Thanks

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Thank you for the welcome posts and being concerned with me for my

husband. I'll tell a bit more about him in this post. I don't know

if I'll remember all to respond to though.

He has Diabetes II.

He is not very overweight, just a bit, and he's lost some weight, so

pretty close to where he " should " be. His paternal grandmother was

diabetic too. Otherwise I know of no other diabetics in his family.

His father died young, so there's no way to know if he'd have been

diabetic in his later years.

He had no symptoms that alerted us to diabetes. But he has had two

heart attacks in the past few years. Lately his skin had gotten sort

of shiny and slick looking. He kept attributing it to age. But

after starting treatment for diabetes, his skin went back to normal.

One other thing that I thought was due to his heart has also

disappeared, and that was the dark circles around his eyes. He'd

look like a racoon sometimes, I tell ya! Now he'll get dark around

the eyes if he's truly very tired, but otherwise he looks so much

better. It's amazing to me.

We discovered it by stopping at a free thing at Wal-Mart. His

numbers were up around 361, which shocked me. So, I dragged him

kicking and screaming to the doctor. haha They did a fasting test

and his number was still well over 300. That other test they do was

11 as I recall. My husband can be very stubborn, but we have a Saint

of a doctor who was very diplomatic.

He's on metformin and he exercises on a treadmill daily. We are

still juggling the food issues. He tests his blood regularly, not as

often as I'd like him to, but he has to feel in control of his own

treatment, or he'll balk at it. He does indulge me by testing his

blood when he eats something I feel he shouldn't. Like we don't eat

many potatoes, but the other night we did. So, I asked him to test

his blood a couple of hours after dinner. His number was 186. The

next night his number registered 118.

He went through a stage where his legs would feel wobbly. That would

always scare me a bit. He's had to adjust his blood pressure

medication and his cholesterol medication too.

He is feeling SO much better now. He was feeling okay, but tired,

then felt wobbly and weird sometimes when getting used to treatment.

But now he's so much more vital and his face is SO much happier

looking.

The exercise is working wonders. I'd suggest exercise to anyone, but

it appears to be a diabetic's best friend. At least from my

observation of my husband's rapid improvement.

Thanks for listening to me. If you read this far, bless you!

Janet