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Artisticforge said:
Nearly everything I have written has been torn apart by more than one person. The "man up" statements do not cut it. If you do not like what I have written do not reply. Post blood glucose readings and I am picked a part because the time appear "random". I am tired of the cheer leading "we like diabetes. We conquered diabetes."
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Yes I used the word 'random' because I couldn't understand the times you were testing so I asked you to help me out! I even adked you to bear with me so I could get a picture of your situation. Believe me I NEVER pick anyone apart! Sue
 
mrspuddleduck said:
Yes I used the word 'random' because I couldn't understand the times you were testing so I asked you to help me out! I even adked you to bear with me so I could get a picture of your situation. Believe me I NEVER pick anyone apart! Sue
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Presactly - whatever anyone says is interpreted as attack or cheerleading.
 
Artisticforge said:
The "man up" statements do not cut it. If you do not like what I have written do not reply.
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Then stop writing and then looking for a response from people prepared to help or offer advice that you don't care for.
 
Artisticforge said:
Nearly everything I have written has been torn apart by more than one person. The "man up" statements do not cut it. If you do not like what I have written do not reply. Post blood glucose readings and I am picked a part because the time appear "random". I am tired of the cheer leading "we like diabetes. We conquered diabetes."
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Some people would complain if their backside was on fire and we put it out.

BTW no one here "likes" diabetes. But we deal with it and worse. Choosing negativity is guaranteed to make life harder.
 
Artisticforge said:
because of serious chronic pain, i grind my jaw. Dental implants are not an options.
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I have bruxism too, and a custom made splint protects my teeth from wearing each other down. If I didn't have a treatment for it I would consult dentists, oral surgeons and other specialists until I found one. Or make the best of it and puree my food.
 
I can't say it was the greatest day of my life when I got the news about diabetes myself. However, I have always treated my diabetes like are irritating little brother - something I don't necessarily have to like, but it's been delivered to my life.

The difference being, having decided to act upon my diabetes, I have managed to work enough to get myself off the diabetic register again - due to good results. I don't say I'm cured. I say I no longer have any signs, symptoms or markers and appears to be accepted as low risk by the NHS.

Unless you can find a way to shift your attitude, I can't see that in your fortune cookies.

I truly wish you luck for the future, because it seems like somebody else has had all your luck in recent years.
 
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Artisticforge said:
Thank you for the post. I like your avatar. I use to have a dozen of coffee cups that said "Keep Calm And Carry On".
A simple saying with profound meaning.

I discovered I have to go by the hospital tomorrow for some reason, X-Ray then vascular surgery. Not sure what that is about.
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IMO you are one of those people who say things to provoke a reaction,maybe what you say is true and equally maybe not I for one am tired is reading your mining and backbiting posts and will read no more of your drivel
 
Daphne917 said:
You can get lowish carb Popcorn - Tesco make a variety bag of Sweet, sweet & salty or salty and Tyrells make a sweet and salty one; they are all about 6g per bag. How about Greek yogurt with some pureed apple or berries?
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I'll be making a trip to Tesco very soon! Thanks
 
You sound very angry. I'm sorry that you have been dealt a difficult hand and you feel like life is unfair. Despite that, you found your way here to this forum, that is a wealth of information and helpful people. I don't believe those things happen by accident.

People are trying to help you...a stranger...and be YOUR cheerleader to help you navigate this new diagnosis and give you the help that you have asked for.

Let us help. We have all been smacked down by this disease, but it is manageable. It isn't easy and it takes discipline, but the rewards are worth the effort. If you can control your diabetes, you will see improvement in many areas of your life, including pain. Many people here are managing their co-morbidities and may be able to help you manage yours.

If you want to focus your anger on something, focus your energy on improving the life you have been given rather than focusing your anger and energy on people that are just trying to help.

Best of luck for your surgery. I hope you stick around. Personally, I am beholden to this forum, because without it, I would still be struggling with how to manage my diagnosis according to the ADA and my physician's recommendations, rather than discovering a way of life that is doable and produces better results. My family is counting on me to take care of myself so that I can live a long life. I am certain that there are people who love you who wish the same.
 
vintageutopia said:
You sound very angry. I'm sorry that you have been dealt a difficult hand and you feel like life is unfair. Despite that, you found your way here to this forum, that is a wealth of information and helpful people. I don't believe those things happen by accident.

People are trying to help you...a stranger...and be YOUR cheerleader to help you navigate this new diagnosis and give you the help that you have asked for.

