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So... Have discovered the biggest flaw in the whole "Let's monitor your blood sugar and diet and exercise and not be all with the sick of wonky blood sugaryness, kay?". It seems there are needles involved.
Needles rate slightly below eight-legged fuzzy things with fangs on the scale O'Crap Miah Is Seriously Not Down With. Spiders, of course, being the high end of the scale and oatmeal being the lower end.
I find it ironic that part of my fear of the pokey things stems from going to the doctor and being poked in the finger. By the very thing I'm expected to shove into my finger three times a day! Also, the last time I had blood drawn the bastages left a six inch bruise that still hasn't faded and swelling that made me lose feeling in my hand for a day and a half. So, pardon me for being a bit apprehensive.
I've successfully managed to make myself bleed twice. The first being a complete accident involving a loaded and cocked lancet and the cat. I've gotten to the point where I'm denying myself food until I get my blood sugar level - except I get too hungry after four or five hours and have to eat. And yes, on several occasions I have sat in the bathroom for hours attempting to do this.
I am totally willing to take the yucky pills, watch my diet, exercise even (I'm trying to talk DH into letting me get a treadmill instead of a dog or another cat). But not the pokey stuff. No bleeding.
My Own Blood rating just a slot or two below needles on the Not Down With scale (between heights and spinach).
Part of the problem, I think, is the noise. And the lack of control. And the fact that I bloody well saw the damn needle as it springs out of the little whatsit. I'm pretty much not happy with the entire thing.
In other news, I have to drive to OKC to meet with a specialist to discuss this upcoming colonoscopy of doom. And still don't have the results back from the ultrasound.
Is there a way to test blood sugar without the needles? Anybody? Cause I've been warned that undo stress can cause problems with the blood sugar and if staring at a needle for four hours until I feel the urge to hurl and my hands start to shake isn't stressful... well, then I guess I'm insane.
ETA: I'm guessing this intense need to sleep, All The Time, is probably not a good thing? That and the waking up tired?
Also, I'm sorry if it seems like I've been ignoring people lately. I know I haven't been around to RP. But between sleeping a lot and spending the rest of my free time sitting on the toilet lid trying to con myself into hitting the stupid little button on the lancet, I haven't actually had time to do anything other than kiss DH on the cheek for waking me up to eat. Sorry.
Needles rate slightly below eight-legged fuzzy things with fangs on the scale O'Crap Miah Is Seriously Not Down With. Spiders, of course, being the high end of the scale and oatmeal being the lower end.
I find it ironic that part of my fear of the pokey things stems from going to the doctor and being poked in the finger. By the very thing I'm expected to shove into my finger three times a day! Also, the last time I had blood drawn the bastages left a six inch bruise that still hasn't faded and swelling that made me lose feeling in my hand for a day and a half. So, pardon me for being a bit apprehensive.
I've successfully managed to make myself bleed twice. The first being a complete accident involving a loaded and cocked lancet and the cat. I've gotten to the point where I'm denying myself food until I get my blood sugar level - except I get too hungry after four or five hours and have to eat. And yes, on several occasions I have sat in the bathroom for hours attempting to do this.
I am totally willing to take the yucky pills, watch my diet, exercise even (I'm trying to talk DH into letting me get a treadmill instead of a dog or another cat). But not the pokey stuff. No bleeding.
My Own Blood rating just a slot or two below needles on the Not Down With scale (between heights and spinach).
Part of the problem, I think, is the noise. And the lack of control. And the fact that I bloody well saw the damn needle as it springs out of the little whatsit. I'm pretty much not happy with the entire thing.
In other news, I have to drive to OKC to meet with a specialist to discuss this upcoming colonoscopy of doom. And still don't have the results back from the ultrasound.
Is there a way to test blood sugar without the needles? Anybody? Cause I've been warned that undo stress can cause problems with the blood sugar and if staring at a needle for four hours until I feel the urge to hurl and my hands start to shake isn't stressful... well, then I guess I'm insane.
ETA: I'm guessing this intense need to sleep, All The Time, is probably not a good thing? That and the waking up tired?
Also, I'm sorry if it seems like I've been ignoring people lately. I know I haven't been around to RP. But between sleeping a lot and spending the rest of my free time sitting on the toilet lid trying to con myself into hitting the stupid little button on the lancet, I haven't actually had time to do anything other than kiss DH on the cheek for waking me up to eat. Sorry.
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