Unmanaged Diabetes II

are you type one? my blood sugars are about 300 something average and I have to face my lack of caring about this ... today. I want to get healthy. So I am going to be as open as I can with the diabetic nurse and do what they ask of me without all the usual arguments about why I can't .. I am 59.. you would think this childish behavior would end at some point..

Just got home from the Diabetic Nurse Practioner.. I have to take insulin now.. I don't know why this is bothering me so much... but it is.. I feel very sad and almost angry ... strange reaction. I'm not unfamiliar with medical treatments having raised my daughter with multiple birth defects ... I am really out of sorts about this diabetes thing..

I was in your position not too long ago. I did something my clinical Pharmacist and Dr. weren't too keen on. I started a high protein, low carb diet. That is to say, I cut out breads, sugars, starches and such. I ate more meat, nuts and other proteins. My A1C went to 6. I feel better and my sugars have never been better. Read online about Dr. Mary Vernon and her push to get Diabetics on this diet. Grotesquely obese people (those over 500 lbs.) are often put on a high protein diet. This is because protein doesn't convert to sugar. The original creator of this diet was Dr. Joslin in the 1920's prior to the discovery of insulin.

I was on the Protein Power diet for about a year several years back.. lost quite a bit of weight, felt great and blood sugars were in a very healthy range.. then one day I tired of doing this and somehow got lost once again.. put the weight on, became undisciplined about what I ate.. and slowly but surely lost the drive to be active..

Now today I am finally settling into the need for insulin and am not fighting it now.. but I am very big and I walk most every day with a great deal of pain in my hips, knees, ankles. I can feel my attitude changing and my resolve fading a little more each day and I the degree of exertion I must make to stick with all this is increasing.. but for today.. I'm checking blood sugars and trying to stay active inspite of pain. Thanks to everyone for posting.

Anything we do that hurts us is a symptom, not the problem itself. I am not clear on why physicians seem not to take that into consideration. Please look into finding a good counselor you can relate to and/or try hypnosis.

Your story vibrates with the self-anger we all feel when we lack the willpower to do something that's important to us. Try getting on your own team instead of criticizing yourself constantly. If you like you, you're going to find it easier to work with you!

This is an important thing for you and for those who love you. Keep working at it, but don't set such high goals that you're sure to fail. Start with checking your blood sugars religiously and staying faithful with your insulin regimen. That will help you see the effects of those illegal foods and snacks, and if you are replacing "bad rewards" with good ones, you will get a boost of confidence with every GOOD reading - which will help with the rest.

(((((roadhousepress))))). You have a right to be healthy and happy.

I didn't say anything about "The Protein Power Diet." I said I was on a low carb/high protein diet. It's not in some book or on some plan. It's merely eating more lowfat meats, low carb veggies and avoiding high carb foods. Chicken, turkey, lean beef, fish and nuts. If you want to get some fast food, go to Carl's Jr. if you have one and order the #10 carb burger.
I'll tell you what a young friend who later became a Dr. told me when I got Diabetes. He said, "You can live with it or die with it." In other words, it's all up to you.
You might consider counseling to see if you're trying to gain attention by letting your condition get worse. It's not to say anything is mentally wrong with you, but there could be something motivating the behavior.
There was a study that showed Diabetics in good relationships take better care of themselves. Maybe that would be a good place to start.

Well, I suppose attention seeking is lurking behind my self-destructive behaviors.. but I learned a long time ago (when I recovered from alcoholism about 23yrs ago) that being able to share experiences (both inner and outer) provide the healing attention one needs to recover from any illness. It is not a moral issue to need to connect to others as you work on letting go of behaviors that do not work towards healing, and in fact, the connection is the surge that boosts many a dying soul back to life. I have witnessed and experienced this time in and time again. The power of connection with others who are open to sharing in honesty with compassion is far more impactful. I worked for years as a mental health counselor and I have raised a daughter with multiple birth defects, came out of a long term marriage with an abusive alcoholic during a time when the police thought giving him a ride around the block was all that was necessary, lost both my parents within months of each other, discovered I was adopted when I was about thirty and it was not a happy ending.. neither adopted family or birth family embraced me after my parents were gone, regardless of any efforts on my part, including seventeen years of therapy. Alcohol slowly and steadly claimed my soul, but in 1985 I was freed from the mental obssession and physical compulsion that drove me to the brinks of insanity and death through alcohol and I have pieced together a life as best I can with what I have left. I have been blessed with a great deal but I do have many physical limits and in 1991 I was hit by a drunk driver while on a motorcycle (as a passenger) and had to recover from a head injury and multiple injuries to my body. I was later hit from behind in a car I was driving on a highway by a man who was intoxicated on drugs and severely re-injured. But life went on regardless. I still had to care for my daughter, live through both of my sons immaturity and substance abuse problems, help my ex-husband who lost both his legs, had cancer of the esophagus, two strokes and four heart attacks to date, because he is the father of my children and he has burnt all his bridges to his family with his alcoholism. The joy of my life is my grandchildren and even though my body is obese, arthritic, asthmatic and now diabetic, I get up and walk with them and play with them and delight in their company. I appreciate your concern and your thoughts, but my experience has shown me that just being open to anothers pain and being willing to share your own experiences is far more inspiring and healing than shuttling someone off to therapy. Fear has a funny way of making others distance themselves when they can't trust the process. I know first hand that my spirit strengthens through the people that are brought into my life from the power that I identify as God but I also know that without openminded, fearless, sharing the channel would remain blocked. Take care and thank you for sharing your experience with me.

Sounds Like you need a LARGE helping of self-love.

You have come through the wars.....more self nurturing needed.

The guy with the advice on high protein diet is CORRECT

Its the Carbs that do the damage to blood sugar levels.

I stopped taking my readings because the numbers would stress me out.....just listened to my body.....got treated for depression, and spent lots of guilt free time on nurturing myself.

I go to movies, read books, plant flowers & veges, paint pictures, scrapbook, write my journal daily, phone friends and talk for hours.......all guilt free

When I feel good, I look after myself.

Good luck and hugs

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I feel your pain, I have been type 2 for 10 years, most of my family members are diabetic, my Mom died from it, one sister had a stroke and is now disabled, my brother had both legs amputated, then died at age 60 from this disease. I am just trying to stay alive, but i do get discouraged often and depression is never far away. I am trying to improve everyday, because at age 48, I am not ready to die and have lots to live for. All I can say is you live one day at a time and when knocked down, get up and try again. Good luck, I admire your courage for always getting up.

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