As many of you know, I am a type 1 diabetic. I have had to live with this disease for 4 years and it has a tough road to tread. Recently, my blood sugars have been going crazy, even when I take my insulin on a regular basis. I started to lose a lot of weight, going from 200lbs to 190lbs in less than a week, I also was losing my eye sight. I couldn’t figure out why. What really got me worried, and this is pretty embarrassing for me to say but I want to let it be known how serious this disease really is, I lost control of my bladder at night.
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Luckily, I have the most caring wife in the world. She started emailing some people from the Barbara Davis Research Center, an exclusive diabetic medical facility, and she got me in immediately. Usually it is a year to year and a half wait in order to be seen. But they thought that I needed to be seen sooner than later. So my appointment was set up for 2-19-08.
The results of the appointment are as follows:
On average, my sugars were at 600, when they are suppose to be between 70-150.
I not only have type 1, but I also have all the complications of a type 2 including insulin resistance. Now, I need to be on injectable and pill insulin.
All this has lit a new flame in me, because now I know how to control my sugars and now I can bulk up and compete . And hopefully win!
Since the appointment, my sugars haven’t gone over 170 and I have gone back up to 200lbs with 13% body fat. I am already seeing the results.
I am thinking about writing an article on this site about how to deal with this type of diabetes and how one with this disease can still make their dreams come true. I am that living proof.
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