The second day, and I repeat, the second day, my blood sugar started dropping! Not just a little bit but by big numbers. Non-diabetics won't understand the numbers so I won't bore you with the technical details but I was ecstatic. The evening of day 4, I started to feel shaky, sweating, and thought I was going to faint. I was in the bedroom and called Jim (poor baby had to pause the History Channel and put down the remote). He got my testing supplies and my blood sugar was really low. Diabetes numbers are usually high and that is why it is necessary to take medications that will lower it. I took a couple of glucose tablets and it still wouldn't recover, so Jim ran and got a coke and finally after an hour I was starting to recover. The same thing happened the next night, and over the next 10 days. One night it was so low that we considered the emergency room. But the coke again did it's job but this time it keep going up and down before it settled into a normal range. At this point we were jubilant! The food was working so well that the medication I was taking at dinner time was too strong! I called the endrocrinologist the next morning and he told me to cut the medication in 1/2 and if that didn't help to discontinue the medication. That night it happened again and I stopped taking the pill altogether. Three months have passed and I continue to have normal readings without this pill. I have another diabetic medication that I am still taking, and will discuss this on August 12th when I see the doctor for 3 month evaluation.
Jim and I were more enthusiastic than ever to continue, and I attacked the internet with vengence seaching out food and recipe suggestions.
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