Adhd Diabetics Are there Any? | ADHD Information
OMG! Country Girl,
That's me too! I'm on Ritalin La and Welbutrin. Maybe it's denial! NAAAAAA! I'm Insulin dependant also, you'd think after 12 years I'd have it together,
I have a dark Golden Retriever! Aren't they the best dogs ever?
Country Girl,
No I don't have a coach. Do I need one? I lost my one touch for 2 months couldn't find it any where I finally found it under the seat of my car
don't let repairman read this then!!!!
I love all my babies. Relate to animals better than people. Do you like horses? Got a great horse! Need to ask Repairman if he has any tips on breaking - He is GREEN I have 7 dogs. They bug me all the time. 5 Golden Retrievers & 2 chihuahua's
It's a thought though - Maybe I can associate that last shot with Jelly Bean. Before we go to bed - I sleep with 2 dogs & 2 cats & sometimes 2 baby girls. DH sleeps in the recliner.
I love golden retrievers! Used to have 4, now only 2. They're furry bundles of love!I probably shouldn't have said I sleep with animals, That just sounds weird
I'm the opposite--extreme hypoglycemia. It ranges anywhere from 50-86.
My high is 126. I'm constantly shaking, nauseated, sweaty, and shaky.
It's VERY hard to remember to eat. I'm constantly in crisis.My dog actually helps me. She snorts for a treat about every two hours--you can't turn her off (like you can an alarm clock), so that is good. She helps me to remember to eat a snack.
If you have a dog, you can train it to bug you at certain times of the day apparently (to remember to give yourself a shot, for example).
Once again thank you Glen.
I'd check out the medical supply houses or even just a good electronics store. They have pill dispensers - or just the box that can hold multiple alarms for taking prescriptions at set times. It's for seniors and alzheimer's patients - but for us we're more forgetful at times!
I'm just hoping that my dad's Y chromasome never carries the diabetes. My paternal grandmother had it - but the X stayed with pop for my case (ah so nice to be a guy in that case!). My mother's family is totally diabetes free - even from obesity related. There are a lot of tubby people there - but not even one has either type I or II diabetes. No heart troubles either. Now - lets' hope the genes on that side are prevalent in the right places. Already got the saggy eyes, hair loss and general pugliness from her side. It's creepy - the family pic for her side is like one face pasted on everybodys body- like some bad old TV show where one guy plays himself, his mom and sister, etc. Whoa - that's what happens when you let cousins marry.
My son became diabetic at age 4...It was a night mare come to
reality...very scary...I beleive son is ADHD so he forgets also. & nbsp;
He is now 13, and lives with his father...
more reasons to cry.....Well LTC - that is a sad thing for any child to have to go through.
Be optimistic though! If your child must go through diabetes - this is the era to do it in! They now are working on many ways to fix jeuvanile diabetes. They can now transplant islet cells for insulin production - and they are working on stem cells and growing the person a set of his own again! Very exciting and he should be able to get some of the tech to help very soon.
Also - not to sound like a "back-to-school" special - but where there's life there's hope! Just think - if he was born in the early '60s his survival rate was about 30 percent. Now - he should live to a ripe old age as long as he gets a grip on the illness and learns to maintain.
Has your ex got insurance?? I just thought - they have the belt pump for kids now - it measures out insulin all day and all he has to do is get it on the charger at home! Can you check on it?? Perhaps if there's no insurance a local diabetes group might get it for him - they take charitable requests a lot.
Be of cheer! You have your son - and he'll do fine! You are here to watch over him and you sound like you care SO much!
I know it will be ok - trust me on this one.
Re: Using a dog to remind you to take insulin at night. This could work....Put your insulin supplies in a bag or case that your dog can carry. Teach him to retrieve it at a certain time every night and then give him/her a treat.
Or...
Just keep treats by your bed and give each dog a treat before you go to sleep. With multiple dogs, one of them is SURE to remember to hit your up for a treat before you go to bed as a reminder. :o)
Yep, I'm insulin dependent diabetic with ADHD.
Husband says it should be second nature to me by now, but, I still forget to check and forget my insulin. have trouble managing it? Ended up in emergency room in the summer over 500. Drove myself too. Not too smart, but in that state you don't realize reality. I am a list maker - put check blood sugar on the list and then forget to look at the list. Put my meter in hard to miss places so I will have to move it to get to something I use everyday (like coffee maker) Somehow I overlook it. I am thinking about getting an alarm but can't figure out where to put it so I will hear it. Only thing left is putting a syringe in my bed so I won't forget the night time shot.
Even on the Strattera, I still forget, I agree it's hard to manage the disease when you forget to check your blood sugar or take your insulin. Let me know if you come up with any good ideas to jog the memory. Tam - Do you have a coach? Well, this is my problem, Glen. My dog injured her leg trying to jump onto a hotel bed that was too high for her. So now, as her Service Human, I carry her up and down three flights of stairs to my condo at least three times a day, lift her in and out of the car, had custom, matching wetsuits made for both of us so that I could take her swimming in the bay (yuck) to rehabilitate her leg. The suit keeps her Chihuahua-type skin warm (she's a 25# mix or else I'd just use the bathtub) and her leg is healing nicely.
My dog definitely helps me get off my butt, or else face an "accident." She's so fun to walk that I take her on all sorts of adventures that I would normally not feel like doing. We are definitely nappers though--she encourages me to nap!!
