Cherise,

Oh yes do I ever know of being a brittle diabetic. I have been one since the day I was diagnoised.  I still to this day don't have it totally undercontrol. My new Endo is talking about putting me on a pump. All my other Dr.'s just wanted to mess with my doses of shots and/ or told me that if I went on the pump I would have to check my bloodsugar alot more then what I already do today.

 

My new Endo thought there was a chance that my body just might be producing insulin for the simple fact that spaghetti, lazangas, and the Bisquick Chicken Pot Pies I could eat as much as I want but with in 30 minutes my bloodsugars would drop. That and amoung other things.

 

I have been diabetic now for 24 years ever since I was the age of 13. Talk about a slap in the face. My bloodsugar was 2200+ I was still up talking and walking but barely. The last month before being diagnoised was pretty much the same. I slept in the same class, asked to use the bathroom in the same class, visit the nurse every single day. No one knew what was up with me. After a day in the hospital the Doc put me on a 2200 cal. diet. I wasn't that active of a kid. That cal count was like eating 6 meals aday for me. Never had time to go excersie it off. When I was younger I wan't compliant. I was in very bad deniel as well as getting into more dangerious bad habits.

 

By the time I married at 23 and had my first child that didn't make it past 20 weeks gestational. I was determined to do my best. But the Dr.'s weren't listening to me and that makes it even more complicated to have the desire to try harder. So I started dealing with it all on my own. I had been on sliding scales and new what my body was capible of. And after having my 1st child I started experiencing more low bloodsugars. I know have 2 beautiful children and 2 steps that I call my own. My A1C is almost down to normal and my cholesterol good and bad are excellent. You might want to talk to your Dr. about the C-plats blood test. This test will give the Dr. a more clearer idea of what your possiblities are. The C-plats is what your body produces when it produces insulin and no sinthetic insulin has it. Any number means that your body is producing insulin and you maybe able to go on the pills rather then on the shots. I never heard of the test until I went to my new Endo Dr. My new Dr. is truely concidering putting me on the Pump. Now days from what I have read there are pumps out there that can test your sugar and give insulin. (that was the main reason why I joined was to get the pros and cons of an insulin pump). And I have heard that they have alarms now days to warn you before you get too drastically high or low.

 

Also you might want to try finding it at Walgreens or another vitiamn story Cinnamon I have heard it helps control bloodsugars. At one time I was actually putting 1 tsp of cinnamon into my coffee Yuck. LOL and it seemed to work. My mom takes the pills of cinnamon that she gets from Sam's Club. She says she feels better when she takes them. She is Hypoglycemic.