G'day Pete,
Is it the diabetes meds that's stuffing you around? Or do you have a cocktail of meds due to other issues?
I'm on meds for diabetes - hope to stay off insulin for years if I can. Fortunately none of them make me feel stoned.
Cheers, Marty.[/quote]
I hav'nt started meds for the Diabetes yet , they'll review it over the next 3 months, monthly blood tests. They only picked up on it because I do a couple of long term clinical studies and the test result came back way too high (9.4) to be perfectly honest I feel like crap for most of the time anyway so I just tend to ignore it.
Well Marty the list so far,
1/ HIV+, I take Efavirenz. 1 tablet a day , late every afternoon. By 7oclock I am quite stoned. It has other psychological side effects, and other gastro side effects. Not very nice anyway. I also take another drug, ( it's called combination therapy) , labelled as Truvada, basically contains 3TC and Tennofovir, which are amongst other things helpful to 2/ Hepatitis B+ (stage 2 level 2 Cirrohsis) Most HIV drugs are dependant on having a good liver function, and as I do have some liver problems, the choices I have are very limited, so the side effects are just something I have to put up with. 3/ DVT- Antiphospholipid Syndrome, basically my blood wants to clot all the time so I take a high dose of Warfarin( Rat Poison
) every day. The only side effect there is if I cut myself , even a small cut I have to go the hospital because the Warfarin thins my blood and cuts don't stop bleeding.
I'll gloss over the Skin Cancer because thats all been removed and fingers crossed that won't bother me again.
Diabetes is just another hiccup in the scheme of things. With my cycling I do tend to push myself alot harder, as it's important. With HIV and Hep B fitness is an important factor in determining how the disease will effect me. When I got told i was HIV+ it was kinda a wake up call to make some major changes in my life, and to make a much bigger effort at taking care of myself. I know of so many others who party hard, with alcohol and drugs. I don't do alcohol at all now, and the only drugs are prescribed. It's just the choices we make. I decided I wanted to be super fit and whatever it takes I'll get it. Cycling is my only sport really so i allways try to do between 50-100K each ride. It probably sounds funny but when I'm on the bike I can blend in with all the other cyclists, I am just an average person.