Danger, danger!!
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The trouble I am facing these days is with GASTROPARESIS
{which makes your stomach digest food at a slower rate.}
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It complicates the bolus timing even more than a pizza would which is extremely frustrating.
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A lot of lows are involved with blousing too soon for food I am eating with spikes to follow for correcting for those lows.
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Everything is a learning curve and I am beginning to have a better handle on the new blousing process now
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Any advice for me, questions or just other diabetics with gastroparesis who want to reach out are welcome [and needed]
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Talk to you soon ☺️
Woke up this morning at 192
Gave myself the usual bolus for my coffee and corrected for the blood sugar
And now I am 60 with 2.6 on board 😭😭😭
Gastroparesis sucks.
If you don’t know what that is, I will illuminate you.
Basically… my stomach doesn’t digest food in the normal amount of time. (Lots of fancy terminology with stomach nerve endings) but basically if I bolus for food early or as I am eating it, sometimes I drop like a cannon ball on the ocean and if I correct for that low, the glucose i originally ate with eventually be absorbed, along with the correction sugar, and I will spike like all of those fireworks last night.
Almost unpredictable but I am coming to terms with it. The more controlled my blood sugars are, the less unpredictable the gastroparesis is. I wish that were always true.. but 80% of the time it is.
Wish me luck this morning as I battle on!
Happy {late} America Day everyone.
This has been a shitty year to even celebrate that one.
I hope your blood sugars did not soar like a firework!
I AM greater than the highs and the lows
Diabetic casualties
LADIES AND GENTS: Do not touch your sensor needles on accident
Today did not go well. My A1c went down but my new Endo, apparently, is not the coddling type.
I know it’s not a bad thing but i know my mind and the whole scare someone straight thing does not work on me.
Don’t just list off stats about losing limbs, eyesight, and kidney function.
That doesn’t make me want to work harder. It makes me want to give up. Just throw in the towel because the thought of doing this everyday when that is the probable end result is a nightmare.
I’m exhausted. Today was bad.
personally I think one of the worst things about having diabetes is that other people just don’t get it
they either don’t understand it and don’t care to understand it. “oh you’re giving yourself a needle okay gross I’ll just turn away.” or they think it’s just some weird sugar disease and they’re ignorant and rude about it. “oh haha all this sugar is gunna give me diabetus!” or maybe they get it but it scares them so they try to control it. “oh my goodness do you need insulin? a granola bar? oh don’t eat that sugar. what’s your blood sugar level at?” or they think they get it but they simplify it and go from there. “yeah it’s just monitoring your bgl and taking insulin. that’s it! all diabetics can live a happy healthy life.”
it’s just so tiring to have to deal with non-diabetics. and it sucks that it’s apparently our responsibility to teach them what diabetes really is
(via 2sweet4u-allimcdougal)
