We care! Supporting Simmers going through hard times.

@SpidersWeb........ I have type 2. I was diagnosed about 4 years ago, with High Cholesterol to boot, on top of dealing with MS. I lost 40 pounds and have 10 more to go to be at my idea weight. Those last ten are hard! I quit eating fast food, I eat every few hours, and never any big meals.
My Dr. knows I have my chocolates and Diet Coke, I don't lie about that. She says I don't have to give up my chocolate but do it in moderation. I get the big bag of reese cups because I snack on them and its not much, but gives me my chocolate fix. Dr. would prefer sugar free stuff but got to be careful as those will put on the pounds. My test for both have come back really good. Loosing weight really helped. I am thankful I take pills for that and not shots because my MS injections are enough for me.
Its hard to tell if my problems are related to MS or Diabetes. I don't have feeling like others so I have to be careful. If I get burnt by the stove I wont feel it right away like anyone else. My hand would end up glued to the stove before I realized it and pulled it away.
I have numbness also, but they usually say that's MS. I do have neuropathy in my feet. Lost feeling there too. But it could be MS or Diabetes.
I have 4 herniated disk also, so tired of MRI's to check my lesions in the brain, and my back issues (no lesions going down my spine though).
I think that's it. You all know my history now gosh darn it :s

On a lighter note, I feel fine.......keep going........and my problems are small compared to a lot of other people in this world :p

Thank you all for your kind words. Diabetes has been present (though not common) on both sides of my family so it's possible. All I can do is hope and deal with whatever the diagnosis is.

"rosemow;12981244" wrote:
Hello @charlotteprice . I am continuing to think of you as you live each day with MS. Sending special thoughts to you.

Thank you so much rosemow. I love this thread, love the support too!

Thankyou @SpidersWeb for sharing information about diabetes and for your supportive words.

"jcp011c2;12981639" wrote:
Thank you all for your kind words. Diabetes has been present (though not common) on both sides of my family so it's possible. All I can do is hope and deal with whatever the diagnosis is.

My husbands just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and at the moment I feel like the sugar police, I keep catching him sneaking around with bottles of soda. I'll keep you in my thoughts ad you wait for you diagnosis, and I'm sure whatever it is you'll deal with.

To everyone going through hard times just now I send hugs and positive thoughts.

Hello @altad1 I will be thinking of your husband and yourself as he adjusts to his recent diagnosis of having type 2 diabetes. Sending special thoughts to you both.

"jcp011c2;12981340" wrote:
I went to the urgent care center (sort of like a cross between a dr. and an ER but much less expensive than the ER) and they are running some tests, blood work, urology, the works. However this may be coming back on me and my dietary habits. The numbness may be the onset of a caffeine allergy, which is not good as I have caffeine addiction (I won't share how many sodas I have a day, it's WAY too many.) but also this may...and I stress only may, be the onset of diabetes. Will know more in a few days. Also the tired. blacking out, is basically my body being completely dehydrated because I don't drink anything but sodas.

These are things I can change but it may not completely change the damage already done, if it is diabetes. But I have to work to be better about drinking sodas, or none at all. Really difficult but compared to some of the things in this thread very small potatoes. I can do it.

I'll keep you all updated on the official results though.

Hopefully, it is not diabetes. As for dehydration, I have been there. Years ago, I was in the hospital for 3 days with severe dehydration and a kidney infection. After that, I learned to drink more water and not so much soda. It is really hard to kick a soda habit.

charlotteprice- that is a lot to deal with! Wish you didn't have to deal it all of that but so glad to see that you're trekking along. :)

This thread is amazing, and prompted me to stop lurking because I haven't had the guts to really tell anyone - I just had a miscarriage last month. I don't even know what I'd want to say about it other than it happened, and I've been bizarrely emotional ever since. Only a nursing friend even knows it happened. She advised me about what to do and confirmed what it was, and I'm torn up about it enough to not tell anyone in person.

I'm really grateful a thread like this exists, because I really needed to say that to someone somewhere and I know the Simmers of the world are sympathetic and lovely creatures. I really hope this comment finds you all healthy and at least relatively happy. I have a quote I agree with as cheesy as quotes are to put forward in the spirit of positivity:

"Happiness is not a mindset, it's a constant decision making process. Be unhappy that so-and-so said such-and-such, at the general negativity of the world and it's contradictory hazards. Or instead be happy that you ate that food you really like, that you got to spend an extra hour in sweatpants, or that your pet is so cute. It's a choice you have to keep making again and again." - Guy named Robert

Seriously, thanks for this venting moment you lot.

"TrashDeBlunc;12982531" wrote:
This thread is amazing, and prompted me to stop lurking because I haven't had the guts to really tell anyone - I just had a miscarriage last month. I don't even know what I'd want to say about it other than it happened, and I've been bizarrely emotional ever since. Only a nursing friend even knows it happened. She advised me about what to do and confirmed what it was, and I'm torn up about it enough to not tell anyone in person.



I'm really grateful a thread like this exists, because I really needed to say that to someone somewhere and I know the Simmers of the world are sympathetic and lovely creatures. I really hope this comment finds you all healthy and at least relatively happy. I have a quote I agree with as cheesy as quotes are to put forward in the spirit of positivity:



"Happiness is not a mindset, it's a constant decision making process. Be unhappy that so-and-so said such-and-such, at the general negativity of the world and it's contradictory hazards. Or instead be happy that you ate that food you really like, that you got to spend an extra hour in sweatpants, or that your pet is so cute. It's a choice you have to keep making again and again." - Guy named Robert



Seriously, thanks for this venting moment you lot.

Hello @TrashDeBlunc I am so sorry to hear about your miscarriage, I send lots and lots of special thoughts. I wish I could throw a big hug around you. I will be thinking of you in the days ahead. Sending love to you. Also sending some gentle flower petals for you to hold in your hands and they contain thinking of you thoughts from simmers here.

Well I could tell you my long boring story but here is an article about me to give you some background:
america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/9/16/exclusive-could-thisnewtreatmentrevolutionizepsychiatricdisorder.html
Hope I'm not abusing any rules by posting that. If so I'll take it down.

So basically I have had OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, since I was about 8 and then depression and some other health issues to go with it. So right now I am receiving stimulation to my DBS device, well I am actually in the blinded trial portion of the study so I may or may not be receiving stimulation but I think I am. So after we get a good setting I feel good, great actually. My OCD is still there but my depression is gone. It's amazing since before the surgery I can't even remember the last time I was happy. But unfortunately after 2 weeks I go back to 'normal.' Sometimes worse than normal. So I'm on this crazy rollercoaster and it's really draining me. It's really hard to be happy one day, laughing and singing and making plans for the future, and then the next day you are so miserable you want to die. So yeah, that's my story.