NEW YEARS: MONITOR BLOODSUGAR & WEIGHT
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With all the discussion, I though this would be a good place to post.
When I was first diagnosed, I didn't want to start medication and tried using diet and exercise only. While I've had relative success managing things in that way, I can't call it a definitive success. So, I'm going to bite the bullet and start medication shortly.
Reading posters on this thread has helped; I realized that as long as my AC1 are too high (liver/kidney functions fine, blood pressure and cholesterol good), I'm only getting an "E" for effort, but my diabetes is not really under control. While this thread started out as megamania's support for getting his numbers in line, it has also made me take a look at what I've been doing with my own health.
Thanks.
-Suzi
When I was first diagnosed, I didn't want to start medication and tried using diet and exercise only. While I've had relative success managing things in that way, I can't call it a definitive success. So, I'm going to bite the bullet and start medication shortly.
Reading posters on this thread has helped; I realized that as long as my AC1 are too high (liver/kidney functions fine, blood pressure and cholesterol good), I'm only getting an "E" for effort, but my diabetes is not really under control. While this thread started out as megamania's support for getting his numbers in line, it has also made me take a look at what I've been doing with my own health.
Thanks.
-Suzi
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Scotley
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Good luck Suzi. The meds aren't so bad. The metformin in particular seems very mild in terms of side effects. The long term health benefits are just too great to keep going without control. The benefits to those around you when you get under control are worth it too. At least in my case when my blood sugar is running high I am no fun to be around--very grumpy.
Good luck, Suzi! Feel free to post here and bug us. 
When I started on metformin, I experienced the classic side-effect of that drug, nausea, for a couple of weeks, but it was probably exacerbated by the fact I was also fighting an ulcer at that point. Now, after a year and a half, I don't seem to be suffering any adverse effects...and my endocrinologist says, "you have the bloodwork of a normal person."
When I started on metformin, I experienced the classic side-effect of that drug, nausea, for a couple of weeks, but it was probably exacerbated by the fact I was also fighting an ulcer at that point. Now, after a year and a half, I don't seem to be suffering any adverse effects...and my endocrinologist says, "you have the bloodwork of a normal person."
According to what previous doctors have told me from my age, level of activity, and mildness of diabetes (there's a technical term, but I can't remember what it is), there is a chance that if I lose enough weight that diet and exercise will be enough until I'm older.
While real life has thrown a couple of curveballs in the past few years, I'm spitting distance from not being obsese and 1/3 of the way to not being overweight. So I'm going to ask the doc to put me on a medication that will help control the sugars and not hinder the weightloss, and preferable something I can stop taking once the scale hits 130 and test the theory out.
My appointment is at the end of this month, so we'll see how it goes. By then we should be congratulating megamania on his wicked AC1s
-Suzi
While real life has thrown a couple of curveballs in the past few years, I'm spitting distance from not being obsese and 1/3 of the way to not being overweight. So I'm going to ask the doc to put me on a medication that will help control the sugars and not hinder the weightloss, and preferable something I can stop taking once the scale hits 130 and test the theory out.
My appointment is at the end of this month, so we'll see how it goes. By then we should be congratulating megamania on his wicked AC1s
-Suzi
megamania
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sigh....
results came in today and I am not happy with them. AC 1 7.7.
If memory is accurate, the test measures the general bloodsugar level for the last three months with the last three weeks having the greatest influence. I was very sick the week of the test but still......
On the bright side, the last one was in December and I hit over a 9. Thus my renewed desire to correct the situation.
Talkto the doctor on Thursday of next week and I'll know more then.
Looking at the other numbers, I normally score 100-110 over 70-72 on Blood pressure and Cholesterol is normally around 100. I'll try to remember them for sure on Thursday.
results came in today and I am not happy with them. AC 1 7.7.
If memory is accurate, the test measures the general bloodsugar level for the last three months with the last three weeks having the greatest influence. I was very sick the week of the test but still......
On the bright side, the last one was in December and I hit over a 9. Thus my renewed desire to correct the situation.
Talkto the doctor on Thursday of next week and I'll know more then.
Looking at the other numbers, I normally score 100-110 over 70-72 on Blood pressure and Cholesterol is normally around 100. I'll try to remember them for sure on Thursday.
Megamania--7.7 is much better than 9+ and being sick can affect your sugars. When I'm sick, I run 10-20 higher (all other variables being equal) on my fasting numbers.
One thing that boggled me was having ok fasting bloodsugars, but still having high AC1. Different things can make your bloodsugar spike, but it corrects itself before the next time you check your bloodsugar (which is why AC1 are important--they give you an overview when your hometesting can only test your blood at a specific point in time).
Another factor is that home meters can be off by up to 30 ml, which means that your meter can read 120, but if you were submitting it for lab work, it could actually be as high as 150. And those are acceptible ranges for home meters.
-Suzi
One thing that boggled me was having ok fasting bloodsugars, but still having high AC1. Different things can make your bloodsugar spike, but it corrects itself before the next time you check your bloodsugar (which is why AC1 are important--they give you an overview when your hometesting can only test your blood at a specific point in time).
Another factor is that home meters can be off by up to 30 ml, which means that your meter can read 120, but if you were submitting it for lab work, it could actually be as high as 150. And those are acceptible ranges for home meters.
-Suzi
