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allergies, diabetes, and weight loss surgery - 10/13/2009 3:23:04 PM

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i had to go back and doublecheck to see if i had posted about this or not...

about a month or so ago, i had been put on insulin for my diabetes. i just wasnt having enough good results on other combinations of meds. i was put on levamir, and told to gradually increase my dosage. i did, for about a week and a half.

after the first week, i had itching. just a minor annoyance, itching on my face. i was started on a wednesday, by the next weekend i was crying in trying not to claw my face off the itching was so bad, AND i had hives. "stop taking the insulin, load up on benadryl pills and cortizone cream, be in my office first thing monday morning." (this was on a sunday.)

there i was in his office...and before i knew it, there i was being admitted to the hospital. i'm allergic to levamir, one of the new insulins. two days in, i'm seen by the allergist (who, bless him, i could only understand one word in four that he said, three scrips for allergy meds later and i'm released from the hospital.) and so life goes on, i'm now on novalin 70/30 insulin which is an older type.

so what with taking aterax, singulair, and zyrtec i'm sleepy all the time, but ok.

i'm taking my insulin. i'm increasing the dosages. and my face is itching still, even WITH the allergy meds, and i still have faint hives on my face all the time.

my doctor is VERY concerned. what if i have a really bad reaction and land in the hospital again? or worse yet, die? (answer "then we wont have to worry about reactions any more, will we?" what can i say, i'm irreverant. Himself swatted me for that one. heh.)

so he brought up weight loss surgery, because the theory is if you have "weight induced diabetes" and you lose the weight, you also lose the diabetes. this DOES NOT ALWAYS WORK. i dont want this surgery. i DO NOT WANT IT.

i *am* losing the weight, slowly, that i put on after being put on neurotin, and from the other diabetes meds. this is making me seriously pissed off, and i dont like it at all.

it smacks of size-ism. i am ok with me at the size i am, i know that a lot of my more recent weight gain was brought on by medications. i do NOT want surgery to fix what the goddamned medical community brought on me!! seriously, going from roughly 180 when i moved back to texas to 224? AFTER i was diagnosed with diabetes and put on meds? this is NOT me overeating.

i dont know what i'm asking, posting this. i just....i'm unhappy and hurting (my fibro is not happy for the spate of much needed rain) and TheEngineer is working late. again. because he wasted so much time taking me to dr appointments this week.

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RE: allergies, diabetes, and weight loss surgery - 10/13/2009 3:28:34 PM

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Well....since you don't know what you are asking can i make some recommendations? lol....
Singulair manufacturers say it is best to be taken at night... He takes Zyrtec and can only take it at night...Are you taking both of these at night?
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RE: allergies, diabetes, and weight loss surgery - 10/13/2009 3:41:12 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Kalista07

Well....since you don't know what you are asking can i make some recommendations? lol....
Singulair manufacturers say it is best to be taken at night... He takes Zyrtec and can only take it at night...Are you taking both of these at night?
Kali

heh. i know what i'm taking, just not what i'm *asking* by posting.

i'm taking atarax in the am, zyrtec and singulair at bedtime. along with a metric assload of other meds/suppliments. (seriously. i damn near rattle when i walk, i have about 18 different pills to be taken up to 3 times daily, and i LOATHE it.)

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RE: allergies, diabetes, and weight loss surgery - 10/13/2009 4:13:45 PM

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i understand where you are coming from....Sometimes i think doctor's get a little too pill happy... At one point they had me on medication for high blood pressure here...i've had it taken twice this past week...{i took myself off about 18 months or so ago} earlier this week it was 112/82 and yesterday when i was sick and went ot he doctor it was 110/78... Sometimes i think it's important just to make a list of ALL the medication and have one doctor go through all of them... for example both singulair and zyrtec are allergy medication.... i don't know it's just a suggestion......
i know how frustrating it can be......
i too gained weight due to medical incompetency....They removed my thyroid and no one thought to put me on any replacement medications...... Not until i had gained about 165 pounds..... So i can relate....My doctor is constantly pushing the surgery.....
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RE: allergies, diabetes, and weight loss surgery - 10/13/2009 4:44:44 PM

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quote:

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i understand where you are coming from....Sometimes i think doctor's get a little too pill happy... At one point they had me on medication for high blood pressure here...i've had it taken twice this past week...{i took myself off about 18 months or so ago} earlier this week it was 112/82 and yesterday when i was sick and went ot he doctor it was 110/78... Sometimes i think it's important just to make a list of ALL the medication and have one doctor go through all of them... for example both singulair and zyrtec are allergy medication.... i don't know it's just a suggestion......
i know how frustrating it can be......
i too gained weight due to medical incompetency....They removed my thyroid and no one thought to put me on any replacement medications...... Not until i had gained about 165 pounds..... So i can relate....My doctor is constantly pushing the surgery.....
Kali

atarax is another antihistimine (allergy medication). the reason i'm on so many is because i *have* to be on the insulin, and i *have* to be able to breathe. ;) it was 'scripted deliberately that way...

and i want ONE doctor (who did review all the meds yesterday, all are medically necessary. diabetes, high blood pressure (perfect on my meds), cholesterol, allergies.) who will take care of all of it, and NO ONE wants to do that. the GP i was seeing was only too happy to shove me off on to the endocrinologist, who shoved me off on the gastro doc (that's *another* med) and wants me to see this allergist too.

i am tired. tired unto the death, as it happens. *sighs*

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RE: allergies, diabetes, and weight loss surgery - 10/14/2009 2:01:10 PM

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Your doctor is incompetent. He has no concept of nutrition and hormone regulation, obviously, if surgery is his idea. Typical medical advice to those with diabetes does nothing but make them sicker. Have you read anything by Endocrinologist Diana Schwarzbein, MD (http://www.schwarzbeinprinciple.com)? I don't pay attention to her products, but her books can give you information on hormone regulation (insulin) and balanced eating to assist with poisitive changes. She goes against the conventional wisdom when it comes to helping patients with diabetes. Sorry, I believe weight loss surgery borders on malpractice.

Sadly, it is difficult to find a doctor who can hande it all, as I am trying to find one for my mother. I would look for holistic, medical doctors who look at the whole person, not just the organ system.

I wish you the best.

Julie

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