This has been stuff that's on my mind lately about my diabetes.

Symptoms of high glucose and low glucose have blended into each other these past few months because I haven't been doing my best to put my health first. Taking on more than you can handle and being a diabetic is not smart and I'd love to say that I've learned my lesson but unfortunately, my calamitous October bled into a crazier November and I'm finally relaxing from all of the stress, mid December.

I don't want to…

While reviewing my glucose since the beginning of January, I noticed a significant change in my numbers for the better. However, I still have trouble remedying high and low glucose. An example, I'll have a number of 55 and I'll freak out and eat something sugary. 2 hours later, it will be 255.

Now, I recently discovered that you should only ingest 15 grams of sugar when your glucose is low, which I may have learned from this site, and I have done that before. It works but it isn't…

I went to the eye doctor today and it was a success! My eyes are a bit dry but using Blink tear drops will clear that up in due time fortunately. No sign of retinopothy, thank goodness!

It was interesting to learn today that although I'm still young, I can very easily develop retinopothy. Terrifying? Yes. Motivating to stay on top on my diabetes? Absolutely. It was such an amazing feeling to hear that I'm alright in the vision department because my greatest fear is losing my…

I recently went to my endocrinologist and she was more than pleased to see my A1C was 6.3. However, I wasn't because I've been suffering from an immense amount of lows. The A1C reading has been coming up more often than not recently, and as it turns out, everyone is happy about this reading! I went to a normal physician regarding a bump on my leg that luckily turned out to be fine but when asked what my sugars were usually, I told him I've had low sugars around the low 60's to mid 70's and…