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Picasso3

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My dental insurance is 26 a month and the cap on yearly expenses is 1k...so i get 2 cleanings for 300 a year basically because I'm 26 years old.

This year i cancelled and will pay out of hsa. If my current dentist pulls some shit I'm sure i can find someone to do a cleaning for 100
 
iannis

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Kuriin_sl said:
To be frank, I don't see many patients with pernicious anemia. Hope you get better -- and I hope your MS symptoms are actually related to B12 deficiency.
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Hopefully so. It isn't difficult to treat.

You can't reverse nerve damage, but if their suspicion is right then you can certainly keep it from getting any worse.
 
Noodleface

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So guys I need to go full disclosure here. If you read the marriage thread you know last night I was rushed to the ER for alcohol poisoning. My blood sugar was super high and shit as well.

Anyways, my blood sugar a few years ago started to stabilize and being the dumbest I am I decided I didn't need to take my meds anymore. Well. After last night I know that's not the case and I got threatened with being forced to stay in the hospital until my numbers improved.

My real question is how badly did I fuck my body up? I've been self medicating for a couple years and last night was a wakeup call. How many years did I take off my life?

Back on metformin today and gotta meet with a doctor to set my course straight going forward.

So ashamed.
 
Borzak

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Diabetics aren't supposed to drink alcohol for a variety of reasons. One being it's raises your blood sugar quickly and a LOT. My friend worked in the ER as a nurse in the french quarter for years. At mardi gras they would bring in diabetics with a blood sugar of 1600. A normaly person is 70-120 depending on if you just ate etc...I've been a diabetic for 40 years and can count on both hands the times I've been higher then 350.

I'm diabetic and I don't drink for a lot of reasons. My biggest with concern of being a diabetic is if you drink too much too fast you can raise your blood sugar fast and not know it and pass out from the alcohol and too high a blood sugar. The opposite is you can give some insulin and pass out from alcohol and not know it when your blood sugar crashes.

High blood sure kills you in the long term. Low blood sugar kills you in the short term.
 
Agraza

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1600 sounds awesome. Your friend is no friend to the evolution of our species if he helped save those fucking morons.

This is all your wife's fault Noodle. She should have been a buzzkill. All my married friends' wives are. They have a job to do and they excel.
 
Borzak

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I knew I was screwed up, but it really hit home when I sat down and listed all the stuff that I've had happen in the last year to tell the doctors this week.

Odd stuff.
I lost all the hair on both legs but only one side - the outside of both lower legs.
My heartrate has always been high, like around 95 on average at rest, when I took the last two B12 shots it went down to around 65 that night for a long time. I have never been more relaxed in my life.

Odd stuff.
 
Srathor

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Noodle it is mostly relative, you prolly damaged your kidneys some, maybe your liver, and likely hurt the nerves in your extremities a bit. A year of 150+ is not good but it is not chop your foot off either. I went through the same thing 4ish months ago and I got a couple teeth pulled and had a heart attack after it due to the stress and spiked blood sugar into the 300's daily.

Also daily numbers are a good minder but the real trick is a 90 day A1C over a 7 is when you need to buckle down and take care of yourself, over a 10 is you are being a dumbass and sooner or later people will call you stumpy.

Buddy of mine works as a nurse in the long term care ward. He gets non compliant diabetics all the time. We are talking age 23 and missing 3-4 toes and still not watching their eating and meds. Check your shit Noodle and fix it.
 
Borzak

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Noodlemod_sl said:
1600 is coma/death level, jeez. I was around 300ish and felt like I ruined eveyrones lives.
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I'm lucky my mom doesn't take shit from nobody and never stopped pestering. When I was diagnosed with diabetes nobody really knew anything. She didn't stop looking for better "answers" than just stuff a lot of food in a 5 year old which was their advice. We wound up at Tulane and then onto the Childrens Hospital in Houston. They purposely gave me too much insulin to see what it felt like to be low and then gave me too much sugar to see what it felt like to be too high. This was LONG before the sliding scale of insulin and such.

To this day I can normally tell within 5 of 10 at the most what my blood sugar is before testing it. I have won quite a few $5 bets over the years. It definetly has made life with diabetes much easier.

The downside is I remember at Tulane they had like 4 experiementals on the insulin pump, one of the first trials in the country. All 4 died while I was there. They were really brittle diabetics who were in bad shape to begin with. But I still don't have a pump.
 
Kuriin

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Noodlemod_sl said:
1600 is coma/death level, jeez. I was around 300ish and felt like I ruined eveyrones lives.
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300 isn't that bad. Are you type 1 or type 2? I forgot.
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Noodleface

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Type 2.

Doctors don't believe me when I tell them because I'm not massively overweight and relatively healthy in every other aspect. One actually accused me of lying.
 
Borzak

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They have continuous blood sugar monitors now. You instert a little deal under your skin and change it weekly. It's not very big like an RFI chip. Then if you are in range the machine monitors your blood sugar continuously and charts it etc...Why they haven't tied this in with the insulin pump I have no idea.

You can set alarms to go off if it's too high or too low.

My brother in law will die from Type 2 at some point. He's been diagnosed for 10 years and as far as I now not once has checked his blood sugar. But then he complains his feet hurt. Then he goes to the kitchen and eats 4 little debbie cakes at once or half a cake/pie.

The only time he's exercised in the last 10 years is he rode a bike up his driveway. He flipped it and had to go the hospital. That was it.
 
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The past 2 days I've had very brief bouts of what can only be described as a 'clogged vein' in the back of my right leg. If my shin is 12 and my calf is 6, it's occurring at about 4. It happened about four times yesterday. It doesn't really feel like a cramp, as it's very very localized (like I could probably put my finger on exactly where it feels weird), and when it happens, there's a bit of pain and I can kinda feel my pulse (hence the sensation of a clogged vein). It lasts for maybe 1 second, then it goes away and the left back portion of my neck tingles, like a mini shiver. Always right leg, and always left neck side.

I'm not sure when I first experienced it but I wanna say it's been over a year. The past few months I haven't had it at all, only in the past few days did it start acting up again, albeit more often than before, hence me finally making a post about it. Anyone got an idea what it could be, and if it's serious?
 
iannis

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It's not good, but yeah: Maybe some nerve damage and you probably nuked some nephrons. Your liver is probably not a huge concern.

It is indeed a wake up call. But your feet should be safe.

One thing that you do have going for you is that you're still young. Better to get this wake up call today than in 10 years. In 10 years you would do yourself more damage.
 
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