6ixStringJack: How you doing today? Keeping out of the smoke, I hope.  |
| 6ixStringJack: And, counter-intuitively, I think the pods actually have done a disservice to me. It made things too easy. I'd probably be better off actually if I weren't using them. Okay. I wanted to reply one last time about my stuff since you had things out there that needed responding to. But I'm done talking about my personal issues until the creep stops being a creep. |
6ixStringJack: And I did get my thyroid checked while they were testing for diabetes. At least then, my thyroid was fine. Who knows these days though. Anything could break at any point, right?  |
| 6ixStringJack: About yours though... were you born with it and did you get this training as a young child growing up? There's a lot to say for that. Old dogs tend not to learn many new tricks unless they're forced to. Begrudgingly, I've gotten pretty good at it but only because of what the alternative would have been had I not. |
| 6ixStringJack: Ted is taking what I say here and using it in his attack posts on me, Brenda. Sadly, I think this is where our health discussion needs to end because Ted is a creep. |
| Brenda: I think without those two things you would be in a fair amount of trouble. That was why when you started on this journey I recommended that you get your thyroid checked. Both my problem and yours are metabolic disorders and a wonky thyroid sometimes walks hand in hand. I know it does for me. |
| Brenda: Yes, I can understand that and I do believe those pods are useful for you. You can get buried in what you are doing and forget to get your insulin if you blood sugar drops. Not saying that hasn't happened to me when I am working on my book because it has. But as soon as I recognize it, I get up and eat. |
| Brenda: Understood. I watch pretty well everything I put into my mouth. I read sugar levels on cereal, which is why I stick too two or three brands that I know what the sugar level is. When I am out I don't eat many sweets. I don't eat canned vegetables because they are loaded with sugar to this day. |
| Brenda: It is and it makes me even jittery when I am out sometime if I think I haven't eaten enough. Yup, not fun for sure. |
| Brenda: I have never been one for sweets even as a kid. Oh, a little pop, some ice cream, cake. You know the usual suspects but candy. Nope. I eat a far amount of rice and pasta now but it is for the carbs which as you know turn into sugar in your system. |
| Brenda: I can see that happening. It probably was years before you noticed or someone else noticed. I sort of self diagnosed but then I got an infection and my doctor sent me to the lab and my blood sugar was below normal. She said you ate breakfast before you went and I said yes. And then for sure I knew what was happening. |
| Brenda: Yup and that is being hypoglycemic. Too much sugar and me, not good. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't even want to think about how the hell I'd navigate a roller coaster situation if all I had was my intuition and a 30 pack of test strips that are supposed to last me half a month. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't even want to think about how the hell I'd navigate a roller coaster situation if all I had was my intuition and a 30 pack of test strips that are supposed to last me half a month. |
| 6ixStringJack: I was completely lost those first few months. I could pretty easily live without the insulin pods and go back to shooting every day and before every meal, but I do believe that the CGM saved both my life and my sanity. |
| 6ixStringJack: Even if Diabetes were objectively worse than Hypoglycemia is, I wouldn't trade with you. Not knowing something like that is something that would literally drive me crazy. If anybody ever takes away my ability to know what my blood sugar is every 5 minutes, I don't imagine I will be living much longer after that. |
| 6ixStringJack: That feeling when it comes fast is pretty scary. I mean, at this point I don't get spooked much by it anymore. Chances are that I may have even experienced it more than you have in my few short years now just because of how dangerous and even deadly insulin can be if not administered correctly every single time. My problem now is that I still get jittery enough to over-compensate and get my ass on that rollercoaster that's pretty hard to get off once you start it. |
| 6ixStringJack: I never ate much sweets or immediate sugar, but I ate TONS of rice and pasta, so I was a non-sweet sugar factory. |
| 6ixStringJack: I got SICK in the long run for sure when I was not processing the sugar (maybe for years), but it wasn't apparent until all the weight loss when I was walking around with a 300+ average per day for a few months. |
| 6ixStringJack: Wow. So you can still get sick with too much sugar and your body doesn't process it fast enough. Is that part of being hypoglycemic, or is that possibly something different? |