Blood Sugar Fun

[Greg]

Mmmm, donuts.

[Drunk Monk]

I do nut have a sweet tooth
I don’t eat sweets
My A1C still rose

[King Bob]

Haven't had a donut in ages. I need to go to Bob's Donuts to see if I can get a coffee cup.

[Drunk Monk]

I was using glipizide and metformin when my Blood sugar was really out of control. I am now down to 3 500mg metformin and no glipizide. Two in the morning and 1 at night. Glipizide was the opposite of Ozempic as those pills should have kept me from losing weight. According to my doctor, Glipizide was a brute force drug. Metphormin works with your body better. I must be on this cocktail of meds for at least a decade or more now. At one point at my worst, the pharmacy tech considered putting my on insulin.

Looks like I’m joining the glip club. I can’t take the side effects of metaformin. I’m at 500 and my doc doubled my dosage but at that rate I suffer from terrible coughing fits and bad acid reflux. Even at 500 I have issues. So my doc said to stay at 500 and start taking glipizide, 1 per meal. 

The glip is on order. We shall see how it goes:

[Greg]

According to my doctor, Glip is nasty. She was happy I was off it. Glip is a more brute force approach to keeping your blood sugar in check.

[Drunk Monk]

Not looking forward to it. Did you experience any side effects from it?

[Greg]

Not that I'm aware of. And I was taking a bunch of Glips because my blood sugar was skyrocketing.

[Drunk Monk]

Do you get any sides from the metformin? That started out fine but perhaps the cough and stomach issues were always a problem that I just wrote off to my usual aches & pains. It wasn't until I was instructed to double my dosage that I realized that those ailments were connected to the met.

[Greg]

Fortunately, I do not. I was taking 2000mg. I'm down to 1500mg. I'm looking to drop one more dose.

[Drunk Monk]

I’m hoping to get off it. Doesn’t look like the glip will replace it from what you’ve said, but clearly our experience is quite different. If I took that much met, I would die of a coughing seizure.

[Greg]

Sugar Crash! And yet the puck says I'm good.

[Drunk Monk]

Got my glip. Will start it tomorrow.

[King Bob]

Good luck.

[Drunk Monk]

Not sure the glip is for me. My vision is blurry & I’m lightheaded (more so than usual). Also had some weird headaches. Intense cottonmouth and still have those nasty coughing fits. Just don’t feel right. I should talk to my doc about it.

My glucometer is on the fritz too. I think I need a new one.

[Greg]

Get the puck! We can be Puck Buddies! That doesn't sound right.

I get to go through another round of customer support with my puck provider as they have decided to charge me full price again.