So, I started another anti-diabetes pill today...
By the way - tangent here - it's "anti-diabetes" pill, not "anti-diabetic" pill. Let's just say the pill is working against the diabetes and not the diabetic! :-)
Anywho...
I say "another" pill because, like many diabetics, finding the right combination of medication is quite a challenge. You want lower blood sugar, but not plummeting-to-the-center-of-the-earth low. So, I've been taking one medication consistently for several weeks now and it's been doing an OK job. My new doctor added another one and because of general life craziness lately, I opted to wait to begin taking it.
SO GLAD I WAITED.
If I had started right away, my first morning to take this pill would've been a Sunday morning. I would've been up in the front of church, leading worship, or preaching, or handling a chalice of wine over the pretty white linen when my blood sugar decided to plummet.
SO GLAD I WAITED.
I started the new pill this morning. And - oh my fricking word - sure enough, even after eating breakfast and lunch, I started feeling strange. Then I started getting shaky. I checked my blood sugar, and - holy cow - below 100 for the first time in quite a while. (My verbal exclamation startled the dog.)
The trippy thing about diabetes for me has been this damn numbers game. For years, my doctors have told me that below 100 is where my sugar needs to be. For years, that number was creeping up, until it finally stopped creeping and started shooting, higher and higher. So now that the number is creeping lower (or plummeting, like today), it affects almost everything - my energy and focus most of all. My body has gotten so accustomed to operating at the higher numbers, that this lower number throws everything out of whack. And so begins the balancing act...once again.
So, what I've realized again today is that this isn't going to be easy. But I also realize again that it is manageable. It may not always feel great, but it is manageable, and I am, in fact, managing.
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