my health timeline

cross between hippie/granola chick and scientist/geek chick

I expect to write about many of my health challenges and the results of various treatment modalities at various points as I continue to blog. This page will exist to order those posts in chronological order. For now, there is a short timeline of my health history, with an emphasis on T2 diabetes and related issues.

1983
  • gave birth to my daughter
  • borderline on GTT during pregnancy
1989
  • diagnosed with T2 diabetes
2001-2002
  • perimenopause
2003
  • menopause
2006
  • acute pancreatitis
  • hospitalized for several days
  • lost control of bG afterwards
May 2007
  • myocardial infarction
  • unsuccessful angioplasty
  • CABG
  • disability begins
2008
  • CFS diagnosis
2009-2010
2011
  • no progress
early 2012
fall 2012

2 comments:

  1. Looks like you have had some struggles. My first husband had T2, he died of complications of it. However, this is only because he was not taking care of him self, glad to see you are. Have looking into using herbs, there are a lot that can help with T2.

    Followed you here from the Living Natural Link Up

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  2. I'm very sorry for your loss.

    When I was on alt.support.diabetes, most of the herbs people tried did not lower bG. Even the common stuff, like cinnamon and turmeric, people didn't seem to see much effect from.

    Of course, lowering bG isn't everything. I am very committed to milk thistle because of it's effects on the liver. The liver is the first thing that goes wrong with T2, in that insulin resistance begins in the liver. And fatty liver is so common with diabetics. I plan to post a bunch of research on it in the near future.

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