I've been backsliding on food/exercise since October.

[woodsprite]

Woke up this morning to a good amount of blood in my urine. I do have a history of kidney stones (since 13 yo), but I had only a few twinges of kidney/back pain. Nothing as bad as i'm used to when they rear their ugly heads. I was able to get in with my dr. this morning. I'm running a low grade fever. She said my urine sample was impressive and contained white and red cells. My a1c crept up from a 6.7 in July to a 7.1 today). She just said "You know what you have to do to fix it, so just do it." My BP was more worrisome, at 154/108, when it's normally been around 135/84. She said she thought it was due to the kidney or bladder infection. So, I'm on the antibiotic Macrobid for a week. She kept my Metformin at 500mg 2x/day and my Lisinopril at 20mg/day, and wants to check me again in a week.

So while not necessarily related to diabetes, it was a health related wake-up call.

[Laffy Kat]

1. Gosh, woodsprite

Do exactly what the doc says and take care of yourself. Health comes before everything else. I guess you already know to drink loads of water especially now. Flush the Macrobid through your system.

[woodsprite]

2. Will do! Truthfully, unless its hot out, Im

A horrible water drinker. My daughter found an app for me to download. It’s called Plant Nanny. It will alert you it’s time to drink every hour, you log your intake, and your plant grows.

[Laffy Kat]

3. I need that!

I dislike plain water, too. I have to have a splash of fruit juice or something, anything.

[pansypoo53219]

4. getting old sucks.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Take care of yourself, woodsprite.

Are your blood glucose levels running higher? Stress can elevate it and an infection is certainly a stress. Take care of yourself and do what you know is the right thing.

[woodsprite]

6. Yes. They're kind of all over the place.

Sunday I went from 180 fasting at 8:30 to 230 at 10:30. Breakfast was 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 tbl avocado oil mayo, a piece of low carb toast, low sodium v8 juice to drink. It dropped from 230 to 130 in an hour. Total roller coaster ride all day long!

I'm hoping that was my worst day.

[TexasProgresive]

7. Good and wishing good to you.

[Happy Hoosier]

8. Have you considered Keto?

I knpw I sound like an evangelist, bit it improved my health across the board…. A1c, blood pressure, weight, lipids… all better. And I feel 30 years younger.

[woodsprite]

9. Actually, I just started Keto (rather than just low carb) 10 days ago!

I’m down 3 lbs. With my BP meds (Lisinopril and Amlodipine) my numbers were barely 130/82, sometimes a little lower. I went to my doc last week and it was 110/77. For my diabetes, I’m just on Metformin now. Januvia made me swell up. But despite being on steroids, my glucose has been around 130s-160s this week. Before laying off carbs, my numbers with steroids were 100 pts more.

I do have to go in for cancer surgery on Sept 9th (endometrial recurrence). I’ve been doing chemo for the past 12 weeks, and tolerating it pretty well. Pre-op instructions were way different than I’ve seen before. They want me on a high protein diet, including 3 protein shakes a day, from now until the day before surgery. The day before and of, no solid food, but I need to drink 3 complex carbohydrate drinks. Not sure if I’ll be able to continue keto for awhile after I get out of the hospital though. I could possibly come out with a temporary colostomy and urostomy depending on how close they have to cut. I hope to continue it. I would love to lose another 60 lbs on top of the 45 I’ve already lost doing intermittent low carb over the last 4 yrs.

It’s the LDL and Triglycerides I’m most worried about with keto though. The dr wants me on statins because “diabetic protocol is for your cholesterol to be 70 or less.” I’d rather stay away from them if I could.

[Happy Hoosier]

10. That makes me happy!!!

Don‘t worry about.cholesterol too much! Your LDL may go up a bit, but your HDL will go up too, and your triglycerides will plummet! Ask your doctor to look into the subject. The old standard treatment protocols for diabetes are terrible. This year, the ADA even recommended the Keto diet!

I wish you the same feeling of joy I have felt! I look forward to witnessing your success!