In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Well, you know the advice they give on how to live a long healthy life?
Pick your parents!
That's just as true for your mental state as it is your physical.
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Well, I got a rare cancer promoting gene from somebody, and apparentlyy mom's weird autoimmune cartilage/ pseudo gout, my dad's extensive allergies, and whacky high cholesterol from somebody. It is what it is!
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Brenda:
Arthritis runs in my family. Badly on my dad's side. His mother but it missed all her children and is hitting the grandchildren. I had one cousin have all the joints in her fingers and toes replaced. Another cousin has it in a shoulder and my brother has it in his hands.
Well you know what they say...
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My aunt came over today and we went on a road trip. Came back and she got tacos.
I'm going to be eating my 7th, 8th, and 9th taco shortly.
I went to bed at 130 last night and got up to damn near 210, with over an hour above 200. By the time we got back to my house at around 3:00PM I was down to 110. Ate 3 of them and maxed at 145 and came back down and ate another three and didn't even peak above the 130s before going back down to the 90's right now.
Hopefully that Metformin starts working again soon and manages my damn Liver. Stupid thing doesn't know to stop spewing out sugar all night long and is wreckin' my calm.
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Well... Nevermind on tacos 7, 8 and 9. Ended up fielding a few phone calls and had a few other distractions and it seems my nightly rise in blood sugar started early and without me even sleeping.
I was thinking I would eat a few chicken breasts instead, but it turns out I'm not really that hungry anyhow. I think I'll just graze on some sunflower seeds instead.
But this will be another day with a very limited number of calories. The tacos from where we went, according to their website online were 195 calories each. The half cup of peanuts I had in the morning were 320 calories.
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I was about to say that I had some sunflower seeds and there couldn't be much calories in them, but boy was I wrong. I'm going to have to get more foods to eat for variety because I'm probably eating too many peanuts and sunflower seeds right now.
Those seeds are so good though because they simulate the act of eating for quite a good deal of time despite how little you're actually eating, especially on the carb front.
So I probably got my 2000 calories today. If not, I will before I go to bed.
I could probably get certification as a nutritionist a year from now. 
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, you know the advice they give on how to live a long healthy life?
Pick your parents!
That's just as true for your mental state as it is your physical.Quote:
Well, I got a rare cancer promoting gene from somebody, and apparentlyy mom's weird autoimmune cartilage/ pseudo gout, my dad's extensive allergies, and whacky high cholesterol from somebody. It is what it is!
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Brenda:
Arthritis runs in my family. Badly on my dad's side. His mother but it missed all her children and is hitting the grandchildren. I had one cousin have all the joints in her fingers and toes replaced. Another cousin has it in a shoulder and my brother has it in his hands.
Well you know what they say...
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Very true.
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Hehe.
Well... Seems the diabetes educators were right about something. Maybe.
About an hour ago, I had already risen to 154 from the 110 I was at when I was considering eating those tacos even though I hadn't actually eaten anything yet.
But then I drank a decent amount of water even though I wasn't thirsty and I'm back down to the low 120s now.
I suppose if I'm not going to stop drinking coffee all day long in the near future, the next best thing for my nightly sugar is to sacrafice a night of not waking up to pee at all by drinking a large glass of water before I go to sleep.
Too early to tell now if that's going to help with my overnight and AM numbers just yet, but very odd that I went up 40 only to go back another 30 while eating sunflower seeds and drinking about 16 ounces of water.
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What the shit?
I went to bed and I'd gone down to 100. It was a straight line until 2:00AM and all the sudden it took off like a rocket. My alarm alerts me if I hit 200 and repeats every half hour so I must have missed the first one because I just woke up to this one at 4:30 and I'm 267! I haven't been over 250 since I got that monitor installed.
100 is the lowest that I've ever gone to sleep at.
I think I'm onto something about my liver dumping sugar into my system because I'm not eating all those carbs right before I go to sleep anymore. I finally go to sleep at a level a normal person goes to sleep at and by the rate I'm increasing I'll be up to over 300 before 6:00AM.
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Quote:6ix, are you a member of the Stray Cosmic Ray School of Human Doom? They are big believers in shifting the blame away from themselves and moving blame to uncontrollable random forces such as Cosmic Rays altering their genes or blaming vast enemies such as George Soros or Walt Disney or the Democratic Party. Where you went wrong, 6ix, is not going regularly to the doctor. I have not been sick in the 21st Century but I still go to the doctor every year. I have not had cavities in my life, but I still go to the dentist for tooth cleaning. My eyesight is better than 20-20, but I still go to the optometrist. On the other hand, I know Trump voters with bleeding cancers on their faces who will not go to a dermatologist because it is no big deal to have blemishes. Delaying having cancer removed ended up being the end of them.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... Screw the hospital for posting my blood work results after 5:00PM on a Friday, but I don't need a Doctor to tell me that it's officially LADA, aka Type 1.5 Diabetes... which may as well just be Type I by a different name.
My GAD-65 test came in. A healthy person has a GAD reading of 0 to 5. Mine is over 500.
I have an auto-immune disease, and that's why I got Diabetes. So, Second, because I know you read everything I post... You can go get fucked. There's nothing I did that caused this. I'm no more responsible for my Diabetes diagnosis than my mom was for her MS diagnosis.
This might also explain a host of other issues I've had over the years. Things like becoming progressively "clumsier" and dropping tools when I'm working on something, and losing my balance sometimes while walking. It would explain why I couldn't find a gallon of milk I was sure I didn't finish a few months ago, only to find it the next day curdled in one of my kitchen cupboards.
So I guess that any success I have with oral medication right now will be short lived and it's injections for the rest of my life. There's no stopping this. I'm only postponing the inevitable now, and because I'm catching it so late that my C Peptide is already showing only .3 I'm surprised I'm getting any positive results from the oral medication at all anymore.
6ix, remember that not everyone who smokes dies of cancer so that is the perfect excuse to keep smoking.
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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Quote:You need to see shrink, and that's the one doctor you won't go to.
SECOND: 6ix, are you a member of the Stray Cosmic Ray School of Human Doom? They are big believers in shifting the blame away from themselves and moving blame to uncontrollable random forces such as Cosmic Rays altering their genes or blaming vast enemies such as George Soros or Walt Disney or the Democratic Party. Where you went wrong, 6ix, is not going regularly to the doctor. I have not been sick in the 21st Century but I still go to the doctor every year. I have not had cavities in my life, but I still go to the dentist for tooth cleaning. My eyesight is better than 20-20, but I still go to the optometrist. On the other hand, I know Trump voters with bleeding cancers on their faces who will not go to a dermatologist because it is no big deal to have blemishes. Delaying having cancer removed ended up being the end of them.
6ix, remember that not everyone who smokes dies of cancer so that is the perfect excuse to keep smoking.
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https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000816.htm
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The exact cause of autoimmune disorders is unknown. One theory is that some microorganisms (such as bacteria or viruses) or drugs may trigger changes that confuse the immune system. This may happen more often in people who have genes that make them more prone to autoimmune disorders.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/autoimm
une-disease-why-is-my-immune-system-attacking-itself
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It’s clear that genetics play a role in autoimmune disease, but researchers still don’t fully understand how. For example, having a family member with lupus or multiple sclerosis (MS) raises your risk of getting these diseases. Some families have multiple members affected by different autoimmune diseases. However, genetics alone isn’t enough to cause autoimmune disease.
“We know that genes are important, but they aren’t everything,” Orbai says. “You can have family members with lupus or MS and never get them yourself. You can even test positive for lupus-specific DNA and still not have the disease.”
It’s possible that autoimmune disease occurs based on the immune system’s ability to handle stress. Orbai says that this is an area of intense research. “When does the stress on your body exceed your immune system’s ability to handle it? If we knew this, it could be the key to preventing autoimmune disease before it develops.”
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2022/06/understanding-autoimmune-diseases
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Researchers still don’t know what causes most autoimmune diseases. But they’ve made progress in understanding what puts you at risk and figuring out ways to diagnose and treat them.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What the shit?
I went to bed and I'd gone down to 100. It was a straight line until 2:00AM and all the sudden it took off like a rocket. My alarm alerts me if I hit 200 and repeats every half hour so I must have missed the first one because I just woke up to this one at 4:30 and I'm 267! I haven't been over 250 since I got that monitor installed.
100 is the lowest that I've ever gone to sleep at.
I think I'm onto something about my liver dumping sugar into my system because I'm not eating all those carbs right before I go to sleep anymore. I finally go to sleep at a level a normal person goes to sleep at and by the rate I'm increasing I'll be up to over 300 before 6:00AM.
I never did go up to 300. It looks like it peaked shortly after I woke up at around 280 and then came crashing right back down as fast as it went up. It's unknown if that's because I was awake and I drank a good deal of water or not (not because I was thirsty at all, but just an attempt to bring it back down). It should also be noted that I did not wake up because of the high blood sugar OR the need to urinate. I woke up because my beeping meter warning me of the high level woke me up.
The meter shows that not only did I go to sleep around 110, but it had actually (gradually) fallen as low as 90 on its own roughly 30 minutes before the spike happened. After falling, it never went down close to 90. I've been basically a straight line ever since, right in the area of +/-5 to 145.
This was NOT a waking phenomena. This was more akin to the Somogyi Effect, which for the past 90+ years has never been considered to be a fact and still remains a theory. I really wish I could get in touch with a GREAT doctor that knows a good deal about this stuff. I believe that with my previous extreme eating behaviors (specifically relating to massive carb loading in a short window before bedtime) and how my body reacts to what it considers low blood sugar at night now that I'm not eating all those carbs before bed is study-worthy and may be able to provide the community with some insight that it might not otherwise have been able to (legally) obtain.
I'm pretty sure that forcing or otherwise coercing somebody to eat the way that I did for as many years as I have in the name of science would be considered highly unethical, if not an outright violation of the Nuremberg Code. But here I am... All dialed in and ready to provide the data for the right person to study it.
You got any ideas about that, Sigs?
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