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2008-08-01
Yesterday my doctor phoned while I was out, so this afternoon I returned his phone call.
My A1c is 8.8, which is quite high, but we knew that it might not be in the optimum range because I've been switching to Avandia, which takes up to two months to start working. More worrisome is my "bad" cholesterol reading, which is 5.3; my last reading, from about four months ago, was 4.2.
Dr. E is going to phone the Health Sciences Centre next week and light a fire under the diabetes dietician -- hopefully they can see me for a consultation before the end of August. We're holding off on cholesterol meds for now, until we see what the combination of Avandia, exercise (which I can start again now that Reg isn't camped out in our living room) and dietary modifications can do.
My EKG was normal. Whew.
So it could have been a lot worse. I'm looking at changes to my diet and activity levels. Dammit. :-( Losing sugar was bad enough... the prospect of life without the mouth-feel of fat is immensely depressing.
My A1c is 8.8, which is quite high, but we knew that it might not be in the optimum range because I've been switching to Avandia, which takes up to two months to start working. More worrisome is my "bad" cholesterol reading, which is 5.3; my last reading, from about four months ago, was 4.2.
Dr. E is going to phone the Health Sciences Centre next week and light a fire under the diabetes dietician -- hopefully they can see me for a consultation before the end of August. We're holding off on cholesterol meds for now, until we see what the combination of Avandia, exercise (which I can start again now that Reg isn't camped out in our living room) and dietary modifications can do.
My EKG was normal. Whew.
So it could have been a lot worse. I'm looking at changes to my diet and activity levels. Dammit. :-( Losing sugar was bad enough... the prospect of life without the mouth-feel of fat is immensely depressing.