Had to get script renwal etc.. We have a new doctor in town doing his placement. He's done med school and practising alone, but working under another doctor??
Either way super good to deal with and very energic to answer and discuss things.. HE said he'd liek to sit and talk for hours about hormones, blodo sugars, etc..
Here's what's what according to him
My blod sugar:
I am in no way prediabetic or even close.. He said my A1c is great.
I said yes, but my fasting sugars are not great.. He looked at them.. And then said "your on testosterone and I can tell you lift heavy weights... Testosterone will increae your BS a bit, but lifting heavy weights will also increase it... You drop your glucose hard when you lift and then your liver is working hard to replace it.. your numbers are fine.. keep working out and keep eating good, but you are not prediabetic..
He said when I was aroudn 290 and not eating great, I could have shown prediabetic numbers, but as of now nothing to worry about.
He said the problem with the parameters for blood sugar is that they take a sample of 10,000 people and test blood sugars, but do not take into consideration anythign else such as diet, lifting weights, on TRT etc.. so their numbers don't work for eveyrone.. they are a guideline, but there is much more to blood sugars numbers when you get heavy weight lifters, distance runners, TRT patients, etc..
He asked if I Was still taking ozepmic.. I said I thought it was good until I got to 0.5 mg a week and then I was experiencing low blood sugar symptoms when I extered myself or after my first heavy set at the gym.. He said "yup.. because your not prediabetic so it dropped your blood sugars lower than normal.. Don't take it if that's what it does to you even if you were taking it for weight loss"
Cholesterol:
He asked why I stopped my 5mg cholesterol meds.. I told him my last doctor said that 5mg does next to nothign and that if my cholestrol gets higher in the future, that 5mg will do much more for me..
He said opposite.. latest research is now 5mg for someone who has never had a cardiact event does wonderings for prevenative. It does as much for them that a high dose does for someone who has had a major cardiac event..
He said take it as prevenatitve since I'm over 40... it will help prevent clogged arties regardless of diet.
I asked if sugar intake caused cholesterol to be sticky and therefore lead to plaque.. He said its a factor, but you can't fight your genetics which accounts for 85% of cholestrol production. take meds, eat good, be active.
I said my other doctor also got me off it since I was having some muscle pain issues. He said those meds either will or will not cause muscle pain and if they do, I'll know it and it will be undeinably the meds.. He said the muscle pain I descirbed didn't sound like that constant intense pain that can be caused by those meds.
3 doctors, 3 vastly different opinions lol..
Either way super good to deal with and very energic to answer and discuss things.. HE said he'd liek to sit and talk for hours about hormones, blodo sugars, etc..
Here's what's what according to him
My blod sugar:
I am in no way prediabetic or even close.. He said my A1c is great.
I said yes, but my fasting sugars are not great.. He looked at them.. And then said "your on testosterone and I can tell you lift heavy weights... Testosterone will increae your BS a bit, but lifting heavy weights will also increase it... You drop your glucose hard when you lift and then your liver is working hard to replace it.. your numbers are fine.. keep working out and keep eating good, but you are not prediabetic..
He said when I was aroudn 290 and not eating great, I could have shown prediabetic numbers, but as of now nothing to worry about.
He said the problem with the parameters for blood sugar is that they take a sample of 10,000 people and test blood sugars, but do not take into consideration anythign else such as diet, lifting weights, on TRT etc.. so their numbers don't work for eveyrone.. they are a guideline, but there is much more to blood sugars numbers when you get heavy weight lifters, distance runners, TRT patients, etc..
He asked if I Was still taking ozepmic.. I said I thought it was good until I got to 0.5 mg a week and then I was experiencing low blood sugar symptoms when I extered myself or after my first heavy set at the gym.. He said "yup.. because your not prediabetic so it dropped your blood sugars lower than normal.. Don't take it if that's what it does to you even if you were taking it for weight loss"
Cholesterol:
He asked why I stopped my 5mg cholesterol meds.. I told him my last doctor said that 5mg does next to nothign and that if my cholestrol gets higher in the future, that 5mg will do much more for me..
He said opposite.. latest research is now 5mg for someone who has never had a cardiact event does wonderings for prevenative. It does as much for them that a high dose does for someone who has had a major cardiac event..
He said take it as prevenatitve since I'm over 40... it will help prevent clogged arties regardless of diet.
I asked if sugar intake caused cholesterol to be sticky and therefore lead to plaque.. He said its a factor, but you can't fight your genetics which accounts for 85% of cholestrol production. take meds, eat good, be active.
I said my other doctor also got me off it since I was having some muscle pain issues. He said those meds either will or will not cause muscle pain and if they do, I'll know it and it will be undeinably the meds.. He said the muscle pain I descirbed didn't sound like that constant intense pain that can be caused by those meds.
3 doctors, 3 vastly different opinions lol..
