Guest guest Report post Posted August 31, 2002 , 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted August 31, 2002 , 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 1, 2002 Thank you Crystal! {{{HUGZ}}} --------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Guest guest Report post Posted September 3, 2002 " I JUST CANNOT FORCE MYSELF TO BELIEVE THAT A JUDGE WOULD LISTEN TO THIS GARBAGE. " What can I say but from personal experience our court system stinks. Sounds like your lawyer is not that interested either. Good grief you don't need all of this. YOur subject line says it all. Consider yourself hugged and I hope things get better for you soon. Tuten-SC _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 4, 2002 , 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 4, 2002 , 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 4, 2002 , 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 4, 2002 , 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , I'm definitely feeling better than I did last night. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to make it to work tomorrow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 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? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 5, 2002 , 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 7, 2002 , 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 7, 2002 , 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 7, 2002 , 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 7, 2002 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. > > > > > > Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 7, 2002 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. > > > > > > Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted September 7, 2002 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. > > > > > > Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
