Personal Narrative: Diabetes And Hypertension

Don’t ask me how I feel, I’m not going to tell you. Talking about it makes it worse. When I explain my pain, I have to think about it. Ignore it; maybe it will go away. I dwell on my fears of what may happen. I don’t want to pass that fear on to you. You don’t see it as I do. It’s not your body; it’s not your life. I don’t tell you because I don’t want you to be afraid for me. I can deal with it. I’ll be OK. I don’t tell you because I know that my words are inadequate. I can’t express what it is, yet I do want you to know (even if you can’t exactly feel it). I want to let you in to my world. I want you to know how different my life is from yours, even though it looks much the same. I’m not scarred or crippled.

I could feel the acid in my throat; I desperately needed water and couldn’t keep any food down. I had felt like this for the last three months but no one believed me. I started to doubt it myself, my mom said I was fine so why wouldn’t I be?

When I started working out, I wasn't the strongest critter in the jungle. I felt ashamed of myself, I was a walking stick, my little sister weighed more than me and most of all, I was below the average height, but I didn't let that stop me, in fact I used it as a motivation to accomplish my number one goal of a healthier lifestyle

Nearly 16 million people in the United States have diabetes, the disease classified as a problem with insulin. The problem could be that your body does not make insulin, does not make enough, or it simply does not know how to use it properly. Diabetes is also known as "diabetes mellitus".

My cousin with type 2 diabetes. A few moths ago my cousin and I were at a lake and we were swimming and he had told me that the water felt "thick" and i just figured that he was tired. A few days later we went to the store and I noticed he had to use the restroom a lot almost every 10 minutes I was slightly concerned and shortly after someone had checked his blood sugar level and it was extremely high at this point he went to the emergency room and he stayed for almost a week and once they finally released him it took a very long time for him to adjust to not being able to do the things he used to do like miss breakfast or play sports for long periods of time. its been a while now and hes getting used to it but I see now how hard it is and

This is it. Today will be the day to end the mystery of all the fainting I have been doing lately. I had my blood tested a couple of weeks ago, because my mom thinks I am diabetic. I don't think I am, but it's always better to be safe then sorry. I can't keep still, I really want to know what has been causing me to faint.

My peice of advice as well was to seek a doctor. Being healthy prior to conceiving is very helpful when it comes to Gestational Diabetes. I was very fortunate with both of my kids that i didn't get Gestational Diabetes. I was 17 when i had my first child and very active. If i was not doing traveling softball on the weekend then i was cheering on a competition cheer squad. I agree on the overall lack of care. It drives me crazy to see some of the things that parents let there kids eat. My sister in law is a good example of that. She uses they excuse that they are growing boys and they are going through that stage. I just want to shake her and say portion control and eat heathier. She suffers from morbid obesity and her kids are 11 and 17, they

My first day as a diabetic is coming to an end. I feel tired, but I do not know if it is related to the time that I had to wake up or the lack of food I consumed. I have friends who are diabetic and just by watching their daily routines I thought this experiment would be simple because they make it look so easy. Even though it is my first day I am beginning to realize that is not the case. As I am about to go to bed I am realizing I am hungry, fatigued, and my finger hurts from being poked multiple times throughout the day. The thing I have come to realize, besides the fact that I am overly lost on carbohydrate counting and exchanges, is that eating a sugar-free, low-carb diet is slightly expensive and complex. Being a college student, nursing student,

One of the girls from the pharmacy, which I now know her name to be Shelby, said "Hey can ya'll take a look at her I found her laying down in the bathroom she said she don't feel good." Of course, we all turn around and said "What's wrong? What happened?", and that is when I saw her. She was ghostly pale, her hair wet from where she had been sweating; her skin around her hair line was just clammy, something was not right. The sickly lady pulled away and said "I'm fine, Shelby. I just feel sick from that darn Captain D's we ate. It's making my acid reflux be all crazy". As I am writing this my hands are starting to shake; it's like I am about to relive this experience all over again. I got up and said to her "Lets at least check your blood pressure, make sure that's ok".

I wanted to let everyone know my Mom is doing OK and in caring hands at Capital Region Medical Center. It all started last week when Mom was feeling nauseous, dizzy and unsteady on her feet. Thursday she kept feeling faint and very wobbly on her feet. She eventually collapsed in my arms while I was helping her out of the bathroom so she could lay down again. She blacked out, in such a way I have never witnessed. I really thought I was going to lose her. I called 911 and she was rushed to the ER. Doctors have run many tests but have yet to conclude what was/is wrong. What we do know is she was dehydrated, Blood Pressure was up and down, the CT scan of the brain came back Neg., ultra sound of carotid arteries came back Neg., Ultrasound of abdomen

We have fantastic luck that live in a time when you can control the blood sugar yourself at home. It's actually not so far been possible to it. When I got diabetes, -86, it was completely new. I got a vial of test strips that you had to read off against a color scale.

This week I have received the unsetting news that I have developed Hypertension stage 1, which is high blood presser. Now without the understanding of what its being caused from, I was advised to cut my medication dose in half and possibly lose more weight. Honestly this news has made it easier to stick to eating healthy because it has become a health risk, although I have been truly trying to stick to a much healthier diet, I have had my fall backs

My interest in exercise began early in high school and continued on throughout college. After being overweight throughout my early teen years. I was determined to begin a healthier lifestyle. I began power lifting in high school and continued throughout college in order to strengthen my body, mind, and spirit. Through several years of intense training and healthy eating, I achieved the one-thousand pound club. This is an informal club reserved for power-lifters whose bench press, squat, and dead lift max total over one thousand pounds. The club is also used as a metric to gauge power lifters. At this stage, one is said to be relatively strong amongst fellow power lifters. Although I was not awarded a certificate or recognition for the feat,

As far as I knew I really didn’t know we had some death diseases all I thought we had to worry about was blood pressure and diabetes. As I went looking for information and asking family members about our history come to find out, we have real bad cancer in our family. Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade other tissues, Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph system. Lymph is a colorless fluid containing white blood cells that bathe the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream. The type of cancer we have in our family is breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, gynecologic cancer, brain tumor and ovarian cancer.

Hello sir, the doctor wanted me to come in and talk to you for a minute. I understand that u have just been diagnosed with hypertension. I want to make sure you understand what that is and what goes along with it. Hypertension is just our fancy word for high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood is putting on the walls of your arteries. Now most people don’t even realize they have high blood pressure because more often than not, there are no signs or symptoms going along with it. Now, when checking your blood pressure we put on the blood pressure cuff and then we listen for your heart beat. There are two stages we get, one