Re: To old members and new ones

[Guest guest]

Hugs to you too Eunice! I hope I continue to learn from all of you nice

friends here on this group about our health issues and learn to help each

other in the process throughout this new year. I love hearing about other

peoples situations and I do learn from others. I'm so sad our other group

isn't there anymore but with Nick inviting us to this one I am happy because

now I can make more friends who live with the same conditions as me and can

learn and grow with you all. Happy New Year everybody! and I hope I can be an

asset to this group. For those that don't know me I am a 42 year old female

hispanic with type 2 diabetes for 5 years now that I know of and I also have

high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and my triglycerides are awful. I

also have chronic neck pain for 22 years now along with aches and pains all

over(I'm just all beat up) mother of 6, 3 of whom I gave birth to. I love to

sew, cook, quilt and just be a mom. I am active in internet quilting groups

and love it! I have had a very sad past year losing 6 family members

throughout the year from this disease and victims of crime. I am looking

forward to a more positive new year and hope that I can attribute to making

it go out with a bang in a great way. To all of you, I pray to the lord above

that we all can do better with taking care of ourselves to be able to give

ourself the gift of a Better quality of life.

Aguilera

[Guest guest]

Thank you Eunice. I hope you all have a wonderful new year.

To old members and new ones

> To all the old members in the group. Thank you for your support and

> friendship during the past year. I did talk to (the former owner of

> the group) yesterday and she has no interest in taking the list back.

>

> To all new members I wish to say welcome and hope you enjoy this group as

> much as I do. This is a great group of people, full of information, ready

to

> offer support and encouragement. If any of you have a question, some one

> will give you an answer in most cases, if you have suggestions or

comments,

> please post them. We are all still learning. Diabetes is a

" never-ending "

> learning experience.

>

> - thanks for your support and help with the list. Couldn't do it

> without you.

>

> Happy New Year

> Hugs

> Eunice

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi , happy to see you here too. I'm glad there are many of you who

really do know lots about our health problems. Believe me I will be asking

questions. I've got one already: do any of you ever get stabbing pains in

your nerve? I recently have been getting an occasional pain that is in my

knee and on my left lower shoulder muscle, but the one in my knee is worse.

It may be from the meds or it may be something new. Any clues or experience

of this to be passed on would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Aguilera

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/2/2003 2:56:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Marie909@... writes:

> I recently have been getting an occasional pain that is in my

> knee and on my left lower shoulder muscle

Hi ,

I have pains in my left shoulder sometimes. I have been having them for

about 6 years, so I know it is not diabetes related. It doesn't hurt

everyday, only once in awhile. I have not asked my doctors about it because

it is not getting any worse and it doesn't slow me down. However, you may

want to ask your doctor about them.

Eunice

[Guest guest]

Eunice, my arm pain is only occasional too but I have recently started on a

new medication which has a rare risk of damage to the muscle. I did tell my

doctor about it but he said to let him know if it gets worse. It hasn't but

I was just curious if it was due to something else. And the knee pain has

started after taking that medicine too but it is a different pain, real sharp

only occasionaly also. It's a bugger though when it happens, it kind've

makes my knee want to automatically bend kind've like when the doctor hits

your knee and your leg jerks except with a sharp pain instead of a funny

feeling. Thanks for you input.

Aguilera

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/2/03 5:34:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,

madhungarian70@... writes:

> Do you have high cholesterol? I do, and I take zocor for it, and there are

> many possible side effects of it and a few are rare, which are muscle

> atrophy, weakness, numbness in limbs, nerve pain, among others. What other

> meds do you take?

>

yes , I do. I have very high cholesterol, the tryglycerides are all bad

and high blood pressure too. I also take the same med as you. I take

lipitor. And I am aware of the side effects, that's why I was concerned.

But so fast after taking it I was feeling these pains. I hope for my sake it

isn't from the med and from something else because the cholesterol is

dangerously high. And I'm not even really overweight that much. I'm 5'2 " I

weigh 150 lbs and 42 yrs old. But I have my numbers really high in the

cholesterol and tryglycerides readings are really bad too. I need to take

the meds for this but I'm concerned I may be one of the rare cases and hoping

that I'm not so I can lower the bad stuff.

Aguilera

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/4/03 12:33:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,

madhungarian70@... writes:

> Try switching to anohter med, that your doctor can put you on. we are all

> different in the way we react to different classes of drugs, even for the

> same reasons we take them.

>

>

Well , I would switch but the doctor said that those meds are the best

for the problem. That there is nothing else.

Aguilera