We think a lot about the physical component of diabetes, but the mental component is just as significant. How does diabetes affect you or your loved one mentally or emotionally? How have you learned to deal with the mental aspect of the condition? Any tips, positive phrases, mantras, or ideas to share on getting out of a diabetes funk? (If you are a caregiver to a person with diabetes, write about yourself or your loved one or both!) When I saw this as one of the topics, I literally froze in my chair. I don't understand the term diabetes funk. Or when I read about other diabetics getting angry simply because they have diabetes, that too makes no sense to me. I can't wrap my brain around it. I got upset because I don't understand how anyone could become angry simply because they have diabetes. Maybe it's because after my diagnosis back in 1965, I wasn't allowed to wallow about having a disease. I wasn't treated any differently than my younger sister. You had to have insulin injections, test my urine, so what? It's no big deal. You don't like it, DEAL WITH it, was what I was told. I was also told as a youngster that whenever I left the house, I was to leave with a happy face, a smile. Even if I felt sad or sick, I had to smile. So I can't help anyone if they're in a diabetic funk, because I have no idea what that is. After thinking about it, I realized that I do have something that I tell people who ask me how I deal with being a juvenile onset so easily. I tell them that Juvenile Onset Diabetes is probably one of the easiest diseases to live with. Yes there is no cure. BUT if you do everything you're suppose to, IE check your blood sugar levels, keep your A1C where you and your Endo have agreed it should be, make sure you check your feet and other body parts for sores, you can live, (like me for now going on 51 years) with no complications. I'd much rather have diabetes where all I have to do is push a few buttons on a machine that is connected to me to inject myself with insulin instead of having to worry about what happens with all the different cancers out there.
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1st,! how did you test yours, urine,! ?. if i had to do,! i will pass out,. & i ues to, wallow about having,! it not,anymore,. got to many stuff,! to do then wallow about it,.
At first, I had to collect the urine in a container so I could get some drops, then I'd have to put I think 3 drops of urine into a test tube, then add 5 drops of water into the test tube, then add this tablet that would fizz up. Then I'd have to compare the color of the liquid in the test tube to the color chart on the bottle.
Next I used test tape, which was in sort of a roll. You'd roll out the amount you needed, then either collect your urine in a container, or allow the end of the strip to pass through your urine stream.
Last but not least came the keto diastix. These checked both the ketones and the glucose. Now I had been using the keto sticks before. You used these like the test tape.
So having the home glucose meters are a BIG change over testing urine!!!
wow,! i think, i can't do that,!. now, it easy to do,. i don't check, for ketones,. don't see ! why i need to,. thank you,! for telling me, how it was done,.
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