Follow Up with Endocrinologist

Yesterday I had my appointment with the endocrinologist to go over everything again since surgery. My A1C, which is your 3 mo. avg blood sugar, is now 6.3 on 2 units of insulin a day. When I left the hospital it was 1.9 and then at about 5 weeks, it was 4.9. 4.9 was the lowest end of normal, so we checked it now and anything under 6.5 is good, but 6.0 is usually meaning that my blood sugar runs on average at 120, which is the highest of the norm range, so I am a bit over that. The results were during withdrawal and the nausea so it can make them go up a bit if that has been going on for 6 weeks. I talked to another doctor about the withdrawal symptoms who said the withdrawal is lasting so long because of the fact that I don't have a pancreas and can't break down the proteins properly to re-heal. he said free amines are absolutely necessary (milk, rice, soy) or you can get a supplement of amino 3,6, 9 and fatty acids. I'm going to see if I can get mine through milk before adding pills since I am off all meds and just have the one shot a day. we discussed with the endocrinologist possibly switching to this new pill to try to manage the "diabetes" but it was not tested on humans during pregnancy and if we want a family, it'd be pointless to switch over and then switch back later (it could also not even work as well), so we're staying on the 1 shot a day and going to do 3 units because if I am going to do it, it's best to keep the levels in normal range, since I'm already sticking myself! Anyways, I will go back in September to see him and retest the levels and make sure everything looks alright. I go back to see the gastro doctor on tuesday since being in the hospital, so we'll see what happens there and hopefully get some questions answered!