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[Edited on July 23, 2007 at 1:36 AM. Reason : http://www.diabeetis.com/game.php]

7/23/2007 1:22:34 AM

Thanks Mindstorm

7/23/2007 2:39:47 PM

GLUCOSE: 44

Figured I could bump this thread now.

This is bad enough for me to justify a glucagon.

8/2/2007 9:59:31 PM

son, you better get to it. get yourself right then tell tww bout it

8/2/2007 10:03:48 PM

I am right-ish, though I stabbed myself in the finger just behind the fingernail while destroying the needle on this syringe. Smart...

K, it's cool, no passed out diabetics here or anything.

Fuck if the needle on that thing isn't like trying to stick a pen in your arm...

8/2/2007 10:16:30 PM

punchmonk went on the pump tuesday

also, i saw a video on cnn.com i was gonna post but apparently it expires. so here's an article talking about it - diabulimia, not taking enough insulin in an effort to lose weight

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3287566

i'm appalled that any diabetic would do this to themselves

[Edited on August 17, 2007 at 12:59 AM. Reason : .]

8/17/2007 12:59:27 AM

Ahaha...

Self-imposed dehydration and suffering.

You thought they were pissed off before? Wait til they invoke the wrath of the aidsabeetus on top of their self-centered image fretting. *END OF DAYS*

[Edited on August 17, 2007 at 1:59 AM. Reason : PS: Glad I could help on the decision making process. What are windbags for?]

8/17/2007 1:58:28 AM

i don't know if you read diabetesmine.com mindstorm, but back in April, the writer wrote this letter to Steve Jobs to encourage medical device designers to be more savvy in their designs.

http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/04/an_open_letter_.html

well, a couple companies have heeded the call and it's been getting national news all week

http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/08/charmr-update-p.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070817-charmrd-im-sure.html
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/15/charmr-concept-transforms-glucose-monitoring/
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2007/08/15.shtml#012338

8/17/2007 9:56:39 AM

Quote :

"Dibeatus is where you jerk off two dudes at once right?"

aaaaaaaaahahahahahhaha that made me lol

8/19/2007 2:21:11 AM

https://www.onetouchgold.com/simplestart/?source=DRTV

free meter

8/19/2007 2:32:38 AM

Thought I'd bump this thread for the diabetics on here.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6668121

This article is pretty important to read if you're still young and diabetic, as most of us are. Consider making sure to get your cholesterol screened annually and buy a blood pressure monitor to see how you are doing at home (sometimes if you're at the doctor you can be stressed and the readings may be wrong).

I'm going to see how long ago it was that I had my cholesterol checked when I went to the doctor and how much it was. Granted, you don't really have cholesterol issues at this age, it could still require some attention (I.E. HDL levels too low, trend showing increasing LDL levels, though they are still within tolerances, so activity/diet changes may be in order).

Just watching out for ze aidsabeetus infected peeps on here. :E

Article is as follows:

Quote :

