How do you handle you diabetes?

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How do you handle you diabetes?
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Tue, 08-28-2007 - 7:56pm

How do you handle you diabetes?



  • diet and excercise
  • meds
  • meds and insulin
  • insulin


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Sat, 09-01-2007 - 10:20pm
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Wed, 09-05-2007 - 12:50pm

I wanted to select both diet/exercise and meds since my dr has me on metformin but I couldn't pick both so I just picked the main one which is watching what I eat to maintain appropriate bs control and lose weight as well (and I'm also cutting most all animal products to limit how much cholesterol goes in as one part of bringing my cholesterol level down)

--Deb

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Wed, 09-05-2007 - 1:54pm

I am sorry about that!


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Wed, 09-05-2007 - 2:36pm

LOL I suppose if you tried to get every combination, you might go a bit nuts

--Deb

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Tue, 09-11-2007 - 7:47pm
Me too. If I could lose 50 pounds,,I would be ok. I am starting to walk.Susan
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Wed, 09-26-2007 - 9:39pm

I started off on med, actos and metformin and was fone for about a year. More recently it has progressed and I have beenplaced on Lantus shots two times a day.


Lantus has made a huge difference in my ability to deal with my diabetes.

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Wed, 09-26-2007 - 9:50pm

Steve,


What is your dosage of Lantus? It is unusal for anyone to be on Lantus twice per day. Lantus is normally given in the evening although I take mine with breakfast. I am on 22 units per day. I was on 28 units but when I started on Januvia I was able to decrease the Lantus.





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Registered: 09-26-2007
Thu, 09-27-2007 - 7:03pm

My dosage is 30 units a day, 15 morning, 15 evening. Actually more and more doctors are recommending splitting the dosages because even though it is supposed to be 24 hr acting there is a tail off effect in the last few hours. My doctor recommended it to keep the lantus acting on a more consistent basis all day.


Even most people on the ADA forum are saying they take their Lantus in split dosages.


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Fri, 09-28-2007 - 12:11pm

Hi from one of the bloggers at ivillage - today my blog highlights some of the issues that people with diabetes struggle with - and as host of Good Eating Good Living on Westwood One - I now realize that many of the perceptions I had about this disease and its challenges were incredibly narrow in their scope.

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Fri, 09-28-2007 - 9:05pm

Amy,


I too am a health care worker. I am a registered nurse. I didn't deserve diabetes. I am a third generation diabetic. My maternal grandmother died of the complications of diabetes. Both my mother and father developed diabetes. My chances of dodging that bullet weren't good! I have been a diabetic for 17 years. I have no complications from diabetes. I work hard to keep my A1C where it is supposed to be. My most recent A1C was 6.1.


I am living a very full life with my diabetes. I have travelled to various places around the world, even after needing to be started on insulin. At present I am in Bethesda, MD at a health care conference. Would my life be easier if I didn't have diabetes. You bet your life. But so would my life be easier if I didn't have two bulging disc and one collapsed disc in my low back or that I didn't need to have a disc removed in my neck, which left physically disabled.


I could sit and whine about what is wrong or I can make the best of the situation. As one of my friends told me.."I am not going to die of rust!!"


I obviously read your blog and I do agree with some of what you had to say. Unfortunately my computer won't let me set up iConnect and so I can't post a comment.


There are a number of things which I am concerned about. For example: allowing women to gain so much weight in their pregnancies that they develop gestational diabetes and their children develop obesity as young children setting them up to have heart disease and diabetes as young people. I am also concerned about the continued use of the sulfonlyureas and their ability to exhaust our beta cells. Since obesity is such an issue with type 2 diabetics why are our meds designed in such a way as to cause massive weight gain. This seems counter productive to my small mind.


I have made the changes in my life as needed to better manager my disease. I want to celebrate that! I want to model good behavior by exercising, eating right and taking my medicine and checking my blood sugar. It is sad that I am diabetic but I am many other things than a diabetic. It doesn't make up my entire life.


So I hope that you can join our conversation and I hope that you never have to join it because you have become diabetic.


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