Taking Tablets

Ohh my  word, it has been a long time. I'm sorry, my adoring public, I shouldn't be letting you down like this. So, what is new?

Well, the beast that is diabetes has grabbed me by the earlobes, in the same way that Chris Tarrant used to grab unfortunate children during Tiswas. The prize I win is a selection of tablets, which reduce my sugar a bit, but not a lot. The gliclazide worked pretty well, but I was worried about early Beta cell failure, so I'm now on something called sitaglyptin, which works in a different way. Instead of making my pancreas produce more insulin, it stops the insulin in my blood from being broken down. Unfortunately, I don't think there is much insulin there to preserve, and since I've stopped taking the gliclazide, my sugar has shot up into the teens most of the time. Yes, I know, it's too high.

Weight wise, I'm down to 12 st 6, which is not bad. I lost 6lb in July when I did a week trekking in Europe and managed to walk over 130 miles in six days. It hurt, but it was a great achievement. Who knows, maybe I'll do it again next year. The exercise certainly makes me feel better, but it is hard to get going when your sugar is so high you just want to sleep.

I'm still suffering from an ice-cream addiction, but I'm not really taking in much other sugar. I'm having to be really quite careful and often spend the evenings pacing the living room to try to get the gloop out of my blood. I suppose the good thing is that, unlike gliclazide, the new tablets don't promote weight gain. I'm a pound lighter than I was in July. I hope the trend is futher downwards.