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    catattack is getting on with life.

    I will be seeing a nutritionist within the month. 1 week ago

    I dread it. She’ll ask me to do a food log. Ugh.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    We upped my medication. 1 week ago

    I have just added 500 mg more of metformin a day. We’ll see if that can get my glucose level to around 100.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    My A1C was 6.6.... 3 months ago

    a very good score. This was taken a month ago.

    My daily blood glucose levels have been fantastic recently.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    I went to two classes this week. 5 months ago

    One was on nutrition, how to look at recipes and change them to make them more healthy, and the other was on diabetes.

    In the diabetes class, we talked about which fruits had a higher level of sugar. That was valuable.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    Went to the Most Dangerous Place on Earth... 5 months ago

    Disneyland. It’s filled with sugar. You know, like Paradise Island in Pinocchio. So this time, I took my glucometer, and measured my sugar each morning and sometimes at night.

    My goal was to have one sweet thing a day, and I pretty much stuck to that.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    I've joined another class for my health. 6 months ago

    It’s at the local clinic. I don’t remember what it’s called, but it’s something to do with low-cost preparation of food. I could really use some alternatives in eating.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    Went to the Diabetic Group today... 6 months ago

    at my clinic. Interesting group of people. I really don’t share much else with them, but we all have diabetes (at various stages), and we all have struggles with food and sugar.

    I also signed up for two more classes, which look very interesting to me: Food Demos on Mondays once a month, and Diabetic 101, which goes over what diabetes is all about and how we can control it.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    My numbers are better now. 7 months ago

    My glucose was shooting up right after I stopped taking the Metformin, a consequence, I believe, of that act plus being on vacation.

    I have steadied my diet now, and started taking glucose tests at other times during the day. The numbers are just fine now.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    So, I'm off Metformin... 7 months ago

    but my glucose levels have been climbing. I’m going to have to really watch this now, keep my sugar intake down, down, down, especially if I want to stay off that drug.



    catattack is getting on with life.

    We've cut out the Metformin.... 7 months ago

    which I take twice a day. It’s great not being forced to remember to take that 2nd pill in the middle of the day.

    However, it’s a permanent change, according to my doctor, only if my blood glucose level stays down. We’ll see how it goes.



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