In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Frosted mini wheats???
I know, I know... you were trying to save money. But savinga few pennies on cereal only to have to spend a lot more on medication... Kind of defeats the purpose besides not being good for your health. You can't just shove junk into your body and expect it to run right. That's like fueling a race car with molasses and fryer oil.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Frosted mini wheats???
I know, I know... you were trying to save money. But savinga few pennies on cereal only to have to spend a lot more on medication... Kind of defeats the purpose besides not being good for your health. You can't just shove junk into your body and expect it to run right. That's like fueling a race car with molasses and fryer oil.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
I didn't buy them AFTER my diagnosis. I'm not throwing them out though.
Besides, if these meds are working right, I should be able to get the same readings tomorrow. I'm experimenting right now, and it's not as if I've ever even had any actual advice from any doctors yet on what I should or shouldn't be eating. Even the Nutritionist didn't have much to say on the matter during the hour and that's why I'm going to two classes in the middle of May.
I'm never going to be perfect here. I doubt anybody actually is, and if somebody tells you that they are, they're lying to you. If everybody was perfect, than diabetics wouldn't even need glucose monitors because there would be nothing to check.
I've documented what I've done and won't be hiding it from anybody.
Just got back from my friend's house and gorged on food. Man his wife is a great cook. They even sent me home with more food. Scale says I'm 152.6 right now, so that was a lot of food when I was down to 149.2 this morning.
We played a lot of pool. I was really on my game tonight. I was actually beating him all night until I choked at the end. In a race to 9 I was up 7-6 but ended up losing 9-7. He's the better of the two that have been playing on leagues together for years. I've probably gotten up to about 50-60 games now in the last few years after not having played for 15, so he's pretty amazed at how good I've gotten. If I could only stop choking when it matters I'd think about joining the league with them. He said he'd drive me out there every Tuesday night if I wanted to do it.
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Quote:Of course not.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Frosted mini wheats???
I know, I know... you were trying to save money. But savinga few pennies on cereal only to have to spend a lot more on medication... Kind of defeats the purpose besides not being good for your health. You can't just shove junk into your body and expect it to run right. That's like fueling a race car with molasses and fryer oil.
SIX: I didn't buy them AFTER my diagnosis.
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SIX: I'm not throwing them out though.
You could trade them for something else or give them away. Build up that social credit. Seriously, how much money do you have "invested" in Frosted Mini Wheats? $10? $20? $50? In the grand scheme of things, it's not that much compared to your health.
Quote:THAT I understand. There sometmes are counterintutive results: My morning sugar is lowest AFTER I eat a little something sweet before bed. (The operative phrase is: "a litle"). Nonetheless I try not to, since it still drive up my overall average (A1C).
SIX: Besides, if these meds are working right, I should be able to get the same readings tomorrow. I'm experimenting right now...
Quote:THAT sounds suspiciusly like a dodge. I'm pretty sure that YOU'RE pretty sure what "they" would say about eating sugary stuff.
SIX: ...and it's not as if I've ever even had any actual advice from any doctors yet on what I should or shouldn't be eating. Even the Nutritionist didn't have much to say on the matter during the hour and that's why I'm going to two classes in the middle of May.
Quote:Most people aren't*, and fortunately you don't need to be. All you have to be is good enough most of the time.
SIX: I'm never going to be perfect here.
*My dog-walking friend controls her diabetes entirely through diet by limiting her carbohydrates to less than 30 grams/day. That's a very strict limit, but she apparently has iron self-control. My sis's diabetic neighbor, tho, routinely ... like, a few times a week... goes on junk food binges and his blood sugar is often above 400. He's in early kidney failure. Somewhere in-between is good.
Quote:Errr ... You wouldn't repair framing without a measuring tape, or put in a cover plate without a screwdriver, would you? You've got all kinds of tools to do all kinds of things. Monitors are just another tool, like your weigh scale is a tool.
SIX: I doubt anybody actually is, and if somebody tells you that they are, they're lying to you. If everybody was perfect, than diabetics wouldn't even need glucose monitors because there would be nothing to check.
Just as nobody is perfect (except my dog-walking friend), nobody responds the same either. Nobody reacts exactly the same to meds, diet, and exercise. And while there are broad general outlines, it's the results (as revealed by your monitor) that will tell you whether you respond to a particualr medication ... or cinnamon... or chromium... or all of the above, and how much exercise will drop your blood sugar and how much will raise it, how much sugar and starch (and what form) you tolerate.
Quote:That's good. Like any experimenter, you can't tell what to do unless you know the results of what you tried.
SIX: I've documented what I've done and won't be hiding it from anybody.
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SIX: Just got back from my friend's house and gorged on food. Man his wife is a great cook. They even sent me home with more food. Scale says I'm 152.6 right now, so that was a lot of food when I was down to 149.2 this morning.
We played a lot of pool. I was really on my game tonight. I was actually beating him all night until I choked at the end. In a race to 9 I was up 7-6 but ended up losing 9-7. He's the better of the two that have been playing on leagues together for years. I've probably gotten up to about 50-60 games now in the last few yearNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Of course not.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Frosted mini wheats???
I know, I know... you were trying to save money. But savinga few pennies on cereal only to have to spend a lot more on medication... Kind of defeats the purpose besides not being good for your health. You can't just shove junk into your body and expect it to run right. That's like fueling a race car with molasses and fryer oil.
SIX: I didn't buy them AFTER my diagnosis.Quote:
SIX: I'm not throwing them out though.
You could trade them for something else or give them away. Build up that social credit. Seriously, how much money do you have "invested" in Frosted Mini Wheats? $10? $20? $50? In the grand scheme of things, it's not that much compared to your health.
I'm almost done with them. Half a bag left.
It should be noted, however, that I don't eat them everyday and my readings had never been lower than 270+ before I checked after mowing the lawn and had 80. It looks as though the Frosted Mini Wheats weren't raising it any higher than anything else I'd been eating and/or the particular type of long-active insulin I've been using didn't actually do the job until I upped it to 24 units yesterday.
Quote:Quote:THAT I understand. There sometmes are counterintutive results: My morning sugar is lowest AFTER I eat a little something sweet before bed. (The operative phrase is: "a litle"). Nonetheless I try not to, since it still drive up my overall average (A1C).
SIX: Besides, if these meds are working right, I should be able to get the same readings tomorrow. I'm experimenting right now...
I'm running out of strips, quickly. That was supposed to be a 90 day supply. I'm hoping Dr. Endo can write another script for me on Tuesday because I can't keep testing all day long like my Nutritionist wants me to without them. They're hard to count, but I think I have around 20-25 of the ones for the meter I bought, and the nutritionist only gave me 10 of them even though she gave me about 110 lancets.
Quote:Quote:THAT sounds suspiciusly like a dodge. I'm pretty sure that YOU'RE pretty sure what "they" would say about eating sugary stuff.
SIX: ...and it's not as if I've ever even had any actual advice from any doctors yet on what I should or shouldn't be eating. Even the Nutritionist didn't have much to say on the matter during the hour and that's why I'm going to two classes in the middle of May.
We know that. IRL I tend to play a real dummy around most people I don't know well enough and/or don't see any advantage of letting them know how smart I actually am. How many millions of people are diagnosed with diabetes every year and they all go weeks with a half-diagnosis that doesn't tell them what type they have and none of the doctors lay out a meal plan for them until 5 weeks after the initial diagnosis, if they're lucky?
Yeah. It is a dodge. You know me a lot better than any of them do. You also probably know by now that I'm stubborn and I've also been known to cut off my nose to spite my face. That's usually the answer I want to give them in a job interview when they're asking what my greatest weakness is, but I think that one is just a bit too honest when you're meeting somebody for the first time that is going to be in charge of hiring you.
Quote:Quote:Most people aren't*, and fortunately you don't need to be. All you have to be is good enough most of the time.
SIX: I'm never going to be perfect here.
All people aren't.
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*My dog-walking friend controls her diabetes entirely through diet by limiting her carbohydrates to less than 30 grams/day. That's a very strict limit, but she apparently has iron self-control. My sis's diabetic neighbor, tho, routinely ... like,NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Laundry day for me then out for a walk in the sunshine.
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Yeah, WTF on the test strips??? It's cheap prevention, and it's not like people are going to abuse them!
Just to clarify about Type 1 diabetes... The infamous "they" don't know what causes it, but they've been zeroing in on some sort of autoimmune attack, after exposure to a virus or something. One of my insulin -dependent diabetic co-workers got it after her third child. Go figure! The other one developed it at 11y/o and he was a normally active kid. So AFAIK you can be "perfect" (diet and exercise -wise anyway) and still get type 1 diabetes.
I have the same problem with plinking and pool. It developed when my right eye became VERY different than my left. I can't hang anything straight by eye, even tho I try and compensate. Popping up, huh? Next time I shoot some pool... which will probably be a long time from now!... I'll try to remember that.
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I had a sucky night. My nose stuffed up so thoroughly it woke me up 2AM, and despite rinsing and soaking my nose with decongestant and getting a humidifier going it just wouldn't unstuff. It did drip prodigiously down the back of my throat, tho.
I finally gave up trying to sleep around 6AM and got up to do something useful. So I sent a question to two doctors and did some internet shopping and did the backlog of dishes and started to dust the house. (But quietly so I wouldn't wake anyone up.)
I hate my stuffed up nose. I've had two sinus surgeries, trimmed turbinates and all, and I still can't sleep.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, WTF on the test strips??? It's cheap prevention, and it's not like people are going to abuse them!
I know. And also that Eppy pen diabetic equivalent which would be injected by somebody if you were slipping into a coma and having somebody pour a Coke down your throat or shove a candy bar in your mouth wouldn't be a good idea. If you're that bad, the only recourse is to drive you to an emergency room if you don't have the expensive shot on hand. It's just stupid. It's almost like the Medical Industrial Complex does this by design, innit?
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Just to clarify about Type 1 diabetes... The infamous "they" don't know what causes it, but they've been zeroing in on some sort of autoimmune attack, after exposure to a virus or something. One of my insulin -dependent diabetic co-workers got it after her third child. Go figure! The other one developed it at 11y/o and he was a normally active kid. So AFAIK you can be "perfect" (diet and exercise -wise anyway) and still get type 1 diabetes.
Yeah. The Nutritionist mentioned that I could have LADA, which typically shows up in adults is a type of auto-immune diabetes that is similar to Type 1 and I told her that I saw that one online before we met up. She's not going to be able to tell me that though. Hopefully the Endocrinologist does some actual testing next time instead of just changing meds and keeping his fingers crossed.
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I have the same problem with plinking and pool. It developed when my right eye became VERY different than my left. I can't hang anything straight by eye, even tho I try and compensate. Popping up, huh? Next time I shoot some pool... which will probably be a long time from now!... I'll try to remember that.
Yeah. Popping up. I've gotten better at lining up the shots after my friend said I should be low enough on any shot where the ball positions allow me to have the stick nearly touching my chin (which absolutely was great advice), but he thinks that on the easier shots I spend a lot less time setting up the shot and I pull my head and upper body up much sooner than I do when I'm focusing and following through on difficult shots.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I had a sucky night. My nose stuffed up so thoroughly it woke me up 2AM, and despite rinsing and soaking my nose with decongestant and getting a humidifier going it just wouldn't unstuff. It did drip prodigiously down the back of my throat, tho.
I finally gave up trying to sleep around 6AM and got up to do something useful. So I sent a question to two doctors and did some internet shopping and did the backlog of dishes and started to dust the house. (But quietly so I wouldn't wake anyone up.)
I hate my stuffed up nose. I've had two sinus surgeries, trimmed turbinates and all, and I still can't sleep.
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Sorry to hear that, Sigs.
If it makes you feel any better my day's going pretty rough right now myself. I'm paying for all that overeating last night.
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I never heard of LADA before, but it does seem to fit:
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Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) is a slow-progressing form of autoimmune diabetes. Like the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes,...
If you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and you're lean and physically active or you've recently lost weight without effort, talk with your doctor about whether your current treatment is still the best one for you.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1-diabetes/expert-
answers/lada-diabetes/faq-20057880
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