You've got to make sure that your blood pressures are okay. And then of course if you've got raised blood pressure you are liable to have a stroke and so on, and things like this. So you keep monitoring that. You have got to be monitored for those type of things at the surgery, and cholesterol is the other thing as well, because these are the negatives that go with the diabetes.
You got to make sure that they are okay. I went to the doctors last year or the year before and my cholesterol, he said good cholesterol is, sorry my bad cholesterol is down and my good cholesterol needs to come up. So, you end up having a tablet, to maintain your cholesterols down and then you have got a tablet then to react to get your good cholesterols up. So, you know, it seems silly to me, but you can understand… I can understand the difference after it had been explained to me why it has got to happen. And yet, because my cholesterol isn't exceptionally high, but they want it within certain bounds you've got to take these tablets.
So that's the negative side of diabetes really, as you've got other things that you've got to monitor. And you've got to keep monitoring them and try not to miss your appointments with your doctors and things like this, because you've just got to keep going on these things. That is the way I have found it. That has benefited me. Sometimes you go there, and you don't want to be, “Oh here he is again, you know, with his Mac coming in to have his tablets”, but you've got to go.
That is another negative is you have got to go regularly to get it, your medication. I'm fortunate, I can get mine for about three months at a time. But I need a suitcase sometimes to come from the chemist [laughs]. You know you get a few tablets, you are taking loads of tablets isn't it, you know you are going to have a nice little carrier bag full to come away from… People think you are buying presents. |
