INSULIN AND US, WHO IS WINNING

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My blood sugar has not been doing so great lately. I've started taking Actos again and there has been no low blood sugars. Perhaps taking it will help decrease my blood sugars and get it back down.

I've been fairly active. I plan to walk in a couple of hours if it does not rain too much. Only threatening to do so right now. It threatens to rain more than it actually does though.

I'm afraid once again that I am headed for insulin. Its probably only a matter of time. If it would help me loose weight, I'm all for it. Whatever it takes that doesn't kill me is a good thing as far as I can see. I wonder what others know about this, will I loose weight if I get on insulin with better sugar management?

This morning my blood sugar was 135 while fasting. That is good for a diabetic but its been higher than that the two prior mornings. It has been 175 both mornings and right now its 235. I ate more for breakfast than I usually do. I double dipped. Eggs with Macaroni and Cheese.

Okay so that's a little strange but the eggs were just not enough today. The mac and cheese probably pushed my blood sugar up. It has not been good the last few times I checked and now I'm back to taking all the diabetic meds I was when I got here, well except for Precose. I can't get that here.

I admit I'm afraid to go on insulin living out here in the province as opposed to a large city Maybe its not as scary as I think it is. I'm afraid of low blood sugars. I'd rather stay out of the hospital. Low blood sugars can send a diabetic to one. Your comments on that would be helpful too.

Its probably a losing battle, I don't know if I'll ever get back up to walking an average of one and a half miles per day. Maybe that's what it takes. That would be better than insulin. It was also be better than all these meds. I'm just going to have to push myself. I think I'm averaging 1.5 miles every other day. Seems like that would be enough!

These cold showers that most of us must endure in the Philippines tend to cause me not to walk. I walk in the afternoons and the water is colder in the afternoon than it is in the morning. I just really need to get over that and take those cold showers!

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