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12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Depression and Chronic Illness

Hi Ashley,  
 
I have type 2 diabetes and  it will be three years in January since my diagnosis.   I take meds three times a day.  It is hard at times, you need to eat at certain times and take the meds at the same time everyday.  Yesterday was hellish at work and lunch was two cigarettes.  So now I feel bad because  I didn't eat and then stress that I might have low blood sugar on my drive home.  Which is scary as hell when you are driving down the 401, the first time it happened I thought I was getting a migraine.  I never pulled over I drove all the way home and just felt horrible.  I do 80km round trip 5 days a week for work.
 
Diabetes is in my face every moment of the day,  what I eat and the time I eat.  And I think in the back of my mind I know this disease can affect different parts of my body.  That if it isn't controlled which at the moment it is but my main diabetes pills are at the max daily dose.  I may be on insulin which is a whole other ball game.
 
Every three months I have to go to the doctor for blood tests, I take 17 pills a day. 
 
Baye
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
More on Worrying

Ok I talked to my mom today and told her everything that is going on with me at the moment.  I didn't want to because she is not well and I don't want her to worry.
 
It is funny that you mention There are a number of factors that contribute to excessive worry including genes and the environment.
 
My mother said I come from a family of worriers and depression runs in the family.  My mother was born in 1937, she just told me her father suffered from depression from an early age and that even his wife my grandmother never discussed it.  Went off topic a bit sorry. 
 
As for upbringing when you live in an abusive home.  Father hitting my mother and there is nothing that I could do.  And to be in constant fear because he threatened to kill her or kidnap me.  At 12 years old going out on halloween walking down the street and have a parked car door open with my dad telling me to get in.  I turned around and ran back home.
 
Sometimes I worry more then other times, it has been with me for a long long time.
 
Baye
 
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
More on Worrying

Hi Samantha,
 
I did read that section on worry last night.  I can relate to a few of the different ones especially the black and white.
 
Thank you,
Baye
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Not sure where to put this post.

So I went back to my GP because he increased my anti depressants 2 weeks ago.  I managed to explained in more detail, my fear of leaving the house and why I manage to get to work most days.   And that I have been in therapy off and on from the time I was 11 years old.  I was put on meds in 97 for depression after a breakdown at work from stress and working overtime and never being home.  I had the AHA moment and told him that I believe the last 14 years of anguish has to do with what happened all those years ago.  I was put on meds but never talked to a professional about it. 
 
My doctor said that he didn't realize it was this bad, because for the 2.5 years I have been his patient this was the first time I really vocalized it.  He is making a referral to a physiatrist and he also works with people with coronic illness.  I have been a type 2 diabetic for 2.5 years.  My GP is keeping me on the anti depressants I am currently on and now adding an anxiety med. 
 
I am hopeful.  That I can deal with the issues and be happier have my life back.
 
Baye
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Update

So my GP realized that this is out of his scope and sent a referral to a Psychatrist, I returned a call but the appointment was given to someone else. The woman said she would talk to the Pdoc on friday, this was a wednesday. I never got a call back and I waited a week and a half and called her. She told me she couldn't find the referral but sometimes the Pdoc takes them to review and he was in Vancouver at the moment.

So I see my GP on Thursday and he asks me have I heard anything from Pdoc, I told him the above and told me to call back again. I did today, she still could not find the referral and wanted the GP's number to have it faxed over again.

Anyway she calls me back 10 minutes later and says "Pdoc reviewed the referral and feels he can not help me!!!!" The referral was sent back upstairs to I believe she used the word triage, this is a hospital setting.

I am to call this other extension if I don't hear from anyone in the next week. Here I am thinking I am on a waiting list, that is supposed to be short and with a Pdoc that also works with people will coronic illness. I have type 2 diabetes. Now I am in not sure what to think when a Psychatrist feels he can't help me.........
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
They say the third time is the charm!!!

I have quit two times in the past, the first time I used champix I believe it is called in Canada.  I stopped smoking for a year and a half, then well working so much overtime and work stress; I started again to cope.
 
The next time I just smoked my last cig from the pack and that was it, I stopped for six months.  I had been thinking and wanting to quit and finally took the big step.  Obviously stress is my trigger, so that is something for me to prepare for.
 
I have been back to smoking for about 6 months, it started just at work on breaks.  My wife didn't even know I was smoking again, then I started smoking on the balcony.  Which I have never done before, my worst time is at the computer.  So I was only smoking about 5 cigs a day, well now I am up to my half a pack.  Because I am not smoking on the balcony but in the bedroom where the computer is.
 
I know I can do it this time because I didn't have this forum to post too.  I wish I had found it sooner because I am sure I never wouldn't have started again.
 
I know that the program mentions three weeks but I have decided to quit on tuesday, I have my reasons and I am determined.
 
Baye
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
They say the third time is the charm!!!

Hi All,
 
Lainey thank you for bumping up some posts for me, that was very nice.
 
Willisv56, I had to bump my quit date to Friday.  I picked tuesday because I have a nerve conductive test for my elbow on monday which is why I picked tuesday but then I remembered I have a dr.'s appointment on Thursday about my depression. 
My mantra was "I don't need it". 
 
Vincenza,  Well before I just stopped going outside on work breaks, I'll bring my ereader to work with me and just read.  And now that it is getting cooler, I don't feel like freezing my behind off!
 
As the smoking at the computer, this afternoon I took the cigarettes out and have banished myself the the balcony. 
 
Now if I want a smoke, outside I have to go.  Needless to say it is getting quite cool in Kingston ON and I don't want to go out.  Especially since I have bare feet.lol
 
Baye
 
 
12 years ago 0 18 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
They say the third time is the charm!!!

Hi Rock,
 
Yep I did it before so I know I can do it again.  My wife is glad I am smoking outside too.lol  Even the house smells better.
 
Baye