Update

[Emmaathome]

Saw the doc last night for a quick review, she has upped the Lantus dose ( I had been gradually increasing, but she just upped it to max dose for my weight according to charts). Fasting levels are between 11-13 and are quite stable at those levels. Need to see what happens over the next couple of weeks, and then discussions about injecting at mealtimes. Weirdly, I'm not phased by this any more as I think i need to just get this under control now!!!

Same as my BP - she asked how i felt about taking an extra tablet to get my BP down - I said I'll take anything now to try to control all these things.

How strange I have gone from being petrified about injecting / sick of taking tablets, to being happy to take anything they suggest to get everything under control!!! 3 months is a relatively short time to do such an about turn in my mindset, but feels like forever to have still not got anything sorted / fixed properly!

 

[Northerner]

I was very anti-medication when I was diagnosed, but after a while I did change my mind about some of the drugs, where I could see a positive effect without much in the way of downside. I think it's hard sometimes to accept that you may be on something fr life when maybe you previously only took the odd paracetamol, so perfectly understandable!

Hope the lantus changes bring your levels into range at last! 🙂