Re: I'm new here

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In a message dated 6/23/2004 12:19:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

vhoste@... writes:

I was diagnosed about a month ago and I'm trying to figure it all out.

Hi Virginia,

A good website is the Joslin Diabetes Center. They have a wealth of

information about diabetes.

http://www.joslin.org/education/beginnerguide.shtml

hugs

Eunice

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Hi Virginia,

Sorry you got the news but, you have found a great list. I also have

problems with my feet and hands. Since my numbers have came down a lot it

has got much better.

I test 4 to 6 times a day. That is the best way to find out what foods

bother your bg the most and to keep good control.

I am on 2000 mg's metforman (S) it took about 4 months on the med's with

diet and exercise to see the difference but I am seeing results now and can

hold off on the insulin the Doctor had planned to add :-)

My name is and I was told in February. I took diabetes education

classes that I found helpful. Go to your local library they should have some

good books on diabetes. I found that helped also.

BJ

What lies behind us and what lies before

us are small matters compared to what

lies within us.

I'm new here

> Hello Everyone

>

> I'm new to the list and new to being a diabetic. I was diagnosed about a

month ago and I'm trying to figure it all out. Talk about a new way of

thinking and living. I've been having problems with neuropathy in my feet

for a few years now and I'm wondering if my sugars have been high for longer

than I realized. I'm trying to keep my levels under control with diet and

exercise with varying success rates. It's a lot of trial and error at this

point.

> Anyway, I've been enjoying reading everyone's posts and learning a lot and

I hope to be an active member of the list.

>

> Virginia

> vhoste@...

>

>

[Guest guest]

Welcome!

Yes, I would say that it is not unlikely that you had diabetes long

before you were diagnosed; it is not uncommon.

If you haven't already, get a copy of DR. BERNSTEIN'S DIABETES SOLUTION

and one of DIABETES FOR DUMMIES; between them, the two books should

answer most of your questions.

I'm new here

Hello Everyone

I'm new to the list and new to being a diabetic. I was diagnosed about

a month ago and I'm trying to figure it all out. Talk about a new way

of thinking and living. I've been having problems with neuropathy in my

feet for a few years now and I'm wondering if my sugars have been high

for longer than I realized. I'm trying to keep my levels under control

with diet and exercise with varying success rates. It's a lot of trial

and error at this point.

Anyway, I've been enjoying reading everyone's posts and learning a lot

and I hope to be an active member of the list.

Virginia

vhoste@...

[Guest guest]

Hi Virigina! I am also a newbie here on the board as well as with

the diagnosis! My Ins co paid for diabetes management classes so I

have spent the last two days filling my brain with all kinds of

information but the best part was being able to spend some one on one

time with a dietician who helped me map out a healthier eating plan

which will hopefully put all this into a better and more normal

glucose readings (is there such a thing as normal anymore I wonder??).

There is so much to digest and figure out but I am like you and hope

to be able to get it all down to a science along with adding in an

exercise plan as well! This board is really great and VERY

informative!

Dana

(Southern Gal in GA)

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Welcome !

I am Debbie from Texas. You are very good at researching the fibro.

Most likely you do have it. Hope you find a good doctor soon. My pain

isn't as severe as others here but I do have my share of bad days.

warm hugs,

Debbie J

>

> Hello. My name is and I am a 25 year old girl from Finland. I

decided to join this

> yhoo group because I am 99 % sure that I have fibromyalgia. I found

as much as 2 books

> in the library about the subject!?

>

> Okay, thanks for reading this. If there are any young people here

in the FSG, please

> contact me.

>

[Guest guest]

Welcome, . I hate this disease and feel it's quite unfair. But when I

hear people talking about having it when they are or were as young as you I

realize how lucky I am that mine didn't start any sooner. Everything is

relative. But, it's just not fair that you've got it at such a young age!

