Saturday, October 15, 2011

So I got a call this morning. At 9am.  From my doctors office.  That can't be good.

I just had updated bloods done at the start of the week, and results were in. Not good, but I knew they wouldn't be, at least for my glucose levels (type2 diabetic if you want to know).  I knew what they would be, since I've been testing, so I knew what my average would be (too high, duh).

Now, I've been struggling with this for a few yrs, and I've only really been able to get good nos. a couple of times - when I've gone pretty much zero carb, and working out hard 5-6 days/wk. 
And I'm just freaking over it.  The majority of doctors/nutritionists/dieticians etcetcetc, I can bet you, have never really tried to live that way themselves - it's bloody hard! carbs are everywhere, and included in so many meals that it's a very restrictive way to live.

So anyway, I had my little rant, and we agreed that my meds needed tweaking (finally!, they've been loathe to do it beforehand), so now it's doubled, but all taken at one time, instead of split morning and night.   maybe this will help my morning nos.  I hope so, cos they are consistently the highest reading all day, and ALWAYS higher than my reading before bed...I've really taken to discounting them most of the time, cos I just can't control them *sigh*.

My thyroid levels were good, finally.  They're always a long slow road to fix up (Hashimoto's Disease - autoimmune, so my body is trying to kill my thyroid.  When I was diagnosed, my antibody levels were in the range of 2000 IU/mL, when it should be under 20ish).... that's not just attacking, that's bloody WWIII!

But now, of course, there's another issue (there' always, ALWAYS something out, every friggin' visit)...Vitamin D...I live in freaking AUSTRALIA, and I'm Vitamin D deficient..Fuck You 'slip, slop, slap' campaign'  so now I have another tablet to take.  OF COURSE I DO.  But this time, I'm getting ahead of the 8-ball.  I'm taking a combined Vit D and Calcium tablet - hey, I'm almost *hush* 40, ya just KNOW that that's going to be the next thing that goes wrong in this (what feels like) slowly collapsing body...seriously, there are days I think this body is aging a full 20 yrs ahead of what it should - I started going grey at 15 for chist's sake!

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