It's been eight months since I started the bio-identical hormone treatment. I've seen progress. I've seen some setbacks in my progress. Overall, the last eight months have been interesting, slightly grueling, and very trying on my patience.

Between the supplements and medications that I take, my blood sugars have seen highs and lows. I have no idea how much this process has affected my blood sugars, but I do know that it certainly plays a part. I'm always wondering which supplement raises blood sugars and which lowers. I try to watch for trends, but it's too much to handle when you're taking this many supplements and prescriptions.

Just how many supplements and prescriptions am I supposed to take (I say supposed because I seem to lack discipline in this area)? Well here's my daily list:

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How is it that I went through this holiday season with zero visits to the gym and eating a ton of calories - with a net weight gain of only 1/2 pound and a meter average of 133 mg/dl?

If I knew the answer to that question, I'd be rich. 

I'd bottle the secret and sell it.  Well, I'd give it to you if I knew and liked you, but mostly I'd sell it.  And probably eat the profits.  And you know, that wouldn't be a big deal, because I'd have the secret.  

I've got some theories....

Karma?  I'm pretty nice.  And I've mostly been good this year in terms of diet and exercise.  Perhaps I'm reaping the karmic benefits of my past good deeds and behaviors?  

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Yesterday was a long day.

I woke up at 6:00 AM to a numb left arm. My first thought was that I must have slept on it and I just needed to give it a moment to get the blood flowing again. I got up and hopped in the shower.

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Following through on my one and only new year's resolution, I am writing about each of the topics bold and underlined in my first post of 2009. 

The title of that post came from something my father has said to me only two times in my life.  "Just where the hell have you been, young lady??"  

The first time, I was hanging out in the woods with friends and smoking a cigarette.  A stupid move that would be repeated several times during my pre-teen and teen years.  And the smoking a cigarette part of the stupid move would be repeated again and again in my late teens and early twenties.  

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This story caught my eye.

A recycling company owner plead guilty in federal court in South Bend, Indiana, yesterday for selling defective test strips.

Bayer paid the recycling company $8,000 to dispose of the test strips, which were part of a 2007 recall. Dispose of the test strips he did; On the Internet. Well, he attempted to. I guess the eight grand wasn't enough. I'm not sure if any of the test strips were purchased before they were removed from the Internet, but think of the harm he could have caused. What a scumbag!

I don't know the avenue in which one takes to sell defective test strips on the Internet (shocking as that may be), but I might be a little leery if I came across Crazy Kenny's Recycling, Pool Cleaning and Test Strip Hut while on the Internet. Maybe I'm just naïve. Perhaps it's a much more sophisticated racket than that.

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Around 2am, I woke up with the same pain I had two weeks ago. All the normal symptoms of the urinary tract infection were there. A few hours later, the same thing happened. By 9am, I wasn't feeling any better.

I started to drink as much water as I could tolerate and took my usual round of vitamins. Since it's been a mere two weeks since I was at the doctor for the same symptoms, I'm 100% certain that it's another UTI (despite my blood sugars being in near perfect range recently).

I called the doctor to leave a message. All I wanted was a prescription. I was willing to give a urine specimen, but didn't want to wait for his next available appointment. I'm supposed to be heading out of town today, so waiting for his appointment would set me back almost 2 hours on my mini-vacation (mini because it's actually for a job interview).

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