My Self Control is Showing

As of my last doctors appointment my doctor lowered the amount of byetta that I was taking from 10mcg to 5mcg. My doctor was concerned with my blood sugars going into the 50’s on a regular basis. Now here I am a little over a month later and I have to admit that the doctor was right, I’ve only had a couple of episodes of 50’s in the last month.

I know it is better for me to keep my blood sugars above the low range. It’s important for my long range health to keep the highs and lows at bay as much as possible.

All of that being said I am still not real pleased with the switch in my medication. Outside of the obvious benefit of byetta helping with keeping my blood sugars in check it is also great at keeping my hunger in check. Well at least it was great at keeping my hunger in check. Now that I am on the lower dose I seem to be starving all the time. Before the switch I could take or leave food, I was not ever very hungry. Now with being hungry all the time my self control is showing. I’ve gained ten pounds in the last month. I guess with the medication change I am now going to have to learn how to control my hunger with something other than medication. This is going to be quite the challenge for me. Self control with food is definitely something that I’m not good at.

I know change is inevitable, but man was I ever happy with where I was with my medications and weight loss efforts. I had lost over 60lbs in the last year. Now I’m back to moving the other direction and having to learn self control with food. #*^~, bad word, very bad word, but that is exactly how I feel right now. Life would be so much easier if once you got things mostly figured out you could just keep them the same.

The Spinning Has Stopped

Back when I was first diagnosed as type 2 diabetic the first thing that I can remember doing diabetes wise is learning. I spent countless hours going from web site to web site reading and researching everything that I could find that was diabetes related. For the first few months after diagnosis I felt like my life was spinning, trying to absorb everything that I could about this life long battle that I was just put in charge of.

Now here I am a year and a half later and I think that the spinning has finally stopped. I no longer spend every free moment that I have trying to find more information about this disease. I assume that the road that I have taken to get where I’m at today has been traveled by many people before me, and I also assume that there will be at least a few more behind me on the same path. I’m also guessing that this is a pretty normal path that everyone takes.

Now that I have reached this point in my battle, I’m wondering what the next phase that I will go through is.

“The wait is over” almost

I finally got my test results from my last 3 month A1c check. Whenever I have this lab work done my A1c gets checked along with all the usual checks that go along with the A1c plus my cholesterol. My cholesterol problems date back further than my diagnosis with diabetes, my Dr had been harping, er uh advising me for quite some time that I needed to work on getting my cholesterol numbers in the ranges that they should be. When I was diagnosed with diabetes my Dr also started me on meds to get my cholesterol in control. When I started taking meds for my cholesterol my triglycerides were over 3000, here it is a little over a year later and they are now down to 587, still to high but much lower than were I started. My new Dr doesn’t think that they are coming down fast enough so he has added another med for me to take to help lower them quicker.

I suppose at this point you might be thinking the same thing that I was at the time of the call from my Dr. Ok, I need to lower my triglycerides and all of my other tests came back mostly normal, so what about my A1c?

Evidently 587 on triglycerides is the magic number that will not allow your blood sugars to be checked, or at least the Dr said that they could not check my A1c because my triglyceride numbers were to high. Makes me wonder how they found out that my A1c was at 7.8 with my triglycerides being over 3000?

As the title to this post says, the wait is almost over, three more months and I will know my A1c, that is of course if my triglycerides are at anything except that magic 587.