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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...
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...
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??
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..
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..
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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
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
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.
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.
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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...*
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...
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...
I had a friend die of uncontrolled diabetes back in the 70's. She tried but back then so many Doctors treated it as YOUR problem. They said when the pills didn't work it was because you didn't follow orders.
She was never even told to test or do insulin. She went into shock and died.
I am glad I didn't have to do the big needles because I wouldn't have done it. You guys who paved the way for us are my hero's. Thank you for posting and putting my petty problems in perpective.
Note! I was not being sarcastic! After reading this board I am thankful my biggest problem is dealing with testing and little tiny needles.
Why wouldn't I know who you are? You post in here and Women's as well as the board. I am not senile..cenile..old.
O.K. I figured it out..Borg Queen! I blew your cover in public! LOL What I wanna know is how you reduced all those tubes down to one insulin pump as your 'cover".
Resistance is futile!
I am cennile..
She was never even told to test or do insulin. She went into shock and died.
I am glad I didn't have to do the big needles because I wouldn't have done it. You guys who paved the way for us are my hero's. Thank you for posting and putting my petty problems in perpective.
Note! I was not being sarcastic! After reading this board I am thankful my biggest problem is dealing with testing and little tiny needles.
Why wouldn't I know who you are? You post in here and Women's as well as the board. I am not senile..cenile..old.
O.K. I figured it out..Borg Queen! I blew your cover in public! LOL What I wanna know is how you reduced all those tubes down to one insulin pump as your 'cover".
Resistance is futile!
I am cennile..
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I had a friend die of uncontrolled diabetes back in the 70's. She tried but back then so many Doctors treated it as YOUR problem. They said when the pills didn't work it was because you didn't follow orders.
She was never even told to test or do insulin. She went into shock and died.
I am glad I didn't have to do the big needles because I wouldn't have done it. You guys who paved the way for us are my hero's. Thank you for posting and putting my petty problems in perpective.
Note! I was not being sarcastic! After reading this board I am thankful my biggest problem is dealing with testing and little tiny needles.
Why wouldn't I know who you are? You post in here and Women's as well as the board. I am not senile..cenile..old.
O.K. I figured it out..Borg Queen! I blew your cover in public! LOL What I wanna know is how you reduced all those tubes down to one insulin pump as your 'cover".
Resistance is futile!
I am cennile..
Hi MaryKay,
Nah... You're not cenile....
That's really sad about your friend.. Back in the 1970's, it was difficult because the only way to test your sugar what the test tape, diasticks, or ketodiastics, and the tiny tablets to test for ketones if you used diasticks that was all using your urine. Other than that, was this one pill that you popped into a test tube with urine, but the tubes got really hot and after a bit would bust... Unless you went for fastings at the hospital or were admitted and had your blood sugar taken, you just couldn't test...
To be honest with you, I'm not a fan of those pills... You would need to be so stringent with your diet, that you would feel that you were locked up... The other problem is that you need to test your blood sugar at least 6-8 times a day using them (Dang I do that on the pump too)... Everyone's metabolism is differant and with the pills, depending upon your metabolism, would depend on when and how many pills or the miligrams you'd need.. I would just laugh at a doctor when they suggest to take the pills, and then just go on insulin.. It's easier in the long run....
You use connectors for each tube with a splitter attachment, to connect the tubing and end up with one tube visible, then you hide all of it under your t-shirt *LOL*
Oh! And we weren't heros, we were guinnia pigs *LOL*
Well I had a duh! moment. I was doing my testing and came up with a reading of 287..what! Then I did another reading 6 hours after a meal of salad and fruit (very small bowl) and it read 395!! I went nuts, I checked my needles, the strips I rewashed my hands and applied my cleaner, then did it again. 397!
I took my insulin and tested again this morning 245..ok something is very very wrong. It wasn't til I had a talk with Angels luv, that I decided to dismantle my meter..sure enough a little drop of blood was on the screen. Tested and got a reading of 117. Whew! now where is my B.P. med?
It always the simple things that get you.
I took my insulin and tested again this morning 245..ok something is very very wrong. It wasn't til I had a talk with Angels luv, that I decided to dismantle my meter..sure enough a little drop of blood was on the screen. Tested and got a reading of 117. Whew! now where is my B.P. med?
It always the simple things that get you.
All's well that end's well.. I didn't do anything.. I just should have told MaryKay to check for a drop of blood on her meter and it would have helped *LOL*
Well Drat! Another glitch! I tested at 60 yesterday morning and 40 this morning! Now what? I was rushed out of bed to take mom to an appt. she "forgot" to mention. when we got back at 12pm, I had time to test..I was kind of dizzy and a bit sick but chalked it up to no breakfast and no coffee and driving (I get car sick at the drop of a hat, inner ear is just weird). I saw the 40 and thought well great, we could have had a wreck!
It's back at 109 now. I am not getting up at 3am to eat. lol
It's back at 109 now. I am not getting up at 3am to eat. lol
Mary Kay, if you are having morning lows you might try a piece of something high fiber before bed, a fiber one bar or a low carb, high fiber piece of toast. It really helped with mine.
DiJohn, You are so right! I normally eat a whole grain slice of bread with breakfast. It has lots of crunchies in it. Sometimes as a treat I have the breakfast bread with raisins and nuts.
But Mom was running late for her appt. and I just threw on clothes and brushed my teeth and hair. had i tested first, I would have taken a slice with me along with some juice. I wonder why after years of high levels I am getting super low levels..
I have been testing in the 100 to 140 range for the whole month.
. Sometimes as a treat I have the breakfast bread with raisins and nuts. But Mom was running late for her appt. and I just threw on clothes and brushed my teeth and hair. had i tested first, I would have taken a slice with me along with some juice. I wonder why after years of high levels I am getting super low levels..
I have been testing in the 100 to 140 range for the whole month.
How long since you've had you A1c checked? That is the best way to tell how in control your sugar is. My ex and his son were both diabetic and we had to deal with stuff daily because of my ex. He was terrible with his diet. He would eat a whole box of Little Debbies, then wonder why he needed extra insulin. In the 5 years that I was with him, his A1c was never below a 12.
How are you feeling with the lower numbers? Are you using the Insulin pen or do you have to use the vials and mix it? If I'm being to nosey just tell me!
How are you feeling with the lower numbers? Are you using the Insulin pen or do you have to use the vials and mix it? If I'm being to nosey just tell me!
MaryKay, can you use glucose tablets when you dip too low? I'm type 2 on Metformin. My A1C was 7.8 at it's highest, which isn't too bad, but it was steadily going up, up, up. I think my highest sugar test was 140 something. I started on low carb last year and my weight and A1C dropped steadily and my readings were below 100. Last checkup A1C was 5.25. My sister is insulin dependent and had readings in the 500's. She went on a low carb diet and was able to get off insulin. Has anyone else had any experience with low carb?
For the three months that I could get my very morbidly obese ex to do the Atkins diet he was able to get off insulin and only took one glucophage a day. Once he went off the diet he went right back to his old eating habits. Sadly he is now so overweight that he cannot walk and is in an assisted living facility at the age age of 50.
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