First I do not have a real doctor here where I live. I see a nurse practioner. No doctors in this town are accepting new patients with my insurance which is Meridian. I am waiting for someone to open up.
Not sure how to make this a short thing but I'll try. I am a type 2 diabetic. I was on glyburide, metformin and prandin at the highest doses and by blood sugar was still way out of control.
The NP wanted to put me on Lantis but the insurance would not cover it. She then decided to do an experiment and see how the metformin was working all by itself so she took me off of the glyburide, the prandin and lowered my dose of metformin and then had me chronicle my blood sugar. Predictably, it shot up 200 points in a matter of 4 days. ( she wanted me to do this for 2 weeks )
On the third day, I felt like hell. My vision which is already super bad, blurred even more quite suddenly. My eyes started watering badly. My face began to feel prickly particularly around the eyes and went numb in some areas. It felt like someone was jabbing an icepick into my spine at the back of my neck. I was having a very hard time concentrating. My balance which is not good anyway got far worse. I had pain running down my left arm but I have a panic/anxiety disorder so I did'nt think anything about it. I figure I was just anxious from all the pain and symptoms. It was so bad I almost went to the hospital but instead I just curled up in bed and tried to sleep.
The next day, even though my blood sugar was higher, the symptoms were gone except my vision was still more blurred than it had been. I saw the NP the following day and told her what had happened after going off my medication and she was completely dismissive and said my symptoms were " impossible". Point blank she did not believe a word I said.
Later that day, a headache began. I almost never get headaches. When I do they are sinus but this was around the top of my head like a tight band. It did get worse and go down farther into my face but it kept me up half the night. I finally got frustrated and took ketoprofin and allergra D and a flexeril hoping it would cover a variety of possible causes for the headache. I finally got to sleep but there is still pressure this morning. I really don't think it's sinuses. My vision is still more blurred than it was before. I can't even see my tv and it's 5 ft from my couch with a 52 " screen. Typing this, I am about 9 " away from the computer screen.
I'm feeling a bit desperate here and my NP isn't listening to me so I looked for an online doctor to get another opinion.