I have had some personal issues with my weight. The last doctor's visit I had, which was on April 11, 2008, my weight had dropped from 145 lbs to 136 lbs. Understand that I am around 5'10" tall and the average weight for someone at that height is 150 lbs. I have no idea why I have lost the weight only that I have been eating small meals all day... Read more
I have been wondering this every since I started college again. I've noticed that public places, not like grocery stores or little stores with no public restrooms, but more like universities do not offer sharps containers for their diabetic students. I attend the University of Phoenix-Salt Lake City division in Taylorsville UT. There is two... Read more
When I was first diagnosed it not only scared me but it also made me wonder how people were going to treat me. I was sixteen years old and in my junior year of high school. It was in October of 2000, the week of homecoming and I had been having some symptoms for over a week. My mom decided that I needed to get into the doctor's office and... Read more
It seems like the older that I get the more easily I get infections, the most recent infection is a kidney infection. Though its possibly kidney stones. They cant find anything wrong that would be causing the pain that acts like kidney infection or kidney stones though I was told that the kidney stones could be so small that they arent traceable... Read more
I used to try to lose weight by not taking my insulin, but learned the hard way that it can cause a lot of
complications including DKA. I have two eposides of DKA in which I was
place in either ICU or CCU. The first eposide, about 8 months after my
diagnosis, I came down with the flu and we werent sure how to treat it.
I ended up in CCU... Read more
