I thought I’d give you a quick update on the diabetes side of things. My blood sugar continues to go down, mostly in a good way. I’ll be curious to see what my hba1c is next month. I tend to fall down into the 60s in the afternoons but I have at least learned to tell the difference between “steady at 75″ and “falling at 75.” I have the shakes pretty bad by 65 but I’ve learned to treat it lightly.
Interesting to me, at least, is that I don’t want to eat at 65. I have some trouble recognizing the low, I just feel horribly tired and want to sleep. Only when I get up and start moving do the shakes hit and I stop and think…. maybe I should test my sugar. I’m guessing that the glyburide will be the next med to go and will probably suggest that if these afternoon lows continue to be an issue. I’m surprised that my sugars are doing so much better already considering I still have a long way to go to be at a healthy weight.
Also, by the way… What has really surprised me is that even on days that I make bad choices – my sugar has stayed pretty reasonable. I did have one day that I managed to top 150 (not that that was a goal!) but most mornings, I get up around 85-95 and I’m pretty pleased with that.
I am glad you have such good values, and lows are not fun, and I hope you get to remove that med soon, and that it keeps working anyway.
I think you are doing great.
I think that since you have lost a lot of weight your body is far more able to quickly bring down highs now, especially with the exercise you do on a regular basis, the exercise should be keeping the glycogen reserves down and those, when empty, allow the body to hide about a pound of blood glucose for later use, of course it would also hide four pounds of water at the same time.
By: TheDarkWraith on May 21, 2009
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