"del.icio.usdel.icio.usDiggDiggRedditRedditYahooMyWebYahooMyWebGoogleGoogleThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.What's this? RePrintPrint Email Diabetic care often misses a fatal risk: heart disease By Gina Kolata New York Times Article Launched: 08/20/2007 01:31:50 AM PDT Dave Smith found out he had type 2 diabetes by accident, after a urine test. That was about nine years ago, and from then on Smith, like so many with diabetes, became fixated on his blood sugar. His doctor warned him to control it or the consequences could be dire - he could end up blind or lose a leg. His kidneys could fail. But in focusing entirely on blood sugar, the 43-year-old pastor in Fairmont, Minn., ended up neglecting the most important treatment for saving lives - lowering the cholesterol level. That protects against heart disease, the disease that eventually kills nearly everyone with diabetes. He also was missing a second treatment that protects diabetes patients from heart attacks - controlling blood pressure. Smith assumed everything would be taken care of if he could just lower his blood sugar level. Nearly 73,000 Americans die from diabetes annually, more than from any disease except heart disease, cancer, stroke and pulmonary disease. Yet, largely because of a misunderstanding of the proper treatment, most patients are not doing even close to what they should to protect themselves. In fact, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 7 percent are getting all the treatments they need. "That, to me, is mind-boggling," said Dr. Michael Brownlee, director of the JDRF International Center for Diabetic Complications Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. In part, the fault for the missed opportunities to prevent complications and deaths lies with the medical system. Most people who have diabetes are treated by primary care doctors who had just a few hours of instruction on diabetes, while they were in medical school. Then the doctors typically spend just 10 minutes with diabetes patients, far too little for such a complex disease, specialists say. And in part it is the fault of public health campaigns that give the impression that diabetes is a matter of an out-of-control diet and sedentary lifestyle and the most important way to deal with it is to lose weight. Most diabetes patients try hard but are unable to control their disease in this way, and most of the time it progresses as years go by, no matter what patients do. Smith, like 90 percent of diabetes patients, has type 2 diabetes, the form that usually arises in adulthood when the insulin-secreting cells of the pancreas cannot keep up with the body's demand for the hormone. The other form of diabetes, type 1, is far less common and usually arises in childhood or adolescence when insulin-secreting pancreas cells die. Unknown risk And, like many type 2 patients, Smith ended up paying the price for his misconceptions about diabetes. Last year, he had a life-threatening heart attack. Smith thought his biggest risk from diabetes was blindness or amputations. He never thought about heart disease, and he had no idea how important it was to control cholesterol levels and blood pressure. He said his doctor had not advised him to take a cholesterol-lowering or blood pressure drug, and he did not think he needed them. Most people with diabetes are equally unaware of the danger that heart disease poses for them. A recent survey by the American Diabetes Association conducted by RoperASW found that only 18 percent of people with diabetes believed that they were at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Yet, said Dr. David Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, "when you think about it, it's not the diabetes that kills you, it's the diabetes causing cardiovascular disease that kills you." Brownlee said he was stunned by the results of the diabetes association poll. "If you are one of those 82 percent who don't think you are at increased risk," he said, "finding out that you are and that you can decrease that risk substantially could literally change your life." Smith also made the common assumption that type 2 diabetes is simply a consequence of being fat. And that losing weight will help cure it. Obesity does increase the risk of developing diabetes, but the disease involves more than being obese. Only 5 percent to 10 percent of obese people have diabetes, and many with diabetes are not obese. To a large extent, type 2 diabetes is genetically determined. In many cases, weight loss can help, but, as Smith has learned, most who lose weight are not cured of the disease. He lost 40 pounds but still has diabetes. "Everybody in the act of losing weight will have a pretty dramatic improvement pretty quickly," said Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, a diabetes researcher and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Blood sugar levels drop precipitously, and the disease seems to be under control. But that is because the metabolic process of weight loss lessens diabetes. Once weight is lost, he added, and people stabilize at a lower weight, their diabetes may remain. Patient statistics The statistics are grim: A quarter to a third of all heart attack patients have diabetes, even though diabetes patients constitute just 9.3 percent of the population. An additional 25 percent of heart attack patients are verging on diabetes with abnormally high blood sugar levels. Most worrisome are diabetes patients who already have symptoms of heart disease, like chest pains or a previous heart attack. The key to saving lives is to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol to below 100 and also control other risk factors such as blood pressure and smoking. The cholesterol reduction alone can reduce the very high risk of heart attacks and death from cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes by 30 percent to 40 percent, Cleeman said. And clinical trials have found that LDL levels of 70 to 80 are even better for people with diabetes who already have overt heart disease."

8/21/2007 12:21:40 AM

bttt for aidsabeetus

8/21/2007 2:12:05 PM

May this thread never go away, because you know your diabetes won't.

9/28/2007 2:00:29 PM

^I just sent you a PM this morning! The infusion set thingy hurts like a mother sometimes, like this morning when I was changing sites! Talk about PAINFUL!! It bled a good bit as well!

[Edited on September 29, 2007 at 10:22 AM. Reason : added]

9/29/2007 10:21:11 AM

9/29/2007 10:42:09 AM

how is the pregancy complicating your diabeetus


or does it complicated it at all?

9/29/2007 10:46:39 AM

complicates it completely. I am on a more stricter diet and the further along in the pregnancy I get the more insulin resistant I get. It has already started happening. Insulin is a hormone and because pregnant women are nothing but a big bag of hormonal frustration the insulin gets mixed up in that bag.

9/29/2007 10:49:47 AM

9/29/2007 10:53:38 AM

Oh jesus, I completely neglected the fact you were pregnant in my reply!

OK: Avoid your stomach then. That was a bad call.

9/29/2007 9:47:03 PM

ATTN: TDUB DIABETICS!!!

I need some info from you guys. A friend of my family has a 24 year old son w/ diabetes and they're not entirely familiar with the area as far as doctors go. I wanted to see who you all see for your endocrinology/general doctoring and if you'd suggest them or not. I go to Duke's children's hospital right now since I was diagnosed before I went to college (they said I could stay til I graduated). I suppose this is also a recommendation for ME too since I gotta find a doc soon (I may be graduating and not going to grad school in may so I'll be off to find a new set of doctors). So please, TWW aidsabeetus sufferers, help me out here!

I'd appreciate any info you can provide me with.

11/14/2007 10:01:00 PM

btw, punchmonk's last a1c was a 5.4. i am so proud!

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 10:11 PM. Reason : that thar pump is +1]

as for your question, punchmonk went to Lennox Baker as well and at State just saw a diabetic educator in the health center. her name is Mary. where are you looking for yourself? Raleigh?

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 10:13 PM. Reason : .]

11/14/2007 10:11:29 PM

Cary really, but the family friend's son is looking in Raleigh.

[Edited on November 14, 2007 at 11:12 PM. Reason : And my last A1C was 6.7%. I think this one will be more like 6.2%... Hoping for this anyway!]

11/14/2007 11:12:15 PM

^^ Also, I talked to Mary Candler (sp) in the health center as well. She basically said if I needed anything to look her up. I have been going to lennox baker so I haven't used her services. I figure I should just avoid the student health center for the endocrinology since right now I talk with a bunch of research doctors who are up on all the new things at lennox baker. It's getting to the point where I'm looking for an adult doctor/endocrinologist though and would like to find a doc closer to Cary which will at least be closer to where I'm planning on living after college.

11/16/2007 10:13:46 PM

i totally agree with your statement about Mary Chandler. She is not always up on her info so I did not visit her that often. I was also kind of scared to go to just anyone when I lived in Cary/Raleigh because Lennox Baker was so good at what they did. I hope you find something.

If you ever live in Charlotte I think the people that I am seeing at the moment are very good. They are not as personable as Lennox Baker [I don't think any group of people is as awesome as Lennox Baker] but they are all about research on Diabetes. My doctor here is Dr Adam Spitz of Presbyterian Endocrinology.

good luck!

11/16/2007 10:43:19 PM

11/16/2007 10:44:15 PM

my dad checks anywhere from 3-6 times a day, he's type I insulin dependent

11/16/2007 10:57:31 PM

I check at the moment 8+ times a day. I am little paranoid about being Type I and preggers. I am so grateful that insurance pays for most of the cost of strips. I would be sol if it didn't.

11/19/2007 10:10:17 AM

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/health_20_overview_diabetes_web.php

here's a post with some links to some neat online resources for diabetics

11/27/2007 12:05:00 AM

woops. looks like Y2K8

1/3/2008 12:53:12 AM

I've seen people prescribed to test 8 times a day. I'm sure more isn't unheard of.

1/3/2008 1:37:52 AM

most people who do test that much have a hard time keeping good control. Most people test about 6-7 times a day. before and after meals and then around bedtime.

1/3/2008 4:44:38 PM

Gotta keep this thread from fading into nothing.

2/22/2008 11:49:48 PM

i did not have a pump before I was pregnant so I have had to adjust to not being pregnant and having a pump. My control is still WAY better but there is a lot of tweaking!

2/22/2008 11:53:28 PM

Thank god I'm not diabetic/I'm in "remission"/whatever the fuck you want to call it, anymore.

Since 12/3/07, thank jeebus, I haven't taken any meds (and unfortunately I was on insulin, glucophage, byetta, and amaryl). But that's a fat ass for ya!

2/22/2008 11:55:08 PM

http://www.diabetesmine.com/2008/02/scandal-at-jdrf.html

2/29/2008 9:26:39 PM

Son of a bitch!

That money's supposed to be saving kids, not paying for some dickhead's third house.

I hope they prosecute those assholes, that's horrible.

2/29/2008 10:22:20 PM

And in the past 2 weeks, I've had a 11.31% chance of a blood sugar below 80, and a 42.07% chance of a blood sugar over 200.

If you're wondering: Yes I have felt like shit, and I feel like shit right now!

