I am 60 years old and went through menopause quite awhile ago, but my uterus doesn't seem to want to listen. I have been bleeding, blood clotting and passing tissue on and off for about 2 years. For the last year and a half I have been on a medication that is a progestin given to cancer patients to increase their appetite and before my gyn left the practice in June she put me on double the dosage. This is one crummy reason I couldn't lose weight. There is a long story for this, but suffice it to say we went on a cruise Oct 13 and I had really bad urge incontinence on top of my urine being sticky and sweet smelling so I knew what was going on. I went on myself several times while on the cruise, but thank goodness I took plenty of clothing and had incontinence products with me. I made an appt with my new gp dr as soon as I hit dry land, which was last Friday.
First off because I have 2 siblings with diabetes and a mother that died from diabetic complications, I knew pretty much that would be my diagnosis and I have an A1C test twice a year because of it. In Feb this same gyn had my file but did not give the results to my dr when the results came in and she had her nurse just refile my file. Your A1C should be 6 or under and in February I was 8.5 and didn't know it. When I got back from the cruise I was 14.2 and my blood sugar Friday morning with nothing in my stomach was 376!!!!! Come to find out the progestin I was taking can cause people to develop diabetes who have never had it before, which I hadn't and didn't have a bad A1C either before February. Never once did the gyn test my blood sugar to make sure it wasn't rising and now I have a disease that seems more than a mild form.
With that being said, this is why I stay on plan. I know how my mother treated the disease as do my siblings. They are careless about their health, but that is not going to be me.
A Great Reason to keep on track
