In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Quote:Good idea, SIX!!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk but I have to put my hearing aides on and I am really starting to hate them.
THANKS!!
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Quote:Oh, I hope!!!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meds will need to be adjusted. It's possible I won't be on insulin for the long term and I just needed to give my pancreas a break from all those years of eating several dry cups worth of brown rice and all my other sugar sources every night.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Fingers crossed!
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Quote:Smooth sailing then, at least for six months??
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and vampires. No luck at mah jong but the vampires went smooth.
All medical tests now completed.
Wahoo!!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Smooth sailing then, at least for six months??
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and vampires. No luck at mah jong but the vampires went smooth.
All medical tests now completed.
Wahoo!!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Yup, nothing more on the medical front until November for my next thyroid test.
Though I do have to see about getting my ears properly cleaned out.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh, I hope!!!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meds will need to be adjusted. It's possible I won't be on insulin for the long term and I just needed to give my pancreas a break from all those years of eating several dry cups worth of brown rice and all my other sugar sources every night.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Fingers crossed!
Education has been a blessing. Between what I learned about my body, drugs and food intake, not only was it very clear that I'm on the wrong medication, but I'm pretty sure I know what needed to be done to fix it.
Not only that, but somehow I managed to get in touch with Dr. Endo on the phone and he didn't give me any pushback at all on what I wanted and we're trying something different for two weeks.
Starting tomorrow we're back on 2 pills of 1000mg Metformin (morning and night) and the 5mg of Glipizide in the morning. For now at least, we're continuing with the 18 units of Long-Active insulin in the morning as well, but no rapid-active. If I'm still plunging in the afternoon I'm supposed to dial back on the 18 units by 3 until the dips stop.
The difference?
Well first, with the working out I've been doing and the new diet, my body looks pretty chiseled and incredible right now.
But the biggest factor is the knowledge I have under my belt now. Even though I'd cut out the peanut butter entirely and most of the cereal and milk, I was still eating obscene amounts of brown rice every night before I was getting tested at the doctor around 11:45AM and getting those 400mg/dL readings (and those 500+ readings at 9:00AM when I was finger pricking).
And when I say OBSCENE I MEAN IT. I eat 1/4 cup dry now for dinner. Before I just dumped it into the pot with the vegetables and had to have been eating 3 to 5 cups. I'd go to sit down with my pot of rice, vegetables and two 1/4 lb burger patties and that thing had to weigh 4 lbs before I dug into it.
I'm convinced we jumped right to a full insulin regimen prematurely.
Plus, Metformin and Glipizide work together to inhibit the Liver from releasing sugar as well as promoting the pancreas to release insulin AND helping your body process both of them correctly.
My hope is that with my new diet consisting of a reasonable amount of carb intake, regular working out and being back on the oral meds that my sugar levels climbing while I sleep (due to my liver releasing sugar when I don't need it) will be a thing of the past, and by eventually eliminating the long-active insulin the afternoon dips to dangerous levels will go away as well.
I shouldn't need to be planning out my daily carb intake around when my body is going to be dangerously low on sugar.
I'm also supposed to be getting 180-200 grams of carbs per day according to the dietitian (her plan specifically for me based off of my sex, age, weight, height, build and level of activitiy). Until I heard that this morning, I'd only been eating half of that amount for the last 4 or 5 days.
My buddy came over with more food tonight. I over did it again while I took my first Metformin in weeks and went from around 110 to 210 a few hours later, but not only did it drop from there, but it did at a fairly rapid clip and didn't stop at 110, but plunged down to 84 before I ate another 30 carbs before it got dangerous. No insulin taken... just that 1000mg of Metformin.
I think it's possible I didn't even over do it and the amount I ate wouldn't have gotten me that high had I already had a steady supply of Metformin in my system over the course of a few days, given how quickly it came back down and sunk even below where I was when I started.
Hopefully tomorrow morning I wake up with a low reading. 100 would be too good to be true, but if I start out low like this I can eat b
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133.
Not as low as I was hoping for, but sure beats the 180+ yesterday morning that rose to over 200 while by the time I'd gotten to class and dropped to 150 by the time I left class.
