Third Post

So I posted my blog on instagraaaammmmmmm yesterday and someone requested I do a post about my diabetes and celiac disease.

So that's what this is going to be :)

Now one thing I do want to make clear is that everyone can react differently to things, just because this is how it happened for me, and these are the symptoms I experience does not mean that it is the same for everyone. I also wanna make sure that I am not letting people think that if they are experiencing something similar that I am/did that I am saying you have diabetes or celiac, always go to your doctors and get checked out with them :)

Oh and one more warning .. one of the symptoms I get may be gross to some people .. just letting you know!

So lets start at the beginning .. When I was 17 I went on a cruise with my family. We were going to Alaska, it was my yay you graduated high school gift. On the trip I would feel sick a lot. I was always dry heaving, ALWAYS thirsty for juice only and ALWAYS had to pee. Now here is one of the symptoms I got that may be uncomfortable for some .. I got a lot of vaginal bleeding. Now this one I am told is an unusual side effect but can happen to some people. Lucky me! I remember having to ask my step mom on the cruise for a pad because I didn't bring any aha. One day on the trip was particularly bad, I didn't want to eat anything. Just some fruit, and a lot of juice. We went out into one of the ports and i just kept dry heaving, I thought I going to throw up. We went back to the ship and spoke with the on board doctor. He took all my info and then he tested my blood sugar, he advised me that once we get back home I need to go to the hospital. We got home, and to the hospital I went. I had an IV in me giving me lots of fluids for about 6 or 7 hours, then I had about literally 20 viles of blood taken from me. I like in Canada, I know the numbers are different out there but my blood sugar level when I got to the hospital was 37.4 or something like that .. I know it was 37 but i don't remember what point ahah. Your blood sugar should be between 4-7 was what I was told. After that I had to go to the children hospital for a 3 day training group were they teach you about diabetes and what to do. Because I was 17 they were unsure weather I was type one or type two. At the beginning I was on insulin and I was put on metphormin (or however you spell it) which is a pill mostly type 2 diabetics use. I hated the training group, I was the oldest one there. I also got really frustrated because you have to do math when you are using insulin and I couldn't do it very well. When I was in the childrens hospital I was working with a 1:10 ratio for my insulin. 1 unit of insulin for every 10 carbs. Which wasn't too hard, then for the longest time I had a 1:8 ratio, now I am down to a 1:5. About 6 months or so after the childrens hospital I was taken off the metphorman, and just used insulin. I took I would say almost 2 years after we found out I had diabetes that they said I was officially type one. Most people think that type one is the one you get when you are a child and type 2 is the one you get when you are older, that may be true but thats not the only thing that defines it. As a type one diabetic it means that my pancreas has completely shut down, it does not work at all. If you are a type two, your pancreas works a little bit, squirting out insulin every once in a while, or atleast this is how I understood it.

I found out I had diabetes about 5 years ago and we are still trying to figure it out. Things are always changing with it, like I said before my ratio's have changed and are continuing to change. I have to go back to my specialist for more information about it,

Now for celiac disease, this one may have a symptom that may be gross to some haha! I would be sick and miss work a lot for this! Every time I ate something I got sick, I would poop .. a lot. aha. I would either poop or I would get a terrible pain in my stomach, one time it was so bad I started crying and I was hunched over all night with my husband .. who was my boyfriend at the time. I went to my doctor and she got me to go get a biopsy done. I was asleep for it but I was told they went down my throat not up the bum :P The test came back positive for celiac. Now I have to eat gluten free all day every day for the rest of my life. I wont lie it can be really hard, I like to eat out a lot (which I should try not to do so much anyways) but it is difficult to find things. Lucky for me eating gluten free has become something of a fashion statement now so its not too bad. I cant imagine what poeple had to go through who were celiac about 5 or 10 years ago!!! I dont know why everyone wants to eat gluten free .. it's not really healthy for you .. the gluten free food they make now has more fat in it, no fiber and is freaking expensive! I guess they want you to eat things that are naturally gluten free lol

But yes .. I have both those things and some other stuff that we can discuss later :)

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