[QUOTE=bluebird38]Well, this is my problem, Glen. My dog injured her leg trying to jump onto a hotel bed that was too high for her. So now, as her Service Human, I carry her up and down three flights of stairs to my condo at least three times a day, lift her in and out of the car, had custom, matching wetsuits made for both of us so that I could take her swimming in the bay (yuck) to rehabilitate her leg. The suit keeps her Chihuahua-type skin warm (she's a 25# mix or else I'd just use the bathtub) and her leg is healing nicely.
My dog definitely helps me get off my butt, or else face an "accident." She's so fun to walk that I take her on all sorts of adventures that I would normally not feel like doing. We are definitely nappers though--she encourages me to nap!!
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Wow - that's one pampered dog! If I were your dog I'd play on the injury long after I'm back to my tail-wagging self! LOL
This is why I don't own any vertebrates above lizards and other small brain animals like insurance salesman (owned one but the cost of litter was killing me so he's gone). It's unfair when you can be at work all day and totally gone while at home. So I avoid it - not to mention many of the more independent animals like cats give me allergies so it's best this way.
I owned an iguana and may again. I find them fun to look at and they don't care where you are - their brain is like a pea-size and they pretty much care about food and pooping. Fun stuff - and it's what we have in common!
But wow - you love your dog and that's great! Sounds like a full-time job though. Must be tough if you go somewhere not dog-friendly. 25 lbs? big for a dog isn't it? Wow.
Good for you! It's nice to have someone who loves you - and it sounds like you love pup as well. Nice.
I was born in the '60s and having blood sugar issues carried SUCH a stigma! I didn't want to be the "Diabetic One" whom everyone hid sugar and goodies from and who was always offered those gross little sugarless candies.Actually, it was amazing that I even survived to this point because being hypoglycemic was more overlooked than if I had actually been diagnosed as a diabetic. I could have gone into a coma with such low blood sugar--no one checked. I wasn't monitored regularly and was not allowed to snack at school, etc.
Being diabetic (or hypoglycemic) in this generation is MUCH, MUCH better-->lots and lots of support.
BTW--I mentioned training a dog (or dogs) to remind you to take your insulin because, unlike an alarm clock, they are harder to "turn off." As an ADHDer, I ignore alarm clocks on my computer or just snap off an alarm clock, but my dog??? Not a chance. heh heh She makes good backup.
I have also trained her to dial a K9 rescue phone. I have had times when I was too weak to get to the phone. It's just good backup for me.
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I have a dog. Do you think I could train it to Know it's time for me to get
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Knowing my luck - I'd rub off on rover and he'd be asking me to fetch him stuff!
I was just curious if anybody else has problems keeping their blood sugar under control? Or how many Adhd diabetics were out there? When I first got it 12 years ago, I couldn't remember to take my medicine or check my blood sugar. The doctor started asking me questions about Add/Adhd. The Dr. sent me to a psychiatrists who than diagnosed me with Adhd. [QUOTE=bluebird38]Well, this is my problem, Glen. My dog injured her leg trying to jump onto a hotel bed that was too high for her. So now, as her Service Human, I carry her up and down three flights of stairs to my condo at least three times a day, lift her in and out of the car, had custom, matching wetsuits made for both of us so that I could take her swimming in the bay (yuck) to rehabilitate her leg. The suit keeps her Chihuahua-type skin warm (she's a 25# mix or else I'd just use the bathtub) and her leg is healing nicely.My dog definitely helps me get off my butt, or else face an "accident." She's so fun to walk that I take her on all sorts of adventures that I would normally not feel like doing. We are definitely nappers though--she encourages me to nap!!
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Bluebird
I put a stool by my bed for my chihuahuas
Well, I trained her to be my service dog so she goes EVERYWHERE with me (including work and my dr. visits). So, it works out pretty well.
Yah, I definitely don't mind doing stuff for her because she gives me so much back in return. I'm glad I waited to have a dog though--I'm ready for one now. I don't mind the responsibility.
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Hey Bluebird, I have a "paris hilton purse" for my chi. It's fun. when she hears the bells jingle - she runs to jump in! Might not work for ya if youre jogging though Country Girl - that is an excellent idea. I'm going to have to do that. I also want to get a baby jogger or something to wheel her in because a lot of times she wants to try to walk further than she is capable. Guess who gets to carry that heap of panting fur home uphill (both ways--lol)?
They make doggie strollers for small dogs they are cute, I can't remember in what catalog I saw it in [QUOTE=Tamaraw1969]They make doggie strollers for small dogs they are cute, I can't remember in what catalog I saw it in[/QUOTE]
Ive got to have one of those. Yesterday I bought halloween costumes for my girls the little black one is going to be a bat and the brown one will be a an owl. there goin be so cute
I never grew up. My dgso have almost as large of a wardrobe as I do.The purse sounds cute! I don't jog, but jog or not, my Chihuahua mix is 25 lbs., so it would be like carrying a 25# barbell in my purse. Can you imagine?! hahaha UGH!!!!!!!!!!
I've seen the dog strollers too--that's what I need. I just hate to spend the money on that since I know she'll be healing soon (I hope!) Byt, I'll consider it if she doesn't get fully well in a month.
You should SEE my arms now!!! I look like I could give the Superheros a run for their money. :D