So. Today was my first day of really taking all of my meds and trying to really get on top of my health. Here’s what I discovered:
1) The Metformin pretty much does what it’s supposed to. However, I have noticed that I just can NOT get my damn blood sugar down overnight. I routinely wake up with a 200+ sugar when I should be hitting MUCH lower. I may start taking it right as I go to bed and see what it does. I tend to try to stop eating around 8, but I’m thinking I need to get dinner in by 7 and stop from there with a 10pm bedtime. I imagine it’s going to take about a month to get a rhythm going.
2) The Glipizide (another diabetic med) seems ok I guess. I really can’t tell what it does, so can’t measure it’s effectiveness at the moment. I imagine this will take some time to get a feel for. I think I was on it before, but can’t recall. We’ll see what happens.
3) The Klonopin is a godsend. At the moment, it’s taking the edge off of my tics, but I am noticing that it tends to wane a bit in the afternoon (around 1 or so), but not too much. I’m taking a second dose in the evening, but may talk to my doc about trading my evening dose out for an afternoon dose. I tic less at home (obviously), so it’s not as important.
4) Similarly, the Lamictal is doing well in levelling off my mood. However, much like the Klonopin, it seems to wear off in the middle of my day. I’m currently at 100mg and will be asking my doc about possibly either bumping it up to 200 mg, or maybe doing 100 in the morning and another 100 at midday.
5) Tricor and me don’t get along. I take it and it makes me wonder if I can move my desk into the bathroom. Enough said about that.
6) The Lisinopril was bumped from 20 to 40 and it seems to be helping. I tended, in the past, to wake up with some wicked headaches that I (mistakenly) attributed to allergies. Guess it was my blood pressure all along. We’ll see.
So far it seems like this treatment path is working. It honestly brings me down a bit to know that I take so many pills (my little pill container is just crammed full). Yes, I know it’s just one of those things and I’ll eventually get over it, but it’s just the process of getting over it that’s tough. Ah well, good results are forthcoming.
That’s about it for now. I really should do a post about being on StrangeLoveLive since I’m sorta an eLebrity and all, but I’ll wait till later possibly. After all, bedtime is a-callin!
Later y’all!
