Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus
I have diabetes. I will be posting more information here about the disease and my battles with it. Right now I’m winning the battle! Four months ago I was taking four medications every day for it. Now I’m taking two medications most days and I have cut the dosage on one of those in half. I have had problems since I was 16 but I have type II, non insulin dependant diabetes.
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I have diabetes too. Just living in the heat in the Philippines improves your condition compared to cooler climates.
You should minimize on rice, potatoes, bread (especially the white bread they have in the Philippines) and pasta. Try a diet on meat, fish or chicken and vegetables and see the difference. Especially peas and beans are good for you.
Walking is good. Running is even better. But why not try a middleway? Ride a bike. (or at least walk in a fast speed, not stroll) I used to use insulin. I had a still sitting office job. I forgot to reduce my insulin intake before I rode my bike. I only rode 20km, but when I got back home I had to “dive” in the candy dish to keep my blood sugar up.
I had a pretty bad sugar crash last month. We had just moved to Bogo City and had to text my landlord for emergency contacts. I ate a ton of candy and I just kept getting worse. I had just finished to large glasses of milk so it surprised me that my sugar crashed.
Milk is what I usually turn to gently get my sugar back up. I didn’t that time since I had just had some. Candy will send me on a roller coaster ride but I know you know that. That night AFTER eating a ton of candy I was still at 54. The sweating had finally subsided a little. I thought maybe I was having a heart attack since the candy didn’t work.
Finally, I had more milk and that did it. The blood sugar was back into the 70s. I drink low fat milk if at all possible. Whole milk sends my sugar up.
I love the bread here but I know it isn’t what I should be eating. But it is often soooo good. Unfortunately compatibles make me gag.. I would love it if that would change but that seems to be the way God made me. Well, I wont blame it on God. Things just worked out that way for me.
My health is not good enough for a bicycle yet. If I did 20Km, I’d be in the emergency room. Well, I’d never get that far but yes I’d like to get a bike. It is on my list of things to do with my new family. I walk for about an hour to an hour and a half. At first it was very slow. When I first got here I could barely last walking in a mall. I’m a lot better now.
It isn’t any hotter in the Philippines than it was in Memphis, now the sun is hotter. It burns my skin because I have lupus. I almost never go out without sun screen. I walk at a pretty good speed for most of my walk but I slow down when I want to look around. Stop to do what I want. The Temps are about thee same as in Memphis but there is a breeze here. It often feels cooler. In part, homes are built to handle heat better in thee Philippines than they do in the USA.
I have stopped two of the four diabetic meds I was on since I got here. I had cut the other two in half but that was to aggressive. I’ve gone back up on those.
Well I could go on and on but no one would read it because it would be too long.
Thanks for your post. I hope you’ll come back!
By bloodsugar crash, do you mean your sugar level is getting low? I though that was almost impossible unless you use insulin.
If you must eat bread, then at least eat dark bread. That is hard to come by in the Philippines, but you can buy rye flour in Tinderbox in Cebu City. It is of course more expensive than other flour but the good thing is that you would probably not have to share with your family since they would most definately prefer white bread. And the ryebread would be better for you. (Freshly baked it tastes delicious)
You could also do a mix of oats, rye and wheat. Oats is also good for you. (unsweetened that is)Some people also like sunflower seeds.
Bread could be a lot more than just wheat.
Sorry so long getting back to you. It is possible to have low blood sugar without taking any medication. I started having low blood sugar when I was about 16. I didn’t know what it was, i just noticed I would get very weak. I was so strong back then, I’d just go on about what I wanted to do.
Then one day i had some orange juice and it went away immediately. I knew something was wrong but I was 1 and my ideas was that if I was diabetic I didn’t want to know. Give me a break, I was 16. :)
Finally at about 30 I realized this was happening on days that I had breakfast and I spoke to my doctor. He setup a glucose tolerance test. My blood sugar didn’t make it quite to 200 that day but it went down to 34 when they stopped the test.
Some doctors now just consider this to be a part of the disease of diabetes. Others believe it to be a precursor. I think both are accurate.
