One more appointment to go.

[LuckyCharms]

THIRTEEN doctor's appointments (primary and specialists) between this past Dec 1 and tomorrow.

If I die, my estate better pursue getting all of these $50.00 co-pays refunded.

I shouldn't complain...for a 67 year old Type 1 diabetic, I'm doing quite well. Bloodwork is good. I'm still strong physically. I have my share of problems that I like to complain endlessly about, but I don't think they are going to kill me soon.

Tomorrow is the one I'm dreading. It's eyeball shot day.

Now, I've calculated that I've given myself more than 65,000 injections (5-6 per day) over the past 30+ years. Needles are nothing to me. I can give myself a shot easier than I can take a pill.

But the eyeball injection makes me feel like a little kid dreading a shot.

As I'm sure some of you here know, the eyeball injection doesn't exactly hurt, except for the pressure you feel when the medicine goes in.

It's just the thought of the whole thing that wigs me out. Makes you feel like you're in A Clockwork Orange.

That's all I got...you all have a good day.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Please take care of yourself, my dear LuckyCharms . . .We all love you.

[LuckyCharms]

2. I do Peggy. And we all love you too.

These docs have kept me alive. I HATE going to appointments, but we do what we have to do, don't we?

How are you doing, Peg?

For what it is worth, I'm not highly religious, but I do indeed pray to my version of God.

I mention you in my prayers, and I hope you are staying strong.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. I am doing OK, my dear lucky charms!

Thank you for asking. Today I get to talk to my surgeon. Hopefully we can find out what is in the works for me.

[LuckyCharms]

27. I'm glad you are doing good!

I hope your discussion goes well!

Make a plan, follow the plan, adjust as needed!

Good luck, Dear Peg!

[debm55]

3. I hope all goes well for you tomorrow, LuckyCharms. Sending my prayers to you.

[LuckyCharms]

4. Thanks Deb...all will be fine though.

It always is.

[debm55]

5. 😊

[Grim Chieftain]

6. Sending you good thoughts and warm wishes that it all goes well, LuckyCharms

You will be in my thoughts tomorrow. We're with you.

[2naSalit]

7. I am...

Cringing right along with you. I have vitreous detachments in both eyes now, since this summer, and am dreading the possibility of needing such treatments which would require my getting over some serious brain damage about it before, during and after.

[LuckyCharms]

8. Oh no...I wish you the best.

Seriously, don't worry if you have to get the shots...you'll be good. It's just the thought of them...

I have had vitreous detachments in both eyes for some time now, and it doesn't require treatment, just monitoring. First noticed it when driving and turning my head to check my blind spot...ring of light around outer perimeter of vision.

My shots are needed for a retinal bleed...

[2naSalit]

10. Ooof!

I have a horrible thing about needles and another about my eyes. I had both onset events examined immediately because I was horrified at the thought of diminished or loss of sight... then the thought of injections should things get worse. The first one still bugs me but the second one is hardly noticeable, thankfully since it's in my good eye. They seem most noticeable when I get tired or when driving at night... don't do much of that anymore.

Hope all goes well today!

[nuxvomica]

9. My mom used to get those eyeball shots

For macular degeneration, when she was in her 90s. She had been through the Depression, WWII, and five births but she hated getting those shots. They did help though and she didn't need them the last few years of her life but we went every 6 months never knowing if it would be a shot day.

[MLAA]

11. Thinking of you! The idea of eye shots wigs me out as does taking eye pressure manually rather tha. The machine

that blows air. Fingers crossed for you!

[JMCKUSICK]

12. You too LuckyCharms

That would wig me out too.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. Good luck with your shot tomorrow

[Wild blueberry]

14. Good vibes, Charms!

And a warm hug. Be well.

[IbogaProject]

15. Type 1 here too

I don't like blood draws, nor the big needles they use for vaccinations. My Mom had the eye shots, which really help to slow macular degeneration. We found out by accident that her eyes improved much more with every 8 weeks as opposed to a 6 week interval. Best wishes for a smooth and easy injection.

[LuckyCharms]

16. Are you on the pump, or MDI (multiple daily injections)?

My endo is trying to get me to go on a pump...but I'm balking.

[IbogaProject]

24. 5 shots a day

I get my long acting in pens, which I use like vials with a normal syringe. I only take ~12 units of lantus and I feel I can better get a specific dose with a 30 unit syringe. And I feel it helps me not mix up that and my short acting Novolog.

I had a chance to be in a clinical trial for the first pump back in the 1980s and I balked. My biggest problem was I would have to drop to one shot a day if in the control and I was in good control with two shots of day of the N & R mixed by me twice a day. I also didn't want something sticking out of me, and worried about battery failure. I'm still holding out for the insulin pump to be integrated with the continuous glucose meter. I'm usually under 7 on my AIC, and have hit below 6 with the CGM guiding me, last AIC was 6.7.

[LuckyCharms]

25. I've screwed up my Toujeo vs. Novolog a few times...not good.

I wear a Dexcom, and even that is too much technology for me.

I have both the app on my phone, and I use the receiver also for redundancy, in case either the app or receiver fails. So I'm always carrying around two devices.

I turned off my "high" Dexcom alarm, because that alarm is so freaking obnoxious in the middle of the night.

Have my low alarm set at 90, so I have time to catch a drop. I sometimes dip hard into the 40s though.

My a1C runs in the low to mid 7s, with the lowest recent one being 6.8.

My best to you...hang in there.

[KS Toronado]

17. Reading about eye shots made my eyes hurt.

[LuckyCharms]

18. I'm surprisingly finding out that...

so many people I know have to get them.

I never realized.

I have a friend who had to start getting them in his late forties...

[niyad]

19. Yikes, just reading about it hurts my eyes! Sending good thoughts.

Focus on that voice in your ear. . me, making all sorts of rude remarks to keep your mind off things.

[LuckyCharms]

20. .

[Marthe48]

21. Be nice to yourself

I dreaded the shots, from the minute after getting the last to getting the next. The shot was never as bad as the worry.

Maybe they'll give yo a longer interval until the next?

[LuckyCharms]

22. I was actually able to skip the last one...

but I'm getting symptoms again...so we'll see what they do tomorrow.

I felt like such a jerk at the last one...I almost burst into tears after it! Don't know why...it doesn't hurt that bad...it's the freakiness of the whole thing.

I'm sorry you had to get them, Marthe. I know what you mean about the worry being worse.

All the crap that we have to get done to us that is much much worse...and this little shot makes us fret for some reason!

[Marthe48]

30. I's never get contacts

Couldn't stand the idea. I guess the shots are in the same ballpark.

I think I remember you got a break. Like getting a snow day from school

[LuckyCharms]

32. I was doing a little dance when walking out of the office!

YESSSSSSSSS!

[Laurelin]

23. You're brave!

I have had 6, 2 to go this month (if I don't have to go back for this awful flu) and all I do is whine. I agree with you about eyes. I'm sensitive about them too. Good luck!!

[LuckyCharms]

29. Jeez, good luck to you too!

Are you getting them every couple of weeks?

I don't think i would have the mental strength for that!

Please don't view it as whining...it legitimately sucks!

[Laurelin]

31. No, 3 last week

2 were routine, one was urgent care because of chest pain with the flu.

Sending strong thoughts your way. I do hate when they mess with my eyes.

[LuckyCharms]

33. Stay strong and get better please!

[Sogo]

28. My BIL gets eyeball shots. I can't imagine....

Good luck.

[HeartsCanHope]

34. I'm sorry the shot gives you anxiety.

I feel the same way about anything dental, (Marathon Man gave me the willies--had to go to the lobby for a while!) Hope everything goes well. Will be thinking of you!

[LuckyCharms]

35. Have you tried nitrous?

I do well with dental stuff, but if offered, I'll take the nitrous for a root canal.

The only real side effect is that you end up telling the dentist that they have beautiful eyes. Man or woman...doesn't matter.

Seriously...ask for nitrous if you have dental anxiety. You won't care what they do to you then!

Best wishes to you as well.

[HeartsCanHope]

36. Never have tried nitrous. I have weird reactions to meds sometimes, so I stick with the tried and true.

Thanks so much for the information. If I have to go anywhere else I'll keep it in mind! I have a great dentist now, and she knows how to keep me occupied during procedures. She keeps up a funny, informative patter the whole time so I don't have time to think about anything else. She has a dental assistant named Sharon that manages to hold my hand when things are really scary--all while assisting! It's just the waiting time at home before the dental procedures that's the worst. Too much time to think about it! Thanks again for your kind suggestion, I wish I had one for you in return!

[LuckyCharms]

37. The nitrous wears off quickly...they give you oxygen when you are done...

and they make sure you have a driver to take you home. It REALLY helps if you are anxious. I like getting it, but I have to tell myself to keep my mouth shut because I start babbling like a fool.

I got a tooth pulled one time. It was a difficult pull.

Came home, friends stopped over later.

We had a few drinks.

Was dancing with my friend's wife.

We got too exuberant.

I slipped on something and cracked my head open on a windowsill.

Rushed to the ER.

17 stiches.

That was a bad day anyway you look at it.

[Niagara]

38. 61 k7r!!!

You have much more strength than I have, Lucky.

Sounds painful. I would chicken out.

[LuckyCharms]

39. No you wouldn't!

And I can pretty much guarantee that you're stronger than me!

[Niagara]

40. I'd call in sick to my eye injection appointment

[LuckyCharms]

41. I'll be honest with you...

I feel like I revert back to a child when I get these shots.

I don't know why either, because I've endured much worse.

[Niagara]

42. I believe it

I don't know how anyone can stay in adult mode during something like that.

I'm a brat during the puff test at the eye doctor. It's nothing, it doesn't hurt. I just can't adult during this process, it's awful!

I tell them this ahead of time but they don't believe me until they experience it.

[LuckyCharms]

43. I don't get the puff...

I get the numbing drops, and then they touch your eye with n instrument to measure the pressure.

Something about the eyes, Niagara...I understand why you don't like the puff.

[Niagara]

44. I might try the numbing drops

They usually give up and skip it with me.