Posts by Violia

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

I understand about pain meds, I took opiates for 11 yrs. I ( with docs approval) tapered myself very slowly off them It took 3 months. I have been off them just 1 year now. I found that my pain level is about the same with or without them. I think I just got a tolerance to them. I ache and hurt everyday but unless this pain gets unbearable again, I will not take the meds. I have used other methods, steroid injections ( which do not help diabetes) procedures where they go in and "burn" the nerves and other things. My activity is very limited , I could not do this if I had to work . I have just settled into a life I am not happy with , but due to multiple health issues this is almost as good as it gets. I am going to try and take a stretching class at the senior center. I think it will help. I used to be the most active person but now my life is very quiet . It is not what I want but you can't always get what you want.

I am not in anyway implying that taking pain meds is not OK. I took them b/c I needed them . I hope you are getting relief from them.

well, I am up again b/c I can't sleep but will say

nite all.

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

OK my blood sugar reading 2 hours after eating is 165. That is approx what it was before eating. So it is too high, but I must have done something right tonight b/c usually it is 260-288 area after eating. I am eating a lot more than my portion allowed. The fish was twice the size they say you can have- the size of a deck of cards. I ate way too many blueberries but I think leaving out the grain helped. Portion control is what is wrong here. Also i agree, about breakfast. I drank a cup of coffee. That is not breakfast but is for me. I used to eat scrambled eggs and sliced tomatoes growing up. Southern people eat all kinds of nontraditional stuff for breakfast.

I have a tuna recipe that my mom used to make. You just dump a can of tuna, diced pickles, tomatoes, onions, apples, and chopped up boiled eggs and nuts of some kind into a bowl , add mayonnaise and mix. You can also add a small bag of lettuce or salad fixings into the mix. It is a great meal all in one.

What is wrong is the meds increase your insulin production and are increasing my appetite. This Sunday is the last injection I will give myself. This is it. I have had it with this medicine. We will have to try something else. I can't go on having to take all these laxatives .

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

Lisa and others

I set down tonight and gave some very serious thought to what I am eating and how much. I am not really eating bad food-- well at times my hubby brings home take out and I know it always makes me ill. So, I looked at what I ate tonight. My husband does the cooking . I had coffee and lactose free milk and stevia for breakfast. I had an Atkins strawberry drink for lunch( not very filling, but 0 carbs and no sugar. I am starving at dinner. We have sautéed Salmon ( sauté in lemon and hickory smoke liquid -full of salt , but he uses it sparingly ) prepackaged snow peas and small potatoes in a microwave bag. I had blueberries and a lettuce , tomato salad with dressing, drank a diet coke. I was starving by dinner and I ate too much of the foods I did eat. I looked at the Carb count on the Pea and potato combo and 1 serving is 16 carbs. the lettuce salad was OK but the dressing is the killer. I ate 3or 4x the amount of blueberries I should have.So.....................

I pulled out my handy dish my doc gave me , the Tupperware one that is divided into 4 quads, protein, veg, fruit, grain. I am eliminating grain so I think I can take those calories and carbs and have more vegs or fruits. After I looked at it all, I just ate too much. I have never had this issue but the diabetes meds are increasing my insulin and it is making me hungry. Plus I should have ate breakfast. I know the Atkin drink fits the carb and sugar bill but I hate those kind of drinks and don't feel like I have eaten, I still feel hungry after about and hour.

I guess the way to proceed is to read all packages, keep the portions down to the size that will fit into THAT TUPPERWARE PLATE. Also I can substitute since I am not going to eat grains. I will be glad when the doc takes me off the injection as it raises insulin which is not working for me, raising my blood sugars and making me hungry and causing me to gain weight.

I hate to measure food but it appears I must. I can't continue this sick.

In the end the one of the meds the doc is giving me has to go. I have given it a fair trial and it is not working- it making things worse. this can happen, not every med works for everyone. I hate breakfast but have to force myself to eat. The fruit is addicting and I love it but it does have a lot of carbs in the amounts I am eating. I see the GI doc next week to see if there is a problem with my GI tract motility or it is just the meds. I think there is a bit of a problem. Plus I take several other meds that can cause slow GI peristalsis, so we will have to look at all meds. This is so stressful and 10 yrs ago when I was first dx'd I did not have to do this, but now I have diabetes for real. I have to check my sugar 2 hours after eating and see what it is after this meal. This is just exhausting.

I found a site that looks helpful. here is the link for everyone

http://www.tudiabetes.org/

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

Quarter, for whatever reason the site says it is " parked" by godaddy.

Lisa, glad to here your brother is OK, MM is tough, the treatments are very debilitating. I'm in Texas.

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by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

Lisa and Quarter rest of gang

I am on Bydureon . It is a sub Q weekly injection . I am also on farxiga 5 mg. It is a pill that helps the kidneys and remove sugar via urination. The Bydureion works by slowing the transit time of your food , thereby keeping the sugar from hitting the bloodstream so quickly. The unfortunate side effect it has for me is stopping the gastric Peristalsis and thus, food goes in but is not coming out without me taking massive doses of laxatives. This is leaving me feeling very tired and sick all the time. I told the doc but she insists I try it for a month. I am also supposed to see a GI doc next week. I think this med is just not for me. I used to take Byetta ( Bydureion is just time released byetta in a Sub Q form) but all it has done is raise my blood sugars and I have gained 5 pounds. The farxiga forces me to drink a lot of water to keep from having side effects.

I am just fatigued nauseated and all of that all the time. In the middle of all this the doc is getting my thyroid adjusted. it was hyper for over a year. I think it is better but we need to raise the dose a bit more. For some reason the doc feels these side effects are the result of just not trying hard enough.

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

I don't think the meds they have me on for my diabetes are going to work. Sigh. The doc is growing weary of side effects but what can you do? It either helps or it does not.

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by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

Thought I'd bring this back to the top.

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Have You Been Invited To The Memorial?

by minimus in

jw
friends

one of my best friend's, who is an ex elder had two elders visit him at his home yesterday to invite him to the memorial.

he was cordial to them because they were'nt over the top.. so far, i have had no invites, thank god..

Violia

Got an invite from the local Baptist church. They were very nice. I am giving it some thought.

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Any seniors looking for association?

by cultBgone in

life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

Violia

yes the anxiety was horrible -it was palpable. . I was on about 180 mg of Armour thyroid and should have been on about 120. ( in synthroid that would be approx 300 mcg I was on and needed to be on 200 mcg).Now I am on 150 mcg synthroid and they just added T3 today 5 mcg am /pm. My mom had thyroid issues and I was dx'd in 94. I do not see ever being able to get off the meds. Thyroid is usually forever.

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The Noah Movie

by Quarterback in

well, i saw it.

you better get ready for everyone's talk about it.. it was 25 % biblical, 75 % fantasy.. noah was mean as a character, his family was great.

methusala, was an old fart..

Violia

Sorry for all you folks hoping to see sex scenes between women and angels. There was one brief hot scene between Shem and his wife ( after grandfather had cured her barrenness ). No nudity except the part where Noah got drunk and the sons cover him up. No real nudity there either, thank goodness.The movie should have stayed within the confines of the Scriptures. There was lots of room for stories. If anyone has read" Angels and women" you know that would have made a great story.

I still can't believe they used Transformers instead of giants. What were they thinking?