karyn - Can you Clarify.....

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this statement:

" As with the potential complication of diabetes, the PAI

advocates self monitoring of your glucose twice a week, once

fasting, and once in the PM, with any of the available home

glucometers. "

Are you saying that the PAI is advising that all CP patients,

whether they are known diabetics of not, that they should self

monitor? Even if all blood glucose testing in the past has been

normal? Is this part of the management of the disease?

thanks for providing more information concerning this as I have

been given no information about what I should be doing to

manage the disease. I have basically been told to only call if I

have an emergency and that I will know when it is an emergency

otherwise nothing much needs to be done.........

Laurie

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HERE HERE!!!! Laurie!

Good Question!

It seams that every doctor I have involved either has NO Interest, or

is just so comp[letely under the impression that " it cannot be

managed " , " control the acute episodes with NPO and Pain meds " ...

It just seams that the desease as a whole, is ignored.

OK...

Dirty little secret time, after all of Karyns and Marks sound advice

and links...

Anyone have a few seconds?

I accept at least 50% of the culpability in my desease... When the

signs said, " SPEED KILLS " , well... I was off in the corner high.

I had a major substance abuse concern during my Army carear as well

as my disturbed time between discgarge and the acute breakdown in

1994..

I was injecting moderate quantities of questionable quality

Methamphetimine, rat poisons?.

I would go weeks without eating, I KNOW I was max producing adrnilin,

I'd sleep maybe an hour out of each week, for a couple of weeks on

end...

Ywas on my 'resting' modes that the Acute Symptoms would floor me,

and I was just " too much the type " so, yes, I was 'profiled' and I

was " psyched " and I was discharged without a whole whopping bunch of

concern.

Specificaly...

Karyn, Mark... anyone...

Hypothecicaly, what effects did this have on the advancement of this

desease... Are there any ways I can get a physician to look further

for damages, that might have been caused.. IE Endocrine damage,

hormonal damage... etc.

I have ALWAYS been forthright about my past to my physicians, I have

been squeaky clean since Dec. of 1994, when the first major meltdown

took place. But I cannot get ANY doc to even correlate the

possibilities.

Karyn, Mark... If just reading the words, Methamphetimine and

Problem, married to Recurrant Acute Panc, immediately brings forth

raised eyebrows and multiple links, well, , we may have an

answer, at least for me...

I'm gonna stop #$@!*'in and whinin now, and try to just sit and calm

the storm, frustration and anxiety are high today, and I have got to

figure a way to chill a bit...

Thanx in advance

ricki