Re: o/t for mark-in heart attack what happend. long post

Posted by Mark - IN. on January 21, 2013 at 16:21:14 from (24.15.158.80):

In Reply to: o/t for mark-in heart attack what happend. long post posted by glennster on January 21, 2013 at 04:43:11:

Thanks for taking the time Glen. I appreciate it as I'm sure most here do.

Gatorade? I loved it so much drank a case a day for a couple of years, then came down with a real good case of Type 2 Diabetes. Not just from that, but that didn't help. A year or two ago, I quit taking the medication they had me on because they say good sugar levels are between 70 and 110. When they discovered my diabetes, I was urinating about every hour, day and night, and it smelled like sugar. Couldn't get enough water, mouth was always dry. Eyes got so swollen that someone standing a few feet from me were blurry. Eyes do swell with diabetes, naturally distort vision. My blood sugar was at 525. They gave me a shot of insulin, which with long term use causes damage too, but within an hour my vision was a whole lot better, and when they gave me another shot a month later, it cleared up my vision totally. And the $1,000 pair of glasses not covered by insurance at all, became useless. When glasses correct your nearly legal blindness, and then your vision comes back completely, they are useless. By the time I picked them up at Pearl Vision, my vision had returned to the point I couldn't see out of them the first time I tried them on. Of course, Pearl Vision said they needed a note from my doctor that my vision had changed, and I reminded them that it was them that tested my eyes and came up with the prescription, not my MD. They stuck by their guns and said needed a note from my MD, but since he wasn't involved, they never got a note, and I still have a $1,000 pair of glasses that have never been used in the two years I've had them. Anyway, my doctor put me on medication to correct my blood sugar, and when I was getting up in the morning, it was high like 130, 125? And after working all day, it would drop to 75, 70? I found that eating things like peanuts, tomatoes, fruit lowered my blood sugar, and it got to the point that I was getting up in the morning when the high was 77, so I quit taking the lowering medication, figuring if it was 77 when I took the pill, someone would find me lying on the ground somewhere with a level lowered to the 50's or 40's which is just as bad. Anyway, I could stand to lose a lot of weight, but I quit smoking about 3 or 4 years ago, cold turkey after I thought I was having a heart attack two nights in a row, and haven't touched one since.

Yep, sounds like you are in better shape than me, which gives me a warning, and thanks for dispelling the very things that I thought were indicators of a heart attack. Everything you mentioned were the things I was looking for, and now they may not even matter.

Most important thing Glen, is that you caught it in time, and still have plenty of time to manage it. I have time to manage, you have time to manage, we would both be fools if we didn't try to manage avoiding a great big wreck down the road that we both know is manageable.

Thanks again Glen, and a much Happier New Year with countless happier new years still to come.

Mark

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