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Blood Sugars Gone Wild

Blood Sugars Gone Wild

Sometimes I think life gives us some not so subtle reminders that SHIT HAPPENS, and that no matter what, we need plow through the muck and get back on track!

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The past 16 hours have sucked blood sugar wise – And I’m going to be totally honest with you, it scared the shit out of me.

Starting at 9pm last night, my numbers started to go all spaceman on me. Seriously, it was like my body decided that it wanted to go to mars, and didn’t care if I wanted to go along for the ride.

The day started out picture perfect, numbers stayed in the 120’s most of the day. Dinner I was 168, but I wasn’t too concerned.

I was eating a low carb dinner (salmon, ½ a sweet potato and sautéed broccoli) and bolused accordingly. Later (because fish always leaves me hungry an hour later), I had some low carb chips and salsa (this snack never screwed with my numbers before) and once again, I bolused accordingly.

I was tired last night. I’d been fighting a sore throat since last Thursday and had worked a full day. I wanted to veg-out. I got in PJ’s and settled down in front of the TV.

But soon I had a headache, and my high blood sugar radar jumped into gear.

At 9 p.m I took my blood sugar and it was 250

And that's when my blood sugar started going apocalyptic.

9:30 PM: 235

10:15 PM: 260

I changed my site, thinking it would help.

11:30 PM: 277 – and I still had insulin on board. But I gave myself extra 1.5 units anyway.

Cut to 7:00 AM this morning: I was blowing a 459 – That’s not a typo people, that’s was my actual blood sugar - and it freaked me out. I was really scared and I seriously couldn’t recall (though I'm sure it was recent) the last time my blood sugar had been over 250, (except for last night), let alone 459.

My lips were so cracked they were bleeding and I was thirsty, but I didn’t feel dizzy or nauseous, just frightened.

I tested again, 447 - Don't even get me started on meter inaccuracies! Then I started cursing myself for not setting my alarm for a 3am #bg check!

I mumbled: Kelly, how the fuck could you be so stupid!! And then I got to work on situation.

I changed my site again. I had 10 units of left insulin in my cartridge, but I switched it out for a new insulin anyway.

I tested for ketones and held my breath. NOTHING – How the hell is that possible? But at least something was going right.

But I peed on a ketone strip again just to be certain. Still, no ketones.

I gave myself the biggest correction bolus of my life – 9.4 units and waited.

And my numbers started going down.

360

340

290

238

196

And currently, my blood sugar is 178.

I’m starting to breathe again – but I’m still cautious, and cautiously optimistic.

I still worked on work stuff all morning, while working through my blood sugar rebellion, drinking massive doses of water and one cup of coffee and I’m thankful that my numbers were heading south and I had no ketones.

But I’m still not sure what happened. Was it a wicked combo of fighting off a sore throat, an infusion set ceasing to work, insulin getting all skunky, and misbehaving carbs all working together for a perfect storm of blood sugars gone wild?

Honestly, I don’t care what it was, as long it never happens again!

I’ve worked hard to maintain my numbers and the past 16 hours reminded me exactly why.

Posted by Mr. Boy at 09.59, Add Comment
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Science and RCT trials are useless. Official!

Science and RCT trials are useless. Official!
Homeopathy has been lampooned for centuries for being no more than 'placebo', and that it has no evidence base. Now, conventional medicine has come under the same microscope.

A new study inScience Translational Medicinehas cast doubt over the scientific validity of nearly all randomized, double-blind placebo controlled studies involving pharmaceuticals used on human beings. It turns out that many pharmaceuticals only work because people expect them to, not because they have any "real" chemical effect on the body. As you'll see here, when test subjects were told that they were not receiving painkiller medications - even though they were - the medication proved to be completely worthless.http://www.naturalnews.com/031451_drug_trials_placebo_effect.html#ixzz1EhIdNYok

Homeopaths have long said - if homeopathy is effective because of placebo, why don't ConMed practitioners utilise it too. Well, apparently they do!

But what is known about ConMed drugs is not only that they are next-to-useless, other than in a temporary, short-term sense, they are positively dangerous. And the dangers of ConMed drugs are not 'placebo' they are very real. Nor are they 'side-effects', either. The dangers of ConMed drugs constitute actual disease. In other words, you take a drug for one condition, and you contract another disease.

