Re: A1c Tables

<amber.jean.j@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 24, 6:14 pm, sho...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
amber.jea...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 24, 1:23 pm, sho...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I get pretty depressed when I compare the effort and work I go
through to control my blood sugars, and contrast with the A1C's
that
everyone here adve
Sometimes I can almost forget about my condition but most of the
time it is with me and sometimes I feel bad and don't know why.

I think I have some of the same feelings/moods as you do Amber. Others
here might just tell you to get over and get on with life and tell you
how lucky you are, and while that may be good advice it's not always
the easiest advice to follow. I've fallen into ruts in the past that
seemed impossible to climb out of, but I did, although at some price
to me or others sometimes.

If you want to mention to your doc or CDE how you feel, they might be
able to hook you up with some local support that will work for you. In
fact I would expect some discussion of how you're emotionally/socially
dealing with all this to be part of every "routine" office visit - if
it isn't, I encourage you to make it part of the discussion. Local
support groups must exist in some form, but a lot of us here have felt
the fear, and stress, and impossibility of it all in the past too. And
we came through somehow (sometimes I'm not sure how) and we'll try to
help you through too.

Diabetes is a particularly nasty situation because of the continuous
effort it requires, and large chunks of the world will view you as
responsible for every possible bad thing that might happen as a result
(bg too high? your fault. bg too low? your fault. or sometimes we get
saddled as being responsible for having it in the first place). We
have remarkable tools at our disposal to help us with the
responsibility of regulating our bg's and sometimes its actually good
to get so involved with using those tools that you feel empowered by
them, rather than burdened by them. Lots of us on this newsgroup take
that approach much of the time - I think it's the reason that people
append their stats to the end of every post they make. But I can tell
you that approach doesn't always work for dealing with the stress/
loads pushing us down from every direction, and that's OK.

Tim.

There is a boy that I met in the nurses office at school that is a
type 1. I'm not so good talking to boys but it would be good to find
out what he does and what his glucose tests are.
When I'm feeling bad which is a lot of the time and I get a high
test like over 200 or higher it makes me feel a lot worse. It's almost
like I can feel my body hurting itself. When someone says don't worry
about this or that I don't know how to do it. The only time I can stop
worrying is the problem goes away or I get so occupied that I forget
it.
Amber


Amber, like you and Tim, I too get thrown into a major funk quite often..
actually more times then I'd like or should imho. Yes, it is hard not to
worry about diabetic things.. the one thing that I've learned how to
handle
it is to think of it as a game of life. Meaning that when I get a high
number
(over 200) then I'll inject a wee bit and take a short walk around the
house
if I'm able to... then I'll come back and test in a hour.. most times I'm
back
below 150 and then I'll smile and say to myself.. "HAHA you rotten this
and
that.. I betch'a this time!" and go on with other things.. Then there are
other
times that taking that simple walk around my living room actually will
throw
my back into spasms and I'll end up at 350 instead of maybe 212... then
that
really TICKS me off.. so, I'll do what I need to do to correct the back
problem
at the moment with another medication and wait another hour and usually
I'm coming back down... Life being diabetic or not isn't simple by any
means
and I've learned that being "down" just doesn't do you any good period..
so
if anything.. walk outside and listen to the birds singing, the leaves
growing
or watch the sun shining...


--
Reisa, T1
dx-5/00 asd-7/00
Animas IR1250 pumper
Currently taking a pump vacation
Daily CHO: 100-130gm
TDD: 36-38u
Last A1C: too damn high!


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