feeling a little sad today 🙂
Hi Ellowyn,
I know what you mean with the tummy stuff - mine is like when I started on Metformin and not nice. I have started on 4 units and have to increase this. I have the urge to sleep for britain - I'm just as tired when I wake up in the morning as when I go to bed - but maybe that's just the time of year.
What time of day do you inject ?
When was you diagnosed? What age (If you don't mind me asking)
Do you have a family history of diabetes?
Boy I'm being nosey.
It's good to chat to folk who are going through the same thing at the same time. Let me know how you get on with your injecting.
Di xxx
Hi Di, please, ask as many questions as you like, no worries
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I Inject at 9pm each night. I chose this time because it is a quiet time, the phone unlikly to ring, house settling down ect.
I was diagnosed, oh, about 9 months ago now, I must check out the actual date myself!...I was 44 when diagnosed.
Yes, we do have history of Diabetes in my family. However, I am also very overweight ect, classic Diabetic type 2 and brought it all on myself
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As well as all this, I have only become very unwell in the past two/three years after some severe problems with my back!....Oh boy, it's a real long story, but bad meds, lost 6 stone very quickly, all good as I needed to lose the weight! Became very dependent on prescribed Opiate drugs for my back pain. Me addicted, never even smoked and ciggy and don't drink! This was, followed 11 months later by bad, self withdrawel, from prescribed opitates.
When I was at my worst on the Fentanyl *cringes at the word* I almost died. Respiration failing, liver in a state, the list goes on!
So, anyway, 2 months after being off the horrible drug, I was admitted to hospital with severe stomach pain and vomiting. I was diagnosed with suspected pancreautis (Don't know the spelling) and also gall stones, my gall bladder had become severly inflammed. This was to be the first of a subsequent 4 hospital admissions within a space of 6 months....and a stay of 3/4 days each time
On my third admission I was diagnosed with Diabetes. On my forth admission I was admitted, pancreaus again and gallbladder, and, my blood sugars were upto 29. I was put on an Insulin intro drip for nearly four days.
I guess what I am trying to say is, I had a pretty horrendous time and my body has never been the same since Fentanyl, in fact I feel that I have aged some 10 years or more. I am still on many drugs for my back, no opiates.
I have permanent nerve damage down my left leg, impared liver function, that shoots through the roof if I am unwell as well as my Blood sugars.
You see, I do beleive, in some way, that all that I went through somehow had something to do with the onset of my diabetes. Fentanyl effects the pancreaus, gall bladder and liver. All these play a viatal part with your blood sugars and how they are prosessed....if only I had the money to hire a clinical researcher!! Lol!
There, bet you wished you had'nt asked now, lol! Sorry, I have gone on, I've kind of been down today, sorry it all spilled out here
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I hope you feel better soon, Di, as I say, I am on 16 units at this time and I check in with my DSN next Monday....probably for a further increase!
I don't have any probs with injectiong, only emotional issues, gets to us all at times I guess.....all the best, we have to keep going a, or what is the alternative!.....Love to all, Ellowyne xXx
