I was just diagnosed with Diabetes

centraldogma

number13 wrote: »

centraldogma wrote: »

You're also going to need something to track nutrition information. I'd suggest this book or if you have an iOS device, this app.

Also, best advice I can give you is this: use this as an excuse to make healthy decisions. Make annual appointments with your all doctors (optometrist, dentist, ect.), choose socks that fit well and don’t cut off circulation. These are little things, and really everyone should be doing these things, but especially when you're in a high risk category.

Also, he shouldn't forget to hook up his SNES and play a game of Captain Novolin, everybody's favorite Diabetic superhero.

Here's hoping for the gritty reimagining.

Raijin Quickfoot

I got diagnosed with type 2 a couple of months ago.

I completely changed my habits and have really turned it around.

Lost 30 pounds so far.

My last A1C was 5.1 and my avg glucose was 123.

YoSoyTheWalrus

Sheri wrote: »

Man don't be all "look at all these sheeple jumping on the bandwagon"

40 beers a week is a lot

Also doesn't that get expensive?

I don't think anyone's saying it's a good thing

It just grinds my gears that people are often ready to diagnose someone with a mental disorder like alcoholism based on one number, as opposed to a pattern of behavior and feelings. It hasn't so much happened in this thread but terms like "alcoholism" have specific definitions that I don't want to dilute.

Stale

I diagnose damn near everyone I meet

Terminal cases of Being a little Bitch are rampant.

I prescribe high doses of Walk it Off and Man the Fuck Up.

YoSoyTheWalrus

Well you got your degree in Walkitoffiology so that's different

Druhim

At least I'm not on fire

number13

Stale wrote: »

I diagnose damn near everyone I meet

Terminal cases of Being a little Bitch are rampant.

I prescribe high doses of Walk it Off and Man the Fuck Up.

Is that like... over the counter or...?

exist

40 beers a week is blowin my mind whoa kapow

Metalbourne

Druhim wrote: »

At least I'm not on fire

Well there's a cure for that

Nogs

every single male relative i have over the age of 40 is type-II diabetic

though we all have pretty low blood pressure as a whole. (i donated blood today, I was 108/62).

my Dad said to me a few years back

"Smith's can eat all the salt they want, but if we look at a cookie we lose a toe"

I Win Swordfights

YoSoyTheWalrus wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Man don't be all "look at all these sheeple jumping on the bandwagon"

40 beers a week is a lot

Also doesn't that get expensive?

I don't think anyone's saying it's a good thing

It just grinds my gears that people are often ready to diagnose someone with a mental disorder like alcoholism based on one number, as opposed to a pattern of behavior and feelings. It hasn't so much happened in this thread but terms like "alcoholism" have specific definitions that I don't want to dilute.

just to be clear i was not referring to the amount as why it sounded like an "alcoholic post"

it was this:

That guy who said it I forgot to copy this part wrote:

Unfortunately, being a single dude, that "few beers" started to increase slowly over the past few years until I found myself drinking about 16 beers on both Friday and Saturday while playing 6 hour long multi-player sessions. That kind of became my routine, and I'm a huge fan of routine.

Weird how things can start off fairly insignificant, and they slowly spiral to the point of absurdity.

that part

and it was offhand and kinda flippant, not using the full gravity of "alcoholic", not trying to diagnose him

just

sayin'

YoSoyTheWalrus

NO SAYING THINGS

Nogs

dudes relationship with alcohol is up to him.

no amount of throwing around the word 'alcoholic' is gonna do anything but come off as an insult

Munkus Beaver

The scepter was the stupidest thing anyway.

I cannot believe that got past R&D.

Lost Salient

My grandmother on my mom's side is diabetic and my mom might be headed that way. So is my uncle.

I don't ever want to have to deal with Type-II diabetes. =\

Okay or basically anything let's be honest I am a giant baby.

Tossrock

You could do 40 beers a week for pretty cheap if you got shitty beer in 30 packs. A 30 pack of shitbeer costs like 15 bucks.

tugga

fatalspoons wrote: »

I just read cinnamon is actually pretty good at keeping blood sugar down. Unfortunately, too man disgusting cinnamon challenge youtube videos may have turned me off to the whole cinnamon scene.

thats cinnamon sugar

real live cinnamon comes in pill form and is easier to swallow

Mr Fuzzbutt

I fucking love cinnamon.

Used to eat cinnamon and sugar on toast all the time.

Mr Fuzzbutt

Just wanna roll in cinnamon and smell awesome all day.

Theidar

40 beers a week meets almost every medical definition of alcohol abuse. Honestly that is a lot of extra carbs, just fixing that would likely greatly improve your glucose control.

Also listen to Stale and Dru their advice is 100% on the mark.

Mr Fuzzbutt

I tend to pee a lot, feel sleepy and have blurred vision after drinking heaps of beer.

Tonkka

That's pretty much how beer works, yes.

Seriously

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote: »

I tend to pee a lot, feel sleepy and have blurred vision after drinking heaps of beer.

I am afraid it is terminal.

fatalspoons

I remembered this post I made two years ago when I was diagnosed with diabetes and was pretty pissed off. Did a Google search and sure enough, here it is.

Just thought it'd be fun to post an update. When I was diagnosed two years ago, my a1c was 9.0. Normal a1c testing for an individual is somewhere between 4.5 and 5.5. Between 5.5 and 6.5 is considered pre-diabetic. Anything higher is considered diabetic.

I just had my blood work done on Friday and I'm sitting at 6.1. Not perfect, but a hell of a lot better than I was two years ago.

Better still is that I feel better. I really do. I don't get tired in the afternoons anymore. I used to get so exhausted everyday after work. Now I feel great until bedtime. I don't get thirsty all the time. I'm not peeing every five seconds. And I honestly feel like I'm just a happier person. Being tired all the time made me grumpy and depressed. Now I just get grumpy when I lose a match in titanfall. I'm pretty sure even my co-workers like me more now. We go hiking a lot and play Destiny together. It's great.

Seriously though, I'm happy I found this post. It makes me feel good to look back at how ridiculous I was being two years ago, feeling sorry for myself and all that. Glad I eventually snapped out of it. Kinda makes me proud. Go me. :-)

number13

Been type one for some odd 27 years now, so good on you, dude.