Type 2 Diabetes

 

This is a whole new way of life!

Everything affects everything else!

I have type 2 diabetes, but I don't take insulin. I take a pill called Glipizide.

I started out taking ten mg. twice a day, thirty minutes before eating and even then I had to drastically reduce any and all carbs and sugars to make it work.

Now, having lost twenty pounds, everything is different. I am good at eliminating carbs, but because of that and because of the lost weight, my new problem is low blood sugar at night.

My doctor cut the medicine in half. Now it is five mg. twice a day, but two days ago I bottomed out in the middle of the night. My blood sugar dropped to forty, seventy is low, and I was so confused I didn't know what to do. 

It was terrifying!

It happened again last night, but I caught it a little earlier and ate a tablespoon of honey. All of this creates a new problem. When your blood sugar drops really low at night, it rises higher the next morning.

Today I only took one pill in the morning and I added 22 grams of carbs at dinner. I feel like a science experiment. 

It is possible I am going to go off the medicine all together, but we aren't sure yet. I am still want to keep losing weight, but I am also not wanting to find myself confused, sweating buckets, and shaking like a leaf.

My doctor tells me I am moving in the right direction, but the path is shaky.