Today, World Diabetes Day, remember that people with diabetes can do anything. You can become an athlete, musician, race car driver, politician—you name it. There are no limits. This Is Diabetes™.It is the message in my mail box from ADA. They wish I share with them my accomplishments. So, there are I am.
I was born to diabetic father. He died at age 37. I am 65 right now. I proud, my children grow up with mother. I did not pass away when I was told in different hospitals that I would not survive for Monday (from Friday) or to the morning (from the night). I did survive. One surgery after another, one diagnose after another, still, no right treatment. With so easy way to diagnose diabetes there are millions of us who never was diagnosed with diabetes. We are treated with all types of medical conditions, still diabetes treatment is out of our medical box.
Finally I educated myself. I visited one doctor after another, they all told about life style modifications, no one mentioned diabetes even sugar in blood was over 370 mg/dl, fasting. It took me years to get diagnose I am diabetic, and another almost ten years to find out, there is no diabetes type 2 I diagnosed with. What is diabetes type 2? How it is diagnosed? What marks of it? No one ever answered to any of these questions, and really I was not very concern to find the answer. I trusted in doctor at that time.
About five years ago doctor lost my trust forever.
It took me another years to find out doctor who is brave to Rx insulin in dose I can take blood sugar under control, and keep it. I take high dose of insulin, Lantus Solo Star, and only this type of insulin. I tried many different types of insulin since 2011. I tried different regime of insulin therapy. Now I use only one type of insulin, Lantus Solo Star, and I am happy with results I do have.
Lantus Solo Star is slow release type of insulin. Usually it used as base insulin to cover daily needs in insulin demand. To cover rising blood sugar after meal diabetics type 1 use fast acting insulin such as Novolog, Apidra, Humalog, and so on. I do not really follow last development in Diabetes therapy. Besides of these two types of insulin there is another type such as Humalin, Novolin, and some other types. They are type of insulin which combine both, basal and bolus types of insulin in different proportions one to another, 25%/75%, 50%/50%, or 75%/25%. I try to do not use any combination therapy. How can I know which one is working, both working well, or ether one do job the Rx to do? So, usually I take one type of medicine at time. If I do have benefits how medicine works, I will take it. If there are poison effect because of Medicine is not right for me, I do know when it happened and why.
It is presented by ADA that there is no limits for diabetics to chose what to be. Really? They do not say how many professions diabetics cannot choose. We cannot be cadets of any Military Academy. We cannot be operatic singers. Why this is the problem? Because of it is breathing, lungs health. Our lungs are not suitable for high demand of opera singing. The matter of fact, lungs complications take higher toll in diabetics life then even high blood sugar level. ADA never mentioned it. I do not know all list of limitations, but believe me, it is long. I used to be electrition engineer. At that time I was not diagnosed with diabetes, and I did all what I could to prevent it happen. It is health exam every year when we have to show we are healthy to work. If my blood pressure is high I would lost my job. Diabetes was not the option to keep it.
Tell us what it means to live and eat well with diabetes, and get ready to lunch right with every bite.Really I do not see any benefits in this type of discussions. My highest blood sugar level I detected on my glucose meter was 599mg/dl. After that meter show only 'high'. There is no hunger with this level of sugar in blood. There is high demand in water.
Also I will say, to eat well I have to have money and energy to fix my meal. I have nether. Today my blood sugar level is 75mg/dl, pretty good level of sugar. Still, I do feel it like 'low' and only because in my ref there is all the time meal ready to eat, just put it in microwave to worm it, I was able to fix the problem fast and effective. Also I do keep some meal such as OJ or Coffee or protein bar right around of me, so I even do not need to walk before I took my meal, just spread my hand and grab it. It is very convenient. But remember, diabetics are chronically ill people. Many of us in condition we are no longer able to work. So, there is no money to spend to eat well. So simple. ADA does not know this simplicity of people with diabetes common daily living problem.
As someone affected by diabetes, you know better than most the importance of making healthy choices, and that doing so is not always easy. Remember that the American Diabetes Association® is always there for you, to provide the resources you need from head to toe.ADA all the time around. They love us. Why not, we are very profitable part of American population. There are prevention programs, healthy living advertising, and so on. Remember Dr.Oz? What did he say? I love one of this episodes where woman told how she ashamed to be who she is. She loves ice-cream She ashamed of it, bust still she loves it and she eat it. Dr. Oz suggested to her to put spoon of Ricotta aside of ice-cream, look at Ricotta and eat ice-cream. You will not collect pounds, he promised, because of you do think you eat Ricotta.
I am curious, did Dr.Oz tried this mimic treatment with his car riding? Just fix sensor of your car which will show that your car tank is full, so you do not need to buy gas, and try to get from NYC to Pennsylvania. How fast you will be in your destination area?
There are a lot of medicine our Medical Industry suggest to treat diabetes, and ADA promote all of them. Medicine mimic that I am full, and my cell suppose to function because of it think there is fuel for it to do the job. Very effective.
Have you ever been told that you can’t do something because of your diabetes? Although diabetes certainly poses obstacles, it doesn’t have to stop you from enjoying a well-rounded life.As I said, eat ice-cream and look at the Ricotta, so you will think there is no calories in what you eat.
Sorry ADA. I really do not need that anyone told me how enjoying my life is. I simple do know all the pleasures of this enjoyments. I no longer trust in doctors. Also I do not need ADA to say me what to do. There are 75 years they try to find cure for diabetes. They look at all directions how to mimic my life is healthy if I do eat right. Still, I am ill and live in pain day after day, and in great fear that tomorrow next supply of insulin would be terminated and there will no longer insulin in my ref. I do not need mimic of insulin in my blood. I need insulin in injections, and this is only one medicine which benefit my well being.
Just try to remember, there is no any types of diabetes but stages of diabetes development. This stages can be treated with different dose of insulin, small as for type 1 diabetics who take less then 25 units of insulin, and very often less then 10 units on it, or type 2 diabetes, like myself who need 300 units daily dose of insulin to survive. Insulin, not any mimic of it or healthy eating, will not only treat diabetes but cure it. ADA never published how many diabetics type 1 do not take insulin in injections, because of they no longer need it. They also never publish that it is diabetics type 2 who die timelessly and take number 7 spot in line to grave. Insulin therapy could safe millions of our lives. Still, over 70,000 Americans die every year because of diabetes. And more then that millions of us die because of heart attacks, strokes, and many other medical complications.
Thanks ADA and our medical care that with healthy eating our cell will think it has insulin and would not die from starvation.
via Ravenvoron
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