It is time everyone started to say 'No Thanks' to ConMed.
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Failure of ConMed. Cost of Medical Failure to Big Pharma

Failure of ConMed. Cost of Medical Failure to Big Pharma
Big Pharma drugs have been causing disease and death now for centuries, not least during the last hundred years when so-called 'evidence-based', or 'scientific' medicine has dominated medical practice. One important question is - do drug companies just get away with it? Are they just too powerful and influential to control? Can they continue to cause such havoc in the lives of so many people and their families without being called to account?

The answer is mixed. On the one hand, drug companies are being prosecuted, regularly, in the courts, especially in the USA; and they have to pay out compensation to their victims. Here are a few recent examples:

* GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve US investigations into its sales, marketing and pricing practices going back over a decade. And  there is more information about this court case, and what it entailed, here.

* GSK were also fined $90,000 in an Argentine court - for killing 14 babies in an illegal vaccine trial. The company undertook the trials here, as the article explains, as they would have been illegal in the USA, or the UK. They were apparently conducted with babies from poor, illiterate families.

* Pfizer had to pay a fine of $45 million for its menopause drug, Prempro. This article explains how, at the height of the litigation, Pfizer faced more than 10,000 claims that their drug caused breast cancer, and that the company had already begun to settle some suits, putting aside $840 million to do so.

* Pfizer are also being sued for birth defects, allegedly cause by their anti-depressant drug, Zoloft. A group of parents have cited medical studies that shows that anti-depressant drugs, like Zoloft, can double the risk of heart defects, that Zoloft itself was inadequately tested, and they have accused the company of negligence, fraud, and misrepresentation.


* Merck agreed to pay a fine of just under $1 billion for its drug, Vioxx, pulled from the market in 2004 because it caused heart attacks. The size of this fine will be discussed below, but it follows earlier payouts by the same company, for the same drug, of nearly $5 billion. Yet just how much damage to life has been done by just this single drug. This article asks the question - who killed more Americans? Al Qeda by crashing aeroplanes into the World Trade Center? Or Merck pushing its anti-depressant drug, Vioxx? See the article for the answer!

* Johnson and Johnson are also preparing to make out-of-court settlements about its anti-psychotic drug, Risperdal, and this after a civil investigation that has lasted nearly 10 years. It will cost them an estimated $1 billion.

* And payments have also been made to the victims of the GSK swine-flu vaccine, Pandamrix.  The vaccine has caused outbreaks of Narcolepsy in countries such as Ireland and Norway.

Yet, on the other hand, whilst these compensation figures, imposed on Big Pharma companies for drug and vaccine induced injury and death, might appear large, they are, in fact, very small. They are certainly tiny in relation to to the harm and distress caused by Pharmaceutical drugs. And tiny, too, in relation to the profits these drugs create.

There is a view that Big Pharma drug companies are just too big, too powerful, too influential to control. This is the view expressed by the Alliance of Natural Health in this article that focuses on Merck, and its now banned drug, Vioxx. As it points out, despite overwhelming evidence that the company knew about the dangers of the drug, and deliberately withheld this information, the company was made to plead guilty to just one 'misdemeanor'. It was not taken to task on deliberately misleading patients about a drug that killed. 50,000 patients sued the company, which was made to pay a fine of $321 million - roughly about $6,000 each!

And as this article says, the disease and death caused by Big Pharma drugs are usually dealt with by small fines. The executives of the companies are never held criminally responsible for their actions, and their devastating consequences.

Even governments pay out damages, albeit secretly, when they are implicated into imposing drugs and vaccines on people that cause they damage. This video describes how the USA government paid parents for vaccine damage caused to their children, and interviews one of them. These payments seem to suggest that governments are aware that drugs and vaccines are causing damage, but that they want to keep this knowledge from us, the patients!

And the damage caused by pharmaceutical drugs, and the claims made by those who have suffered from them, continue unabated.  Indeed there are now lawsuits beginning in the USA for a drug that damaged mothers many years ago, but have now been implicated in causing breast cancer in their daughters. Just how dreadful is this? Drug damage, it would seem, now affect not only the generation that take the drug - but the next one too! The drug companies are, of course, denying any connection with the drugs.

The question is, how much longer will this charade of drug damage, and compensation claims, continue - and all in the name of health?

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