Posts made by Macha

@Roz Crossing fingers for you.

@Lisse24
It's illegal to do this. I'm on the phone now with my endocrinologist office. They may have some ideas

So I just got fired for having sugar crashes at work. This will be fun.

My boss just told me to work through my sugar crash. Yeah.

Day one of Wellbutrin - ended up with my sugars sky high - in the ER for houuuuuuuuurs only for them to drop my sugars too low. sigh

And while I'm at the ER - find out my aunt is in the hospital somewhere, having had a heart attack, congestive heart failure (just like my dad who died earlier this year), and they found a spot on her lung. And she won't tell anyone what hospital she's in, because she doesn't want visitors.

Ever feel like it's the Damocles sword of depression?

@Ghost I have a friend who, when I'm super low, buys me dinner because he knows I won't cook. Or will get me some random little goofy thing. But asking for concert tickets? PLANE tickets? WTF?!?

@Auspice Well, my boss knows, and my roommates know, so that's most of the people who I'd be swinging moods at. I'm a little nervous, but hopeful, all at once.

Well, I put my foot down. I now am taking Wellbutrin, starting tomorrow morning.

@Rinel I see one currently, but she doesn't do the meds. I go to her associate across the hall. Don't worry, tomorrow the booted foot goes down.

@Rinel The doc insisted I try the anxiety meds first. I'm done with that shit. I'm tired of doctors treating me differently because I'm a woman.

My anxiety is out of control lately (to the point I'm shaking like I'm sugar crashing, which isn't helpful), and the ADD is out of control. Good thing I see the doc on Monday.

@Auspice come play arams with me on League. They don't last as long, and the action is more condensed. I also find that talking to my buddies when we play helps me NOT alt-tab out. Mainly because we constantly talk shit. - Each other, the game (riot), the other players, etc.

I only just found out about peak week too. I'm not an asthma sufferer (by some small miracle), but my allergies are killing me. My voice is shot. I sound like that one kid in the Brady episode with his voice cracking.

@Auspice I'm not that guy, but I will say one of the most gorgeous and intriguing strippers I ever met had vitiligo. I didn't know what it was at the time, but she wasn't shy about it at all.

@Wretched I remembered reading about it and it being attached to ADD

Has anyone ever had their add hyper focus kick in - in a way that it probably shouldn't? Like "I shouldn't do this, but I totally can" sort of way?

@Wretched There actually is a condition for that. Defiance disorder.

@Tyche
well, let's see. My doctors were treating me as a type 2 versus a type one for almost a decade. Add in two doctors completely disagreeing on what conditions I have, and a slew of medication changes (that never seem to end. I'm sure you know steroids are no good for a diabetic, but that's the only thing they'll put me on to help the humira/pain levels, and they keep changing the dosage).

As for medical work problems, THERE IS A PROBLEM when they do not follow the ADA guidelines. My problems are simple. I'm trying to get my diabetes under control (which with changing medication/doses, I'm sure you know is incredibly difficult. If you'll admit it). There isn't any cure for fibro or ankylosing, and pain management is a joke, unless I want on hard core stuff like straight up morphine.

So until you're in my levels of uncontrollable, physical pain every day (which you also probably know fucks with sugars), and you're actually living my life, how about you fucking go back to preaching about how you never need to test or inject in front of anyone, because clearly you're the example all diabetics need to strive to become. OR some such bullshit.

@Rinel you can do subcutaneous. Promise. You may bruise occasionally, but youcan do it!

@Tyche Spike and crash. SPIKE and CRASH. And no, because the side effects of some of the meds I'm on can make me feel dizzy like a crash, but my sugars aren't down low. And sometimes I just feel exhausted, sluggish and off balance, but my sugars aren't High. You'll note I said shaky/dizzy LIKE a crash. I have also not felt symptoms when I'm at like ...60. So I can not depend on just how I 'feel'.
Sympathetic? I'm very discreet when I test/inject. i turn my back to the rest of the room and huddle down anyhow. You literally need to be standing right next to me, looming, to see anything.
I have insulin pens, so the needle is pretty tiny, and I don't uncap it until it's out of sight anyhow. (I wear dressed and leggings, so it's easy to do this.)

It's not causing drama to take care of a medical need discreetly. The only reason anyone knew I was doing it, was my boss asked me when I crashed one day, to let her know when I needed 60 seconds or so to test.

People like you are the fucking reason the ADA exists.