A Ray of Hope

After my readings did not come down when I tried to control my blood sugar with diet, my general practitioner started giving me pills to do that.

The first three pills had side effects to the point where I couldn't keep taking any of the three.

Went to my eye doctor today and she said, your eyes are OK now, as far as conditions are concerned, but she indicated that doesn't mean that can't change, which I took to mean my diabetes numbers are too high which can lead to eye trouble I've read.

Went home for lunch, then decided to go straight to my walk-in clinic and try a 4th blood sugar medicine. The doctor I got this time had some age and experience, which I was glad to see and gave me a medicine that was not in the category as the first three. Hallauyeh.

I start with this 4th blood sugar medicine tomorrow. I got the doctor's name so I can get him the next time. He said give it a month. Or, I guess, any side effects which are too much for me.

He said the idea was to get the numbers down into a reasonable level, meaning we're not going for world records here. He indicated 130 was a reasonable goal, better than my 170s now.

I was about to lose all hope. I would suggest others pay a visit to their doctor if they think their numbers are too high. They do have a variety of medicines they can try.

I would also suggest keeping a record of which medicines you've tried and your blood sugar numbers. Of course, they took my blood sugar reading at the clinic so that tells them a lot.

Thanks, Laney for those nice words. That's exactly the way I thought when I made that visit to the general practitioner to try a 4th diabetes medicine to possibly lower my blood sugar. I was very proud of myself.

I had just been that day to visit the eye doctor who spurred me on by saying my eyes were OK now.... (which I took to mean if I don't lower my blood sugar numbers that might not last).

In addition to those two doctors in one day, two days before I had kept an appointment with my psychiatrist who treats my bipolar. I had missed the appointment before with the psychiatrist because I don't have a good system for keeping up with that.

So I changed my system: I now put my next 1 or 2 or more doctor appointments taped to my kitchen counter so I'll see them every day. It's worked for the last 2 appointments.

about 2 weeks before that I had seen my chiropractor who treats my lower back when it goes out. When it's mildly sore, I put a frozen gel pack (from drug stores) on it which reduces the inflammation.

So, yeah, I'm a pretty up to date person.

I also try to improve my diet by eating fresh chicken and pork chops and cooking ham as opposed to canned food which has extremely high salt content while fresh is close to zero, whole wheat bread, cook with extra virgin olive oil, brown rice, although white rice has good nutrients, also.

Oh, did I forget trying to get a walk in whenever I can?