In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Back from my walk and supper is cooking. Managed to get a small piece of pork tenderloin and I have some brussel sprouts and potatoes along with a can of V8 juice.
And I even managed to download the zip file the lady helping me sent me. By myself. 
So, yay! me. I did talk to my local library tech today but again they are no help. But I've got it done. So I am happy. Next thing is to send it off to the publisher.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
How well and how long you sleep and when you wake up makes a difference. But it is what it is. People can TRY to be more consistent about sleeping and waking but sometimes just not possible.
I've had Insomnia since I was 5 years old. The ONLY cure for it in my life has been to eat my ass off before I go to sleep. Now that I can't do that anymore, Insomnia it is.
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This really belongs in Dr Endo or Diabetician's lap. As you know, there is such a thing as too low.
No. I don't know that. They've been telling me that is when you slip into a diabetic coma. I also witnessed a guy go into seizures when he couldn't get his glucose tablets in time too. I just had another instance today where I felt it again and I checked and I was 75 before I ate. 2 hours later I was 214.
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You shouldn't have to rescue yourself with sugar. But I believe your readings are now in the range for an implant?
Yes.
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I think you're keeping a food log?
No. And there's no way I'm ever going to take the time to do that either. I've only marked down when I gorged.
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Er ... pancreas. But, yes, good news indeed!
Yeah. That's what I meant.
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So I was considering picking up chromium since I looked online and it's over the counter.
But they do warn that if you have kidney or liver disease that you shouldn't be taking it.
I'd like to think that I don't have either of those problems, but until we get an affirmative on that I'm not going to start taking that on my own.
I'm going to head up to the grocery store tonight and REALLY try to remember to pick up some oatmeal and some cinnamon. I'm going late when it's pretty dead in there so I can spend a bit more time walking around and checking things out and seeing if I find anything else that might help with my new diet. ALDI is not the place to be stopping and reading all the nutritional info on stuff during the middle of the day.
I'm not buying much of anything today, but just a bit to start off with to see how I like it and if it helps. I can go to the big box store and buy some stuff in bulk the next time I'm there.
Oh... FYI, if I didn't mention it above, I probably ate just as much Cheerios today as I ate of the Frosted Mini Wheats back when my sugar was low the first day.
Obviously, I'm still eating far too much of that and need to find better filler to suppliment it with, but instead of spiking up over 400mg/dL 2 hours later like I did on the Frosted Mini Wheats, I only spiked to 214. Still not good, but that is useful information going forward. Cheerios can still be in my diet with skim milk, but in lesser quantities. I should be able to iron things like that out when I get my doctor to write me a scrip for those implant monitor things and don't have to worry about burning up test strips anymore.
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The rain arrived at around 6pm and everything is wet out. Have to see if it hangs around tomorrow.
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I didn't take a blood test last night when it was happening, but at around 8:00PM I knew the level was low again. But then I ate and everything was normal.
Woke up to 445mg/dL again this morning though. :(
Weight was exactly the same as yesterday though at 152.2.
I don't have a food log, but I can at least tell him that even though I've been trying to do better at spreading my food out through the day, at least 50% of my daily food intake happens before I sleep at night still. I know I need to do better, but that's already a huge change from 100% of my daily food intake happening within a 4 hour window before I go to sleep at night.
I'll figure this out. I just need to get the doctor to do some real tests instead of just trying to change my meds. We need to figure out what type I have. If I've got type I then I'm on all the wrong meds right now, and half of them are just a waste all together. I don't know enough about LADA to say if I'd need different drugs or not, if that were the diagnosis.
We still don't even know if my pancreas is even producing any insulin.
No insulin left in the pen this morning, so I'll just be taking my oral meds and we'll see what happens at Dr. Endo's office.
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Out , out in a bit. Need a refill on my seizure meds.
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Good news and bad news all around.
While wearing the exact same clothes I had on both at the Hospital and Dr. Endo, I weighed in at 147lbs. Today at Dr. Endo on the same scale I was 156!
