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Originally Posted by dancinbr
Have a great vacation.
Don't be shy.
With this disease you must reach out and learn as much as possible as you assess your own situation.
The worst thing you can do is to do nothing.
Do post.
We are all here.
We all started at one point. I only started with this in 3/2007. No time to be shy. Do what is necessary to get this T2 or T1 diabetes under control.
Best wishes to you,
Ralph
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Thank you for your encouragement!
I am back from vacation. I had a wonderful time! We camped at North Twin Lake in Oregon. We hiked around the lake several times and paddled on the lake. I thought with all the extra exercise and watching closely what I ate, I would loose weight. No weight loss.
My sugar numbers were great though...
I have to keep my blood checks down because insurance only allows 1 test a
day but they have been so good that I haven't worried.
July 23rd... before breakfast... 107
July 26th.... Before Dinner... 99
July 28th... Before Breakfast... 98
July 30th... Before Breakfast... 94
My fasting in the morning numbers are usually the highest numbers.
After meals were, 120, 105
Now with these wonderful numbers, I have to tell you about my DOCTOR visit.
Ugh... does that tell you anything???
I knew my sugars were out of control before starting this Low Carb...
7.8
my chol.... 5.1 (Is that really bad?)
my blood pressure at home runs..
128/80 to 132/85
At the Doctors it was 150/80
I was very surprised about the Blood pressure and said so. I gave him my notes on blood pressures.
He said MY Blood pressure monitor may be wrong. Or I may have White coat syndrome.
I believe the later..
He said I was "TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL"
I told him I wanted 3 more months to prove this diet works.
There was pretty much a shouting match with him asking me why I was coming to him. (good question)
I had him LOOK at my recorded sugar numbers again from my monitor and asked if these MEAN anything? He said 'yes"
Finally he did have to admit that IF I could control it by diet
"it would be better" and that was nearly under his breath.
He gave me a perscription for Blood pressure, which was the only thing I told him I would take... (not sure that was wise either)
This happened the first day of our vacation. My DH was soo proud of me for standing up to him.
Even now just thinking about it, I am sure my blood pressure is up!
Need advise
If my blood pressure is right (checked it against my sister's, and my Dad's monitors and they run very close to mine.)
Should I take the blood pressure medicine?
I chose to wait until I got back from vacation to start. I wanted to watch for symptoms at home.
Sorry this was sooo long but had a lot on my mind.