Went to the doc for my monthly crap and found out my kidneys are messing up again and I am on yet another insulin (this makes 3). This is the one I feel I have needed for awhile now. It is R. I have a sliding scale and so I can take this shot anytime I am above 200 in conjunction with or in between the other two.
I have an appt with a specialist and waiting on more test results.
I really should learn my lesson on bragging.
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oh honey, im sorry... it will be ok. I promise.
HUGE HUGE HUGE hugs.
I had no idea there was one more than one kind of insulin. I am being educated. I hate that you are having to deal with complications, though, but have every confidence you will kick diabetes ass.
Lark there is mid acting (like N) and Long acting (like glargine) and R rapid acting.
N takes several hours to kick in and lasts several more. Lantus (Glarg) is about the same but supposed to last 24 hours. R acts in 30 minutes. you can mix R with anything BUT Lantus (glargine).
So essentially the slow and mid acting was not doing it's job, therefore everytime I ate it just added higher sugar levels on. The R is supposed to help get those down. So far no.
I am in the last stage of Diabetic Kidney Disease before failure and diaylisis occurs. So it is probably NOT going to be ok but I know that was meant with the best of intentions. I already cannot afford to have this much medication and problems. Dialysis would just be, ok impossible! I think you guys would be interested to know that diabetes is NOT disability. I know, funny eh? Maybe not for those in control and without organ damage? I don't get it. I don't want to be disabled but I need a paycheck again, I need help with meds. Drew can't do it all and he has insurance on me. I don't know I get pissed at seeing people draw checks for certain shit that is NOT life threatening (like being afraid to go in public, hello you drive a taxi for your dad under the table. Picking up strangers? Would make me anxious and I don't have "anything" wrong there) liars!!
Somethings are not going to be ok. I know this. I am dealing.
I have other news but waiting til all the test results and specialist initial visits are over. This probably isn't going to be good.
Thanks for the support.
My sister is having problems with her kidneys, too. Of course she is 78, and has been a diabetic for 50 years. Now the Dr’s can’t treat her kidneys because it messes with her sugar and vice versa. Her blood can go from 300 or higher to 30 in a few seconds and she passes out. She is bruised all over from the falls and hurts all the time. But she still keeps on laughing and joking with us. She is a jewel. She is more my mom than the real one was.
You just have to keep on keeping on with what ever you have to do. You are too important and loved to do otherwise. Besides, you have to cook supper…
What an amazing woman Coffey! 78 is a number I won't see at 36 is when I started this mess and it killed my Dad at 62 and he just had it 4 years. I have already went 6 and still standing so I am grateful for that.
She sounds like a brittle diabetic. That is the diagnosis for Type 1 that go high and crash like that. Bless her heart, thats the worst. I just stay 300-500 at all times, knowing I am killing my organs every day. I wish my doc would call back with that specialist appointment. I am ready for war. I am not taking incompetence with doctors anymore, this is MY life.
Now I gotta go cook supper...
I mean 36 is when I started the kidney mess. I have been a diabetic for at least 26 years. Of course they didn't figure this out til about 15 yrs of damage being done. This is probably why I am messed up. I even had a baby and it went undetected, this was the day before glucose testing was routine in pregnancy.
I am Canadian and we apparently use different scales as my optimim blood sugar should be between 6 an11 My acc is now at 9.8 through diet and medication. I just take metformin. I too though am showing early signs of kidney damage, thank god for universal health care
Yep Canadian is totally different.
For example, 90-130 mg/dl in the US. 4-7 mmol/l in Canada for normal "good" blood sugars. I think we multiply your number by 18. Our HBA1C ( I guess that is your ACC, is preferably undere 7.0 percent. I am not sure what an ACC is. HBA1C is a combo of your 3 months blood sugars to get that percentage of what you have been running.
So I would be a 60 in mmol/1 at my worst. It's early for me I may not be multiplying right. LOL
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