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<blockquote data-quote="Toby789" data-source="post: 2297317" data-attributes="member: 519716"><p>It doesn't sound like you are a hypochondriac! What it does sound like is that you are expecting changes too soon. This is a long game and it takes a few months for your body to adjust to new drugs etc. </p><p></p><p>Obsessing about point in time test results can be difficult because like it or not we all remember school and are conditioned to think a bad point in time number is a fail when it is just a point in time number that can be affected by lots of known and unknown factors. </p><p></p><p>You need to see what your HBa1C is doing as that is a much better normalised number which shows what is happening to your BGL over time. Unfortunately of course you cannot rush that and you have to wait, which is hard to do. </p><p></p><p>So in the interim my suggestion would be to get out of the house for an hour long walk every day. Not a marathon, and no need for athleisure wear or lycra, but it gets your legs moving blood around and however much insulin you have will work a lot harder getting the glucose into your cells. You also get to smell the fresh air and see the trees, which is amazing, and see what other humans are doing (mostly wasting their lives in front of TVs but you won't be!). Maybe keep a log of your food and numbers and exercise, for say 8 weeks, and you will start to see patterns emerging (and your doctor will thank you as it is contemporaneous data).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Toby789, post: 2297317, member: 519716"] It doesn't sound like you are a hypochondriac! What it does sound like is that you are expecting changes too soon. This is a long game and it takes a few months for your body to adjust to new drugs etc. Obsessing about point in time test results can be difficult because like it or not we all remember school and are conditioned to think a bad point in time number is a fail when it is just a point in time number that can be affected by lots of known and unknown factors. You need to see what your HBa1C is doing as that is a much better normalised number which shows what is happening to your BGL over time. Unfortunately of course you cannot rush that and you have to wait, which is hard to do. So in the interim my suggestion would be to get out of the house for an hour long walk every day. Not a marathon, and no need for athleisure wear or lycra, but it gets your legs moving blood around and however much insulin you have will work a lot harder getting the glucose into your cells. You also get to smell the fresh air and see the trees, which is amazing, and see what other humans are doing (mostly wasting their lives in front of TVs but you won't be!). Maybe keep a log of your food and numbers and exercise, for say 8 weeks, and you will start to see patterns emerging (and your doctor will thank you as it is contemporaneous data). [/QUOTE]
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