A1C

Well, the A1C was not so good, but not surprising considering my diet for the last few months has been awful. I mean the basis of my diet is okay but there's been a LOT of sweets and crappy comfort carb eating, all kinds of things I normally don't eat. Since I was diagnosed with prediabetes years ago it's not really a new diagnosis, but I just can't keep my head in the sand like I have been the last few years since my endo cancer diagnosis and my big weight gain. I have to face the fact that even with prediabetes I have to basically eat like a diabetic to keep things under control. The first time I was diagnosed with this I lost 60 pounds and over the last few years gained 50 of them back (although I've lost 5 or 6 in the couple weeks). I knew what was going on without the test results, which is one of the main reasons that I had been so depressed about each pound I gained back. I knew it would cause this, but in spite of my knowledge and my fears and my concerns I avoided going to an internist and dealing with it. So now I'm back to hyper-controlling everything that goes in my mouth (like I've been the last few weeks) for the rest of my life. It's just so depressing, especially when I'm not looking at a normal life span to begin with. I really like the philosophy of life is short, eat dessert first. Oh well...

I don't have the weird dryness syndrome (Sjogren's syndrome) and my blood counts are otherwise normal except for the CA125. They use this as a tumor marker with ovarian cancer and recently they've started using it in endometrial cancer also. It's not a real reliable indicator unless it's been tested from the very beginning and it's been shown to actually follow a pattern that makes sense for a particular woman. Since I have never had the CA125 test before one result is kind of meaningless, except for the fact that I do have measurable disease and it is elevated. But honestly, who cares, I know I have cancer already!