Going on insulin was my choice.
Glucophlage made me nuts. I didn’t get a stomach upset, and I did lose a bunch of weight without effort. However, my blood sugars weren’t going down, my anger level was very high which is not good in the high school classroom, the high sugar was making thinking difficult, and life in general wasn’t good.
This sort of thing really irritates me:
CNN.com – Surgeon general to cops: Put down the donuts – Feb. 28, 2003
If you don’t have to do a glucose tolerance test DON’T.
I went to one unsuspecting, and the bad part was, that I probably had bad enough fasting blood sugars in a year’s set of tests, to warrant skipping that.
So I tell people all the time, I “flunked” the glucose tolerance test, and that I didn’t … that is didn’t tolerate glucose.
And see if you can find a lab that can process the blood immediately. I didn’t get any treatment until the next Monday and even then we didn’t know how bad off I was.
If you have a Palm Pilot this is super software for logging and tracking what is going on with your diabetes.
You can import the data into either Excel or Word, which really impressed by Diabetes Educator.
Lots of good information. The more you know, the less out of control you feel. Or at least it works for me.
MayoClinic
This is a good place to ask questions. You’ll get responses from other people who have had a similar experience.
I’ve decided to set up a weblog, about my experiences and research into diabetes.
I was diagnosed on September 30, 2002
Needless to say, it was a life altering event.
I have been dealing with several other problems prior to the diabetes, many of them, I’m sure attributed:
Sleep Apnea
Restless Leg Syndrome
Gastric Reflux Disease
I’m quite sure there is a major genetic component since my father died of congestive heart failure at 48, and was diagnosed with diabetes before then. Both his parents were also diagnosed with diabetes.