27, 2009 00:19 AM

    Great Idea, I keep one with me at all times in my car, I always had one or two in my desk at work too. But I never thought about my bedside...great idea...one morning I woke up with the shakes and almost didnt make it to the kitchen..could have used one at my bedside that morning...for me it was a low BC.


    By: dorisjdickson: Sep, 09, 2009 11:53 AM

    Now where did you get that idea young lady?  I've been preaching that approach for years.  Juice boxes are convenient, don't require refrigeration and store easily in the night stand.  They also prevent munchies, weight gain and falls down the stairs.  However, I use mini-juice boxes - ~4 ounces.  ~15 carbs are normally sufficient.  But there are also normally 2 juice boxes in the drawer just in case.

    And no, I don't treat anything without checking my blood sugar.  My monitor is on top of the nightstand with my cell phone. 

    It is rare that potential symptoms don't have dual meanings.  Shaking can be adrenalin from anything and therefore, often means high blood sugar not low.  It can mean absolutely nothing too.  Waking up soaking wet can also mean high blood sugar not just low.  So I don't operate "in the dark."

    Doris



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