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DiabeticDragon. >.-.<
12 years ago
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Greetings all.
OK so i am not gonna be my normal cheery self for this journal. I hate to rant but I feel I need to post this.
as many of you know and some of you probably don't i am a type 1 diabetic. and lately well to be honest i have been taking terrible care of myself. Blood sugers have been all over the place I have skipped tests shots and meals way to often and just making a genuine mess of myself. well i am now paying the price for my negligence. I went to the doctors today after having not gone for several months and talked to her about things i have been feeling. and it is as i feared. I was diagnosed with at least the early stages of Diabetic Neuropathy. To put it simply my nerves are damaged due to my poor care of my diabetes and it is causing all manner of troubles. It could be the cause of many of my problems right now including my lethargic tendencies and all the cramps / pains i have been getting. the symptom that is most affecting me however and clued me into the problem is i have started loosing feeling and control of my left hand. the last two finger are numb and tingly almost constantly and it is even kind of difficult to type this.
I am by no means looking for sympathy right now. This is my fault and i know it. What i am here for is to ask for help i so desperately need. To fix myself as much as i can i need to do three main things.
the first is I need to fix/establish a real ridged schedule of my days. I am getting up and going to bed at such a myriad of times it is impossible for me do the other two steps of this plan easily. I am just wondering if any of you have any tips for getting to sleep and ways to wake up and stay awake that i might not know of.
Secondly i need to start testing my bloodsugers and giving myself my medication with every meal. This is where this is all my fault at the moment. I have asked for help with this from those close to me before and blatantly lied to them about having done it. I am getting better but but better is not good enough. I have to do these without fail and i am just wondering if anyone else has any ideas as to how to help motivate myself to do these changes even if i feel kinda silly for needing motivation to take care of myself.
And the last stage that makes both of these work to really fix my problems is to eat all these meals at as close to the same tie each day as possible. This is a key to proper control. I need to regulate my schedule down to meals and snacks so i can tell what each change in blood sugers means. Right now i am barely eating three times a day if that. Snacking too much and just making genuine mess of my care. I have to set alarms and try to eat at the same time but the main things that make this a issue are work and being out and about. I can fudge the timing a lil each way but work is normally busy these days when i should be eating. and of course being kinda of a active dragon i love going out and don't always remember to think of eating or timing of outings. not to mention the times plans just keep changing while we are out. So again any ideas as to how to handle these situations would be greatly appreciated.
So yeah this is what i am dealing with right now. I use to be the staple of diabetes care back when I lived with my parents and in new york. But several small things as i moved here and out just compounded and put me into this pit i find myself in now. stupid things made it harder and harder to control myself and i kinda rebelled against it. I really want to fix this I want to get better i KNOW i can do this but i am having such a hard time even with trying so hard. My Swiss cheese memory and spacing out nature just makes this soo difficult to accomplish. That is why i decided to post this to see if i could get any fresh ideas.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. I know it is boring and a bit of a downer but any help i receive will be soo welcome i cant even begin to describe it. thanks so much all
Til next time
Sed
OK so i am not gonna be my normal cheery self for this journal. I hate to rant but I feel I need to post this.
as many of you know and some of you probably don't i am a type 1 diabetic. and lately well to be honest i have been taking terrible care of myself. Blood sugers have been all over the place I have skipped tests shots and meals way to often and just making a genuine mess of myself. well i am now paying the price for my negligence. I went to the doctors today after having not gone for several months and talked to her about things i have been feeling. and it is as i feared. I was diagnosed with at least the early stages of Diabetic Neuropathy. To put it simply my nerves are damaged due to my poor care of my diabetes and it is causing all manner of troubles. It could be the cause of many of my problems right now including my lethargic tendencies and all the cramps / pains i have been getting. the symptom that is most affecting me however and clued me into the problem is i have started loosing feeling and control of my left hand. the last two finger are numb and tingly almost constantly and it is even kind of difficult to type this.
I am by no means looking for sympathy right now. This is my fault and i know it. What i am here for is to ask for help i so desperately need. To fix myself as much as i can i need to do three main things.
the first is I need to fix/establish a real ridged schedule of my days. I am getting up and going to bed at such a myriad of times it is impossible for me do the other two steps of this plan easily. I am just wondering if any of you have any tips for getting to sleep and ways to wake up and stay awake that i might not know of.
Secondly i need to start testing my bloodsugers and giving myself my medication with every meal. This is where this is all my fault at the moment. I have asked for help with this from those close to me before and blatantly lied to them about having done it. I am getting better but but better is not good enough. I have to do these without fail and i am just wondering if anyone else has any ideas as to how to help motivate myself to do these changes even if i feel kinda silly for needing motivation to take care of myself.
And the last stage that makes both of these work to really fix my problems is to eat all these meals at as close to the same tie each day as possible. This is a key to proper control. I need to regulate my schedule down to meals and snacks so i can tell what each change in blood sugers means. Right now i am barely eating three times a day if that. Snacking too much and just making genuine mess of my care. I have to set alarms and try to eat at the same time but the main things that make this a issue are work and being out and about. I can fudge the timing a lil each way but work is normally busy these days when i should be eating. and of course being kinda of a active dragon i love going out and don't always remember to think of eating or timing of outings. not to mention the times plans just keep changing while we are out. So again any ideas as to how to handle these situations would be greatly appreciated.
So yeah this is what i am dealing with right now. I use to be the staple of diabetes care back when I lived with my parents and in new york. But several small things as i moved here and out just compounded and put me into this pit i find myself in now. stupid things made it harder and harder to control myself and i kinda rebelled against it. I really want to fix this I want to get better i KNOW i can do this but i am having such a hard time even with trying so hard. My Swiss cheese memory and spacing out nature just makes this soo difficult to accomplish. That is why i decided to post this to see if i could get any fresh ideas.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this. I know it is boring and a bit of a downer but any help i receive will be soo welcome i cant even begin to describe it. thanks so much all
Til next time
Sed
You know I'll help anyway I can, bro. Sorry you're going through all this. We need to put some hardcore planning into this.
If there's one point of advice I can give, it's that if you don't have one yet, and you have insurance that covers it, get an insulin pump. It would let you give insulin on a meal-by-meal (and snack-by-snack) basis. While I've had it for, I don't know, 11 years of the 15 I've had diabetes, I can tell you that I can't see myself living without it.
Other than that, I'd also highly recommend finding a support group for others with diabetes. I don't know if there's a furry community, and I really wish there was. There's something about discussing diabetes with others who have it and working together to achieve better health that makes it so much easier to achieve your goals.
As for going to bed, I can't help you much there. I just take a melatonin supplement if I feel like I can't go to sleep. If I want to stay up I distract myself, usually with idly browsing the Internet or reading. Lastly, if I want to wake up and ensure that I do, I make sure my alarm is as loud as it can possibly get and move it to somewhere where I have to get out of bed to turn it off.
When it comes to giving insulin/checking blood sugars, I used to remind myself with sticky notes on the things that would cause problems. Not just one, either, I'd put two or more asking things like "Are you sure?" I don't know about checking blood sugar; that's become automatic for me. Sorry I don't have more to offer in that department.
I've found that waking up and going to bed at consistent times helps with both sleep and eating. When I wake up at a certain time, I expect breakfast at a certain time, and the rest of the day aligns itself from there. And when I go to bed at a certain time, I get to sleep easier when I go to bed at that time.
That's all I've got to offer in regards to what you've said, I hope at least some of it has helped, despite my lack of knowledge in some areas.
I hope to hear from you sometime!
You seem to understand it's all up to you, so I hope you can tough it out.