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Sparkledooks

Small update post

Heya, it's the sparkly lil floof noodle here.  Just wanted to keep my lil following appraised of what's been happening with me.

So for starters, Foregen hit it's 100k funding goal woo! I'm quite happy to see that.

I woke up one morning with an acute sense of ringing in my ears and couldn't hear anything past muffled sounds out of one of said ears.  Went to a clinic to be seen only to get the fact I've had hypertension for likely the past 7 years and it went untreated until that episode happened after getting my pressures taken.  

After said diagnosis and pressure relieving pills prescribed I radically changed my diet to a DASH diet, worked on reintroducing exercise back into my life, and overall ate way healthier and became more active that I used to be.  Over the span of those two weeks my pressures dropped from hospital-worthy back to down very healthy levels.

However while my pressures are now under control, I also recieved blood work back that pointed to a higher than desired A1C level prior to my diet change.  My indulgant lifestyle of fast food, sodium in everything, sugar in everything, and lack of most fruits and vegetables ended up with me reading 0.1 higher than the cutoff for the beetus.  With that said, my doctor said that if I keep up my current lifestyle change and simply restrict myself to a low carb intake, my A1C levels should go back down to a healthy level just like current sodium restricted diet did.

So yeah, Febuary has been quite a bit of a busy month for the lil dook-dook, but I am in high spirits nonetheless.  A health scare aside, I was able to kick it's butt!
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LittleSypher
1 month ago
Wow, that's a lot of change!!

it sounds like you're feeling a lot better, and i'm super happy to hear that! :3
Sparkledooks
1 month ago
much better, albeit it has been quite the adjustment.  I've gotten much more familiar with my spice cabinent after having to swear off salt for the most part XD
Danisaiah1
1 month ago
*huuuuggles* thats good :3 happy your doing good~<3<3
Sparkledooks
1 month ago
doing my best <3
killerman33
1 month ago
what is a dash diet?

I havent heard of something like that.
Sparkledooks
1 month ago
It's a diet that stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It focuses on healthy food sources and also limits processed and added sugars, red meats, and salt. Aiming to keep salt below 1,500mg intake daily. It's certainly limited my past food choices, simply due to just how much bloody sodium is in stuff I never accounted for, but it's had a very noticeable effect on my lowered pressures.
killerman33
4 weeks, 1 day ago
thank you for the explination.
KotaPup
1 month ago
So long as everything is going up, then that's what matters most even if there are stumbles.
Sparkledooks
1 month ago
mhm! I always try my best but also do my best to not beat up myself if I end up not nailing it on a particular day
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