ENDO Messages for February, 2000: Re: Endo & diabetes?? help.

Re: Endo & diabetes?? help.

From: Mimi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Feb 28 10:16:44 2000

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>Dear Mimi,
>I'm sorry your daughter is experiencing all this at such a young age.
>Some of the symptoms can go with either the diabetes or the endo: the
>lack of stamina, irritability, and fatigue especially. Do you know why
>her blood sugars are elevated? It's possible that the stress of the
>surgery is doing it, or even the constant pain can make blood sugars
>hard to manage. If her blood sugars have been out of control for some
>time this can also lead to the joint pain she's experiencing, but her
>endocrinologist is probably the best at helping you with this. I've
>been an insulin dependent diabetic for 12 years and had endo for 14
>years (I'm 32), so any help I can give I'll be glad to: feel free to
>e-mail me privately if you wish, and I'd be glad to talk with your
>daughter as well. Welcome to the forum!
>Bridget :0)
>dxcc@dbtech.net
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>Dear Mimi,
>I'm sorry your daughter is experiencing all this at such a young age.
>Some of the symptoms can go with either the diabetes or the endo:
>the lack of stamina, irritability, and fatigue especially. Do you
>know why her blood sugars are elevated? It's possible that the stress
>of the surgery is doing it, or even the constant pain can make blood sugars
>hard to manage. If her blood sugars have been out of control for
>some time this can also lead to the joint pain she's experiencing, but
>her endocrinologist is probably the best at helping you with this.
>I've been an insulin dependent diabetic for 12 years and had endo for 14
>years (I'm 32), so any help I can give I'll be glad to: feel free
>to e-mail me privately if you wish, and I'd be glad to talk with your daughter
>as well. Welcome to the forum!
>Bridget :0)
>dxcc@dbtech.net
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Well, there are so many things going on in her life. The symptoms
have been around for years - it seems impossible to separate them from
what we thought were side effects of the diabetes, especially the fatigue
and the mood swings.
Problem is, though, she has always had problems with her sugars, especially
around her period. But sometimes she would have bouts where her sugars would
bounce up into the 400's & 500's and we have done everything right - her diet
was perfect (she follows a relatively low-carb diet) and insulin is being
administered as directed. One time she had to give a speech in front of a large
audience and her sugars kept climbing and climbing and we gave her insulin and
her sugars would still go up. We'd give her more, and the sugars would still go up.
We are working with her doctors to adjust for this, perhaps switching back to
Regular insulin when these bouts happen (she is on humalog and ultralente).
But, this happens once or twice a month and now I'm beginning to wonder if the
cause isn't the endo. We monitor her sugars pretty regularly, we need her to check
her sugars more than 1-2 times a day (she's a teenager!).
Today she is starting to feel better from the surgery. I don't think she stressed
out too bad about the surgery because she saw the gyn on Monday, after her normal
ultrasound last week and we scheduled the surgery for friday. The only alternative
was to wait a month (they had a cancellation), and I knew that waiting a month would
reek havoc on her stress level.
Honestly, I have told her a lot of basics about endo, but I have not really elaborated
on the experiences most people are having because I don't want to stress her out. I have
ordered some books we will read, my husband and I usually handle this type of information
with her in as reasonable a manner (he is very good when we have to calm her down from
a bad experience) so she won't panic. We are hoping that we get a grip on this, our doctor
is excellent in all regards - he caught it within two weeks of our first visit, he
is an excellent surgeon and has wonderful bedside manner. He does want her to do the 21 bc
cycle over and over for six months to keep her from having a period again. Will find out Friday
how bad her condition is.
It's going to be a tough year on her.
I appreciate your assistance very much.

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