In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Laundry done and back from my walk. Just having a sit down.
Temp is reading 22C which is 74F but it didn't feel that warm out.
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Boy... That felt weird.
I'm glad I decided to take a blood test right now. I haven't gotten around to cooking dinner yet and all of the sudden I just started feeling strange. Not exactly light headed, but maybe a little flush and anxious.
My first reading in the 70's. I just got a 75mg/dL.
From what I hear, that's not a bad number to have and I'm surprised I felt strange off of it. Maybe I'm sensitive to having my sugar that low since I've just been having it so high all the time for who knows how many months?
Anyhow, I grabbed 3 of the Frosted Mini Wheats and ate them real quick and almost immediately felt back to normal.
I haven't eaten since I had a bowl of cereal for lunch. That and a banana, and what was left of the lefovers I was sent home with last night were all I ate today, so yeah... Probably ate less today than I've normally been eating by a bit and less than I ate yesterday by quite a bit.
Not that I don't feel like eating. I'm certainly hungry right now. I was just in the middle of something and hadn't gotten around to cooking yet.
Dinner is cooking now. 
I think I'd better get some sweets to have on hand and/or get some of those glucose pills. The Nutritionist said I didn't have to worry about shock/coma yet with numbers as high as I have them all the time, but the next day I had readings in the 80's and now we're in the 70's. Things move quick sometimes I guess.
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It must be a relief to see a number in the 70s. I don't know if it's the insulin shot, the oral meds, or you own insulin .. or all three... but now you know SOMEthing is working!
The trick after this will be figuring out how to keep your insulin and sugar balanced so that your blood sugar stays a nice steady 80-140, or thereabouts.
Just dont let it get too low... when blood sugar goes down brain function deteriorates too, and adrenaline goes up. Most people in hypoglycemic crisis aren't even aware that they're in trouble.
We used to keep orange juice on-hand for the OA who'd go dangerously low. Table sugar works OK too. Most of the time we could persuade her to drink a small carton of juice, and she would be back to normal in 20 minutes or so. When she was very belligerent we'd have to call 911. But if we hadn't been there, she would have been toast.
Hey, if your dad wants to get you anything, how about a medic alert bracelet? Everyone who's on insulin should have one!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It must be a relief to see a number in the 70s. I don't know if it's the insulin shot, the oral meds, or you own insulin .. or all three... but now you know SOMEthing is working!
The trick after this will be figuring out how to keep your insulin and sugar balanced so that your blood sugar stays a nice steady 80-140, or thereabouts.
Yeah... I'm going to have to be talking to people about this next week. Who knows? Maybe I have been down to 70's and 80's during mid-day for a while now but didn't know it because I don't test regularly with my very limited supplies.
I didn't test last night after I ate, but I woke up this morning to 379mg/dL. My weight is 150.2. I got up twice to pee last night before finally waking up for the day.
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Just dont let it get too low... when blood sugar goes down brain function deteriorates too, and adrenaline goes up. Most people in hypoglycemic crisis aren't even aware that they're in trouble.
We used to keep orange juice on-hand for the OA who'd go dangerously low. Table sugar works OK too. Most of the time we could persuade her to drink a small carton of juice, and she would be back to normal in 20 minutes or so. When she was very belligerent we'd have to call 911. But if we hadn't been there, she would have been toast.
I have to have something on hand that I won't just EAT or DRINK just because they're here.
That's why I have to get those glucose chewables and tiny drinks to have lying around. No way I'm just going to open those up and snack on them.
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Hey, if your dad wants to get you anything, how about a medic alert bracelet? Everyone who's on insulin should have one!
Probably not a bad idea when I'm living alone. At least I'm a lot more social than I was back in the drinking days, but I think it would take at least 24 hours of me not returning somebody's phone calls for them to get worried enough to think about trekking out here. My old man got worried a few days ago when I didn't answer 2 of his calls in about 5 hours (I was napping), but I told him not to do that to himself and only start worrying if he hasn't heard from me in a full day.
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Medical alert is a good idea JACK.
I've been wearing a medical alert necklace for years. Mine says epilpsey even though the doctors now call my condition a "seizure disorder". Words don't change what happens when I have one.
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Sunday and I have to check my email later as I sent the whole package off to the lady helping me. Need to see if she has gone over it then I can find five minutes or so through a busy week to get it off to the publisher.
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By now, SIX, I'm sure you're tired pf people yammering at you about diabetes, so I promise to stop posting about it for a while ... after this one!!!
As I posted, the trick is to keep your insulin and sugar balanced, so that your blood sugar doesn't go jinking around from 70(-) to 400(+).
There are several inputs to this "program":
your insulin shot
your own insulin production
your oral insulin meds
your food intake
your stress levels
YOUR SHOT
Since you're on a very long-lasting form of insulin and you inject yourself once a day, I'll assume that this "background" insulin is more-or-less steady-state: doesn't vary more than X to X/2. I think you can remove this from the equation
YOUR OWN INSULIN
I don't know how much insulin you're producing, but insulin release can vary wildly from hour to hour. Usually it motors along, releasing a "background" amount that keeps things humming, but there are a few things that will cause insulin to surge:
* High blood sugar: like, after your eat something sugary
* The taste of something sweet: Even artificial sweetener will prompt insulin release. As long as your "sweet" sensors are tickled your body doesn't know the difference.
* The "taste" of something sweet in your duodenum: which is just below your stomach. We aren't aware if it, but we do have "sweet" sensors in our upper intestine and it does tell our pancreas about what the stomach has digested.(There is an experimental procedure being investigated now to fix those sensors.)
YOUR ORAL MEDICATION
* Metformin acts in a number of ways, primarily on the liver to stop making more suagr, and also on peripheral cells by making your insulin more effective but (unless you're on extended release) reaches a peak in 1-3 hours https://study.com/academy/lesson/metformin-mechanism-of-action-pharmac
okinetics.html
* Glipizide prompts your pancreass to make more insulin: various forms (micronized, extended release) have different peak times but regular glipizide peaks 2-4 hours after taking dose, and lasts less than 24 hours in the bloodstream. It only works if you're making your own insulin.
(If you want to know more about the specific medication that you're taking, search for the medication + peak + duration)
YOUR FOOD INTAKE
This is the biggest factor that YOU can adjust. what you want to do is keep YOUR food intake more steady-state, and take your meds timed with your meals to keep your blood sugar normal. (BTW, everyone's blood suagr goes up after a meal.)
Some foods "dump" sugar into your system RIGHT AWAY and cause HUGE spikes in sugar loading. These include SIMPLE SUGARS. Bananas and sugared cereal, sweetened yogurt, mashed potatoes, fruit juices are a NO-NO! Banana AND Frosted Mini Wheats?? NOT A GOOD CHOICE.
Why don't you just down a couple of tablespoons of sugar and drink and OJ be done with it? My only reaction to that breakfast is horror.
AVOID:
Sugars - plain sugar, honey, agave, maple syrup - and anything that is sugared
Sugars in solution like fruit juices
Mashed-up, fiberfree and easily dissolved sugars and starches- freshy mashed potatoes, white rice, bread, bananas, etc
Now, what CAN you eat?
well, beans, for one. Beans not only release their own starches over time, they slow down the digestion of more-accessible starches like rice, corn, corn chips and tortillas (flour or corn). For hubby, most days, I throw a can of beans with liquid into the mwave with a handful of corn chips or a half-can of corn, or nothing, salt and pepper and/or salsa or a spoonful of chili seasoning or bits of ham or a generous handful of shredded cheese. Some days I splurge with eggs and toast (but those are NOT good days for sugar! Two slices of toast shows up the next morning as +30 sugar.)
Oatmeal (or, if you want to go exotic, oat bran). Not "quick oats" bc, again, they dissolve too easily. Thick-rolled or (if you d
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Well, I got a lot done. I finally dusted and vacuumed most of the house, which I haven't done for weeks (months?). It was awful and I felt bad just looking at it.
Today I'm taking dear daughter out to do something fun.
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Don't apologize Sigs. I appreciate your information.
Had my aunt over today and helped her with a lot of stuff on the computer. We decided to get that out of the way before lunch and all of the sudden it was 2:45PM and we hadn't even ordered yet.
Just then, I told her "you're going to get to see me test my blood sugar". I was feeling it again, just like last night. When I told her what was going on she said "oh yeah, you look ghost white".
I told her, I bet I'm 73.
I was 69mg/dL.
I ate a banana and that didn't do it. I ended up drinking half a Pepsi and then I was fine. Feel great after lunch.
My new life is going to get weird.
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Quote:Going to get weird? Ten years ago your life was weird. From May 3, 2013 9:35 AM
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My new life is going to get weird.
Quote:http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=54715&mid=93482
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Wow!
So 44% of the population is with me on overthrowing the government?
Is that more or is that less than who was supportive of it when we all hated GWB?
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Storymark responded: “Way to prove your illiteracy, genius. That's 44% of republicans, dipshit, not all citizens. And republicans are only 42% of the country... And yes, Niki, boozy the clown here makes three that dumb.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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