Back in the 90′s I took an oral mediation that often caused low blood sugar. I can’t remember the name of it. But the medications I’m on now are not suppose to do that but they do to me.
My blood sugar was so high for so long that I was having low blood sugar symptoms at 100 at one point. That was short lived and now I’m back to not feeling anything until I hit 70 and I feel it there every time.
And my sugar will continue to drop until I get sugar. The bad episode I spoke about early included sweating and shaking. Remember I had eaten a LOT of candy and my blood sugar was still below 70. If I recall, in the 50′s.
I have lupus and lupus could be the cause of my diabetes. It does run in my family but no one else has had issues at the age of 16. I had a lot of lupus type issues at 16 but I had had them all my life so I thought they were normal. So now I don’t know what is normal any more.
I ordered some scales from Amazon.com yesterday and a Pedometer. I’m going to be said if I haven’t lost another 10 pounds but I MIGHT have lost another 20. People that have known me say I have lost weight.
I lost 30 pounds before I came to the Philippines.
With diabetes, most people can eat whatever they want.. The key is to have very little of the really bad things. Ii also get symptoms when my blood sugar is high. Most people don’t. My skin burns and I already have peripheral neuropathy which as my scared. I have some numbness in my legs. But I also have it in my face. Lupus has really played havoc with me. It isn’t so bad now but hard to know what lupus did.
I’m exhausted. Gotta go. I do hope you come back and share your experiences!
Hey Rusty,
I was diagnosed with type I diabetes back in 1997… My system had shut down and stopped creating insulin. I had been taking injections and back in 2003, I had switched to insulin pump treatment.
Overall, it’s still a battle… but the more you fight it, the better your health is in the long run… and less complications…
I lost a lot of weight when my blood sugar was high. I found that I was drinking a lot and going to the bathroom a lot… Not a great way to flush your system and lose weight.
Stupid question, are you the same Rusty that I have been friends with forever from TN? We may date back to the RIME Music Conference if you remember that far back…
If so, we have a lot of catching up to do.
John
John,
The name seems familiar but I don’t remember RIME…. Oh wait….. I might be. Was RIME back in FIDONET, BBB Hayday? RIME was different from FIDONET but not nearly as big? When I first saw the name I thouoght about those days but didn’t recall RIME right off. The Party Line was big on that network and located in Memphis?
If so that’s me. That was back when it was nearly impossible to find another Alice Cooper fan online.
Yea it is coming bake to me now. I tried to join RIME but was it Mike Glenn that was a big wheel and wouldn’t let me on for whatever reason. i actually looked to get back on Fidonet at one point but it had just died. I had 123/13 which was a very cool node number. I had the NiteMare and The Beavers Lodge.
You’ve got it. You were one of the faithful people that took part in the music conference. Back in those days of fidonet, RIME (relaynet) and Ilink were pretty big for pcboard BBS’s.. Bonnie Anthony had run RIME out of Bethesda, MD… I was living in Massachusetts at the time.
Do you have an email address we can touch base with? I’m sure I got off track on this blog…
It’s great seeing that you are well…
Yea I do but I don’t want to put it on here. Yea, Bonnie kept telling me I could get on RIME but Mike Glenn kept blocking it. RIME is completely gone now? Yea PCboard. I couldn’t remember that nor can I even remember the software I claimed was the best BBS software. LOL
I’ll send you an email. I may put up a small BBS here to help wiht the chit chat. :) See, hard to get out of the BBS.
Really good to hear from you.
I sometimes wonder what happened to Sparky… Forgot his real name, he wrote was basically the first bot for reading and replying to email..
That they were based around cities was nice. Oh well, that’s progress I guess.
Yes… Sparky… he wrote the Qmail reader and “door”.
I think their concept was to reduce the major hubs and have other boards pick up their mail from the hubs. It had logic… but alas, you have people butting heads.
RIME disappeared… it was bought from Bonnie and they tried to keep it running, but it recently met it’s demise. I think there is a website around somewhere.
I have my RIME coffee mug in my cabinet. One of my few souvenirs I have left from that time.