You know you're a diabetic when...........

[Lori M.]

I saw this on another forum and I thought it would be fun to see what everyone here can come up with.

You know you're a diabetic when.......

My brother is now referring to me and my mother as the "Diabetic Divas."

your cat scratches you and then you run and get your glucometer.

:D

[Dode]

you become weak kneed at the sight of food 10 hours into a 12 hour fast. :thumbsup:

[duck]

When you gotta pee real bad you wonder if you're running high...

[byu barry]

You come to this forum.

BYU Barry

[Dewey]

When you know what MDI and CSII mean.... :D

[mg_2204]

... when someone asks you how many sugars in your coffed and you say no thank you, I'm sweet enough :D

[Jamie]

You test yourself before eating, so you can figure how much you can cheat.

[2Cert]

Youre SO wakes you up in the middle of the night saying "honey, I think you're low". :D

[Batty]

when you can say "I think I'm high" without taking a drug?

[LauRa Lu]

When you see people putting two/three spoons of sugar into their cup of tea or coffee and and you suddenly think NOO000ooooooooooooooooooooooo........
only to sudenly realise not everone is the same as you :hmmmm2: :motz:

Also when you find yourself worrying about your boyfriend eating a whole pot of profiteroles because again... you forget that it's only you who can't! :musicus:

[jdstein11]

When you're cleaning up after dessert and you take the remnants of your responsible plate and pick up your kids' 1/2 eaten ice cream and fudge and think, "Just a spoon, that's all. That won't really do anything to my levels."

[duck]

When you yell at someone for trying to eat off your plate--because you've already taken your shot and don't want to go low if you can't eat that food...

[YouthIncJr]

You use Low BG as an excuse to get seated faster at a resturant.

[jdstein11]

You use Low BG as an excuse to get seated faster at a resturant.
Wow, I hadn't thought of that! I've only used it to get my mother-in-law to allow me to eat lunch before everyone else before my son's birthday party! (It happened to be true, but it would've worked regardless!)

[HeatherP]

When you can accurately guess the exact gauge of the needle the doctor/lab tech/nurse is about to stick in you. ;)

[koblenz]

Out of habit, you check the nutrition label on the bottle for the number of carbs before you drink it... then you remember it is a bottle of water!

[Clint]

when you ask for the nutrition guide at a resturaunt for doing carb ratios

[Bjorne]

... if you try to take a blood sugar sample every time you get a wound

[am1977]

You can't seem to find enough food or can't bring yourself to stop eating due to a low. :o

[Tony]

You can't seem to find enough food or can't bring yourself to stop eating due to a low. :o You talking about me again? :call:

When you ask for milk and equal in your coffee and you know the girl behind the counter wants to ask why equal?

[Middle Aged Man]

When you think each meal should start with a finger prick.

[PepsiLvr]

When you instruct the medical assistant / nurse how to give an injection or finger stick :) Or feel compelled to just do it yourself.

[am1977]

You talking about me again? :call:




Actually, I was talking about someone else I know fairly well :flute: , lol :laugh:

[SplitbackVeer]

.......when an "all-nighter" now simply means sleeping all night without a trip to the bathroom !!

[SplitbackVeer]

.... when turkey bacon is now one food----not two.

[Amanda_Jo22]

When you instruct the medical assistant / nurse how to give an injection or finger stick :) Or feel compelled to just do it yourself.

LOL PepsiLvr, thought I was the only one who did that.

You know you're a diabetic when a friend asks you what you ate for dinner and you say "45 carbs"

[SplitbackVeer]

.........when it's your Tuesday to host the poker game, and all your buddies bring all their own snacks AND beverages.

[SplitbackVeer]

.............when everything in your fridge says either lo, lite, reduced, low, free, L/F, or sugar free.................except the broccolli.

[buzzborne]

When you instruct the medical assistant / nurse how to give an injection or finger stick :) Or feel compelled to just do it yourself.

I was going to say the exact same thing!! :smartass: :p

[gettingby]

.......when an "all-nighter" now simply means sleeping all night without a trip to the bathroom !!
LOL. That's a good one. I'll have to remember this one. BTW, Welcome aboard.

[Dewey]

....When you have to explain your insulin pump is Not a pager... http://users.bigpond.net.au/wishart/images/smilies/welcome2.gif

When you instruct the medical assistant / nurse how to give an injection or finger stick :) Or feel compelled to just do it yourself.
Good one, PepsiLvr! I tend to do that, too... :D :laugh:

[nickh]

... when you see a beautiful naked woman covered in chocolate sauce, and you fantasize about the chocolate.

