diabetes

[dijohn76]

Great news MaryKay, just keep hanging in there.

[AngeLsLuv]

Hi Everyone,

Just realized, my entire life will be non-anaolg once my e-cigs and supplies come in..

E-cig and Insulin pump...

There's a joke in there somewhere... :-)

[Mary Kay]

Now we need to figure out how to combine the two and we'll be all set!

[Mary Kay]

Insulnic..nicolin..oh well I'll think of something!

[AngeLsLuv]

Now we need to figure out how to combine the two and we'll be all set!

Hey MaryKay, How about a "Nico-Pump"??? Get all your nicotine in the pump 24/7 and just suck on the metal penstyle with flavored vapor for kicks??

[Mary Kay]

That's a plan! If we can get it to look like a nicostick with tubes..cool! Boy talk about setting off the alarms at the airport. I am NOT explaining..

Oh! Angels, I mentioned in another thread in general E-smoking, That you could be called the Borg Queen! I'll just be one of the many borgs..

[Fred]

Sorry to hear you have to deal with diabete Mary.

My dear old mother suffers from that too and I was excited to announce her the good news about the inhalator but:
she said she prefers to keep using her special syringe to take her insulin.
I have difficulties to understand the reason.

Do you get some kind of good feeling from the insulin direct injection ? She said she just got used to the syringe but I have doubts

[Mary Kay]

NO! It hurts and I hate it..but it's not as bad as I feared. At least it's me doing the shot and not some inattentive person in a hurry to get to the next task. There is no rush or good feeling afterwards except that it will be 24 hours before I have to do it again.
I am however staying in the "good" zone, but my Doc will have some crap to say about that! Not low enough or something. She's a pill!
Your mom is like mine, What she knows is fine, not interested in learning anything "new". Mom is like that with E-cigs..nope I don't like it..one puff!
It also may be that she really doesn't mind the shot, that's weird to me, but some people have no problem with it.

[AngeLsLuv]

That's a plan! If we can get it to look like a nicostick with tubes..cool! Boy talk about setting off the alarms at the airport. I am NOT explaining..

Oh! Angels, I mentioned in another thread in general E-smoking, That you could be called the Borg Queen! I'll just be one of the many borgs..

MaryKay,

*LOL*

But of course, the tubing is what hooks the pump into your body, so the nicotine goes directly in you, and the stick is for the vapor juice of your choice and to get the hand movements like smoking and e-cigging...

The airports would be a fun time, we'd just point to the pump and say "See Insulin" and pop the stick in our pockets *LOL*

I still can't believe you knew who I actually was... *See reply in Gen E-tokin.. I mean e-smoking...*

[AngeLsLuv]

Alrighty then... I had been shooting up insulin for 30 years before beginning on the pump two years ago.. I averaged 3 shots a day for those years, but then you need to add those days of ketoacidosis where I would shoot up every 4 hours until it finally dropped... It's not that bad.. Believe me, all of you that have just begun shooting up don't realize how easy it is with these micro-fine needles compared to what I used back in the 70's and 80's..

So when a diabetic claims that they are "used" to shooting up, it's really true because you just get used to it.. After awhile you just do it like darts and a dart board and it really doesn't hurt anymore..

The commercials with the older-folk saying that their fingers hurt from the lancets to test their blood sugar, give me a break... My first meter was in 1981 and the lancet looked like a guilotine with the lancet exposed with a guilotine-type spring set up that plunged the lancet down on your finger... Those hurt!!

I have been through it all, and I'm serious.. When I was diagnosed the lab at the hospital had to multiply my results because the numbers went above their scale.. Ended up that my blood sugar was approx 1,423... I have been through tons of high's, lo's, many insulin shocks (for a time due to hypothyriodism), cellulitis' from shooting up too many times in the same area (unbeknownced to me), and the works...

A good example was 3 years ago.. I had not been diagnosed with the hypothyriodism and with it, you go into unexpected insulin shocks in the matter of seconds.. I was sleeping and being that I am on SSI (for the diabetes and multiple medical problems), my parents live upstairs from me (I have an apartment set-up downstairs)... My step father had to come down to find something and heard me.. He came into my bedroom and saw me trying to breathe.. He shot me with 2 glucagon's and called the ambulence... When the EMT got here, he had to inhubate me.. On the way to the hospital, I flat lined twice. Once in the ER, it ended up that I also had pneumonia from swolllowing vomit and with all this mess, I was put in a drug induced coma for 5 days, then they slowly awoke me.. A week and 1/2 later I was fully awake and went home 3 days later...

With the advancements in diabetic care, it has come a long way... Long before we were all born, diabetics died because they couldn't care for it.... We are actually all lucky we are here and don't have anything worse...