Blood pressure not as low as 2 weeks ago, but still way down from the Hospital visit, which itself wasn't high enough for the Dr. there to prescribe blood pressure meds (although he said that once we get this figured out I'll probably be on them anyhow as a diabetic to protect my eyes and organs).
Heart rate way down. It was 127bpm at the hospital and 120bpm at Dr. Endo 2 weeks ago. Today it was 96. Still high, yes, but even when I was healthy I'd regularly get high 80's to low 90's.
Bad news is he's pretty sure it's Type I or LADA. Good news that comes with that is I can throw my pills away because we don't need them anymore. Bad news is I'm going to be taking 3-4 shots of insulin per day, probably for the rest of my life.
Scrips are written for the insulin and the Continuous Monitor. My new life is taking X amount of the long lasting insulin in the morning, every morning, and then testing my blood sugar before meals and jabbing myself with a different amount immediately before eating depending on what my reading before the meal was.
Scrip was written for blood work and he says we're going to find out about my pancreas now. I'm going to bring the blood work scrip to my primary when I see him late next week and hopefully get that done right there on the same day. The follow up visit with Doc Endo isn't for over a month anyhow, and even though he didn't say anything about it I figure he'd probably want to see that done after I was on my new med routine instead of driving right up there today and getting it done.
I'd love to just call it a day right now since he did give me a new sample pen of long lasting and I did get my insulin for the day, but I'll have to pick up those scrips later today. He said if I wanted to, I could come into the office on Thursday to have somebody there show me how to install the implant, but I think after watching the video I can just do it on my own.
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Back in from my errands on a bright sunny day. Seizure meds all filled and everything else done. Sitting down now.
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Quote:And also how much carbs you intend to eat. This also means you're going to be eating smaller meals, more often.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good news and bad news all around.
While wearing the exact same clothes I had on both at the Hospital and Dr. Endo, I weighed in at 147lbs. Today at Dr. Endo on the same scale I was 156!
Blood pressure not as low as 2 weeks ago, but still way down from the Hospital visit, which itself wasn't high enough for the Dr. there to prescribe blood pressure meds (although he said that once we get this figured out I'll probably be on them anyhow as a diabetic to protect my eyes and organs).
Heart rate way down. It was 127bpm at the hospital and 120bpm at Dr. Endo 2 weeks ago. Today it was 96. Still high, yes, but even when I was healthy I'd regularly get high 80's to low 90's.
Bad news is he's pretty sure it's Type I or LADA. Good news that comes with that is I can throw my pills away because we don't need them anymore. Bad news is I'm going to be taking 3-4 shots of insulin per day, probably for the rest of my life.
Scrips are written for the insulin and the Continuous Monitor. My new life is taking X amount of the long lasting insulin in the morning, every morning, and then testing my blood sugar before meals and jabbing myself with a different amount immediately before eating depending on what my reading before the meal was.
Sorry to say but you're going to have to pay a LOT more attention to your eating schedule and the quality and quantity of food than you're used to. Probably more expensive too. No more cheap "filler" food. It's going to be a big change and a lot more restriction. Sorry!
Quote:I wonder what tests he's ordering. They usually don't measure insulin in the bloodstream AFAIK, and the only other tests would be for enzymes that indicate pancreatitis. So....??
Scrip was written for blood work and he says we're going to find out about my pancreas now. I'm going to bring the blood work scrip to my primary when I see him late next week and hopefully get that done right there on the same day. The follow up visit with Doc Endo isn't for over a month anyhow, and even though he didn't say anything about it I figure he'd probably want to see that done after I was on my new med routine instead of driving right up there today and getting it done.
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I'd love to just call it a day right now since he did give me a new sample pen of long lasting and I did get my insulin for the day, but I'll have to pick up those scrips later today. He said if I wanted to, I could come into the office on Thursday to have somebody there show me how to install the implant, but I think after watching the video I can just do it on my own.
Ooohh... what kind of implant is that?? Do tell!
