Avandamet - My Cure For What Ails

I've been taking my AvandaMet prescription now for over a month, and I've got to tell you - I am, no doubt about it, feeling much more human at this time. I really believed for awhile that all hope was lost for me. I really thought because I'd let myself go for so long that I may never see another day where I get out of bed feeling refreshed and ready to take on anything and everything. But by the grace of God and a great medication, not only am I feeling much better, but I've noticed other positive results.

My eye is no longer twitching; My heart doesn't palpitate; My lungs seem more functional, in that I feel I can hold larger breaths of air; I get out of bed not as tired as I was when I went to bed; My skin feels cleaner and more smooth; I'm not feeling thirsty all the time; I'm not waking 5-6 times during the night to urinate... Diabetes really had me whipped, and now because of a pill I take twice daily, I have taken my life back!

Don't get me wrong, along with taking AvandaMet, I have a responsibility to eat the right foods and stay away from what put me in my situation to begin with, and I've also had to change my mindset as well. I no longer drink colas loaded with sugar - now I drink diet sodas and more water. I am a bread lover from birth, but I limit my intake of breads and pastas. Instead of worrying about caloric intake, I am focused on carbs and I've got a roadmap to a healthy lifestyle if I can just stick with it.

When I went to the Diabetes counseling session my doctor scheduled, I learned that carbohydrates are a diabetics worst enemy, not calories... so the counselor let me take home a book that contains almost every dish a restaurant or fast food joint carries with the amount of carbohydrates and fat associated with that food. I had no idea what I was really doing to myself by eating this crap! I am going to find out who publishes this useful guide and will hopefully provide a link on my next post so you can have your very own. It is, indeed, a treasure to be had.

The downside to my diabetes medication, the glucose meter, the test strips, and the doctor visits is the money I will be spending to maintain my health. Thank God I have a job that provides decent health insurance and prescription benefits, because the costs associated with all of this are tremendous.

On behalf of advice I have received from friends and searches on Google, I have also began a regimen of particular vitamins and fish oil which, I believe, has contributed to a noticable amount of weight lost within the last few weeks. In my next posting I will discuss these vitamins and fish oils and what they have done for me, besides the impact on my weight!