question about highs, lows and normals

[anmi]

Hi everybody... i'm back... with my stupid questions :)

First of all... I wish you all a VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! May all your wishes come true ... and be good, ok? :)...

So, after all these days, full of eatings I am somehow amazed that my bs is so normal. Sometimes I ask myself... do I have diabetes?... joking, off course, but i do wonder how come that besides the basal insulin which I take around 25 ... i hardly have to take during the day. So my basal is called Insulatard which is an equivalent of Lantus... during the day I take around 5-7 (sometimes 10) of ActRapid (similar to Novorapid but with a longer action) three times a day... every time I eat, depending on what I eat. During these days I did eat more than allowed... I even ate sugar cakes and drank non-light coke or something like that (I do not drink alcohol at all... I hate it)... and almost all my values normals... the biggest was 180... the first value on this year taken on 1th January when i woke up... and I ate a lot and drank a lot during the night.

What I do not understand is how come that after all these I still have a normal bs... and last month... without eating sugar, just because i was stressed and nervous during one day, I was 352. Also, during the period of the month :motz: ... I have lows... and highs... How come?

How long is supposed the honeymoon to be? I have almost 7-8 months since I was discovered and my doctor told me that these quantity of insulin is somehow during this period. But can honeymoon last 7 months?

And another question is did any of you have complications due to the diabetes? With the eyes or the kidneys? If yes, when did it start and why? Uncontrolled diabetes or these complications appear anyway after a while?

Thank you all.

[Cyborg]

My honeymoon period last 2-3 years.

With regards to complications, I started getting neuropathy in my feet, but it went away within a few months on the pump and the resulting controlled bg. I got frozen shoulder about 18 months ago and it continues to improve ever so slowly. I have a feeling it may never completely go away though... :vroam:

BTW, Happy New Year to you!

[anmi]

I got frozen shoulder about 18 months ago and it continues to improve ever so slowly.


What is frozen shoulder?

[tanyatype1]

Maybe his wife's mad at him! :)

[JasonJayhawk]

What is frozen shoulder?

I found info on it here:
Frozen Shoulder (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/fact/thr_report.cfm?Thread_ID=162&topcategory=)

Description
Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is a disorder characterized by pain and loss of motion or stiffness in the shoulder. It affects about two percent of the general population. It is more common in women between the ages of 40 years to 70 years old. The causes of frozen shoulder are not fully understood. The process involves thickening and contracture of the capsule surrounding the shoulder joint. A doctor can diagnose frozen shoulder based on the history of the patient's symptoms and physical examination. X-rays or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) studies are sometimes used to rule out other causes of shoulder stiffness and pain, such as rotator cuff tear.


Risk Factors/Prevention

Frozen shoulder occurs much more commonly in individuals with diabetes, affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of these individuals. Other medical problems associated with increased risk of frozen shoulder include: hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Parkinson's disease, and cardiac disease or surgery. Frozen shoulder can develop after a shoulder is injured or immobilized for a period of time. Attempts to prevent frozen shoulder include early motion of the shoulder after it has been injured.