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Diabetes research is fun on a boring day

3/4/2012

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Nothing very exciting today, a day of relaxation and a lot of basketball.  I was very surprised when I woke up this morning and had no pain from yesterday’s Tough Mudder training.  For some reason other than after my VO2 max test, I feel great after any kind of cardio exercise.  I’m not sure if I’m holding back in some way but I’m very happy that when I wake up the day after intense cardio work I feel great.  Tomorrow it’s back to the gym, I will ask for a very tough cardio workout and see what happens.

With nothing but laundry and food shopping to worry about I decided to do some research.  Each diabetic has different symptoms when they have low blood sugar.  As I have gotten older a lot of the symptoms I felt when I was first diagnosed are still present today.  I become very tired, moody, and my lips become numb if my blood sugar drops below 70.  A new symptom that I have experienced over the last year or so has been depression.  I will give one example, I was low in class a couple weeks back, I sat in class and thought to myself why am I here, I’m twenty-nine years old and trying to get a college degree.  I began to think if I did this the right way after high school I wouldn’t be at class well my wife is sitting at home missing me.  These thoughts went on for about five minutes before it registered that hey I’m low I need something to eat.  Today I decided I’d try to find an article or two that explains why this happens.  What I found were articles like this http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/mental-health/depression.html They only talked about the diabetes side of things, not low blood sugar.  The poor control I had for a long time but for three years have been where I should.  I’m not sure if that may have caused the symptom it may be a possibility. 

I will continue to see what I can find online and will begin to ask some of my diabetic family if they have ever had the same symptom.  For now though I will add it to the list of things to ask at my next endocrinologist appointment on the 12th of March.

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