After more than 10,000 injections of insulin, I decided to give an insulin pump a try ( Read more... )

Definitely in my list of top ten pet peeves is when I tell people about something I have - be it diabetes or another medical issue- and they immediately want to tell me about a cure or treatment. Especially if they get all conspiracy theory on me and tell me that what I've got can be cured but the FDA doesn't want me to know or some shit. ( Read more... )

I have unusually high levels of protein in my urine.

and it might go away and it might stay-here at stage one kidney disease- and it might progress to kidney failure and all there is to do is run lots and lots of tests over and over again and wish that there was a cause that we could do something about and wonder if it will go away by itself- as ( Read more... )

Yesterday somebody asked me what the prognosis was for me, having diabetes. And I was taken aback by the humongousness of the question, even though I've answered it before, for myself and others.

In the end, the best answer (which I didn't give), is that the prognosis is uncertain. I'm unlikely to die of diabetes in the next decade. I already have ( Read more... )

Today I switched all the alarms on my CGMS to vibrate mode. Before they beeped, and I rarely heard them. Today I heard the alarm! The monitor hitting itself against the table is a lower pitch and much easier to hear than the high pitched beep. I have been having some hearing problems for the last few months on and off, and for the last month and a ( Read more... )

I was diagnosed with diabetes when I was 17 years and 10 months old. I was mildly underweight, moderately ketotic, severely hypokalemic and severely hyperglycemic. My fasting blood sugar was 453 and my glycosolated hemoglobin was off the charts.  My islet cell antibody levels were about 50 times the upper limit of normal, my GAD 65 antibodies ( ( Read more... )

Things are going much better with the professor. Much much better ( Read more... )