I've been a type 1 diabetic
since 1991 and have always been
very brittle. in 1992 i met a
woman who had just lost her husband
to diabetes. she told me it took
her husband piece by piece. i
swore that if i were ever faced
with that situation, i would rather
kill myself...never thinking that
it would really happen to me.
well, it finally has and i am in a
definite depression because i now
realize that i had adopted it as a
real belief. it's been three
days now and i can't shake the
fact that i am going to die. i
think i have been thinking that it
would never catch up to me and now
it has. let me explain. i've
been on an insulin pump since 1998
because all of the different
doctors i saw couldn't
regulate my blood sugars. (i mean
ranges from 25 to over 600!).
there have been periods where i
have reasonable b/s, my normal is
around 140-250. if i get a b/s
around 100, i get worried because i
can drop as much as 100 points in a
few minutes. i live alone and have
experienced 25's as well as
many over 600. i've been
hospitalized in dka at least 5
times and paramedics have been
called more times than i can
remember for low b/s.
monday i accidently bolused too
much and for 6 hrs i yo yo'd
up and down. i finally was sent to
the er. by noon it was 39 and by
4:30 it was up to 576. it is still
going up and down in similar
numbers today. i can't seem
to regulate it. since all this
happened, i've gotten sharp
random leg pains that last 30 to 60
seconds. my vision is blurred and
my balance is off, so it is
difficult to walk. i am also
extremely tired and sleeping too
much because i can't keep my
eyes open.
am i just blowing this out of
proportion or is this the beginning
of the cycle of complications? up
to now, i have had no noticable
symptoms. i really could use some
words of advice. thanks in
advance.
p.s. i'm seeing my doctor
tomorrow, if i can get there. with
what i've been experiencing
the last three days, i am not
certain that i will be able to get
there. i am feeling very much like
this is the end of the ride and
what's the point of going on.
i can't bear the thought of
losing my toes, my feet, my
kidneys, my vision and then who
knows?
just to update you...i did go to
the doctor and while waiting for
her, i passed out, falling out of
my chair. they had to call the
paramedics and i was taken to the
er. not knowing what my insulin
pump was, they broke the connector
to remove it from my body. once
again, my b/s were all over the
place. i was there 5 hours and
released when the blood sugars
settled down. it took 4 injections
to do that. after i got home, they
went up again and have been so
since i walked in the door. i put
a new infusion set on but it just
doesn't want to get down into
the normal range. this is really
discouraging. i have another appt.
next thursday and hope that i will
be able to get to see the doctor
this time!
The article given below is taken from :-
http://www.hpathy.com/diseases/diabetes1-symptoms-treatment-cure.asp
Diabetes is of primarily two types - Diabete mellitus (Type-I and Type II)
and Diabetes insipidus.
What is type-1 diabetes?
Type-1 diabetes is sometimes called juvenile diabetes,
or insulin-dependent diabetes.
It means that your body can't make insulin.
Insulin helps your body turn the sugar from the food you eat into a source of energy.
Type 1 occurs more frequently in children and young adults,
but accounts for only 5-10% of the total diabetes cases nationwide.
What is type-2 diabetes?
Type-2 diabetes results when insulin production is defective and tissue resistance to insulin develops.
For many persons with Type-2 diabetes,
daily insulin supplementation is not required.
Diabetes is managed by making moderate changes in diet and exercise.
Of the nearly 16 million Americans with diabetes,
90-95% (14.9 million)
have Type-2 diabetes.
Of these,
roughly a third are unaware they have the disease.
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease involving abnormalities in the body's ability to use sugar.
Diabetes is characterized by:
Elevated blood sugars for months to years.
Both hereditary and environmental factors leading to its development and progression.
A relative or absolute deficiency of effective circulating insulin.
Insulin is a substance made by the pancreas which lowers blood sugar in conjunction with meals.
Diabetes is characterized by either:
(1)
an inability of the pancreas to produce insulin (type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus)
or an inability of insulin to exert its normal physiological actions (type 2 or non-insulin dependent diabetes).
Often recognized in patients and their families by excessive urination,
thirst,
weight loss and/or a lack of energy.
But diabetes is often silent and may exist for many years without the individual's noticing it.
Effects certain "target tissues,"
that is,
tissues which are vulnerable to the damaging effects of chronically high blood sugar levels.
These target tissues are the eye,
the kidney,
the nerves and the large blood vessels,
such as in the heart.
What is Diabetes insipidus?
A form of diabetes resulting from a deficiency of vasopressin (the pituitary hormone that regulates the kidneys);
characterized by the chronic excretion of large amounts of pale dilute urine which results in dehydration and extreme thirst.
Diabetes - Treatment &
Homeopathic Medicines
#Uranium nitrate.
[Uran]
This remedy is praised highly by Hughes and others in diabetes originating in dyspepsia.
It has polyuria,
polydypsia,
dryness of the mouth and skin.
It causes sugar in the urine.
Dr.
Laning said that no remedy gives such universally good results;
it lessens the sugar and quantity of the urine;
he recommended the 3X trituration.
It is when the disease is due to assimilative derangements that Uranium is the remedy,
and symptoms such as defective digestion,
languor,
debility and much sugar in the urine,
enormous appetite and thirst,
yet the patient continues to emaciate.
Syzygium jambolanum is a remedy capable of diminishing the amount of sugar in the urine,
especially when used in the tincture and lower triturations,
and some cases have been reported cured,
but it cannot be considered a reliable drug
,
and its use seems entirely palliative.
#Phosphoric acid [Phos]
corresponds to diabetes of nervous origin;
the urine is increased,
perhaps milky in color and containing much sugar.
It suits cases due to grief,
worriment and anxiety,
those who are indifferent and apathetic,
poor in mental and physical force.
It is unquestionably curative of diabetes mellitus in the early stages,
great debility and bruised feeling in the muscles.
There will be loss of appetite,
sometimes unquenchable thirst and perhaps the patient will be troubled with boils.
When patients pass large quantities of pale colorless urine or where there is much phosphatic deposit in the urine it is the remedy.
It thus may be a remedy in the form known as diabetes insipidus.
Hering considered Plumbum one of the most important remedies in diabetes mellitus.
Causticum,
Scilla and Strophanthus may be of use in diabetes insipidus.
Lycopodium cured a case in a weary,
wretched patient;
emaciated,
increased appetite and great thirst;
pale,
profuse urine.
Eight quarts in 24 hours.
#Phosphorus.
[Phos]
Useful in diabetes and pancreatic diseases,
especially in those of a tuberculous or gouty diathesis.
The pancreatic involvement will call attention to Phosphorus.
Natrum sulphuricum corresponds to the hydrogenoid constitution,
with dry mouth and throat,and Arsenicum should be studied in diabetic gangrene,
thirst and emaciation.
Sudden and extreme dryness of the mouth and marked physical restlessness are also guiding symptoms to this remedy,
especially with a dark watery stool.
Dr.
P.Jousset reports positive success where the mouth is dry;
frequent,
abundant urination and tendency
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