The first pleasing thing was that the nurse didn't recognise me as I saw a different one last time so I'd not seen her since February. The second pleasing thing was when she said that my non-fasting blood test results were those of a healthy person.
I explained that I'd been having severe hypoglycaemic episodes, one recently where I nearly passed out and she told me that while it's unusual for the drug Metformin to cause hypo's it does do this with a small percentage of patients and I was obviously one of those patients so I was to stop taking Metformin with immediate effect.
Next up my blood pressure was too low so in consultation with my GP she halved my Lisinopril tablets and told me to come back in two weeks for a re-test when the decision would be made as to whether I need to take them at all.
I was then told that I don't need to test my bloods daily anymore, to just do it when or if I feel unwell, but I think that I will continue to do the regular tests for a while as quite frankly this has come as a shock to me after all these years of medication and testing, I thought that I'd be eased off of the regime gently if at all!
Of all the things that have happened to me over this journey since January 2014 this has had the most profound effect on me as it's quite literally life changing, I still can't quite believe that I'm in this situation now as I thought that my type 2 diabetes was with me for life...I've got another blood test in November to confirm that coming off of the diabetes medication was the right thing to do and I almost can't wait to find out what happens and at the same time I'm worried that something may go wrong.
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