Lacking Will Power » General Chatter http://lackingwillpower.com Dealing With Diabetes Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:04:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why Have A Regular Eye Doctor Appointment http://lackingwillpower.com/2010/08/why-have-a-regular-eye-doctor-appointment/ http://lackingwillpower.com/2010/08/why-have-a-regular-eye-doctor-appointment/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:43:59 +0000 admin http://lackingwillpower.com/?p=26 Continue reading →]]> OK, So I had to go to the eye doctor for the first time in my life a few weeks back as I was having issues reading my laptop screen at work.  Anyway thinking its just because I have reached the age of 40 I figured I was due for glasses.  Well it so happens that they check your blood pressure whey you go in for a eye exam, Who knew.  Knowing I’m a smoker , overweight and out of shape I wasn’t all that surprised to see it was quite high.  161/105 if I recall correctly.  This not only alarmed the nurse that was doing initial heath check on me but the eye doctor himself wasnt too pleased and recommended I head straight to my physician and get checked out.  I agreed and said I would look into it when I got home.   So the eye exam gets completed and as I has suspected I need glasses, bi-focals no less   So I pick out some frames and place my order and head home feeling older than dirt.

I really didn’t look too hard at my paperwork and just threw it on the table with the mail.  Later that afternoon my wife, a nurse by the way, picked up the papers to see exactly what I had done.  To my shock and horror the eye doctor had written my blood pressure on there, this of course immediately sent my wife into panic mode.   She tried talking me into going into the emergency room etc… afraid I was going to drop dead for sure, but she settled for an appointment with my family physician the next day.

Now if you couldn’t tell already , I’m not a big fan of any doctor.  They have this bad habit of preaching about my being overweight, out of shape and insist I stop smoking so I rarely go to see them.  This time however seeing my wife was so concerned I actually went in like a good little boy.  It didn’t shock me to hear that he confirmed what the eye doctor had told me and immediately put me on a prescription to control my blood pressure.  This is just where the story begins.

A month later I had to go in to have some blood work drawn and visit my family doctor to make sure the medication was working as intended.  The blood pressure medication did little to help my condition and I was subsequently prescribed a different dosage.  The doctor was about to walk out and send me on my way and he asked where my lab results were.   I explained I wasn’t given any and they were supposed to be sent to his office.  A few minutes of waiting and he comes back into the office shaking his head.  Sigh,  here it comes again.  Your overweight, cholesterol is too high etc….   However I was quite taken back by his next comments.  He started going over various numbers all were bad of course but then he started talking about blood sugars and diabetes.  What,  I just had bad eye sight and now your telling me I’m diabetic?   He said I would have to sit trough some 3 or 4 hours gglucose test the next day, give more blood and give a urine sample.  To  make a long story short turns out that going to visit my eye doctor, has revealed a major blood pressure issue and the fact that I know have diabetes.   So if you ever ask your self why have a regular eye doctor appointment maybe you’ll think twice about what might actually come of it. I’ll be battling these problems with my son’s help doing the Power 90 workout program

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    ]]>     http://lackingwillpower.com/2008/07/help-my-daughter-wants-to-motivate-me/feed/ 1     Lacking Will Power Where To Start http://lackingwillpower.com/2008/07/lacking-will-power-where-to-start/ http://lackingwillpower.com/2008/07/lacking-will-power-where-to-start/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:14:29 +0000 admin http://lackingwillpower.com/?p=8 Continue reading →]]> As you can see by my previous post I have many bad habits and things about myself that I would like to correct.  Now where exactly do I start.  I’ve sat here at my computer thinking about it and have come to the conclusion that my main goal is to loose weight.  I figure in the process of losing weight I will have to tackle all the bad habits I have and over come them to achieve my ultimate goal of losing weight and living a longer healthier life.   Obviously there are a few things I’ll need to address, like how to go about losing weight when I lack will power and motivation, lol.  I started this morning by looking at a few sites with weight loss products that could help me along the way.  I’ll probably do some more research to find out what the best weight loss product is for me and how to best use it.  Men generally have an easier time loosing weight than women but with my smoking , lack of exercise and general lazy attitude I’ll probably need some outside help from a few of these weight loss products to help me achieve my goals.  As I experiment and come across new ideas to help men lose weight I’ll pass along my findings to my readers so that they can benefit from my research as well. I’m definately not going to do anything crazy like eat subway for a year but besides diets there are many products that can help with my smoking, excercise and weightloss goals

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