[Middle Aged Man]

... when you see a beautiful naked woman covered in chocolate sauce, and you fantasize about the chocolate.


Worse yet, when you see a beautiful naked woman covered in chocolate sauce and run the other way for fear of what she would do to your blood sugar.

[duck]

Worse yet, when you see a beautiful naked woman covered in chocolate sauce and run the other way for fear of what she would do to your blood sugar.

...that's exactly what I was thinking...

[middnite03]

When you instruct the medical assistant / nurse how to give an injection or finger stick :) Or feel compelled to just do it yourself.

better yet when they come at you with somethig that likes like a mid-evil tourture device,(some hospital 1 cent blunt lance that liiks like it could draw a pint of blood) and you say I have my own lances!!

[Musqua]

Hello Everyone :cool:


You know you are diabetic when you know where all the restrooms are in the shopping mall.



:whistling Canadian Girls Rock :whistling

[Lori M.]

These are great guys, keep em coming!! :itsme:

I got another one:

You know you're a diabetic when BS means something other than Bull@#$# :marchmell

[am1977]

when you feel shaky and jittery :afraid: ...and it's not from too much coffee :coffee:

[Dode]

you look at glucose monitors instead of clothes. :cheers:

[Amanda_Jo22]

better yet when they come at you with somethig that likes like a mid-evil tourture device,(some hospital 1 cent blunt lance that liiks like it could draw a pint of blood) and you say I have my own lances!!

LOL Middnite...I've done that too!

[Middle Aged Man]

You see your doctor several times each year . . . and you're not even sick.

And THOSE are the good years!

[macjm]

when your kids dont jump off the walls after eating some of your sugar free candy or drinking some of your sugar free kool-aid.
:itsme:

[mg_2204]

... When all your food is either low GI, medium GI, or high GI :)

[Cielo]

When you know what MDI and CSII mean.... :D

what's CSII? I guess you're right...you can tell I'm not a diabetic b/c I don't know what it is....I bet I can figure it out....hold please...... :hmmmm2: Okay, I dunno!!!!

[Cinnabon]

When your reading nutrition labels on EVERYTHING, especially H2O! :rofl:

[buzzborne]

what's CSII? I guess you're right...you can tell I'm not a diabetic b/c I don't know what it is....I bet I can figure it out....hold please...... :hmmmm2: Okay, I dunno!!!!

:dontknow:
ummm.... diabetic here... and still dont know what it is.... :embarasse (maybe I shouldnt admit that?!)

[Dewey]

what's CSII? I guess you're right...you can tell I'm not a diabetic b/c I don't know what it is....I bet I can figure it out....hold please...... :hmmmm2: Okay, I dunno!!!!
It means Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion... :eek: :D

[Cielo]

It means Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion... :eek: :D

And that would be your infusion site?? :ahhhhh:

[Dewey]

And that would be your infusion site?? :ahhhhh:
You're right (I shoulda explained it better, sorry :o ). Yes, continuous subcutaneous (which means under the skin) insulin infusion is pump therapy. Sorry about that......lol

[Middle Aged Man]

You really know you're a diabetic when you eagerly await the next response to this thread!

[klpants]

my two cents..

you know you're diabetic when you hear your self saying numerous times a day to other people, "no I can't have that I'm diabetic"!! I wish I could forget sooooo easily!

[tryinghard]

When you are out having a meal and they ask "What kind of cake or pie would you like as it comes with your meal?" and I say whatever my husband wants :D

[lil_ford_gal]

you say HbA1c in public, and people think your talkin morse code.....

or your daily chant starts with "its the real thing its the real thing" tryin to wire yourself up when adding the sweet n low to your mornin coffee

[Drider]

when the first thing u ask the cute girl handing out bottles of water is "doe this contain any sugars?"

( her reply wwas to laugh at me & say "don't be stupid it's water" as it happened it did .. lots of it!)

[Kady38]

You know you are a diabetic

When your primary jewelry is your MedicAlert bracelet.

[TvBabe]

You know your a diabetic when

you ask those numerous sample ladies at Costco if there is sugar in their samples!

(Pre diabetes I use to have a "entire meal" at Costco every Saturday!)

[kew]

When your phlebotomist, who see hundreds of people every day, sees you in WalMart and greets you with your first name.

[nantomsuethom]

When you can bet you will find strips in the laundry (or on the kitchen floor, in the car, on the driveway, in the neighbors driveway....)... or is this just Thomas!! :biggrin: