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TashiaMH
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Hello. My name is Tashia. I found out I had diabetes on December 25th 2005 at around 3:30 a.m.. I went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pains. After doing some blood work a large male nurse came up to me, stabbed my 7 month pregnant belly with a needle and turned to me and said "you're diabetic" before leaving the room.
I was transferred to a children's hospital that early Christmas morning in an ambulance where I spent the next 4 days in a high risk pregnancy ward. My gestational diabetes never went away, and looking back on it now I probably had pre diabetes before the pregnancy and just didn't know it.
After giving birth to a healthy 7 lb 9 ounce baby boy whom I was thankful didn't end up being enormous from gestational diabetes, the doctors took me off all meds and said I didn't have to take insulin anymore. Six months after I had my son I started feeling crappy. I still had my test strips and decided to test. My BGL was over 300.
I started out taking actos for awhile, then moved to metformin before ultimately being placed on insulin (flexpen). I have been using the flexpen for nearly 2 years now. I have gained about 50lbs since using it.
In September a group I was in wanted to start a weight loss challenge. So for the heck of it I joined in, I've lost 20lbs so far and feel much better.
It's been 6 months since I've tested my bgl. (I know... really really really stupid!). I guess I was just too afraid to find out how my levels looked. Yesterday I tested and was happy to see 148 after eating a plate of desert (celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday). This morning my fasting was 116 which is the lowest it's been... ever! Still high, I know.
I really want to not be insulin resistant. This is an expensive disease. And it kills me that my piss poor eating habits is now costing my family thousands of dollars a year.
I hope the weight loss will kick my pancreas into gear. If anyone out there has been on insulin, lost weight and is now off I'd appreciate knowing that it's possible. It would be an amazing motivator for me.
Thanks. :flowerforyou:
I was transferred to a children's hospital that early Christmas morning in an ambulance where I spent the next 4 days in a high risk pregnancy ward. My gestational diabetes never went away, and looking back on it now I probably had pre diabetes before the pregnancy and just didn't know it.
After giving birth to a healthy 7 lb 9 ounce baby boy whom I was thankful didn't end up being enormous from gestational diabetes, the doctors took me off all meds and said I didn't have to take insulin anymore. Six months after I had my son I started feeling crappy. I still had my test strips and decided to test. My BGL was over 300.
I started out taking actos for awhile, then moved to metformin before ultimately being placed on insulin (flexpen). I have been using the flexpen for nearly 2 years now. I have gained about 50lbs since using it.
In September a group I was in wanted to start a weight loss challenge. So for the heck of it I joined in, I've lost 20lbs so far and feel much better.
It's been 6 months since I've tested my bgl. (I know... really really really stupid!). I guess I was just too afraid to find out how my levels looked. Yesterday I tested and was happy to see 148 after eating a plate of desert (celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday). This morning my fasting was 116 which is the lowest it's been... ever! Still high, I know.
I really want to not be insulin resistant. This is an expensive disease. And it kills me that my piss poor eating habits is now costing my family thousands of dollars a year.
I hope the weight loss will kick my pancreas into gear. If anyone out there has been on insulin, lost weight and is now off I'd appreciate knowing that it's possible. It would be an amazing motivator for me.
Thanks. :flowerforyou:
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Welcome, this is all new to me too so I don't have much advice but I would be happy with those fasting numbers. You are right this is an expensive disease so good to you for losing weight and working on controlling it.0
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Hi Tashia, welcome to you! :flowerforyou:0
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Welcome to the group. I do not have experience with insulin, all I have ever been on is Metformin and I have worked my way off of that. However, my father, who has been Type 2 for over 20 years, worked his way off of, not only insulin, but all diabetes meds, my finally taking his disease seriously, eating correctly, exercising, and dropping about 70 lbs. So yes, it can be done. That is not to say it is possible for everyone, but for some people it is very possible. Hopefully you are one of the people for whom it is possible. Best of luck.0
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Welcome to the group. I do not have experience with insulin, all I have ever been on is Metformin and I have worked my way off of that. However, my father, who has been Type 2 for over 20 years, worked his way off of, not only insulin, but all diabetes meds, my finally taking his disease seriously, eating correctly, exercising, and dropping about 70 lbs. So yes, it can be done. That is not to say it is possible for everyone, but for some people it is very possible. Hopefully you are one of the people for whom it is possible. Best of luck.
Thank you so much for sharing that!0
