September 14 2013
9:58am
FBG 111
12:47pm
PP BG 93
2:52pm
BG 71
5:26m
PP BG 120
8:25pm
119
10:37pm
PP BG 98
It's annoying when the blood glucoses are doing so well that my blood
pressure is so high. It is really little comfort to say it is due to the hip
and leg pain especially at my age when it could be other things.
I had been having occasional momentary "feel" of difficult
breathing that I chalked up to allergies because after taking my allergy meds
and a hit of my inhaler it went away. It occurred after going outside with
Bailey into my jungle of a back yard and I also noted that allergens were high,
I was well perfused and easily able to do deep yoga breaths so probably it was
due to the allergens.
I also wonder if I have been developing anxiety in my old age, insulin
still scares me and I so want off of it. I am taking a mild blood pressure med
for a period of time when my blood pressure was between 130-140 systolic (top
number) and 80-90 diastolic (bottom number).
I had a very good physiotherapy session yesterday, so I was not
surprised at the high amount of pain and without a heating pad I was not
managing it very well. My heating pad and won’t be able to replace it until
next week. I have microwave heating pads but they don’t last long enough and I
have to get up to reheat them and interrupt the therapy and it’s almost like
starting over. I am going to get a heated blanket next week as well. The pain after
PT is usually worse than the rest of the week – even my bad shoulder ached but
I did a new exercise that used that arm..
Within the past week and a half I had have some days where I had been
feeling tired, weak, on edge, a little dizzy, difficulty concentrating, and my
eyesight a little blurry, sort of like when blood sugar is high. So I thought maybe my blood pressure is low,
after all it is always perfect when I go to the docs, even when in pain, and
since I had lost all this weight it only follows. So I dug out an old blood
pressure kit, thinking it would be low but the sounds started high and faded at
120 to 100. It was a little hard for me to control, the bulb was old and the
cuff was a bit hard to get on and part of the bladder was coming out but I knew
it wasn't low. The cuff probably needs to be thrown out but I think it worked
enough to give me an idea. Naturally I was now more upset, in sorrow that after
losing all this weight and getting my blood glucose in control that I am hit in
the head with this. I felt defeated.
I took my one and only .5 mg Xanax that I had put up for years, and it
worked, I relaxed but did not go to sleep had blood glucose to monitor. When it
was time to sleep I put on some lovely classical music very low, took a 1 gm of
melatonin and went to sleep. I slept well, waking only once due to pain,
medicated with ibuprofen, fell back to sleep and would have slept later if the
pain wasn't so insistent. It hurts less when I am up and about. Bailey was also
waking me and then there is the insulin and blood glucose routine.
This morning I took one bp pill and rechecked and while the arterial
sounds were better I took another. After the fog from the melatonin and Xanax
wore off I felt pretty good. I was going to go to check my BP at Walgreens when
Anthony got off of work but he got off late and I felt pretty good and tired by
that time – it was time for dinner and insulin. I am going to check my bp in
the morning at Walgreens and if it is still high will take another bp pill.
I see my new doctor for the second time next Thursday. He was not
pleased I was on this particular bp med because it causes edema, and it just so
happened my legs were a bit edematous, but it was not because of the bp med it
was because of that horrid Gabapentin I was on for a week or so which caused
all sorts of crazy anxiety etc. When I went off it I urinated frequently for
two days. At any rate the bp med was ordered by the inept physician who delayed
good treatment of diabetes so I am open to discussion regarding changing the
med as long as it is not something like Lisinopril. Wonder who the genius was
who thought it was ok to make a bp medicine that causes coughing as a side
effect and expect people to shine on it?
Having a clearer head I realized I also have not been paying attention
to my fluid intake. Today I also pushed fluids, besides my morning tea (I
skipped my beloved coffee this morning, and will continue if I have to). I
realized that besides my morning coffee of about 20 oz, I sip all day on a
bottle of water, often with some left over. Not a good thing, esp. since I am
losing weight and beginning to increase my activity. So I figure two 24 oz
bottles of water in addition to a couple of cups of tea in the morning should
be good and certainly doable.