Diabetes Type 2 Support Group
Type 2 Diabetes is a condition in which the body either does not produce enough insulin or does not make efficient use of it. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert food into glucose, a sugar that the body uses for energy. Without enough insulin, glucose can accumulate in the blood, and can cause serious health problems such as heart disease and strokes and organ damage...
I did not eat breakfast today or lunch....when I was at Walmart buying soda I grabbed bag of twizzlers too....chowed down on them before dinner.....took my insulin at dinner table 20 of long acting and 6 of short acting....at some strawberries sis used some substiture sugar to moisten up....I ate rest of the twizzlers giving some to nephew....my sugar shot to over 300....but started downwards...now it is 153.....I had a visual migrane tonight when on way home last 1/4 mile from home and while in living room in front of tv....it was a periferal hallucinations....it seemed like I had dialated eyes on bright sunny day outside...could focus but the other edges lit up.....and were sort of blurry....
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Today I had two medical appointments, and I also met with the job developer from vocational rehab. I never imagined about a year ago when I qualified for vocational rehab due to migraines that I would later have a TIA and now a heart condition. The situation has gotten a lot more complicated.It's been a very emotional day, and I'm living in a new normal now since I had this TIA and I really...
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I was driving yesterday and for a bit of it was absorbing my surroundings. A mental vacation from my thoughts to just being in that moment and then trying to keep that emotion from leaving. In the past these were times in the summer where I would go down to the woods near where I grew up and just rested among the trees. It was a slower and less anxious time for sure and I was fortunate to have...
end up in a really dangerous situation.