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He sounds like he has schizophrenia with the delusions he's having. I'm not a doctor or therapist, but it's definitely not normal behavior. He needs to probably be on some medicine. No one hear can diagnose something like this from a posting.
My mom used to act more agitated or lose her temper when she had higher numbers, but this seems to be something else.
Good luck! I hope you can get him there to be evaluated. They often don't think they're sick or need help. It's hard to get some people to take the medicine, too.View Thread

I also struggle now with figuring out what I can eat now, as it's different from a few years ago.
I have friends who have guided me to writing things down and testing my blood sugar numbers about four times a day. I'm trying to do that, counting my carbs.
I can hear your frustration. Some people I know can eat fruit with no problem, but I have difficulties keeping my numbers down with fruit. I take 1/2 an apple with some nuts.
I would talk to a dietician who can help you out with this or check on-line and see the things you can't eat with gastroparesis and list those. See what you "can" eat, and then check this against the diabetes items.
It must be pretty frustrating for you, but I know you can do this. I wish I could help you more, but I'm adjusting my eating needs right now, too, trying to figure out how to keep my numbers level, instead of spiking at times. I think we all have to do this for our own bodies. Good luck!
What can't you eat other than fiber? What vegetables can you eat? How about fruits...are there any you can have? Can you eat cottage cheese or things with milk products? Are you allowed to have all meats? Fish, white meat chicken, and lean beef are good choices.View Thread

If you are doing anything with sugar, you are probably going way up, and then going way down afterward, which is not good for your eyes. Low blood sugar levels may cause problems.
Have a regular eye exam and a retinopathy exam, too, just as a precaution. All diabetics need to have these. I was shocked to find I had the beginnings of something that could make me blind, if I don't control my blood sugars and blood pressure.
I have an appt. with my eye doctor to check everything out soon. I was getting blurry eyes, and I just thought it was high sugars. The other day they were red and blurry and my b.s. was at 110, not that high. I have been doing a lot of computer work and t.v. watching, because I was working on getting my hip flexors better with exercises, and couldn't go out dancing or to the gym for a few weeks. I'm checking my blood pressure with a machine every day for two weeks, now.
Having small meals every few hours is the way to go. I would test your b.s. levels two hours after you eat to see what's happening. Make sure you have protein and some carbs. Keep something in your pocket, so you don't go too low, like a glucose tablet(50 or below).View Thread

Just concentrate on what you need to do.
For me, I have to work on "my" diabetes and other things right now. I'm not on here much anymore. I might come back at one point. I feel unless I have "my" act together, I can't advise others.
Things are going well now.View Thread

I'm so sorry you've had to go through all this, but glad you've found great doctors who are diagnosing you correctly now. How awful to be told it's in your head. As soon as you're ready to share, we'll be here. I don't check in every day anymore. Just know that.View Thread

As a child, I would entertain myself with little charms I got out of cereal boxes. I collected them in a glass jar, and actually would play with them. I was good at entertaining myself! Comic books were one of my biggest enjoyments. I had a great collection of Superman, Archie and other comics that would have been worth a lot of money today. Unfortunately our attic leaked, and they all got wet and had to be thrown away.View Thread


I would ban people opening their street side car doors wide open and not be looking at traffic. Even bike riders could be knocked off their bikes! I saw one mom recently, with her bottom out to the road, not watching for cars, and buckling in her young one. This happens a lot in our neighborhood, and I have to drive extra slowly there. It also happens on fast city streets, too.
The birds that chirp "loudly" early in the morning is something else I'd ban, and the garbage collection trucks that come really early, too...beep beeping, brakes squishing, etc.
I would ban people who think their music is the best, and open all their car windows pumping this music so "all" can hear how great their taste in music is....not! Luckily that doesn't happen in my town too much, but we do hear motorcycles once in while. My friend had a neighbor, Beta, that would go up and down his long drive-way on this loud moped, but he wasn't old enough to go in the street. She heard this noise all day long. One day, she didn't hear it anymore. It seems the poor young man had been killed on his moped. Talk about her guilt after this incident...as she'd been praying he'd stop.
I would ban pain and disease that are not curable.
I guess that's enough for now.View Thread


Also, make sure you have a cellphone with you, just in case.
You may be too disoriented even to speak. She couldn't do much talking at first...way out of it.
That's why I put this warning up there. I thought if a few people read this and helped themselves to not go too low, that's good.View Thread
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