Oh. My. GOD!

I'll start with the not so great stuff first....

Sunday night I ended up in A&E due to chest pains and difficulty breathing again; coupled with dizziness, drowsiness and...uhm...I'll just say I had to run to the loo a lot
I got prodded and poked about, lots of blood tests and was put on a drip as they thought I was dehydrated which was causing the dizzy spells, etc...
At about 4:30am they decided they weren't happy with my heart rate or the fact it hurt to breath and admitted me to a ward. They also weren't too impressed with my blood sugar levels (still high teens) or the ketones in my urine (which were at 8 when I was admitted) so up to a ward I went.
(I did get my own room though, due to the running to the loo business, so that was a plus for me!)

The doctor came round and chatted to me and said that he felt that the chest pains, the stomach troubles, etc... were all down to the high blood sugar and poor management. I did at this point explain how flipping uncooperative my surgery has been in helping me manage the diabetes.
He sent up a diabetic nurse to talk to me about everything and this is where I get to the good stuff.

He was fantastic. I told him the Metformin and Sitagliptin were doing nothing, I showed him my B.S readings and explained that nobody seemed to be listening to me when I said the medications were doing nothing at all and he was pretty hacked off about that part.
I told him what I'd said to my husband Sunday night - that I'd rather stop taking it than continue just blindly swallowing pills that do nothing and he said "good on you, stop taking both of them now and I'll get you on something new."
By that point, I could have hugged him. I didn't care if the new medication worked or not, I was just happy someone listened to me and acknowledged how I was feeling.
So I was given Glimepiride at a 2mg dose.

Before I'd eaten anything (and before I took the new medication) my B.S was 17.0. I took the new medication and it shot down to 10.1
So I was a bit happy about that.

I was then (thankfully!) discharged as things were looking a bit better and I got home a couple of hours ago.
On a whim, I tested myself and I nearly fainted with shock (and I apologize in advance for the huge shouty capital letters....)

MY B.S WAS 8.0!!!!!!!

That's the lowest it's been. EVER.
And the good thing is that the nurse I talked to applauded me for going low carb and told me that if the new medication works and my diet helps even things out I may not have to be on the medication permanently!!!

Thank you everyone that replied to me on here, you all gave me a kick up the bum to get me to A&E.
I am a happy little bunny

Mary - thank you, hon, I really appreciate it (((HUGS)))

Defren :lol: :lol: @ running a marathon!!
Actually, I am setting myself some little goals now that I know my B.S can be lowered:
*I want to lose some weight, which I will hopefully do via the new eating plan
*I want to get some upper body strength going so that I can ask the NHS for a wheelchair I can propel myself, rather than one that my husband has to push

I have some easy exercises with light dumbbells that I can do - once I've recovered from the hospital visit (they had to draw blood from my wrist to check the oxygen in my blood and my wrist is black and blue and hurts like a...well it really hurts). My typing skills are abysmal right now :lol:

catza - thank you I scared the heck outta my poor hubby when I did my blood check cause I screamed the place down!!

tree-peony - I actually did say to the diabetic nurse that it took drastic measures to get someone to hear me out, lol he just laughed and shook his head...I think he's a bit peeved that I kept getting the brush off.

Once again, thank you everyone - you all rock socks :thumbup:

Defren said:

Shame you're so far away, I have a self propelling wheelchair that needs a good home.

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Sods law! Whereabouts are you, if you don't mind me being nosy?

I admit, the idea of self propelling myself scares me a tiny bit right now.
I have no sense of direction...Or co-ordination...Or balance :lol:

There's a mobility center near me that I think sells them - apparently the NHS do part funding if you buy your own; so that's definitely something to look into at some point.

For now I am celebrating my little victory.....with an early night :lol:
Fingers crossed for another good B.S tomorrow morning

Night all!
~BF x

iggy-lil - I didn't know I could do that, thanks! I'll Google it and see if there's a Red Cross near to me.

B.S was at 11.0 about 30 minutes ago, which is good for me :lol: fingers crossed that it drops a bit after I take my meds.

I am considering writing a letter of complaint to my surgery about all of this as they should know to take diabetes related questions and concerns seriously.

Just a quick update:

My B.S has gone right back up again :?
It goes anywhere from 13-18 and I've had a couple of 20+ thrown in for good measure.
The Glimepiride has been put up to 3mg a day, which I started Friday and there's no difference so far.
I was told to give it another week and it will go up again and if that doesn't work, I'm under threat of insulin.
I'm keeping up with the low carbing but honestly, I'm starting to feel a bit disheartened again.