Thread: Diabetes and driving

Originally Posted by garrycol

You will know i you have a blunt needle - actually they are not usually blunt but the tip gets bent and can hurt when going in and catches flesh on the way out causing bleeding. The hardening of fat at the injection site is not because of the needle but using the same spot over and over - rotate your sites to prevent hardening of fat which can also restrict the uptake of the injected insulin.




Welcome to the world of diabetes - everyone is an expert and everyone has their own ideas - ask too many questions and many " professionals" become wary and think you are questioning their ability which is not the case - just trying to understand - they have the view that you should just blindly follow their instructions - problem is, as you have found there is a lot of differing advice.

As time goes on and you have a few unexpected hypos and start to learn how your body reacts you will slowly learn what to follow and what to ignore.

Remember you can eat all things in moderation but you need to learn that moderation means different things for different foods.

I have had diabetes for 12 years. it wasn't until I got into the Public health system that it is finally improving as I am now getting the care and information and support that I needed all those years back and were lacking
The Endo I had was older school, he was in the opinion he was right and all others were wrong, we would crack the ****s for having to ring up pathology for results , he wanted them mailed to him, he uses little cards to record things, he was not the life of the party if you tried to ask him things, he rebutted and knocked everything. in other words he had no social skills or bedside manners.

I was speaking to my neighbor the other day and asked about one of his truckie mates. I said that I hadn't seen the prime mover parked across the street for a while when his mate was visiting. I was told the young guy developed type 1 and committed suicide because he couldn't handle it
Yesterday Heather metmy ex neighbor in the supermarket, her husband had type 2 and died 3 months ago from it.
Not good news

How can you die from type 2 after only having it for 3 months? How can you actually die from it at all?

Diabetes coma can easily kill

Originally Posted by Vern

How can you die from type 2 after only having it for 3 months? How can you actually die from it at all?

Originally Posted by Vern

How can you die from type 2 after only having it for 3 months? How can you actually die from it at all?

Basically blood sugar too low or too high
Usually too high in the case of type 2. It is so high that the body dehalydrate and enter into coma.

If you don't have insulin or intrvaneous fluids handy, patient can enter diabetic coma

Outcome you looking at permanent brain damage or death.

Although I have not seen one yet.

Originally Posted by Vern

How can you die from type 2 after only having it for 3 months? How can you actually die from it at all?

You miss read what I said, he died 3 months ago. not that he had diabetes for only 3 months. When I was in hospital the nurse told me diabetic comas can occur and it's usually around the 2am mark that most get them, if your blood sugar drops and you wake up all the better, if you drop too low and you don't wake up, then you never wake up.

Originally Posted by Vern

How can you die from type 2 after only having it for 3 months? How can you actually die from it at all?

Vern you can easily die with type 2 if your blood sugar drops too low. If you don't eat enough your sugar levels drop in the low 3s then lights out. I had a hypo at 3.8 in hospital and was given a glucose drip before my operation in the morning . I was fasting but they wanted me to have half my insulin dose also, that caused the hypo in my sleep, if it dropped below that then I wouldn't have woken up.

Im 53 and pre type 2--for 18 months. since I was bitten by a spider.
Had a high one morning at work with sugar in the mid 20's and couldn't work the computer log on or find key holes in some vehicles, had to be taken to doctors. 3 month average blood test was high teens. after 12 months on tablets it was low teens and this year was 7. lost 20 Kg at first now added close to 10KG

I had 2 work mates that had type 1 so I gained a good sugar tester. The older gent ended up with an auto pump. my young apprentice often had hospital trips for low teens sugar readings. both had been long term diabetics and could tell you what there sugar reading would be before testing. I cant get it close after 18 months.

I have been self testing occasionally went im feeling OFF , and I just getting over annual child spread colds. yesterday I felt low and it was 15.9. so I had lots of liquid and some fish, today I though it was the same and it tested 5.3. so I had real food.