Today was my day to visit with the Endocrinologist…At first I was going to cancel cause I just didn’t want another Doctor looking at me and just guessing what is wrong or hey lets try this out…And I’m at the point that I’m so tired of it all…

I decided that I better go ahead and get this over with since my sugar has been giving me some awful fits lately…I can’t even go 1/2 hour without it going up or down…And I needed this to be over with…Granted it can be worse, but basically I’m tired of thinking of me…

So I went in and they did my blood pressure and at first like usual they couldn’t get it and she kept looking at me like what is going on with you…But finally after her 3rd time she got it and it was 102/60 and she looks at me and goes does it ever get any higher…I just started laughing and going it is higher, cause I’m extremely nervous being here…I hate the thought of needles, which I think the majority of us do…And gratefully I didn’t have to have blood drawn, even though he said I looked pale…

Well the Doctor came in and he had my files in his hand and said that going over everything he thinks I don’t have low blood sugar…And I was like that is what I have been trying to say to everyone, cause it goes up high and then low…He explained to me that this is normal for alot of RNY patients that since we bypass so much that the stomach sometimes lets the food get into the pancreas and then it starts producing insulin…Which who knows if that is true or not, cause you can quote me I’m no doctor…But he said that I needed to start taking Miglitol(alpha-glucosidase inhibitor) which acts by inhibiting the ability of the patient to breakdown complex carbohydrates into glucose…Well if that will work and help keep my sugar levels at normal then I’m all for it…He suggested that I take this pill 3 times a day with all the major meals and then eat 3 snacks without the pill…I’m like that is so much food that I wouldn’t be able to do it..But once he gave me this list it’s for smaller meals and then like 5 grapes or something in between and lots of exercise…Did I have Gastric Bypass surgery or what, it seems like I’m starting a whole new regimen…

So today I went and picked it up at Walgreen’s and took it with my first meal and ever since my sugar today has been stable…Now if it will stay that way we will just have to see…But I’m hoping with all hope that it will work…

But on a side note, he told me this…
I take a pill form of 50,000 IU of Vitamin D and Liquid Vitamin D-3 and I take the pill once a week and when I take it I need to take something that is fatty so that way since it’s fat soluble it helps the fat to digest the pill…

Thank you for reading and letting me ramble…More updates coming soon…

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