Re: Now blood sugar was: Fuel warning light delay
- From: "Roger Hamlett" <rogerspamignored@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:52:10 GMT
"Tim Shoppa" <shoppa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well said Tim.
Ken Smith wrote:
In article <443490AA.C804D212@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[....]
again, for the third time in six months. It just doesn't want to come
all the way back down. It was normal for over a year, then my blood
sugar shot up to 497 in a two week period. Its still too close to 200.
:(
OUCH ... ouch
For those who don't know, any number over 150 is considered to be a
threat
to your long term health.
Someone I work with has a son with type-1. We really need a way to
measure blood sugar without punching a hole to get the blood.
I've been punching such holes in my body 6-8 times a day for the past
25 years. Don't anybody ever get the idea that they should wait around
for it to get easier, it's here now and it works. Although it might
seem like a big deal to you, it is a very minor deal compared to all
the other aspects of having diabetes.
It does become so routine, that you can do a test almost 'blindfolded',
and by careful choice of sites (use the edges of the fingers, not the
pads), it is basically painless. I was first diagnosed as diabetic, 39
years ago. At that time, blood glucose testing, didn't exist, except in
hospitals, and even urine testing, involved a test-tube, rather than the
simple strips now used. The key is to remember that much of the damage
from poorly controlled diabetes, is analogous to rapidly accelerated
aging, and if you don't control it, the long term effects on the eyes, and
kidneys in particular, will be far worse than a few pinpricks.
For the last twenty years, I have been visiting a hospital eye clinic, to
check for any signs of retinopathy, and this year, they decided that there
was no point in my keeping coming, since there had been no detectable
signs of change in my eyes over that whole time. Touch wood, long may it
continue!...
My grandfather (on my mother's side of the family), was one of the first
people in the UK to be treated using insulin. In those days, the needles
had to be cleaned and resharpened by hand, and insulin had to be fetched
every few days.
Things have improved hugely, but some aspects do seem much slower than
perhaps expected. Work was already being done over twenty years ago, on
implanting protected colonies of islet cells in a carrier close to the
liver, using a semi-permeable membrane to avoid rejection problems, and
this is only just appearing in human use now...
Best Wishes
.
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