I had a bit of a health scare last week, something I didn’t realize until recently. I didn’t have money to get the test strips I needed to monitor my glucose levels. Feeling a bit invincible (something that comes to me when I get tired of constant monitoring) I stopped checking but I was determined to keep monitoring my food intake. Well, you can guess what happened. I was feeling OK so I started eating bad. I should have known something was off because I noticed I constantly had a copper feeling on my tongue. Yes, it was like I was slowly bleeding but I wasn’t. I should have figured something was wrong but I chalked it up to age.

At the beginning of this week I made some bad choices. I don’t need to get into what they were, since thankfully they were relatively minor, but after I had time to think about them I, for whatever reason, decided to do a glucose check. My level was over 200 and stayed that way for a day. That wasn’t a good sign and then I started feeling the effects. I was getting aches and started getting some other symptoms that were uncomfortable. I have gone back to monitoring my glucose, which is still too high hovering just below 200 and I’m starting to eat the right types of food. I’m not eating as I should because I can’t figure on what to eat and my taste is very screwed up. I had something this evening and I only had half the food because my body didn’t want it.

I have a feeling I’m going to be struggling for the next month to get myself back on track.

I’ve said it before that I hate this monitoring. I know it keeps me stable but the constant reminder that I’m sick is frustrating me. When I think I have things in control I get something to slap me out of my complacency.

 

 

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Personal Diabetes News - March 17, 2010
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