Friday, February 4
An update at last
Last month (it seems only yesterday actually) I got diagnosed with diabetes. Also, my potassium levels were down, as were my magnesium levels. My BP started going out of control, and I ended up in Orange Park Medical Center for 9 days. Mainly because of my blood pressure.
The ER thought that it was congestive heart failure. After getting my cardiac enzymes tested, an echocardiogram done, and a nuclear stress test, my heart was declared healthy, no heart failure. Then, it was off to see if I had a narrowed kidney artery, which my left kidney has a 40% narrowing, but they only stent them when it's 50% or greater. My BP is still high from what the doctors want it to be. It showed some sign of coming down, but not now. I'm not happy about that.
On the other hand, I've got my blood sugar under control it seems. I'm taking Glipizide (Glucotrol) for that. It's still not at the levels I'd like to see it at, but it's not that bad. If I drop a few more pounds, that should help as well.
I'm on 11 drugs right now, of which two are OTC. Baby aspirin and magnesium oxide. Expensive, to say the least. And that doesn't include my multivitamin, nor the occasional Claritin that I take. And then there's the test strips and the lancettes. At least I got the blood meter for free from the insurance company. If I buy the cable to go with it, I can grab the data from it onto my PC. Pretty cool. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 2/04/2005 11:22:00 AM
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