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04-14-2008, 09:57 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Alabama
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| | | Good luck and prayers in getting your numbers down! Have you thought about a retreat of some kind? Doesn't need to be long--just a day or so when you can go somewhere, without the phone, the kids or the job worrying you?
Are there any nearby state parks where cabins are available? Maybe you could book one overnight one Friday or Saturday and get your head together.
Are there any lighthouse B&B type places off the Jersey shore? I can't imagine anything more stress-relieving than watching the waves all day. Sigh!
Take care of yourself and let us know how you're doing.
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Glycemic impact diet
exercise
Metformin 2000 mg
Enalapril 40 mg
A1C, 5-1-08: 5.6!! 
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04-14-2008, 10:25 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| | I love the "retreat" idea 
Can you take "smoke" breaks at work... I don't mean to actually smoke but just to take as much time as the smokers do, away from your desk and maybe just walk around the block?
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008. "...type 2 diabetes is associated with obesity... [so] most people assume that the excess weight causes the diabetes. But... it's possible that diabetes causes obesity" "One of the causes of your diabetes is a poor choice of ancestors." - Gretchen Becker - The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed |
04-14-2008, 11:26 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: missouri
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| | | That's really bizarre that your doc wants you to take something for depression, I just came back from my doc and my bgs are high and she wants to put me on a new antidepressant med. I think high bgs cause depression and so do dark gloomy days. I feel good when the sun is shining. Think theirs something to that? Anyhow I hope everything gets better for you . I'm hoping for better days myself.
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Difficulties present choices:
we can either waste away from
our wounds or use them to grow our souls
The balance is,as always,delicate
We are constantly falling off one side are the other.
But the center is always there,waiting for us to discover it.
like a true Libran: balance is the key
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05-07-2008, 10:00 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The bowels of NJ -Atlantic County
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Originally Posted by andypoo  That's really bizarre that your doc wants you to take something for depression, I just came back from my doc and my bgs are high and she wants to put me on a new antidepressant med. I think high bgs cause depression and so do dark gloomy days. I feel good when the sun is shining. Think theirs something to that? Anyhow I hope everything gets better for you . I'm hoping for better days myself. | ok so i posted another thread asking for a type of easy site and if anyone might have information (since i get a lot of that here )
love this place  and wish i visited more often
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T1 +35 yrs.//MDI--Lantus 15/15 split / & Novolog
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05-07-2008, 10:25 AM
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Mangement is key but you need to do it. YOU are worth it. |
05-09-2008, 07:09 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Ireland
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| | | Scarlett, I heard an old saying which Perhaps you coulld bear in mind. It says "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall "
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05-09-2008, 09:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The bowels of NJ -Atlantic County
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| | hey you guys!!!!!
still looking for an answer from the poeple who know the most about it US!!! anyone know of a better way to shoot up when you have to shoot up 5-8 times a day - i was thinking of a kind of port that i could shoot into instead of shooting different places and "remembering where i shot last"
my body rejected the pump and i'm not going back to it
there's got to be an easier way
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T1 +35 yrs.//MDI--Lantus 15/15 split / & Novolog
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05-09-2008, 12:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
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| | You could try the I-Port, i have never used it but heard people talk about it.
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A1c 6.1 - 29th of Novemember 2007
A1c 8.1 - 23rd of May 2007 
Diagnosed 27th of August 2006
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05-09-2008, 03:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kansas, US
Posts: 514
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Originally Posted by Scarlett anyone know of a better way to shoot up when you have to shoot up 5-8 times a day - i was thinking of a kind of port that i could shoot into instead of shooting different places and "remembering where i shot last" | Perhaps you could have your abdomen be like a clock or a sundial, using a different place for each time of day. Lower on the body when the sun is lower in the sky, "east" (right) on the body when the sun is in the east, et cetera.
I just shoot in random places. For the past couple weeks, I've been having more consistent results on my left side than my right. Who knows why; I've been giving the right side a break and carrying on.
Bruises make convenient markers. Avoid when fresh and purple, then resume using the area once they turn greenish.
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DXed 2007/04 : presented with advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3 kg/m^2
Post-DX A1c : 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
current BMI : 25.4 (84kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal : Levemir; 18U @ 0800, 18U @ 2200 (have also used Lantus)
bolus : 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of Novolog, Novolin-R, Novolin-N (have also used Humalog, Humulin-R, and Humulin-N)
not a low-CHO eater... not even close!
last updated 2008/05/09
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