Now, usually when this after-midnight trauma happens it stems from my "reaction" to the ordeal experienced the night before. You see, diabetes symptoms seem to come in pairs - there is lack of metabolic balance. If you are not awakened by the strong urge to urinate, then it will be by the experience of seemingly unquenchable thirst. I know. It happened to me before I got my glucose under control. One night I was plagued by such thirst, the next night I tried to prevent it's re-occurrence by drinking enough water before going to bed, only to be haunted by frequent urination. It's catch-22 drama.

Interesting symptoms and interesting nights

For quite a few months, I happened to learn firsthand that diabetics can have some really interesting nights. Apart from the insomnia that haunts us for various reasons such as frequent urination and severe thirst, the forced wakefulness can play other dirty games as well. Oh, don't even think about making intimacy during the nocturnal time-outs forced upon you. All the books I have read say those diabetic moments of intimacy are very, very fleeting at best. And I suppose if you are left diabetically frustrated and your spouse non-diabetically unfulfilled even your days could become as dark as nights after a while. Such are the symptoms of diabetes, catch-22 style.

I am reminiscing now. My mind was thrown back a couple years this afternoon as I prepared an orange for digestion. A few years ago that was me, until I found something called Milagro de la Selva - a diabetic herbal supplement that started my "come back" journey. Back then, I could not eat a large juicy orange without "paying" twice for it, even while I was taking diabetic medication.