Living with Diabetes and Hypothyroidism

Living with Diabetes isn’t easy. I have Type 2. Trying to watch my diet and pricking my finger ever day can be a pain🩸. I also do a lot of walking for exercise 🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️. Every morning, I check my blood sugar and write it down in a blood sugar log book. I’m not on insulin, but I’m on a few medications (Metformin, Glipizide, and Januvia) 💊 for now. The reason for the other two is because I can’t take any higher of a dose of Metformin than I’m already on because it makes me sick. I’m very sensitive to medications and some of them can make me feel pretty bad 🤢.

Trying to keep my A1C down has been a struggle. I had bloodwork🩸done yesterday, and my A1C was 7.2, which is high. It has to be checked every 3 months. In April, it was 8.7 which was much worse. There’s been improvement but it’s still not where it needs to be. I’ll admit that sometimes I’m not good with my diet, I get cravings and eat things I shouldn’t. My late dad had diabetes and he was on insulin. I think I may end up on insulin at some point 💉. I used to manage his diabetes so I know how it all works so at least I’m prepared for it I guess.

I also have hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid). That was also checked and it’s normal which is good. Sometimes it gets really messed up and my medication (Levothyroxine) 💊 needs to be adjusted. I was a bit surprised it was normal because it wasn’t for awhile until the medication had to be adjusted twice to get it back to normal. When it’s off, I get a lot of fatigue and generally feel lousy. Since it’s been stable for a bit, the doctor aid she doesn’t need to check it again for 6 months. As usual, my A1C will be checked again in 3 months. I have an appointment next week so I don’t know if she’s going to make any changes to medications or not.