It’s important to learn more about cholesterol if you have been recently diagnosed. Cholesterol is a fat-like substance that helps cells in your body function properly. Too much and contributes to atherosclerosis and potentially heart attack. You get cholesterol from food and what is made in your body. HDL is the “good” cholesterol. This is [...]
CHOLESTEROL: HDL, LDL, TRIGS?
January 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Diabetes, Health
Tags: -plaque·artery·bloodstream·Diabetes·heart attack·lipoproteins·stroke
Annual Eye Exam
January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Health
Why is this important? Because your eyes change from year to year. Because when you are diabetic it’s considered one of the main things to do for yourself year by year. There are too many eye diseases that go with having diabetes: glaucoma, macular degeneration, and hypersensitive changes. Diabetics can having other problems with their [...]
Tags: blindness·cataracts·Diabetes·eye diseases·glaucoma·high blood pressure·macular degeneration·retinal detachements
Stressed out
August 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Health
I find myself being more stressed as each day passes. Stress that I don’t need in my life, but it’s there all the same. Not only from the job stress, or problems at home stress, but the stress of knowing I have a medical problem no doctor I’ve met seems to be able to diagnose. [...]
Tags: bingeing·Diabetes·panic attacks. over eating·stress
Diagnosis Unknown
July 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Health
It’s been almost a month since I was admitted to the hospital and I am no further in finding the reason for my pain. The pain has now radiated to the other side of my lower back resulting in having pain in both the kidney areas. I have tried doing online research only to learn [...]
Tags: back pain·Diabetes·diagnosis·kidneys
Prescription medicine
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments · My Opinion
Lately I am feeling like a pill pusher. I take 5 pills for diabetes, 1 for high blood pressure, 1 for my nerves, another for cholesterol,2 water pill for my swelling feet, and now 2 more for my stomach. Now these are not all taken at once, but it takes me time to get all [...]
Tags: capsules·Diabetes·Health care·medication·medicines·pills·stomach
