Do you ever just have one of those days where you feel like everything is falling apart? Today is one of those for me. On the positive side, I lost 3 lbs this week! On the unpleasant side... Well, I have a cavity... And a failing root canal... And I'm having a bone graft done on my lower jaw tomorrow so that I can keep my teeth. My dentist is convinced I have sleep apnea, and since Better Half says I snore worse than anyone he's ever known, I probably do.
And then my dentist says, "Do you have lupus?" I say very firmly that I do not have lupus. "Are you sure?" he replies, "Because that butterfly rash you have on your face is a major symptom of lupus." Ugh! I was tested a couple of years ago for it when I had some wonky test results, but the test was negative at that point in time, but geez, should I be worried about it now??
And on top of all that, I did my home A1C test yesterday, and my results were 8.0! I don't really see how, since it was 7.6 a couple months back, and I have been monitoring my blood sugar so carefully the last month. Since 50% of the A1C is supposed to come from the last month, where my numbers are rarely over 140, how do I end up with an 8.0? I'm not going to take it again, since the tests are costly, but we'll see how it is next month.
So anyway, I'm a bit depressed and feeling sorry for myself. Hopefully, I'll be able to cheer myself back up before too long.
Several chain pharmacies now have home A1c test kits that are fairly inexpensive. WalMart's Reli-on A1c mail-in test kit is only about 9 dollars. There are other brands that cost a little more, but they give immediate results at home.
Hi Jim. I used the Bayer A1C Now Self Check. They were $30 for a pack of two. I found the test pretty easy to take, I'm just not convinced the results were accurate, based on my last A1C and the numbers I've been tracking in the past month. I'll wait until the end of my 2nd month to take another one and see how those numbers are.