It has been a couple of weeks since I last made an entry in my blog as much has been going on. A while back I had mentioned some information on Chromium and how it helps to regulate the glucose in our systems. I had asked my doctor that I wanted to see if I was deficient in Chromium as I was starting to have sugar problems. I am pre-diabetic but have crossed over once into being a diabetic so I wanted to have this checked.
The results are in and my Chromium level is a 1. Normal is 1-3 but seeing that my number is at the lower end of normal I am going to start taking a Chromium supplement and see what happens. At present my A1C is down to 6 from 6.1.
My liver function is also improving as back in April it was ALT 152 now it is 100 and the AST was 91 and is now 69. So clearly exercising is helping to bring those liver functions down so if your doctor has said exercise, they know what they are talking about.
There are however some new developments where six other fields were low and three new ones are high so I will be investigating those. I am anemic so that is one that I can work on getting my numbers back up with taking Iron. I don't like taking it as it makes me itch but I will try it every other day and see where that gets me. My doctor also increased my thyroid medicine as that was one that was high. It was increased to 50 but my legs felt like jello so I told my doctor I was splitting the 50 in half and then splitting a 25 in half which makes it 37.5 instead of 50. I can handle that much better and we will check the TSH in six weeks.
My other problem with the Cardiolipids has also slightly improved. It was 33.8 in April but has gone down to 32.4 but my D-Dimer has gone from 151 up to 223 which the cut off is 230 so I am getting up the scale to developing clots again. I do think that has a lot to do with not going to the gym because of my knee and the abdominal tear and I have done a lot more sitting than normal.
So the plan for the above is to take the Chromium supplement and Iron to see if I can improve some of those numbers. Investigate what might cause the other items to be low and get back to working out.
I did make it to the gym yesterday to "play". I did a full 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and did 30 minutes of weight training. Boy do my arms tell me today that I used them. The knee is rather sore but I put on the little knee band and that helps. I will just have to take it slow and easy. Any way that I look at it I have to move 30 - 60 minutes a day to stay away from forming new clots. I hope I can avoid that for as long as possible.
So what else is new? Well I have decided to look into the Medical Weight Loss of New York to see if they can't help me formulate a better meal plan and get this weight off. I do not wish to have surgery and I am not looking for any fast reduction of weight as my body is already under stress. They do have three weight loss programs. One is with conventional food and the other two are plans that incorporate supplementing food with a weight loss drink, snack bars and soup. They are out of system so do not handle insurance so it will come all out of pocket. They did send me a price list and Friday of next week I will meet with a person and ask questions and then decide if they can indeed help me. I don't want to waste money as I don't have any to throw away. So I will share with you what I learn next week and if I can I will add a link to their page.
That is the update for this week. Keep smiling and moving forward on your own journey of living well!
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