Do you do everything you normally would despite your BS at the time?
For instance if a friend calls you to meet somewhere for lunch or the movies and your sugar is 300 would you still go? If you get invited to a party or an event and your sugar is 300 would you still go? If your boyfriend or girlfriend is in the mood for some whoopie and your BS is 300 are you ready for action? Just wondering.
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Permalink Reply by Zoe on -
I try and not let my blood sugar problems prevent me from doing the things I want to do. If I have plans to go out, especially if it includes food I will usually check a ways ahead to see if I have any correcting to do. So if I'm going to lunch at 2, I will have checked after breakfast (see at 11) and done a correction if needed and then will check again by around 1. Even if I get caught unawares by a high I will just correct and go. If I'm low on the other hand I don't want to drive. So if one of those surprises me despite checking ahead of time I will correct and wait till I come up into the 70s. And if I need to call to say I'm going to be late, I'll do that.
I'm going to be teaching live again this fall, which is the first time since my diagnosis. I'm already planning how to do it because if I'm low I don't always make sense and Instructors need to make sense! But I'll just do a more intensive version of the above: Check an hour ahead to see if a problem is on the horizon and fix it. Check right before leaving.Since I don't want to be late, I might leave anyway if I'm in the 50s (I'm only 10 minuted drive away form the college). If I'm seriously low I'd have to call and say class was starting later, but I'll try to avoid that. Check on a break. And I plan on telling my students I'm a Type 1 and that if needed I will either pop a couple glucose tabs and keep going or call a break in the class.
It takes a lot of planning (and of course working on your food choices, and tweaking doses as needed) but with that in mind I will then go on and live my life.
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Permalink Reply by FussyCrossiant on -
yeap me too that's why frequent check is important. If really worst come to worst I will not go or do anything. Correct the hypo first. Even if I happened to miss some important events(which I did) I will tell myself relax life is long and I shld not be affected by diabetes so easily.
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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on -
yes
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Permalink Reply by TimmyMac on -
Lows would keep me from doing stuff much more often than highs. if I'm at 300 and get invited to do something, I'll just take a big shot and go! It would probably go down faster since I'd actually be up and doing stuff instead of sitting in front of a computer.
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Permalink Reply by Gary on -
I'd like to hear from the "I feel like total crap when my sugars are off" people not the diabetics that feel fine at 300. There is a huge difference. One day I will have total comfort and if that means death then so be it.
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Permalink Reply by Zoe on
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Gary, why do you even bother? You never listen to what anyone says unless they feel exactly like you and few people do. Some of us on this board come here not only to learn, and hopefully make changes based on what we learn, but to be positive and supportive of each other. I'm so optimistic I actually thought you might have been looking for some encouragement to live your life by this post. Silly me.
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Permalink Reply by karen on -
+1
BTW - I did not see the part about "I'd like to hear from the "I feel like total crap when my sugars are off" people not the diabetics that feel fine at 300." part in the OP.
I don't feel fine at 300, but I can fix that and then go to the party, lunch, movie, or other stuff. Those are all better than death!
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Permalink Reply by Gary on
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I am thankful most people are OK with gadgets and fake insulin to manage it which gives me a better chance to be one of the few diabetics to receive a functional transplant when one is ready for prime time. Just to be clear I do have some decent days here and there as far as my sugars but diabetes is always working against us all and I am way over tired of fighting back. The symptoms I get are just f***** horribly overwhelming and my life is ruined because of it. You can't understand unless you have the same symptoms and please don't insist there are ways to fix it because there aren't. I'm not that good and neither is anyone else to be able to keep their sugars running normal but once in while. My mom gets an earful from me and I have not many outlets to express my frustration so I do it here. And I have no shame saying Diabetes F***** sucks!
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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on
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I don't think that you "fight back" if you don't do everything you can to beat it. I know there are people who do everything they can do who struggle too but, in your many threads, you mention eating cereal, not needing to test because you "know what your BG is", testing and finding 300s, taking N because it works "fine" and other things that are not in line with my experience because I've done all that stuff and realized that, in fact, it's easier to control diabetes if I pay attention to those things? If you don't want to, you certainly don't have to but it robs your arguments of credibility compared to someone who presents a log and numbers and says "help!".
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Permalink Reply by Gary on
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Your right. I don't want to test my sugar ten plus times a day and watch every crumb that goes in my mount. Its just not even close to having a normal existence. I honestly don't feel I am really running much worse then people that put out an all out effort. My A1c's have been fairly consistent of the last decade with and average of the low to mid 6's. I had a few in the 8's but I got back on track. The way I see it, its not like like math in that 2+2=4 but you slave over it and it still at any moment runs amuck. It's just not worth to me. Sometimes I'd honestly rather not know where my sugar is anyway because I end up dwelling on it if it was high. The only way to fight back and win will be a biological treatment. Nothing else has the ability to keep glucose running normal all the time.
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