Let us help. We have all been smacked down by this disease, but it is manageable. It isn't easy and it takes discipline, but the rewards are worth the effort. If you can control your diabetes, you will see improvement in many areas of your life, including pain. Many people here are managing their co-morbidities and may be able to help you manage yours.

If you want to focus your anger on something, focus your energy on improving the life you have been given rather than focusing your anger and energy on people that are just trying to help.

Best of luck for your surgery. I hope you stick around. Personally, I am beholden to this forum, because without it, I would still be struggling with how to manage my diagnosis according to the ADA and my physician's recommendations, rather than discovering a way of life that is doable and produces better results. My family is counting on me to take care of myself so that I can live a long life. I am certain that there are people who love you who wish the same.
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This is so true. I think every one of us has had times of feeling angry that we got this disease, and that we got other diseases/injuries that are much harder to live with than diabetes. But we have decided to process that anger and put it to good use as a motivator to do the best we can, and to be kind towards those who try to help us. If I allowed myself to feel angry about my medical issues it would eat me up inside, and if I lashed out at those around me, they would rightly stop investing their energy in me. So I choose to move on, and be grateful for what medical treatments we do have and to do my best at my end.
 
Artisticforge said:
@AndBreathe, @Brunneria, @vintageutopia
Hospital appointment was with vascular surgery to discuss a required surgery. I need to give some background for you to understand the issues involved.

While in Intensive Care after the Head-on-collision an IVC, inferior vena cava, filter was placed in me. The reason was to prevent any blood clots which may form in my legs from traveling to my lungs.
In 2008, the hospital stated that the filter should be removed since it was a temporary measure. The V.A. Hospital stated that they would not remove it. They felt it was still required.
In 2010, the FDA issued a recall & warning on the IVC that is in me. This IVC Filter has two issues, it migrates and it can break apart.
The V.A. Hospital again stated that they would not remove it.
In 2013, the V.A. hospital, after pressure, agreed to remove the filter.
They first had to find it. A CAT Scan with contrast allowed the Vascular Surgeons to locate the filter. It had migrated upper in the vein toward my heart. Surgery was scheduled. On the day of surgery I was in the special operating chatting with the surgical nurses when the assisting doctor walked in. He stated "We have a problem. A surgical tool we absolutely have to have to safely remove this filter we discovered is contaminated. We have tried to borrow one from 6 local hospital with no luck. The surgery will have to be postponed."
After that I asked that they send me to University of Pennsylvania at Hershey, Pennsylvania where there is a Doctor who specializes in removing IVC filters which have become issues. The V.A. Would never approve it.
On 10 September 2015, I was at the hospital for the 6 month orthopedic appointment. To make sure everything was still looking good. X-rays & CAT scans to make sure the titanium rods,screws & wires are no loose & still secure. A side effect of this was that they should have been able to see he IVC filter and inspect it. The IVC Filter had migrated again toward my heart. The concern now is that it may migrate again with the possibility that it would enter my heart. The would be a BAD thing. if they attempt to remove it now there is a possibility that the IVC filter may break a part and tear the IVC. Depending on the tear, I could exsanguinate.
The normal way to remove these is to enter using catheters in the large vein in the groin and the neck. They use a Fluoroscope to direct the surgical tools to the IVC filter. The alternate way, is to just open up my chest and remove it by clamping off the IVC for a short period of time make a small incision, remove filter & close up the incision and me up.
One way short recovery the other way long recovery.

So the type II diabetes is on the back burner so to speak.
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@Artisticforge I'm really sorry. I am also an American (Michigan) and familiar with IVC filters (Greenfield filter) that you speak of. It sounds like the negligence on the part of the VA has placed you in a very difficult position. How do you feel about the procedure using fluoroscopy? Or will they decide that once they get in there and determine whether the risk is too great and proceed to an open surgery?

I can see how diabetes must feel overwhelming right now, in light of all that you are experiencing, but at the risk of sounding preachy ;), it is still there whether you place it on the back burner or not. You sound like an intelligent individual that is able to grasp what is going on with your body, so I probably do not need to tell you that maintaining good control on your blood sugars will affect your recovery and healing process from the potential procedures above.

You don't have to dive into this headfirst. Make small changes that will snowball into bigger changes as you can wrap your head around everything. It was a slow and gradual start for me too, as I learned more about low carb/full fat and then stumbled into this forum one day. I can say without a doubt, we don't have anything as fabulous as this site of wonderful people in the U.S. They have taken me in, patiently described those culturally diverse terms that don't naturally translate across the pond:p, and answered my questions. I am very thankful I found them. And despite a rough start, they will be happy to help you too.
 
@Artisticforge . Hello. I've read your post about your hospital visit today and the background to it and just wanted to say that I hope you had a positive hospital visit and that a satisfactory solution has been found for you.
 
Artisticforge said:
@AndBreathe, @Brunneria, @vintageutopia
Hospital appointment was with vascular surgery to discuss a required surgery. I need to give some background for you to understand the issues involved.

While in Intensive Care after the Head-on-collision an IVC, inferior vena cava, filter was placed in me. The reason was to prevent any blood clots which may form in my legs from traveling to my lungs.
In 2008, the hospital stated that the filter should be removed since it was a temporary measure. The V.A. Hospital stated that they would not remove it. They felt it was still required.
In 2010, the FDA issued a recall & warning on the IVC that is in me. This IVC Filter has two issues, it migrates and it can break apart.
The V.A. Hospital again stated that they would not remove it.
In 2013, the V.A. hospital, after pressure, agreed to remove the filter.
They first had to find it. A CAT Scan with contrast allowed the Vascular Surgeons to locate the filter. It had migrated upper in the vein toward my heart. Surgery was scheduled. On the day of surgery I was in the special operating chatting with the surgical nurses when the assisting doctor walked in. He stated "We have a problem. A surgical tool we absolutely have to have to safely remove this filter we discovered is contaminated. We have tried to borrow one from 6 local hospital with no luck. The surgery will have to be postponed."
After that I asked that they send me to University of Pennsylvania at Hershey, Pennsylvania where there is a Doctor who specializes in removing IVC filters which have become issues. The V.A. Would never approve it.
On 10 September 2015, I was at the hospital for the 6 month orthopedic appointment. To make sure everything was still looking good. X-rays & CAT scans to make sure the titanium rods,screws & wires are no loose & still secure. A side effect of this was that they should have been able to see he IVC filter and inspect it. The IVC Filter had migrated again toward my heart. The concern now is that it may migrate again with the possibility that it would enter my heart. The would be a BAD thing. if they attempt to remove it now there is a possibility that the IVC filter may break a part and tear the IVC. Depending on the tear, I could exsanguinate.
The normal way to remove these is to enter using catheters in the large vein in the groin and the neck. They use a Fluoroscope to direct the surgical tools to the IVC filter. The alternate way, is to just open up my chest and remove it by clamping off the IVC for a short period of time make a small incision, remove filter & close up the incision and me up.
One way short recovery the other way long recovery.

So the type II diabetes is on the back burner so to speak.
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You could certainly have done without this latest hurdle for sure, and I wish you the very best of fortune and outcome, which ever route the process ends up going.

Whilst I can appreciate it must be appealing to ignore your diabetes for now, I would reiterate @vintageutopia 's comments about better healing and functionality, if your sugars are running in a decent range. Furthermore I have no idea what surgical criteria are in play in the US, but in UK, surgery can't take place for diabetics, whose sugars aren't within a specific range. Indeed, we regularly see new members who are seeking out ways to improve their sugars so that their elective surgery can go ahead, having had it cancelled at their pre-operative assessments. Clearly a clinical emergency trumps those requirements in the UK, but I have no idea about the US, or where your operation would be considered to be on the risk/time criticality scale.

Much as you really don't want to read it, I really would ask you to create some head space to give your condition some attention whilst you have time to make some choices. You have quite enough complications and issues in your life right now, please don't feed (literally!) another one.

Heartfelt good luck to you.
 
Artisticforge said:
Hello

The diabetes is not relevant if the IVC filter migrate & I drop dead. I call that being on the back burner.
If a person is bleeding to death giving them CPR does not save their life.

I could have done without this. This is exactly what I meant when I said that the minute I get past one medical issue another one comes a long to smack me down.

As of this morning thing got even worse, if that is at all possible.
The compound fracture of the right shin. the latest x-rays show what I have been saying for 8 yrs, that there was something not right. The x-rays show that the tibia never healed. basically, the only thing holding my shin together is the titanium rod. the two ends of the broken tibia have just been grinding against one another. To quote the Doctor, who called me this morning, "We have no idea why it never healed, we do not understand how we missed it for 8 yrs & no we have yet to formulate a plan as to how to fix it."

I have all ready left a voice mail for the lawyers. they are going to love this.

So why have 1 surgery when you can have 2 for three times the cost! I am being sarcastic.

No, I am not a Happy Camper.
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I'm not challenging the seriousness of anything you say, or that a potential exanguination must be a terrifying position, just asking you to consider playing your own part in building the foundation for the best outcome.
 
It all seems to be happening very fast. I hope you will keep posting so we know how you are getting on. :)
 
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