Next week’s blood sugar tests and appointments

I kept to the new tablet routine and testing of my bloods, with my metformin, by levels did start to drop but only to a low of 20 which was still far from been anywhere near what I needed then to be. With my still high levels of sugar I did not feel any better day to day, and my dizzy spells where just as bad as always.

I mentioned that I also had to test my key tones, this test is not from blood but urine and I have to do this once a day when I first get up. This test is not needed for all who have diabetes but as I had seemed to also be losing weight I was told that this was important.

To explain what key tones are about is a little more complicated, but as always I’ll try to make it as simple as possible. The body needs sugar or really glucose which it converts for energy we need for day to day life. Due to the way diabetes stops the normal conversion of this in the body, at times the only way energy can be made is not from the sugar taken in via food, or even the own body reserves sent out by the liver, but from the stared fat and in worse case your muscles.

Therefore in very simple terms your own body can eat away at its fat and muscles, although this may be seen on 1st hand as a good way to lose weight, in fact it is potentially deadly, as at the same time it produces toxins which cannot be treated directly.

Now for the good news lol, my daily tests have shown that I have not developed any key tone readings so all safe for now on that score.

So now back to the appointments, during the week I received a appointment for my feet for the forthcoming week and a 2nd for a eye screening the week after this.

I was again surprised at the speed of these appointments been made, to be honest I was expecting them to arrive but the dates to be made for months away, I was becoming more impressed by the health service I was receiving than I had wished for.

I will leave things there for now and my next post will tell you about the following week’s feet appointment and blood sugar test results.