Re: Not-so-newby
- From: VBHol <vbhspamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:00:41 +0000
RK wrote:
"alioop 9" <alioop9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20358-436EF729-1243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |I have been diagnosed diabetic for 10 years, but my Dr's just seem to | want to give me drugs instead of information.
That's because most folks want an easy fix. They don't want to hear that they have to exercise, they don't want to test their glucose 4 or more times a day, or that they have to take a pill or two, they don't want to have to change their lifestyle. Seems by your later comments you fall right into that package.
I gave up on testing | because my fingers were so sore.
If you gave up on testing how can you possibly know how much your glucose? Testing is our ONLY device against this disease.
Many find testing on the sides of their fingers doesn't hurt. It's also called the more you test, the more you get used to it.
I do take the drugs on schedule and | normally avoid obvious sugars. I have found that carbs (pasta and bread | mostly) in large amounts cause yeast infections, so I try to cut down on | those.
VHOL is correct that it just isn't "sugar" you need to avoid. Sugar is a CARB and it's ALL CARBS that we as diabetics have trouble processing. Seems you haven't even bothered to take the time to try to educate yourself. The internet has been opened for quite sometime... why haven't you done a simple google search?
Right now I take the glyburide/metformin 5/500 2 of them twice a | day. My current Dr is making noises about insulin, which I definitely | don't want to do.
Why don't you want to take insulin? Is that admitting you've failed? Sometimes taking insulin isn't the right path either, because you're piling insulin ontop of a body already filled with insulin that isn't working. But a simple blood test of your C-Peptide can rule out extra insulin, in which case insulin shots then would be of assistance to you. Again, simple research is all it takes.
| Here're the questions: | If I feel ok, what's the big deal?
Big deal is.... Since you don't test, you have NO clue how high you are actually running your glucose. As for someone spouting damage over 160, if that were the case every T1 would be riddled with complications and that simply isn't true, besides there is no "this is the damage line". It IS however proven that a diabetic to help avoid complications keep their glucose as close to a non-diabetic glucose as possible. So, over a period of time complications may or may not start to set in, but when they do, many are not reversible.... So, if you enjoy or look forward to going blind, not having sensation when having sex, having a heart attack, losing your feet or maybe a leg, ah hell both your legs... or feel like crawlies all over your feet then yep, don't bother testing... it's no big deal.
| I don't have any symptoms of diabetic problems (unless the bruises at | the base of my toes are? My Dr doesn't look at my feet.)
If your doctor isn't looking at your feet then you best tell him too or fire his sorry ass! You don't need to have symptoms to have problems. The arteries in your heart might be substaining serious damage RIGHT NOW from high glucose and until your heart gives out you'll never know. Or the vessels in your legs are crapping out... or the blood vessels in your eyes are beginning to bleed and without getting tested you'll never know until it is too LATE.
And YES! the bruises at the base of your toes ARE a diabetic symptom, sounds like lack of proper blood flow, WHICH is a complication... which could have been avoided IF you had only been testing.
BTW, any diabetic who substains higher blood glucose over a period of time, the body begins to get accustomed to that higher glucose reading, therefore, when you go lower you feel yucky and have false hypo's. We actually have to retrain our bodies to get used to a non-diabetic glucose again.
| I'm a caregiver for a disabled husband and also work 10 hr days (only 4 | days a week), so of course I'm tired. I don't think that's from the | diabetes.
but........... when you have higher glucose it DOES wear you out much faster then if you had non-diabetic glucose. I'm sure you are tired normally, but you'd feel much better if you took better care of yourself.
Speaking of which, if your husband is disabled.... when you get your legs chopped off who's going to be your caregiver? I'm guessing you're expecting him to repay you?
| I just don't think I need to act differently about this.
Didn't think you did which is why I was so cold and callus in my comments to you. They weren't meant at all to be rude or non-caring... matter of fact just the opposite. I do care, but you're totally in denial and NO one here can make you change your mind BUT YOU!
We're here for the asking... We're a support group and help others by sharing our own stories and experience in what's helped us. All you need to do is ask.. You weren't asking in your post, you're trying to find someone to validate your denial here... So you can continue to go on in life with blinders on about being diabetic because you don't want to change your lifestyle.
Best of Luck...
RK, T1, Pumper
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