As far as the tender points go, you shouldn't have to press too hard. It

was when a woman in a class I was taking who had Fibro lightly poked me in

the arm and I yelped rather loudly. I had been suspecting Fibro for quite

sometime when this happened. It still took me a while to finally get it

checked and diagnosed. When you have a sore spot where there shouldn't be

any soreness, you know it's a tender point. It hurts like crazy when you

press it where other places on your body react 'normally.'

I hope this helps. I've found a lot more on Fibro than you have but the

best information I've gotten has been right here.

Hugs,

Jane

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Hello. My name is and I am a 25 year old girl from Finland. I decided

to join this

yhoo group because I am 99 % sure that I have fibromyalgia. I found as much

as 2 books

in the library about the subject! I read them and I the books could have

been written about

me. I kept nodding and saying " yes, I have that symptom and that symptom and

that

symptom... " I googled the disease and found some great sites and they too

could have

been written about me. I have not been diagnosed by a doctor. I do have at

least 12 tender

points, but of course it's a little difficult finding the spots just by

looking at a picture and

not knowing how hard to press.

I have had these symptoms since I was 15-17 years old, I don't really

remember. It seems

like ages. I went to school nurses and school doctors. They took blood

samples and said

that there was nothing wrong with me. In the university I went to yet

another doctor, in the

university health care. She wanted me to go to a reumathologist and I went

there, no

results as usual. I don't have reumathism, which I knew even before I went

there. Now I've

stopped going to doctors. They don't listen to me and they just say that I

am normal and

healthy, just a little tired, but go earlier to bed and spend some more time

in the sun! I

asked the doctor in the uni health care if she thought it was normal to have

so much pain

in your legs that you couldn't sleep at night. But she didn't answer me.

My symptoms comes and goes. Sometimes I have pretty bad pain every day.

Sometimes

the pain is almost gone. Sometimes I have periods of days or weeks when I am

exhausted

and sometimes I feel pretty okay. Right now the tiredness is pretty bad. I

am exhausted

when I get back from work and when I am home I Just want to sleep.

From what I have understood, some people can hardly get out of bed because

of the pain

and some people can live normal lives. I have been blessed (?) by not having

too much

pain. Yes, the pain is there every day (almost), but usually I don't take

any pills. I just

endure it. It's not that bad. I have more problems dealing with the

tiredness.

I have been thinking about fibromyalgia for at least 5 years, after having

read an article in

a magazine. But just recently I read the two books in the library. Before,

when I read the

magazine, I thought fibromyalgia ment pain in the arms/legs and being tired.

Now I realise

that all the other symptoms that I have is because of this illness. It all

became so clear. It

was like having a jigsaw puzzle where you couldn't guess what the picture

was. But then

one by one the pieces fitted together and the picture was clear.

So, how did it start for me? Why did I get it? I read that there are

different ways into the

disease. I have grown up being bullied, I have no good friends (only one

that I meet a few

times a month), no real relationship with my mum (whom I still live with;

dad died of

cancer in January 2002 and for me it was just a man living in the same

house). My family

have had financial problems for as long as I can remember. So I suppose

that's how it

started for me.

I graduated from university in November 2006. I studied Finnish, Swedish and

English. I

was unemployed a few months and in February I started practising in a

library. The

employment agency arranged a 6 month contract. I am still considered

unemployed

according to the laws, even though I work 6 hours per day, five days per

week. I will be in

the library until the middle of August. After that I have no idea what I am

going to do.

It is midnight here in Finland now. I will go to bed soon. I am too tired.

But I had to write

this long e-mail first. I have read books that say it helps to write the

problems on a paper

or online. And the book was right. I feel better now, mentally I mean. I

have not told mum,

my brother, my sister, my friend nor anyone else about my disease. Mum

thinks I only

sometimes have pain in my legs and she doesn't know how tired I really am.

My friend

doesn't know anything and nor do the other librarians. I don't know if I

should tell the

people around me or not. Any suggestions?

Okay, thanks for reading this. If there are any young people here in the

FSG, please

contact me.