How do you manage your stress ?
– how do you manage your stress and diabetes?
Living with diabetes is a journey that touches every part of my life—home, work, relationships, and self-care. Some days, it feels like a full-time job, constantly balancing blood glucose levels, planning meals, fitting in some exercise, set changes, calibrating my pump, making sure I have enough insulin in the fridge, and worrying about the scares that are left after a site change and not to mention keeping up with appointments.
Category: blood sugar levels
Back on injections for 24 hours….
Humans tend to follow a routine, and for me, one of my routines is my diabetes management plan. For many years, I administered insulin through injections but later switched to an insulin pump. The Manchester Diabetes team offered me tremendous support during this transition period, which helped me ease into the new technology. I attended…
It’s all Diabetes at the end of the day!
Feel free to add to the list. Just remember friend’s, stay determined, be positive and don’t let diabetes stop you from being able to do the things you want to do. Yes, it’s a challenge, but you are more than capable of overcoming it. Struggle through it and you’ll soon discover how much stronger you…
Je suis fatigué of the monthly P
Sorry guys this one is for the girls. This is one aspect of life that doesn’t affect your diabetes, but for us girls we are faced with the not so pleasant monthly, painful and uncomfortable period. Diabetes, as you know can be absolutely crazy at times, when you are stressed, fatigued, ill, let’s just say…
Testing your day time basal rate
Sometimes it becomes necessary for you to be able to tweak your basal rates. During times where you maybe more active, during periods of stress and for the girls during that time of the month, you may be more prone to either lower or higher BG levels and this of course requires some adjustments in…
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