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I think you should check you blood sugar. Do check with your PCP doc or call

your insurance co to see what monitor they will pay for. If you are dx as a

diabetic then you insurance should pay for this monitor. I use the Ultra One

Touch which is very easy to use. It only take a small drop of blood and you can

use your finger or arm for this. The reading only take 5 seconds. When I was

having trouble last fall with my sugar, my doc had me check my sugar at

different times thru out the day. One day it was fasting( when you get up in

the morning, before you eat or drink anything) & Before dinner. Then next day

it was before lunch and then 2 hours after dinner, Then it would be 2hrs after

lunch and bedtime, the 4th day it was fasting and bedtime. This way by checking

at different time thru out the day, the doc can get an overall view on how your

sugar is doing at different times. as it can vary allot doing the day. Your

blood sugar according to my doc should be below 120 and 2 hours meals below 160,

some people think after meals should be under 140.. It is best to ask your doc

what he thinks your readings should be for you. Ask him also about the test the

do every 3-6 months. It gives you an overview of what your sugar has been over

the past 3 months. It's lates and I can't remember it name tonight. If I can

remember it tomorrow I'll let you know. I hope this helps a little.

Take Care,

Louie in WV

Today I feel like a have been run over a mac truck. I ache. I am very very

very light headed. I sway as I get up. My head hurts real bad. Sometimes I

wonder if I should be checking my blood sugar on a regular basis at home.

However, I do not know the best machine to buy. I do not even know what my

levels should be. Can someone help me. Or maybe my symptoms are related to

something else. I am just tired of feeling like this.

Thanks

Ihnow

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I think you should check you blood sugar. Do check with your PCP doc or call

your insurance co to see what monitor they will pay for. If you are dx as a

diabetic then you insurance should pay for this monitor. I use the Ultra One

Touch which is very easy to use. It only take a small drop of blood and you can

use your finger or arm for this. The reading only take 5 seconds. When I was

having trouble last fall with my sugar, my doc had me check my sugar at

different times thru out the day. One day it was fasting( when you get up in

the morning, before you eat or drink anything) & Before dinner. Then next day

it was before lunch and then 2 hours after dinner, Then it would be 2hrs after

lunch and bedtime, the 4th day it was fasting and bedtime. This way by checking

at different time thru out the day, the doc can get an overall view on how your

sugar is doing at different times. as it can vary allot doing the day. Your

blood sugar according to my doc should be below 120 and 2 hours meals below 160,

some people think after meals should be under 140.. It is best to ask your doc

what he thinks your readings should be for you. Ask him also about the test the

do every 3-6 months. It gives you an overview of what your sugar has been over

the past 3 months. It's lates and I can't remember it name tonight. If I can

remember it tomorrow I'll let you know. I hope this helps a little.

Take Care,

Louie in WV

Today I feel like a have been run over a mac truck. I ache. I am very very

very light headed. I sway as I get up. My head hurts real bad. Sometimes I

wonder if I should be checking my blood sugar on a regular basis at home.

However, I do not know the best machine to buy. I do not even know what my

levels should be. Can someone help me. Or maybe my symptoms are related to

something else. I am just tired of feeling like this.

Thanks

Ihnow

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I am actually feeling somewhat better this morning. I talked to my wonderful

surgeon yesterday afternoon. He said my GI told he he talked to someone else

and found a different sphincterome (the tool for a sphinterotomy I guess) that

can ge to the bile duct from a different angle so he is pretty sure he can take

care of my problem through ERCP rather than hving the surgeon do surgery. That

was very good news as the surgeon had said the surgery would be hard on me since

they have to cut through the duodenum to get to the bile duct surgically. I

turned in paperwork at work for people to be able to donate leave to me. My

wonderful brother-in-law insisted on giving me 80 hours. The lady suggested I

have the doctor write a note saying I may need to be out of work intermittently

for next month or so. I thought about asking my family doc to do that but I

knew he'd refuse (one of the many reasons I'm getting a new pcp). I mentioned

it to my surgeon and he said he had no problem with the note. He said,

" realistically, I believe it will take you a minmum of three months to get over

this. try to get back in your normal routine when possible, but don't push it. "