Statistical analysis is a new thing I'm providing to my doctors. I need some other eyes on this one, going to the doc tomorrow and I want some advice. Actually I'm going to the doctor TODAY. In about eight hours. Hm, well I'm gonna go to bed in a sec, unless my blood sugar is fucked. I might stay up and start fucking with my pump if these numbers don't go down, this is like the third infusion site in a week and if my numbers start climbing up towards the 400's again I swear I'm going to stomp the shit out of a mudkip.

3/14/2008 1:04:24 AM

Ahaha, nevermind. I went to the doc today and my A1C was 5.7%. They've got a new machine that does the test in 6 minutes. So apparently it's only the last 2 weeks that my control has sucked, lmao.

For those not in the know (since about 97% of the wolfweb isn't diabetic):

A1C is a test/test statistic that's measured in a percentage. They use a bit of blood to determine what your blood sugar average has been for the past 3 months, and the result is reported as a percentage.

If your A1C is:

<6% This is normal (most people fall into this range, people w/o diabetes)
6-7% This is the normal target for adult glucose control (around 130 mg/dl blood sugar or so)
7-8% This is the normal target for children's glucose control (around 150-160 mg/dl)
8-9% Moderately sucky (like a 180mg/dl average blood sugar)
9 and up (you suck and are at risk for serious complications)

More or less... Yeah just thought I'd share. I'm pretty happy about said news, lol.

3/14/2008 11:36:01 AM

gg on the 5.7! that's great punchmonk's last a1c was 5.4

3/14/2008 3:11:15 PM

get well soon mrs warner!

3/14/2008 3:12:59 PM

^^ That's pretty damn good. She must test 6-8x a day.

Me... I uh...

Yeah. No comment, plz.

3/15/2008 2:30:09 AM

3/15/2008 4:33:45 AM

i'm in ur eyez

burnin ur retinaz

3/15/2008 6:26:17 AM

MAN! My infusion site hurts!! It feels like I am being constantly being pinched very tightly on my side!
It is not bruising or bleeding. I don't want to change it bc those supplies are expensive!

[Edited on March 19, 2008 at 3:08 PM. Reason : ...]

3/19/2008 3:07:25 PM

Could be a hematoma pressing on nerves. Do you feel pressure or swelling under the skin there? If it's deep or new it wouldn't necessarily be visible as bruising.

3/19/2008 3:13:06 PM

I hope it is not that!!! OMG! I hope not. It is not too deep...like 6 mm deep

3/19/2008 3:24:56 PM

Meh, hematomas aren't usually dangerous, just kind of wierd. I had one in my thumb from a stapeler incident and it eventually disolved away. I was convinced I had some tumor in my thumb though because it was a lump deep in the thumb that hurt and was there for like 5 months. Yay for reading way too much medical shit on wikipedia and turning hypochondriac.

Anyways, I don't know shit about diabetes but I've heard that repeated injections at the same site CAN cause small hematomas to form- which some paranoid people will mistake for tumors. Why is the injection site hard to change and involve new equipment? Do you use an insulin pump or something? Haha, sorry for all the personal medical questions, I guess I'm just curious.

[Edited on March 19, 2008 at 3:37 PM. Reason : ]

3/19/2008 3:31:13 PM

She uses an insulin pump as do I. :E

Punchmonk: This wouldn't happen to be anywhere near where your muscles are, would it? I used to have the problem of the infusion sites getting in an area that wasn't fatty enough, so when I bumped into it or if I stretched or move wrong, I'd get stabbed in the muscle and it would hurt like hell. I've had it happen before where it hurts and feels like pinching and doesn't really go away (then it bleeeeds when you remove the infusion site).

Did you happen to put this infusion site in just recently, and the pain start shortly thereafter? There's a chance you just pulled some skin funny when you put the site on I guess. Usually the pain I have with infusion sites now is related to hairs getting caught under the site and pulling as I move around. :/

Of course, it could just be an area of your skin that's just bruising a little bit so it's going to hurt like hell until you remove the site. At any rate, if it hurts you're supposed to change it. If you're worried about costs, just extend the infusion site out to 3 or 4 days instead of 2. I do that now cause it's easy.

More details required. :E

3/19/2008 3:59:04 PM

Thanks Mindstorm!!
I ended up taking it out bc my sugars were around 200 and they did not go down no matter how much insulin I gave myself. The catheter was bent like an L and it did bleed a bit.
I am so grateful I started this thread!!

3/19/2008 11:04:26 PM

egg em up

3/21/2008 5:04:37 PM