Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Tylenol PM helps

I went to the endo last week and complained about being in so much pain that I can't sleep. My endo's reply was simple, tylenol. Turns out tylenol is diabetic friendly. How is it different from advil or aleve? I have no clue.

So I got tylenol extra strength, and it sort of worked.
Then I got tylenol pm, and even though I'm still remotely in pain, I sleep.

But it gets better.

Maybe it's from actually being able to sleep. Although right now I hardly sleep because I tend to cough throughout the night. But, it keeps my blood sugar low despite waking up late.

This is major because now I don't have to wake up at 8 - 9AM to have breakfast. I can wake up at 9:30 or 9:45 instead. And yes, 30 - 45 minutes makes all the difference in the world when everything is pretty much scheduled.

On non-tylenol days, waking up that late would mean a higher blood sugar reading. Why? The nighttime insulin would already be wearing off. However, tylenol pm is lowering my blood sugar a little allowing me to sleep in and feel remotely normal.

That's the goal, to feel a little normal.

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