That took a huge burden off of me. My boss also told me she will donate leave

and I'm sure a few other people will, too. This will give me a little cushion

for the bad days. The problem with applying for the disability is that it took

over 4 months the last time to get it approved. It was actually approved within

a week of getting to the actual office that makes the decision to approve or

not, but it took 4 months to get through all the other offices I have to go to.

In the meantime, if you have no leave, you are off without pay and the

disability is not retroactive!

I am going to try my best to hang in there and hope that in about 3 months, I

will have my life back once again.

Thanks for all your support. I know I shouldn't whine. Most here are so much

worse off than me. I am very hopeful that I really am still at the acute

recurring stage and not at chronic and that the docs are right and they can

permanently correct my problem. I know others have probably been offered that

promise and it was false but at this point I must believe.

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I am actually feeling somewhat better this morning. I talked to my wonderful

surgeon yesterday afternoon. He said my GI told he he talked to someone else

and found a different sphincterome (the tool for a sphinterotomy I guess) that

can ge to the bile duct from a different angle so he is pretty sure he can take

care of my problem through ERCP rather than hving the surgeon do surgery. That

was very good news as the surgeon had said the surgery would be hard on me since

they have to cut through the duodenum to get to the bile duct surgically. I

turned in paperwork at work for people to be able to donate leave to me. My

wonderful brother-in-law insisted on giving me 80 hours. The lady suggested I

have the doctor write a note saying I may need to be out of work intermittently

for next month or so. I thought about asking my family doc to do that but I

knew he'd refuse (one of the many reasons I'm getting a new pcp). I mentioned

it to my surgeon and he said he had no problem with the note. He said,

" realistically, I believe it will take you a minmum of three months to get over

this. try to get back in your normal routine when possible, but don't push it. "

That took a huge burden off of me. My boss also told me she will donate leave

and I'm sure a few other people will, too. This will give me a little cushion

for the bad days. The problem with applying for the disability is that it took

over 4 months the last time to get it approved. It was actually approved within

a week of getting to the actual office that makes the decision to approve or

not, but it took 4 months to get through all the other offices I have to go to.

In the meantime, if you have no leave, you are off without pay and the

disability is not retroactive!

I am going to try my best to hang in there and hope that in about 3 months, I

will have my life back once again.

Thanks for all your support. I know I shouldn't whine. Most here are so much

worse off than me. I am very hopeful that I really am still at the acute

recurring stage and not at chronic and that the docs are right and they can

permanently correct my problem. I know others have probably been offered that

promise and it was false but at this point I must believe.

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I am actually feeling somewhat better this morning. I talked to my wonderful

surgeon yesterday afternoon. He said my GI told he he talked to someone else

and found a different sphincterome (the tool for a sphinterotomy I guess) that

can ge to the bile duct from a different angle so he is pretty sure he can take

care of my problem through ERCP rather than hving the surgeon do surgery. That

was very good news as the surgeon had said the surgery would be hard on me since

they have to cut through the duodenum to get to the bile duct surgically. I

turned in paperwork at work for people to be able to donate leave to me. My

wonderful brother-in-law insisted on giving me 80 hours. The lady suggested I

have the doctor write a note saying I may need to be out of work intermittently

for next month or so. I thought about asking my family doc to do that but I

knew he'd refuse (one of the many reasons I'm getting a new pcp). I mentioned

it to my surgeon and he said he had no problem with the note. He said,

" realistically, I believe it will take you a minmum of three months to get over

this. try to get back in your normal routine when possible, but don't push it. "

That took a huge burden off of me. My boss also told me she will donate leave

and I'm sure a few other people will, too. This will give me a little cushion

for the bad days. The problem with applying for the disability is that it took

over 4 months the last time to get it approved. It was actually approved within

a week of getting to the actual office that makes the decision to approve or

not, but it took 4 months to get through all the other offices I have to go to.

In the meantime, if you have no leave, you are off without pay and the

disability is not retroactive!

I am going to try my best to hang in there and hope that in about 3 months, I

will have my life back once again.

Thanks for all your support. I know I shouldn't whine. Most here are so much

worse off than me. I am very hopeful that I really am still at the acute

recurring stage and not at chronic and that the docs are right and they can

permanently correct my problem. I know others have probably been offered that

promise and it was false but at this point I must believe.

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They found mine during an ERCP, I have had CT's and xrays with dye and MRI's

none of them showed the divisum. I guess I was lucky they finally found the

problem, otherwise they would still be telling me its in my head!

{{{HUGZ}}}

Weston wrote:,

I have what is probably a stupid question. How do they determine you have panc

divisum? I mean would it show on a CT Scan or MRCP? What about an ERCP?

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They found mine during an ERCP, I have had CT's and xrays with dye and MRI's

none of them showed the divisum. I guess I was lucky they finally found the

problem, otherwise they would still be telling me its in my head!

{{{HUGZ}}}

Weston wrote:,

I have what is probably a stupid question. How do they determine you have panc

divisum? I mean would it show on a CT Scan or MRCP? What about an ERCP?

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They found mine during an ERCP, I have had CT's and xrays with dye and MRI's

none of them showed the divisum. I guess I was lucky they finally found the

problem, otherwise they would still be telling me its in my head!

{{{HUGZ}}}

Weston wrote:,

I have what is probably a stupid question. How do they determine you have panc

divisum? I mean would it show on a CT Scan or MRCP? What about an ERCP?

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I guess I can assume I don't have divisum. I had three ERCPs in 2000. At that

time they were able to actually get to the pancreas and pancreatitic duct since

I had not had the gastric bypass. Surely they would have discovered the divisum

in one of those if I had it.

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They found mine during an ERCP, I have had CT's and xrays with dye and MRI's

none of them showed the divisum. I guess I was lucky they finally found the

problem, otherwise they would still be telling me its in my head!

{{{HUGZ}}}

Weston wrote:,

I have what is probably a stupid question. How do they determine you have

panc divisum? I mean would it show on a CT Scan or MRCP? What about an ERCP?

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I guess I can assume I don't have divisum. I had three ERCPs in 2000. At that

time they were able to actually get to the pancreas and pancreatitic duct since

I had not had the gastric bypass. Surely they would have discovered the divisum

in one of those if I had it.

Re:

,

They found mine during an ERCP, I have had CT's and xrays with dye and MRI's

none of them showed the divisum. I guess I was lucky they finally found the

problem, otherwise they would still be telling me its in my head!

{{{HUGZ}}}

Weston wrote:,

I have what is probably a stupid question. How do they determine you have

panc divisum? I mean would it show on a CT Scan or MRCP? What about an ERCP?

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I guess I can assume I don't have divisum. I had three ERCPs in 2000. At that

time they were able to actually get to the pancreas and pancreatitic duct since

I had not had the gastric bypass. Surely they would have discovered the divisum

in one of those if I had it.

Re:

,

They found mine during an ERCP, I have had CT's and xrays with dye and MRI's

none of them showed the divisum. I guess I was lucky they finally found the

problem, otherwise they would still be telling me its in my head!

{{{HUGZ}}}

Weston wrote:,

I have what is probably a stupid question. How do they determine you have

panc divisum? I mean would it show on a CT Scan or MRCP? What about an ERCP?

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I'm sure someone else has probably already replied to this,

but here's my 2 cents worth.

My prefered machine is the One-Touch Profile. It gives you

more analysis capabilities than the other models.

