6 posts tagged “diabetes”

Apparently it has been a while since my last post here. I read my 'neighborhood' page every day yet i tend to not post here although I should post more often.

A lot has happened since my last post. Health wise I'm still doing pretty good. Its great to still be off the diabetes meds. It is not to great to be on 'exercise induced' asthma meds though, they turn me into a raving lunatic on a rampage. I need to see what I can do about that, but, it is all okay.

Since my last post i have been on 2 trips. One with my hubby and the brother in law. We went all over... yosemite, the sierras, vegas, arizona, san diego and back again. It was great. If "Morro Rock" wouldn't have had snow on the path I think I would have gone with Christian and Clemens. I was not prepared to be up to my knees in snow to get there. Maybe next time =) Over the 4th we went off to montana. Where I got to play "Rock Band" for the first time and got to a waterfall almost completely unaided. :) I love going on trips. I come back so relaxed.

I did end up buying a fountain pen. I got the Retro51 Tornado in red from The Village Stationer's in Palo Alto. Went in to get something else but put it back for this. I love the pen. I just wish it would accept a "pen converter" so I wouldn't have to use cartridges and would get to use some of the 37 ink samples that my friend gave me. The inks are gorgeous.

Tonight I am off to see Flogging Molly. I can't wait. It should be loads of fun. They are playing at the Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose tonight. I'm looking forward to it. Hope that you all are well. Take care, lovelies.

Monday the hubby had a doc appt. I took the opportunity to go with him. When he went to get things taken care of with an x-ray i saw the vampires, erm i mean the plebotomist to have my bloodwork done. I have been putting it off since October. this is not good people. I think I was just scared to death that the results would put me back on insulin and/or pills. So after I saw the vampires we went to set up his next appointment and we had her set one up for me too. Today was my appointment.

Hubby dropped me off before he hightailed it off to work. I was a bit early but that is normal for me. I'd rather be early than late. I sat there and read the paper that was sitting there and then had the vitals taken. Blood pressure was 'great' according to the nurse. I have no clue what the normal scales are but it was: 120/72 with a pulse of 84 and a 97.5 temp. I guess that is good because she didn't seem alarmed by the numbers. Then I went back out and sat down until I was called that they had a room. Got into the room and the nurse asked about my allergies. I handed her the long list of medical allergies. Told her I kept a card and she gave me a new one to put in my wallet. Then she set up a Diabetic Eye Scan appointment for me in April. After taking off my shoes and socks I waited for the doctor.

The doctor told me that she had just sent off my test results to me electronically. So I will have to check (after I post this). We went over the labwork. My A1C is 6.9, right where we were shooting for. Which means I am to keep up with diet and exercise for my diabetes and no meds (for now). *happydance* I told her that I had been worried about my kidneys because of some pain I have been getting. She said the labwork showed that they were functioning normally. Then she checked me out for the pains I mentioned. When I told her I also had pain in another area she realized that it is "Bursitis". So, the suspected kidney/back/leg pain is Bursitis. This can be dealt with. I also mentioned I had been getting a bit short of breath and wheezing while I do my walking. She listened to me breathe for a while and said that it could be "Exercise induced Asthma" because of how I mentioned it was happening. This is also treatable. My doctor gave me the tools I need to help myself out. Then she told me to pick up my scrips (for the asthma). Then she said to pick up the 'post appointment paperwork' from the nurse and get my pneumonia shot. So I put on my shoes and did just that. All in all it went wonderfully. My kidneys are good, my diabetes is on track and I know what is causing the wheezing and pain. YAY! Only bad thing is my left arm is hurting from the shot and my right arm is still hurting from the vampires draining me the other day. lol.

So basically, I was worked up and scared for nothing. But I am glad I finally got off my tushy and went in. After the appointment I walked home. Now I am going to be off to Dittmers. Want to talk to Mark about making JaegerSchnitzel. Hopefully he is there and can help me. *crosses fingers* Don't worry, I will take my 2 puffs of meds and not overdo it. :)

Friday I get to go back to Kaiser for the hubby's next appointment. I hope his goes as well. *crosses fingers* =)

Well, that is all lovelies. Take care *huggles*

today i had one of the worst mood swings i've had in a while. i believe it was caused by my diabetes. they tell you to be prepared for them when your sugar levels fluctuate. well yesterday before bed i told the hubby (starfishy) "wow, with my sugar being low i'm suprised i didn't have a mood swing" so i guess i tempted fate with that suggestion. it wasn't a pretty one either. we were going to go walk (we couldn't decide where) and for some reason i just blew up. i hate when that happens. mostly because once i blow up i can't calm down enough to stop a panic attack from showing up too. which also happened. the hubby tried his best to calm me down but it took a while. so once i was calm enough i went back downstairs and checked my sugar levels. it went from 144 (which isn't normal but is a lot better than the 170's where i have been stuck for a few weeks) all the way up to 187. i showed chris and said 'well, i guess i was right. it started with my sugar freaking out.' then i apologized profusely for being an ass and taking things out on him. i'm sure there are ways to stop oncoming mood swings due to diabetes. i believe it is because my body isn't used to being back in the 130/140s yet. i just need it to get used to it already. once we get our new medical insurance (we are switching) i am definitely going to go in there and see if they can help me out. i just hope i don't get a doctor that will not work with me. usually if they don't want to work with you the first words out of their mouths is, "You are obese and need to be on insulin shots so we will set that up and get you into a nutritionist." They tend to believe talking to someone who can tell you 'here you need to only take in X amount of calories per day to lose weight. here's a chart. stick to it. make sure you exercise.' is going to be easy. it isn't. i've tried that. doesn't work for me. even if i stick to it religiously. like i've said a few times here, the hubby and i have cut down on portion sizes and are eating a lot more healthy than before. (cutting down on fast food and soda helped a heck of a lot) i'm doing my best to walk a lot. (at least a mile each time we go out walking) it isn't easy but i've gotten down to a weight i'm not disgusted with. (258.5 as of this morning actually, not too bad when you know ive been in the hight 300s) the only bad thing with losing weight is finding that all the clothes you own are getting too big. *giggle* i've been wondering how long i should wait to go clothes shopping since i'm kind of between sizes. (almost in an 18. actually fit in one 18 skirt but it umm showed off too much of my tummy for me to like it)  ok, i think that is enough for now. take care lovelies. thanks for listening/reading about this. *hugs lots* hope you are all doing well :)

well, i had a big old long post about the hubby and i taking a walk yesterday to go see happy feet, going to casto street after that and everything that went along with it, but, vox ate it :( it was great. i will give you the condensed readers digest version i guess.

walked approximately 7 miles, saw happy feet, ate at jack in the box because sushi place was closed, ended up walking to castro and going to the bookstore (Bookbuyers) found an ARC of a Clive Barker book for my sister for xmas, found The Dreaming #49 (last one I needed for a full run) and then came home and did some housework. all in all it was a great day yesterday. even though on the way to the movies i bitched at the hubby because of the time constraint to get there for the showing. we made it though. :) so umm yeah, that is the short version.

*shakes fist at vox for eating her entry*

take care lovelies *hugs*

went to socal for the great turkey massacre, erm i mean thanksgiving. it was fun seeing my family. it isn't always that way but it was good this time. figured out some things about my diabetes. it seems that the pills i have are a bit too strong. i had forgotten my pills (they were sitting on the kitchen table ready to go) and when I got there I realized I had left some down there just in case I did something like this. talked to my mom about how my diabetes was roller coastering and decided to see if it was because my pills were too strong. so instead of taking 45mg of Actos and 750mg of Metformim I only took the Actos. it still dropped a heck of a lot. i'm going to talk to my doctor this week about it. we'll see what she says about it. didn't see too many of my friends while down there. but i did get to see David and Daniella which was cool. we went over on thanksgiving and ate some more there and played board games until about 2am. i got my ass beat at the games. which is unlike me when it comes to useless random trivia. hehe. got to go to Franks. was going to buy a Nekobus but the lady switched the price on me when I went back to get it. it isn't the one I really want that is 2 feet but it was bigger than the one the hubby just got me. when i asked about it at first she said $65, which i couldn't justify, then i had my sister make sure i wasn't wrong about the size and the lady goes, it's 100. then i said, well then it can stay. it was going to be a bday/xmas pressie. but that's ok. we also stopped at the Mattel store. got the hubby two collector cars. i got the one thing i wanted for my bday, new glasses. black friday i had an eye appointment. found out the pressure in my left eye was slightly elevated. the eye dr said that it was probably stress due to the holidays and to be rechecked in a week or 2, but that is 400 miles from here so it might wait a little longer. he also told me i have to use eyedrops due to dry eye. luckily they aren't prescription eye drops. we ended up staying down there until yesterday. the hubby was able to work from there so it wasn't a problem. we stopped on the way home at a few places. picked up an order for the hubby in van nuys and then stopped in gilroy at the super walmart. i wanted to see if they had the sugar free cookies i like but they didn't. ended up getting a shirt for me and some pants for the hubby. checked the mail when we got in and found out that there were 2 packages waiting in the office. which i picked up today. One is a book for the hubby that he wanted and the other box is from Germany :D It is my bday/xmas pressie from my mom in law :) unfortunately i can only look at the card. he's making me wait til xmas. im impatient, we'll see what happens. *giggle* well, i'm rambling. i better stop. take care lovelies :) *hugs*

Today my diabetes has been all over the place. I hate when this happens. Right now my brain is kind of foggy. I checked it right before lunch and it was 141, i took my pills and ate lunch. then a little bit later we walked over to target and sears. on the way to sears i started feeling weird. kind of out of it. so i made chris buy us chips and guacamole and a soda at the taco del mar that is right there. then we walked around sears and got a few things and started to walk home. decided to check my sugar again and its at 71. so now i'm waiting to see if it goes back up after eating a piece of the chocolate cake chris made. i really don't like feeling like this. chris keeps saying if it goes lower he is going to call the ambulance. i so don't want that. i'd rather not go to the hospital. i told him i'm going to recheck my sugar at 7 and see what it's doing. if it is lower than 71 i'll probably freak out. i don't think it will go lower though. not after the chocolate. *if* it is that low i am going to go grab a regular coke from the rec room vending machine. i'm sure that will bring it back up. this is what i get for not keeping things in my fridge for emergencies like this. i feel like a complete idiot. we were right by the grocery store. i should have gone in and gotten something anything. *kicks self* and here i was thinking that i shouldn't eat something for dinner that would raise my sugar. guess i am going to have to make something i know will raise it through the roof. *sigh* other than that things are going ok. i am over the 40k mark for nanowrimo. so that makes me happy. ok, off to recheck my sugar. wish me luck :)

Edit: just checked, it's back up over 100 at 115. woot. that's more like it. now let's just hope it doesn't keep going up.