What ever the nmae of the medication over a three month period it does not work. I do regular blood test and with the drug it is all over the place besides keeping to a good diet. Without the drug I find I am in better control. Please explain.
My apologies for the large posting - I suppose it is all due to an overflowing gratefulnes to Metformin and exercise and diet. Metformin and the rest seems to have given me my life back again.
A few months before I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes I was losing a fair amount of weight, and walking one day I had severe dizzy spells. In church I would often have to sit down due to dizziness as well. I was also sleeping a great deal during the day - sometimes going straight back to bed immediately after breakfast. I was having severe headaches. I felt I was slowly fading away and often thought about death and was checking funeral costs on the web - it was quite weird and very unlike my usual approach to life - which has always been optimistic with an A level personality. I suffered - unusually - from depression and was often in a bad mood.
My doctor said I did not seem the diabetes 'type' but had me tested anyway and my blood sugar level was - according to her - very high indeed - she read it as '97'. She immediately put me onto Metformin - first 500 then 1000 then 1500 then 2000. I cut out carbohydrates massively and started on a vigorous hiking program - covering 7.5 miles most days and on other days walking three to four miles. I walk fairly briskly and I noticed the difference almost immediately. Some days I just cannot resist walking and will go out a second and sometimes a third time, just walking, walking, walking. Hiking has always been my first love - hiking many miles in a Rift Valley in Africa for thirteen years and before that along the wild coast in South Africa. I now feel I am back at sixty years of age - not my seventy-seven years.
I now have a blood sugar reading of '40', my cholesterol has gone down dramatically - well within the healthy range - and my blood pressure has also gone down from 158/90 to 128/57. I had the usual liver and kidney tests and all is well there as well.
I have a fairly large breakfast - a generous heap of rolled oats with a slight sprinkling of Allbran - boiled in water - with three soft Iranian dates and half a banana (slightly unripe) cut into slices, and milk. I then have two slices of wholemeal bread laden with a good amount of dry ground herbs, a small amount of Bovril and the two slices of bread are first liberally soaked in two and sometimes three tablespoonfuls of olive oil. I put garlic on top and then beetroot and tomato slices with a sprinkling of cheese a very small amount of hot sauce and a little hot spice.
I have very little lunch - perhaps a few spoonfuls of lentils lightly fried with onion, tomato, garlic and herbs and curry and spices, and perhaps now and again a chicken leg, and then in the evening a small light curry with no potato, but with cauliflower and various greens. I drink copious amounts of water during the day - probably in excess of six very large glassfuls of water with lime juice and 'no-sugar added' orange juice. I will have two or three mandarins and eight to ten cream crackers during the day. In the evening before going to bed I will have one square of dark brown chocolate. I take 40mg Statin and a quarter aspirin as well.
I have once again taken up art after a break of sixty years (see below) - I seem to get a positive 'high' out of doing a successful colour drawing - all done on my tablet using a simple art app, and am planning an exhibition in a years time.