Lifescan products are considered to be the Industry best as

far as I know. They have several lines of machines.

The one-touch basic is the most simplistic one. The best

thing about the One-Touch line is that the strips used for

all the machines is the same. So if you decide later on you

want a different model of One-Touch, you don't have to buy a

new kind of strip.

My doctor has my range to be between 100-180 mg/dl (don't

ask what those stand for I can't remember).

Hope this is of some help.

Kimber

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Kimber

Vallejo, CA

hominid2@...

Southwest Representative

Pancreatitis Association, International

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I'm sure someone else has probably already replied to this,

but here's my 2 cents worth.

My prefered machine is the One-Touch Profile. It gives you

more analysis capabilities than the other models.

Lifescan products are considered to be the Industry best as

far as I know. They have several lines of machines.

The one-touch basic is the most simplistic one. The best

thing about the One-Touch line is that the strips used for

all the machines is the same. So if you decide later on you

want a different model of One-Touch, you don't have to buy a

new kind of strip.

My doctor has my range to be between 100-180 mg/dl (don't

ask what those stand for I can't remember).

Hope this is of some help.

Kimber

--

Kimber

Vallejo, CA

hominid2@...

Southwest Representative

Pancreatitis Association, International

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I'm sure someone else has probably already replied to this,

but here's my 2 cents worth.

My prefered machine is the One-Touch Profile. It gives you

more analysis capabilities than the other models.

Lifescan products are considered to be the Industry best as

far as I know. They have several lines of machines.

The one-touch basic is the most simplistic one. The best

thing about the One-Touch line is that the strips used for

all the machines is the same. So if you decide later on you

want a different model of One-Touch, you don't have to buy a

new kind of strip.

My doctor has my range to be between 100-180 mg/dl (don't

ask what those stand for I can't remember).

Hope this is of some help.

Kimber

--

Kimber

Vallejo, CA

hominid2@...

Southwest Representative

Pancreatitis Association, International

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I'm on my way to the ER unfortunately. My new neighbors who just

moved in today (about 19-20 yrs old) came down the stairs swinging

their 3 year old son who's feet landed squarely in my abdomen. On the

left side of all places...at least I won't have to wait long as the

CT and ulrasound have already been ordered. Keeping my fingers

crossed there isn't any internal bleeding...I use a fairly good

amount of heparin to flush my picc line.

Hopefully the next block will sustain me. Thanks.

-- In pancreatitis@y..., " Weston " wrote:

> ,

> Glad to hear your pain management doc is cooperating with you.

Hopefully the block will keep you comfortable until you have your

surgery next month.

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I'm on my way to the ER unfortunately. My new neighbors who just

moved in today (about 19-20 yrs old) came down the stairs swinging

their 3 year old son who's feet landed squarely in my abdomen. On the

left side of all places...at least I won't have to wait long as the

CT and ulrasound have already been ordered. Keeping my fingers

crossed there isn't any internal bleeding...I use a fairly good

amount of heparin to flush my picc line.

Hopefully the next block will sustain me. Thanks.

-- In pancreatitis@y..., " Weston " wrote:

> ,

> Glad to hear your pain management doc is cooperating with you.

Hopefully the block will keep you comfortable until you have your

surgery next month.

>

>

>

>

>

>

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I'm on my way to the ER unfortunately. My new neighbors who just

moved in today (about 19-20 yrs old) came down the stairs swinging

their 3 year old son who's feet landed squarely in my abdomen. On the

left side of all places...at least I won't have to wait long as the

CT and ulrasound have already been ordered. Keeping my fingers

crossed there isn't any internal bleeding...I use a fairly good

amount of heparin to flush my picc line.

Hopefully the next block will sustain me. Thanks.

-- In pancreatitis@y..., " Weston " wrote:

> ,

> Glad to hear your pain management doc is cooperating with you.

Hopefully the block will keep you comfortable until you have your

surgery next month.

>

>

>

>

>

>

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