Blood sugar after breakfast yesterday: 98. 2/3 cup Müesli without raisins, 1/2 banana, 1 cup plain yogurt. Plus 1/2 hour run.

The results of my most recent Pap smear came back with irregular results. That's a little scary, but it doesn't do any good to repeat the test now; I need to go back in 6 months to see if there have been any further changes. I had an irregular result once before, about 20 years ago, and it went away. So hopefully this will, too.

Blood sugar 1 hr. after lunch: 75. I had a bunch of cheese fondue with bread (didn't count how much actually, but it was probably at least 4 carbs), a cup of green salad with oil and lemon juice dressing, and 1/2 apple.

 

Update on other symptoms: I only had that one night of poor sleep, no problems since then. I did have a few more heart paliptation episodes, but it's calmed down in the past few days.

It's been 2 weeks since I raised the Levothyroxin dosage, and yesterday I had heart paliptations off and on all day, and last night I couldn't sleep. I lay awake for hours. I would drift off into a dream and then wake up again immediately. I remembered each dream directly afterwards, but this morning I have no memory of any of them. I think I had 3 dream periods. So my REM sleep was not disturbed, but my non-REM sleep was. I considered just getting up and reading, but I was actually really tired and didn't have the energy to. I finally almost overslept, Kati having to come in and wake me at 10 past 7 this morning.

I had my annual thyroid ultrasound exam this morning. The doctor did not see anything special, although he did say that my thyroid had shrunk a bit since last year.

 

He also said that the Eltroxin dosage seems good now, and I should only need to have a blood test to check the thyroid levels twice a year from now on, instead of every six weeks like I've been doing the past year.

 

And the next ultrasound can be in 2 years, if I don't feel anything unusual myself in the mean time.

 

Another topic: I saw an article in the Zurich newspaper this morning about a new therapy for Type II diabetes. It is based on the idea that a chronic inflammation in the pancreas is responsible for a reduction in the efficacy of insulin-producing cells, and for their destruction, leading to the necessity for insulin shots. By giving a small group of test patients a single shot of an anti-inflammatory agent that is usually given for rheumatism, they were able to reduce the 3-month blood sugar indicator by 1%. That doesn't sound like much to me, but the report said that that was actually a big success and meant that those patients even needed to reduce their insulin dosages, and that they expected the improvement to increase.

 

I wonder, since my thyroid problem is also caused by a chronic inflammation in that organ, if this anti-inflammatory might not be helpful in cases of Hashimoto's as well.

Blood sugar last night after dinner: 105 (Basmati rice with cabbage, leek, and onion; fennel and radish salad with oil/vinegar dressing; tomato and avocado salad with oil/lemon juice dressing)

 

Blood sugar this morning before breakfast: 83.

Blood sugar last night after dinner: 98. (Basmati rice, white meat chicken, curry sauce, green salad with oil/lemon juice dressing).

 

Blood sugar this morning before breakfast: 89.

Blood sugar after lunch today: 107. Lunch consisted of a green salad with olive oil and lemon juice dressing, fried potatoes and onions, fish sticks, and grapes.

I began with the new 10 microgramm Levothyroxine tablets today (1 per day). It isn't really a new dosage per se, because I was taking 2 5-microgramm tablets before.

 

Also, my back feels better.

I woke up early this morning with a back-ache, right down low on the left side. It isn't excruciating, but I couldn't find a comfortable position to lie in and couldn't get back to sleep. I thought it'd get better if I went swimming, and it did a bit, but it's still there. It doesn't feel like a muscle ache or a nerve ache. I don't know, but hopefully nothing with the kidney.