There was a slight uptick during the night. This wasn't residual from what I ate after I crashed, either. That bumped me up to about 155 the 2nd time I'd eaten dinner when I was dipping into the 80s, but it was down to around 120 by the time I went to sleep. (Our target is between 70 and 120 while fasting and below 180 within 2 hours of eating)
Now if I'm going to keep huge spikes from happening without rapid insulin, I really have to be mindful of the carbs per meal. I think I'm going to probably have to be grazing more often. I also think that I'm probably going to have a few days while I spike in the morning when I eat because I'm already this high, but hopefully once I'm on the meds for a week or two that lowers at night.
I may not have mentioned it earlier, but one of the other reasons I thought my liver might be dumping out so much sugar at night now is because for the last 6 or 7 years of intermittent fasting where I'd only eat in that 4 hour window before I went to sleep, I was probably ingesting somewhere in the ballpark of 700-750 grams of carbs on the average night between the rice, peanut butter, cereal and milk. Now all of the sudden I've gone cold turkey on that and my liver says "What the hell man? You've got no sugar at night now!".
Hopefully the Metformin and Glipizide get me back on track.
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Out for my walk in a bit. Something to go back to the library.
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Well, people's metabolisms do adjust to their food. If you're eating a high fat low carb diet, your body will adapt to burn fat. If you're eating a high protein low everything else diet your body will adapt to burning protein. But considering how much rice you were eating I'm curious/puzzled why you didn't gain weight, unless your adaptation was to shut down insulin production and spill sugar. Or you were just so physically active you burned it up? I guess only you could figure it out, if it's at all possible, bc only you know what you were eating and how demanding your projects were.
But, yeah, I can see how your diet might have tweaked your metabolism. I hope your oral meds work out for you, SIX!
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Quote:I hope the weather is pleasant in your corner BRENDA!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit. Something to go back to the library.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, people's metabolisms do adjust to their food. If you're eating a high fat low carb diet, your body will adapt to burn fat. If you're eating a high protein low everything else diet your body will adapt to burning protein.
I'm doing a high protein, moderate fat, low carb diet for now.
I do want to introduce more carbs to the diet, but right now I'm only planning on doing what I think I can get away with. For instance, they want me eating more carbs in a day, so I did eat 1/2 cup peanuts, 1 cup of cheerios and 1/2 cup of skim milk at 10:00AM this morning, which is about 4 hours earlier than I've typically been eating during the day because my sugar usually doesn't get low until mid-afternoon. Granted, it started off lower today than usual, but I did spike over 200 and hang there about 30 minutes. I fully expected this even with the lowish amount of carbs that early in the day.
I forgot that I wanted to cook some eggs this morning. I think I'll try that tomorrow, and really limit the carb intake early on while I get my body adjusted to regularly eating earlier in the day.
(As of writing this message I've dipped back into the middling 90s. I should be able to eat some carbs now and not get over 170 this time).
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But considering how much rice you were eating I'm curious/puzzled why you didn't gain weight, unless your adaptation was to shut down insulin production and spill sugar. Or you were just so physically active you burned it up? I guess only you could figure it out, if it's at all possible, bc only you know what you were eating and how demanding your projects were.
I couldn't tell you. When I'm active, I'm REALLY active, but there were those days or weeks where I wasn't active too. Especially during the winter. I think I was probably fatter than I realized during the winter before the weight loss came on, but my body does a good job of putting it everywhere instead of it all showing up in one place like my belly. In November I weighed 176 with all my clothes on. At my lowest, I was 146 with all of my clothes on. Last time I was weighed at the doctor I was 157 with all of my clothes on.
I don't think I lost too much muscle before I got treated. Most of that loss would have been fat and water weight.
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But, yeah, I can see how your diet might have tweaked your metabolism. I hope your oral meds work out for you, SIX!
I can't ever get those beta cells back unless I somehow qualify for a process where I can get somebody elses beta cells, but in the meantime let's hope I can get my day to day metabolism back in check.
I think at this point though, working overnights is a thing of the past. Too bad though, since my neighbor could get me an overnight gig a few days a week that I wouldn't have minded doing.
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