Diabetes: The inconvenient *POKE*

Diabetes is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant with my son. I had to do the diet route, and lemme tell you... there is nothing I was able to eat! At the time when food was the best tasting, I was denied all of it.

Due to that, if I gain weight so that I am obese, I will get diabetes for certain. the docs scared the you know what out of me with this information. I do check my blood sugar now and then to make sure I am ok.

The sticks and taking pills is not that bad. The feeling crappy like you have a tequila hangover 24/7 is what I cant' deal with. All I get from the doctors I see is "you'll get used to it". Or can I re-define that as "I don't want to find what makes you feel so bad". It's been 4 years and it's getting worse. Will I ever have a half-way normal life again?

Thanks guys for the support and I'll check out the link. I live in Southwest Virginia, in the middle of the coalfields. The nearest city is Bristol about 3 hrs away. I have seen one doctor from UVA but she really did not address anything of importance and said more or less deal with it and sent me a bill for $120. A special 1/2 price. I take the max dosage of metofomin, glyburide, and januvia. My sugar stays above 160 usually around 200 , 300+ in the mornings, a1 is 7. And guys I don't eat the bad stuff either. No cornbread or taters for me.

I feel the best if I don't take but 1/4 of my meds and just starve and not eat anything besides water or a bit of fruit. But when I do that, I don't have enough energy when I go to work (consturction), even though my sugar is still above 150. One problem is I have no insurance and have been turned down by everyone or it cost at least $1600 a month(600 more than I make in a month) So I am limited in meds that cost the least or on the 4 dollar plan. I am not quite sick enough to be disabled even though I am loosing feeling in my feet and have lost my balance. Another is we really have very few doctors and the cost of seeing one in Bristol is just out of my range.

Programs for my area is not like in other parts of the country. We only have the Healthwagon. I thank them allot. There are 2 NP's there that really care about the people here. They try their best but are not allowed to prescribe drugs to any extent and have very limited resources. You might have heard about RAM here. Thousands go to try to find adequate care even if it's only once a year.

This is a rant for sure. But I am tired, tired and depressed about the whole thing.

Thanks for listening guys.

Actually you gave me the RIGHT one. I have had my dealings with UVA and no thanks for me. I was just a dumb coalminer to the people I saw and treated with total disrespect. I was made fun of with a very cruel joke that no man wants to hear by a head nurse and my doctor while they thought I was not able to hear. A male nurse that was with me kept apologizing to me as I left the recovery room. Very bad experience.

A nurse friend of mine made her family promise not to send her there before she lapsed into a coma. That says allot about a teaching school. I have heard that the teaching hospital below Knoxville, Tenn is very patient friendly.