In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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147.2 after the morning ritual even after all the working out yesterday. Only got up to go to the bathroom once last night and only had a few sips of water when I did. Did not wake up thirsty this morning, but woke up because I had to go to the bathroom a second time. Got around 7.5 hours of sleep. One of the best nights of sleep in a long time.
Feeling pretty good. Not going to get excited about nothing this time though until the next Doctor visit.
So Dr. Endo was right. The 1000mg/dL reading was from the urinalysis and not the blood work. I was able to pull up my charts from last week and my glucose reading was 409mg/dL, which means it was only reduced a negligible 9mg/dL from the week prior. Initially I had thought the meds made me right the first time, but by the end of the week I knew something was still wrong.
I was kind of shocked that it only went down 9mg. I was keeping my weight stabilized and the thirst had gone down quite a bit, and I'd cut out the biggest offenders for sugar intake. But then I realized that even if SOME of the sugar I was eating was now being processed right with the first round of Metformin, the excess was just still being peed out (but just not as much) and the numbers were basically the same.
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I think you're right about maxing out at about 400.
Yeah. I think the max has to be somewhere around there and/or DEAD. Even though the 500mg 2x of Metformin wasn't enough to get this under control in the beginning, there had been so many other positive changes like the regular working out, cutting out the major offenders of sugar, the higher level of energy, the stabilized weight, the lowered thirst leading to easier nights of sleeping... To still be right at 400 a week later was discouraging to say the least, but I think that has to be right around the cap.
I mean, I was constantly thirsty before the meds, and I was peeing at least 2.5 gallons of liquid per day before the medication. I was peeing about half of that or less per day after the meds, so even though it was still at 400, I just wasn't craving water so I could pee out the excess beyond that. (At least in my ignorant POV, right?)
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Have you got your meter, test strips,lancets and lancing device?
No. But I will. Promise.
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It sounds like you're feeling better tho! I wonder if you were motivating yourself thru essential lack of energy by drinking lots of coffee?
I bet I was. I did probably double my daily coffee intake the last 5-6 months or so from Summertime and before that.
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Speaking of coffee.... if you were nervous about what Dr Endo had to say, that could account for a higher than normal (for you) heart rate. But if it's CONSISTENTLY above 100 that's something a Dr would look into.
I'm always nervous at the doctor. I don't know how much that accounts for anything, but I'm sure at least a couple of BPM.
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AFA that feeling in your chest that wakes you up... it could be some sort of heart arrhythmia that people often describe as a pounding, fluttering, or hollow feeling. That's a common side effect of too much coffee. If you've dialed back on the coffee those events might go away in a few weeks or a month.
I don't think it's the coffee, just because I had this problem since my early 20's even when I wasn't drinking coffee. Back then, I blamed it on too much weed smoking, but since I haven't smoked weed in at least 8 years it can't be that either.
Well... I shouldn't say it's NOT the coffee and it WASN'T the weed back then. They could be contributing factors to the problem. Unfortunately, I've done searches online for the experience I feel when it's happening and I've never been able to come across anybody else explaining something that matches the sensation. Not even in medical forums where somebody
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Early rain put an end to ideas of mowing the lawn when it was warm out. Hopefully everything is dry enough for me to do it on Friday. Nasty thunderstorm blew our way but I think we missed the worst of it.
Only did 2 workouts today, but the one I just finished was the best yet.
Cooking my dinner at the same time again tonight as I did last night. I'll get it back earlier eventually.
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Mah jong in the morning for me and most likely in the rain. Again.
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It's so nice to be able to eat a larger dinner meal and not feel the need to down 1/4 gallon of water afterward.
The things we take for granted when we're healthy.
As a matter of fact, except for the swig of water I had left in my cup this morning when I woke up, all I've had to drink today was some coffee and some milk in cereal. That's amazing.
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Last night went more or less the same than the night before. Got up once to go to the bathroom and slept around 7 to 7.5 hours. Drank very little when I got up at night and wasn't thirsty when I woke up in the morning.
