Dorrie:

You MUST take care of yourself. Obviously this little baby needs you in her life, right? When you don't take care of YOU, you can't take care of HER.

I know it's annoying to check one's blood sugar, (I made a habit of doing this upon arising in the morning. All the stuff is right there on my kitchen table). I take my sugar, I record it, and that's it. I keep a log, because I have to bring it to Cornell when I go there for my Accord visit.

But I really do understand why some people just stop taking their blood sugar. I have a friend who has not been good about her weight, and she's not been good about taking her sugar. She knows that it's her weight (every single doctor has told her this, but she yells at them to mind their own business).

I finally got her to go to an endocrinologist and of course he got on her case. She is still in deep denial over being 300 lbs. But he put her on Lantus. You start slowly, and you increase until you find the correct dose. But this doesn't mean you eat whatever you want to eat, right?

But her weight is what is making her sugar readings stay at that level. HIGH. She's on oral meds too. It's obvious that she needs a better diabetic med, because even when she doesn't eat at night, her sugar is over 250 in the a.m.

So yesterday she tells me, "I just don't get it, what did I eat, I ate cauliflower for dinner, so how can my sugar be 250 this morning".

I didn't say anything because it doesn't get through to her. She has another endo visit on Thursday. I told her 'Listen to your doctor and do whatever he tells you to do, okay"??? She said "He better not yet on me about my weight". I sighed. And she refused to take her sugar later on in the day. She said "I'm disgusted". I told her I understood, that it's frustrating.

Sometimes, one has to step back and just listen. That person has to come to the realization that if they don't get those numbers down, that eventually they will have complications. She was told last year that she has a diabetic stomach. I said 'Oh, you have gastroparesis". She said: "No, I don't and I don't believe anything the doctor says, what does he know??, I just ate too much broccoli". Then she said "Just because you have neuropathy, you think I have neuropathy". I said: "do you know what a diabetic stomach is?" She didn't answer me. So I just dropped it.

See, you can't win with a person who is in denial. You just can't.

So I concentrate on my own recovery from over-eating, and I take darn good care of myself. I mean, who else is going to, right??

So you continue to monitor yourself and take good care of that precious life. She needs you.

Melody

HI ALL! I am just popping in for a second to say hello! I will post tomorrow when I have more time!!

Hi guys,

Well I seem to have gotten a case of frozen shoulder.

apparently this is related to Diabetes and or other autoimmune issues.

Its also called adhesive capsulitis.

Has anyone encoutnered this before. Connected to high blood sugar levels and collagen. GuessI must be sticky

Anyone did a cortizone shot ...thought it would help but did nto make the connecttion that it makes your blood sugar even higher

Also doing PT.

Other than that everything is chugging along.

Oh yeah and I had no sweets yesterday...yep none

Way to go..... no sweets yesterday Shelley!! That can be hard to do! I hope that you are feeling better soon!!
I missed not being around too much last week and I am glad to be back!

We are off to the eye docs tomorrow morning. This is the first check I have had since before my dx....I know I should have went but put it off.....I only wear the glasses sometimes...not for driving ot anything...actually the last ones I had made my eyes lookhuge and I hated them so I hardly wore them....I am going to insist on a thinner lense tomorrow.
Hope everyone has a lovely night

Good Morning All!!
This morning my blood sugar is 9...that is 162 to you Melody!!
I forgot to take it and had 2 coffees with sweetner and milk...the milk raises it for me and I feel it going up! That is why I eventually remembered to check it!
Gotta take my meds and eat....tah tah for now!!!
Hope we all have a good day!!

LOL Dorries, I saw the 9 and was ready to call the paramedics for ya

How was the eye doc, did you get some stylish specs?

Me...shoulder still frozen.

WAIT A MINUTE. What is this 9 thing??

Do people in Canada have a different machine?

Do tell!!!!!


lol Melody

How fascinating that you are all talking about frozen shoulder. I've had one (left) for YEARS!!!! Can't remember when it began.

Went to my doctor, He said: " well, it might be a torn rotator cuff", might be bursitis", blah blah. He said and I quote". "if you don't move that arm, move that shoulder, it will become FROZEN and you'll never move it.

so I did the Physical Therapy, the doing the spider thing up the wall. FOR YEARS. On days when my arthritis is bad, it will act up. I can only put it behind my back to a certain degree. But the guy was right. If I didn't use it, it would have been completely useless to me.

Dr. Fred did take an x-ray two years ago, (when it was killing me). He said: 'melody, the x-ray shows only a mild arthritis" He said: "only an MRI can determine a torn rotator cuff".

Now I know many people with torn rotator cuffs, Some got operated on, some didn't. But THEY ALL HAD TO DO PHYSICAL THERAPY AND EXCERCISE.

So I'm doing that route. I am better if I move it. I figure if it was torn, I'd be dead by now. It's over 10 years since this thing began.

I move every day (as long as I CAN move, I DO MOVE!!! Some days, I can't. So I wait until I can.

I have never ever been told that this could be related to my diabetes.

Now that is a fasicnating concept.

Melody

Hee hee!!! Hi Shelley! My eye appointment was great!!!
The doc said that she sees absolutely no damage to my eyes at all...I need glasses for reading and distance but as far as the diaetes goes it has not touched my eyes...she was impressed!!!
My glasses are sorta low key....I did not want anything fancy or funky...2 pairs as I do not want to go with progressive lens yet...hubby did the same..2 pairs..he was not too happy with his progressives and we really do not mind changing when we read.

Thank God for our insurance....$1000.00 was the total with good discounts!! Our insurance covered 700.00 of it