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the needle and the damage done becoming becoming like me just a work in progress home about jump to navigation the needle and the damage done april 5 2006 posted by becoming in becoming healthy trackback i don t like shots i m a manly man though and so i put on my poker face when i know i m about to receive an injection of whatever if there s time a preparatory deep cleansing breath often i ll opt to watch the insertion rather than looking away still bottom line don t like em therefore the prospect of injecting insulin into myself four times a day every day for the rest of my days holds no appeal for me neither does spending well over two hundred dollars a month for insulin and syringes shelling out 130 per month just for testing supplies is more than sufficient in short i want to un diabetic myself at the very least i want to become a non insulin dependent diabetic is that too much to ask before my heart surgery i had never been told by a healthcare professional anything like your blood sugar is a little high you d better keep an eye on that and as part of various blood work done for various purposes in the last six years or so i have had blood glucose checked on average at least once or twice a year no so far as i know on march 16th i was a diabetic on march 14th i wasn t i ve tried more than once to discuss with my endocrinologist the long term possibility that regular exercise plus significant maintained weight loss could equal insulin independence but he does not even want to talk about it so i ve decided that i m just going to do it it s something that i m going to work at until i achieve it and once i do achieve it that s a very special type of independence that i m never going to give up again i m up to walking 20 minutes twice a day now and i will be increasing that progressively i m struggling some with portion sizes and late night snacking to keep the weight loss going but right now i weigh approximately 20 pounds less than i did a month ago i am also looking into nutritional supplements that have demonstrated the potential to increase insulin sensitivity e g chromium vanadyl sulfate and alpha lipoic acid i have begun taking fish oil for omega 3 essential fatty acids and evening primrose oil for omega 6 efas i ll discuss more my personal supplementation program as it develops and changes for now one little tidbit keen h et al treatment of diabetic neuropathy with gamma linolenic acid diabetes care 16 1 8 1993 this was a year old british study of 111 diabetics to whom daily doses of 480 mg of gla one of the omega 6 essential fatty acids were given the study concluded administration of gla to patients with mild diabetic poly neuropathy may prevent deterioration and in some cases reverse the condition share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading related comments 1 lara april 9 2006 keep going love this is going to work especially since neither of us think you re diabetic in the first place love lara reply leave a comment cancel reply comment δ search admin controls log in april 2006 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 mar jan recent posts alive numbers back in the saddle again fingers uncrossing the needle and the damage done fingers crossed bad things can happen whining avoidance a foodie s lament my own march madness part 5 categories becoming healthy becoming productive becoming worse uncategorized archive january 2007 april 2006 march 2006 bookmarks wordpress com wordpress org meta create account log in feeds full comments create a free website or blog at wordpress com top comment reblog subscribe subscribed becoming sign me up have a wordpress com account log in now privacy becoming copy shortlink view post in reader manage subscriptions sign up log in report this content collapse this bar d design a site like this with wordpress com get started