My insulin Log

1.
“Even with successful treatment, diabetes survivors are at risk of serious complications, such as CV disease, kidney failure, and blindness”

2.
“Truly successful treatment minimizes complications by narrowing the gap between a healthy glucose homeostasis pattern and that derived from therapeutic treatment”
-Matching basal and post-prandial glucose and insulin levels to those of healthy individuals.
-Individuals have different levels of dysfunction.

What’s the second point trying to say?
And what’s it mean by basal and post-pranial glucose/insulin levels?

My 6-year old female cat was just diagnosed about a month ago with Diabetes. We’ve been giving her diabetic food and insulin every single day, twice a day.

I was wondering, will this condition shorten her life? If so, by how much?

We don’t have the funds for him to go to the doctor every six months for his diabetic testing and we don’t have the funds to buy his insulin! It’s very expensive! I’m scared and don’t know where to get help! It appears that we don’t qualify for anything. I’m on unemployment due to being laid off, my husbands had a huge pay cut, we have two in college. Where can we get help with my husbands diabetes medical care? does anyone know?

-How many days can a diabetic person go without both food AND insulin before their blood sugar is profoundly affected to the point of coma and/or death?

-Would hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia be more likely in this situation? Even though no insulin is taken, no food is ingested either, so would the blood sugar still rise dangerously high in 48-72 hours? Or would the last dose of basal insulin eventually cause a low?

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Alabama is giving its employees roughly a year to start getting in shape or state employees will be charged $25 a month for insurance that would otherwise be free. The plan was approved recently by the State Employees’ Insurance Board.

State workers have until January 2010 to get free health screenings. If a problem like high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes or obesity is discovered, then they will have a year to join a wellness program, see a doctor at no cost or improve their health on their own to keep the free insurance. However, if at a follow-up screening they have made no progress, they will lose the free insurance starting January 2011.

Alabama already charges those of its 37,527 state employees who smoke an insurance premium — and has seen some success in reducing those numbers — but now focuses its efforts on one of the South’s largest problems: obesity risk. Some states offer benefits for healthy living, but Alabama is the first state to punish those not trying to slim down.

I’m currently 21 weeks pregnant with my second child. I had my first child on May 15th, 2008. This baby is due May 10th, 2010. With my first pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes, which I kept in very good control with just a diet. But my OB was very pushy in wanting to do a cesarean because she thought the baby would be big, even though my blood sugar was controlled and all the ultrasounds looked fine, my daughter never looked huge on the ultrasounds.

I fought and eventually we agreed on an induction. I was induced and maxed out on pitocin and they broke my water in the first few hours. I was in horrible labor for 18 hours, and at the end, my daughter had still not dropped all the way, I was only dilated to 8 centimeters, and my daughters heart rate was starting to dip slightly and I was running a low grade fever. I ended up having the cesarean. Ruby was 8 lb 8oz and perfect. My OB said she was huge, and that she’d been face up which is why things had stopped progressing.

I developed a slight infection in my uterus on the day after the surgery and had to have IV antibiotics for 2 days. I also had some issues with the healing of my incision, it was a bikini cut, and on the 6th days after the operation, I had a small hole that wouldn’t close on the right side of my incision that was leaking large amounts of pink/yellow fluid. I had to pack the incision for over a week with gauze until it finally stopped leaking and closed.

Well, now I have Gestational Diabetes again, I was diagnosed at 13 weeks, and so far I’ve been controlling my sugars through diet. I have a different OB this time, and he says that he thinks it would be safer to have a repeat scheduled cesarean, since I’ve already had one, had a failed labor and am gestationally diabetic again. Any opinions?

I am recently diagnosed with Diabetes and have been feeling palpitations when my sugar is high and just a dull chest pain at random times.

If I have a strong family history of diabetes, What should I do (other than excercise) and what should I take (like herbs vitamins or whatever)???

Every year I fill out the FAFSA forms, and every year I get the same response, I don’t qualify for financial aid. Is there any way I can fund my education without being in the whole $100,000 when I graduate. I am a Diabetic, are there any scholarships for students with Diabetes?
I also have the dilemma of that I want to get married, but right now I can’t b/c if I do that, my family will stop paying my tuition. Is there financial aid available to students who make that change?

I have PCOS and Type II Diabetes, and I’ve done some research online about the ability to conceive. But, none of the sites really tell me if it’s possible to get pregnant from one try. See my boyfriend and I had unprotected sex, and let’s just say he “forgot to pull out”. Has anyone like me ever gotten pregnant like that? Anyone with information PLEASE let me know! Thanks!

Diabetes runs in my family (on my dad’s side, both my grandmother and great grandmother have it (one of them has to take insulin, other one does not). I have had frequent urination all throughout my life and even wet the bed until i was 19 years old. My blood sugar usually runs around 70. The lowest i have seen it is 68, the highest was 77. Doctors have told me that I’m hypoglycemic…I’m always extremely tired no matter how much rest i get. One of my main concerns is my vision has seemed to deminish significantly within the past 3 years. My skin is always dry, I get yeast infection quite often…However, I am very skinny and always have been…I don’t know alot about diabetes but I think that it typically occurs in overweight ppl…but one doctor told me my symptoms could be the onset of diabetes later in life….Do you think that I’m in trouble or is there another possible cause underlying my symptoms?? If diabetes is likely, what are the foods I should definitely avoid to prolong it

I am 25 yr’s old, female and little overweight. I am experiencing headache after eating sweets mostly at night times.
In this week I attended 2 parties …in one party after meals I ate small piece of cake and another party I ate small amount of ice cream after eating those immediately i started headache. Is this is simptom of diabetes…any doctors out there plz help me. My mother has diabetes….I am so scared of diabetes.