AFA insomnia... everyone in our house has had serious problems sleeping. For me, it was chronic sinusitis that kept me from sleeping bc I couldn't breathe. Sinus surgery fixed that- mostly. For hubby, he was on a "jag" and his brain just wouldn't shut down. It took heavy-duty sedative to knock him out and get him out of his jag. Dear daughter's brain damage is probably the cause of her sleep problems, we haven't found an answer for that yet but we've tried a lot of things. Next might be a weighted blanket bc she can't stop todding and turning. So everyone's issues and fixes are different.
The usual advice is-
Stop drinking coffee by 3-4PM. (The half-life of caffeine is about 6 hours. If you have "X" amount of caffiene at 3OM, it will still be "X/2" by 9OM)
Make sure your bedroom is cool, quiet, and dark and that your mattress is comfortable
Try to go to bed and wake up at the same time
Don't be looking at a screen (phone, monitor, display) at least a hour before bed
Have a pre-bedtime routine and do something relaxing before bed
Don't use your be
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And also how much carbs you intend to eat. This also means you're going to be eating smaller meals, more often.
Yeah. He gave me two docs. The first one he wants me to follow until I have my follow up with the Nutritionist. Mine is the "dummy" one where he just wants me using X amount of units depending on what my sugar level is at before eating. The "advanced" one is going to be carb counting and adjusting based off of that. I think I can figure out the advanced way on my own before I see her in two weeks.
I don't think it means I'm going to have to eat more than 3 meals per day. I'll just up the insulin based off of what I'm going to be eating.
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Sorry to say but you're going to have to pay a LOT more attention to your eating schedule and the quality and quantity of food than you're used to.
For a while. Eventually I won't have to think about it. Remember, I do have the great benefit of being fine with only about 10 or 15 food items in my life. Once I figure out what the new ones will be, I should be able to sleepwalk through this.
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Probably more expensive too. No more cheap "filler" food. It's going to be a big change and a lot more restriction. Sorry!
What's not to love about more meat... Except for the prices.
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I wonder what tests he's ordering. They usually don't measure insulin in the bloodstream AFAIK, and the only other tests would be for enzymes that indicate pancreatitis. So....??
I dunno. Just a bunch of gobbledygook to me. I'll let him figure that one out.
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Ooohh... what kind of implant is that?? Do tell!
It's the 15 day testing thing. My days of pricking my finger and doing test strips are over. I got the sensor kit that means I can do easy on the fly glucose readings any time of the day with my tablet.
Eventually once we figure everything out, I'll be getting a continuous monitor that will monitor my levels 24/7 and pump me with insulin as needed. He told me that diabetes treatment has come a long way since the old days and once I'm all dialed in it won't be too bad.
Sounds to me like I'm going to have a robotic external pancreas.
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AFA insomnia... everyone in our house has had serious problems sleeping. For me, it was chronic sinusitis that kept me from sleeping bc I couldn't breathe. Sinus surgery fixed that- mostly. For hubby, he was on a "jag" and his brain just wouldn't shut down. It took heavy-duty sedative to knock him out and get him out of his jag. Dear daughter's brain damage is probably the cause of her sleep problems, we haven't found an answer for that yet but we've tried a lot of things. Next might be a weighted blanket bc she can't stop todding and turning. So everyone's issues and fixes are different.
For me, it's like your husband. My insomnia started after my parents divorced. Most nights I just can't stop THINKING. Eating a ton of food fixed that, but I can't use that crutch anymore.
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The usual advice is-
Stop drinking coffee by 3-4PM. (The half-life of caffeine is about 6 hours. If you have "X" amount of caffiene at 3OM, it will still be "X/2" by 9OM)
I had insomnia for 15 years before I started drinking coffee. I'm practically immune to the stuff at this point. I'm sure cutting back will help though.
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Make sure your bedroom is cool, quiet, and dark and that your mattress is comfortable
I sleep on a futon in my livingroom and fall asleep watching YouTube.
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Try to go to bed and wake up at the same time
I don't even imagine I could do this unless I get a full time job that requires it of me.
Did I ever mention that I suffer from poor impulse control?
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Don't be looking at a screen (phone, monitor, displNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME