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Update about the carb thing
Aug. 3rd, 2011 05:12 pmI want to say how happy and loved it made me feel when you all commented on my last post with tips and sympathy and understanding. I love so much that you beautiful people are out there, all getting the body image issues and stuff, and living lives that buck the whole beauty-image ickiness. I literally get all sappy and teary-eyed about this beautiful community. I wish I could be on-line often enough to engage in non-glacially slow conversations with you all. :)
Here is an exciting thing I discovered about my medication--I can eat a perfectly carb-free meal and totally avoid the sprinting to the bathroom thing, but then my blood sugar crashes like nobody's business. Not to get all western white dude about it, but it's like Ulysses with Scylla and Charybdis. Except no one gets pulled overboard and eaten by a monster.
Also? At full dose, the medication makes me super lightheaded about 20 minutes after I take it. Like, so much so that I can't walk without assistance. That kind of freaked out the spouse, but it seems to wear off. I called my doctor's office and the nurse was pretty clueless. She told me to start taking it half-dose both morning and night, without so much noticing that I was already taking it both morning and night. Also, she suggested that I drink more water because the dizziness was probably all about dehydration. Because of course I get spontaneously dehydrated 20 minutes after taking the pill, and get un-dehydrated an hour or so later without drinking anything!
Eventually, she got around to suggesting that I take a different med, which is the same med except time-released. And costs fifteen times as much money. Which I get to pay out of pocket. (She also accidentally told me to take twice the dosage my doctor prescribed, but fortunately I remembered the conversation with him and had her double-check.)
(Aside: I know I shouldn't whine because (1) I'm actually really glad this medicine exists (I'm such a hypocrite hippie, I know. Hey! I just coined a word--I'm a hypohippie!), (2) I'm really privileged to be /able/ to pay for this crazy expensive med out of pocket, (3) I'm really privileged to have a lifestyle where I can not work right now and instead hang out and be dizzy and sleep. But still, the whining, it helps.)
Here is an exciting thing I discovered about my medication--I can eat a perfectly carb-free meal and totally avoid the sprinting to the bathroom thing, but then my blood sugar crashes like nobody's business. Not to get all western white dude about it, but it's like Ulysses with Scylla and Charybdis. Except no one gets pulled overboard and eaten by a monster.
Also? At full dose, the medication makes me super lightheaded about 20 minutes after I take it. Like, so much so that I can't walk without assistance. That kind of freaked out the spouse, but it seems to wear off. I called my doctor's office and the nurse was pretty clueless. She told me to start taking it half-dose both morning and night, without so much noticing that I was already taking it both morning and night. Also, she suggested that I drink more water because the dizziness was probably all about dehydration. Because of course I get spontaneously dehydrated 20 minutes after taking the pill, and get un-dehydrated an hour or so later without drinking anything!
Eventually, she got around to suggesting that I take a different med, which is the same med except time-released. And costs fifteen times as much money. Which I get to pay out of pocket. (She also accidentally told me to take twice the dosage my doctor prescribed, but fortunately I remembered the conversation with him and had her double-check.)
(Aside: I know I shouldn't whine because (1) I'm actually really glad this medicine exists (I'm such a hypocrite hippie, I know. Hey! I just coined a word--I'm a hypohippie!), (2) I'm really privileged to be /able/ to pay for this crazy expensive med out of pocket, (3) I'm really privileged to have a lifestyle where I can not work right now and instead hang out and be dizzy and sleep. But still, the whining, it helps.)
