I've been backsliding on food/exercise since October. [View all]

Woke up this morning to a good amount of blood in my urine. I do have a history of kidney stones (since 13 yo), but I had only a few twinges of kidney/back pain. Nothing as bad as i'm used to when they rear their ugly heads. I was able to get in with my dr. this morning. I'm running a low grade fever. She said my urine sample was impressive and contained white and red cells. My a1c crept up from a 6.7 in July to a 7.1 today). She just said "You know what you have to do to fix it, so just do it." My BP was more worrisome, at 154/108, when it's normally been around 135/84. She said she thought it was due to the kidney or bladder infection. So, I'm on the antibiotic Macrobid for a week. She kept my Metformin at 500mg 2x/day and my Lisinopril at 20mg/day, and wants to check me again in a week.

So while not necessarily related to diabetes, it was a health related wake-up call.