{"id":31534,"date":"2012-12-20T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=31534"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:44:20","slug":"my-new-medication-an-ace-inhibitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=31534","title":{"rendered":"My New Medication: An ACE Inhibitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I just came back from a surprising visit to the diabetes clinic. I\u2019ve been prescribed a new medication &#8211; new for me, that is. An ACE Inhibitor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I went to my appointment thinking I was just going to renew my scripts and say hello to my endo. My periodic checkups at the diabetes clinic are usually uneventful, and include praise for my good control, especially the infrequency of hypoglycemia. \u00a0I had no reason to think this time would be any different especially since my last A1c result was <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/blood-sugar-control-blogs\/a-good-a1c-just-got-harder-to-get\/31358\/\">identical to the one before<\/a> \u2013 6.8%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The appointment started out fine. I saw the nutritionist, not my usual one, who was nice and thought my diet is a little crazy and that I don\u2019t eat enough. She had a hard time believing I\u2019ve been eating this way for two and a half years, and asked if I\u2019m moody and if I feel tired. I told her I\u2019m not moody and that I\u2019m tired, but having three kids, waking up to run most mornings around 4:30, and working pretty much non-stop until 10:00 p.m. would make anyone tired, right? I don\u2019t think it was surprising. She looked at my numbers, which she downloaded from my pump and glucose meter, and said that if it works for me\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Next I went to the nurse, also new. She was really nice and thought I had very good control. She did however think I should lower my basal rate during the early mornings. This, a result of the fact that I have been waking up relatively low for the past two weeks. I don\u2019t know why this is. I have been eating a little less lately and running a little more, but I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s what causes the lower numbers. In any case, she suggested I lower my basal rate which is 0.75 units per hour to 0.65 from 2:00 to 4:00 a.m. (then it goes to 0.45).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I wasn\u2019t so sure she was right but waited to see what the doctor would say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I walked in to the doctor, she seemed very unhappy. Unhappy with my LDL, which went up to 140. Unhappy with my decision to stop taking statins, \u00a0and unhappy with my morning lows. (I woke up in the 60\u2018s twice this week, once 71 and once 91, which is a little low if you\u2019re going running.) She was also a little unhappy (in a caring way) about my eyes. She told me to get a second opinion. My A1c, she said, is fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She was also unhappy about my insulin regimen. She told me that young athletic people (with diabetes) should not take 67% of their insulin as basal insulin. She decided that not only should I lower my basal rate during the early morning but I should also split the day into two, lowering my basal rate during the morning hours from 0.45 to 0.35.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Then she told me she was prescribing me a lower dose statin and that she wants me to take and another pill I\u2019d never heard of \u2013 Ramipril. Ramipril, marketed by Sanofi as Tritace, is an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I asked the doctor why she was prescribing me another drug, but I didn\u2019t receive much of an answer. She said something about my eyes and small blood vessel damage. Realizing I wouldn\u2019t learn much from asking, I accepted her opinion, at least until I got home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">When I got home I looked it up and found out a little about it, including the fact that ACE inhibitors were originally made of snake venom. But didn\u2019t see much about diabetes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So, I called a friend, an endo, who told me it was the right thing to do. She also said I had to get my LDL cholesterol down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201c\u2026take the statin, if you feel muscle pain try a different one but you can\u2019t walk around with high cholesterol, it\u2019s like not getting your blood sugar under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">So here I am again, with my list of medication growing, getting ridiculously long. I never thought I would be this way, definitely not at 43. On the other hand, I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be a marathoner either.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My New Medication: An ACE Inhibitor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just came back from a surprising visit to the diabetes clinic. 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