Meds NSV!

Had a physical today, and finally the doctor agreed to adjust my meds!

My cholesterol is fine but they want me to keep taking the statin at least for a while as I am diabetic and it helps with keeping arteries clear, but she cut the dose in half, so that's good.

I also had a 24 hour blood pressure test a month or so ago, and it shows my bp is actually pretty good, but because it's always higher at the doctor's office (and I have told them time and again to take it twice, but she didn't) she didn't want to take me off it completely, but reduced it by half and I will monitor with my home bp monitor again for a while. It's not totally accurate as it measures lower than the doc's but I know by how much it's off so I can still gauge how I am doing.

And lastly my A1C (for diabetes, for those that don't know) was down to 5.7, which is really good as it was 6 last time, and for several years before I started losing weight it was averaging 6.7 which is just below the 7 that they don't want you to go above. So she dropped the gliclazide altogether. I am still on metformin, but here's hoping as I get down towards my goal weight that that can slowly be decreased as I take three a day now.

So YAY! Down from 6 pills to 3 over the last 6 months of being on MFP, and two of the three reduced in dose. Gives me more incentive to keep on!