148.4lbs this morning after the ritual (NOTE TO SELF: Since this is almost becoming my day to day journal on the experience, this will be the last time I say that, and if I post my weight without saying anything to the contrary, it will just be assumed).
In just 2 days of insulin and 1 day of the other new meds, we're already back up to the highest I'd gotten on that first week of Metformin while I was eating quite a bit more. I should also note that last night before I went to bed the scale actually read 150.2 lbs, which is only the 2nd time since I've seen the first doctor and got the initial diagnosis that I've been above 150 lbs, again, this time without severe overeating to get that high.
If this keeps up, I'm going to probably have an easier time than I thought trying to figure what I'll eat every day, since it will require less than I was imagining it would. I've just been so used to overeating without any results for so long that I forgot how quickly you can put on weight when things are working right.
I'll start cutting back when I get up to 156 again, and then as I'm working out and figuring out how much of these meds I need to get stable, I'll re-adjust my caloric intake accordingly. I look great now... I don't want to put on a bunch of non-muscle weight super fast. Just enough to feed my body and help grow back some of the muscle that I lost. I'm not going to be power lifting, but I think that a lean 165lbs at my height would look great on me and be plenty to do all the physical work I need to do. In fact, I think that even at the 148lbs I'm at now I'd have an easier time than I did last year at 160 just because I'm doing regular exercise, including back exercises, and I think it's extremely unlikely that I would accidentally tweak my back again right now as long as I keep up with that.
Good luck at Mah Jong, Brenda.
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Stupid...
There wasn't supposed to be any rain from now until 6PM if we made it through the 11AM hour, but it's pouring buckets out right now.
Probably won't be able to mow the lawn today now just because some stray clouds came by and dumped a quarter of an inch in 10 minutes.
Oh well........ :(
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Hey SIX, this is a Cliff Notes version of meds for diabetes. It lists all the oral meds by class and a quick summary of how each class works, and major side effects. I think your "G" med is in there somewhere.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/in-dept
h/diabetes-treatment/art-20051004
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No luck today at mah jong and oh SIX, Got rain up here too.
Though last week I couldn't go out once but today I did 4 times. So that was an improvement.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey SIX, this is a Cliff Notes version of meds for diabetes. It lists all the oral meds by class and a quick summary of how each class works, and major side effects. I think your "G" med is in there somewhere.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-2-diabetes/in-dept
h/diabetes-treatment/art-20051004
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It's Glipizide 5mg.
Hey... Any chance you think my new blood sugar monitor is a broken and/or uncalibrated piece of shit?
I wasn't supposed to test until tomorrow morning before eating to see if I needed to up my insulin level, but I decided to give it a shot about an hour ago just to see how it works and what my level was.
Screwed up 2 test strips right away with an Err 4 and Err 6.
Finally got the third one to work and it says I'm at 505mg/dL. Tried it again about 1/2 hour later and it was 495mg/dL.
How the hell can that be possible? I've put on a few lbs despite the working out and my liquid intake is so much lower than it was before my diagnosis without any feelings of thirst throughout the day and night.
505 is about 100 more than my last two readings (at the hospital and at Dr. Endo) and means that I've got ketoacidosis going on and I should be in the ER.
I don't feel bad.
What gives?
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The meters are calibrated around 100. I don't have experience with readings that high, but my guess is that the only way to interpret the result is "way too fucking high". I think the lab result is prolly more accurate than the strip, bc theyll dilute the sample to be in-range.
But even at around 100, with strips you're still going to be about +/-5 or so, and about every 20th reading or so will throw out a spurious reading that needs to be re-done.
So I think what this is saying is that you're still maxed out on your glucose and need to add insulin, according to schedule.
Oh BTW, if you're liquid intake is lower, everything in your blood is more concentrated including glucose. You should be drinking the usually -recommended 6-8 * 8oz glasses per day (appx 1/2gallon) of water) preferably before 8 PM so it doesn't interfere with your sleep.
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