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I am a diabetic by chemical exposure, I've had problems maintaining a normal blood sugar. My weight fluxuates from normal to obese. I am on insulin, blood pressure medication and do not have a working thyroid. I asked for help due to my weight problem and out of control blood sugar levels. My blood pressures have bee abnormally low the past few days and now I am afraid to eat because I do not want my blood sugars to be high and abnormal. Tomorrow 3/12/2013 I see the PA for my diabetic check up and the eating disorders psychologist to discuss my eating habits.
I normally don't share things like this but I need
people to talk to on the phone or on facebook instant messaging. I just cannot do it alone anymore.
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You have every right to ask for help here, Jill
On the face of it your health issues appear to be causing you mental difficulties, IE depression perhaps?
DO see your doctor as planned and DO explain to him or her the symptoms you are having.
Perhaps they can help you. With their training and fresh perspective they can help you determine if it is simply the stress of your difficult life that has you feeling so poor or if there is a more direct cause, some illness or condition that they can treat.
It is well worth the effort.
Might even want to make a journal or brief record of your feelings, difficulties and so on.
Maybe the doctor can see a pattern?
If it helps to *talk* things out, please do.
BC maybe mostly an online community but we are here for each other.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Jill, I am prayng for you!
And will put you on my Church Prayer List.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Absolute bloody snap.
Except that you have an advantage. At least two. Your weight goes up and down, mine just increases. You (apparently) can walk. I can't make a hundred yards in a row because of peripheral vascular disease.
And there are those far worse off than me. I am really down at the moment so probably I should not talk to you. I am, like you probably, feeling so bad about myself that I can't gave anyone. But I will get over it as will you. Catch me another time when I am not hurting so bad. In the mean time I am sure there are others able to chat. Always remember that there are others far worse off.
Hope that helped a bit.
Just another page
Just another page in the book of life, so try to relax read to the bottom of the page and turn to start a new blank page to write on.
HUGS Jill we all will love & pray for you KISSES RICHIE2
I can't communicate 1:1
...maybe FB? I'm in the same place. We probably are dealing with the same drawback; Type II diabetics who suffer from PTSD often struggle with spikes in blood sugar that correspond with the stress of all the symptoms of PTSD due to sudden infusions of cortisol into the blood stream. My wife's friend has been encouraged to check her sugar six times daily apart from before meals. She's been a strict adherent of her diet and her sugar is still unmanageable. My GP knows about the PTSD and I'll be seeing the endocrinologist on the 28th to formulate a plan.
I'm a lover of asparagus and green beans; both of which have the 'helpful' carbs. Legumes and other green vegetables, including all the leafy kinds like Kale and Spinach, are not only helpful in that regard, but include a lot of things that help out with the stress as well. Love you!
Love, Andrea Lena
You could try
A little of a good absinthe such as Jaques Sennaux. Far more effective than anti depressants and just a bit every few days works wonders. Expensive but worth it. Whatever you try if it doesn't go milky when you add water it is not the right stuff.
In addition to its amazing anti depressant functions (which last for days) it gives me three dimensional, imaginative, lucid dreams with an olfactory and tactile prescience. A truly amazing experience.