Checking your blood glucose
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Caustic Burno
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If her fasting is 137 she is diabetic!
Only thing that lowered mine was glyburide and metformin along with diet.
My fasting now runs 90-95.
There is no finish line here!!
This is lifestyle change as well.
Only thing that lowered mine was glyburide and metformin along with diet.
My fasting now runs 90-95.
There is no finish line here!!
This is lifestyle change as well.
Caustic Burno
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Your wife really needs to see an endocrinologist not just an General Practice MD.
Caustic Burno
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What's her A1C that's where the rubber meets the road.
Above 6 diabetic above 7 poorly controlled diabetic above 8 uncontrolled.
This is a good tool for estimating your A1C.
You can see my normal and when I started steroids for an arthritis flare.
I will have to titration up my medication while taking steroids. Oh boy more testing.
You can buy an A1c test as well there kinda pricey.
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shaz
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We have our blood work for insurance next week. Should get the test results in 3 weeks or so. I'm just now learning about this stuff.
Have you changed your diet?
Caustic Burno
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Not a lot more about portion control. I eat one biscuit and not five with breakfast and so on, I have a cup of Blue Belle not a washtub.
Ouachita
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Check out the keto diet. It's a lifestyle change.
Caustic Burno
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My nemesis high fructose corn syrup, or any corn product.
It's amazing the products that have it from breads to green beans. Products will be labeled sugar free
It's amazing the products that have it from breads to green beans. Products will be labeled sugar free
1982vett
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Careful with the carbs and pass on the sugar….
Now you find out which foods you really like and the ones that just aren't worth the troubles they cause. As Caustic said. Portion control. Don't necessarily have to deny foods, just have to be aware their effects and act accordingly.
Now you find out which foods you really like and the ones that just aren't worth the troubles they cause. As Caustic said. Portion control. Don't necessarily have to deny foods, just have to be aware their effects and act accordingly.
D2Cat
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That fact you stated there determines she is a diabetic. You can get a lot of info on the internet. Here's an example. https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/guide/understanding-diabetes-detection-treatment
And as CB mentioned go see an endocrinologist (a specialist), not a general practitioner.
Caustic Burno
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Some of these prepared and fast foods must be shot with a carb gun. It's amazing how many carbs they can get in some of this stuff.
Read an article the average American took in ten pounds of sugars a year in 1900 from their diet today it's over a 100 pounds a year being pumped into the foods.
D2Cat
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When she goes in to get the blood work done get it scheduled as early in the morning as possible and be sure it's a FASTING blood test. If for some reason it's not fasting it's pretty much useless determining her production of insulin.
D2Cat
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You will learn to analyze foods to stay healthy. Some foods are almost like poison. For example catsup is about 26% sugar of some kind. All natural fruit is made to sound good for you, however many are very high in their glycemic index.
A book to help with all this kind of info is "The Calorie King, Calorie Fat and Carbohydrate Counter". Paperback the size of a Reader's Digest and has list and portion size and carbs listed.
A book to help with all this kind of info is "The Calorie King, Calorie Fat and Carbohydrate Counter". Paperback the size of a Reader's Digest and has list and portion size and carbs listed.
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My Dad was considered pre-diabetic a few years ago. He started taking an hour long walk every day and lost about thirty pounds. Didn't change his diet significantly, but his blood sugar and cholesterol both stay at normal levels with the regular exercise and healthy weight.
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shaz
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Heard good stuff about it. We're doing fasting. No breakfast ever, lunch one day a week maybe and dinner 5 times per week. So no more than 6 meals per week.
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shaz
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Yeah, we were looking at the carb content on some microwave burritos not long ago and wondered how can you pack that much sugar into something that size. And it's a "burrito" for Christ's sakes!
Check out an icing coated honey bun for fat, sugar and carbs. I was waiting in line at Walmart and read one of those closely. It was unreal what was in those and come to find out it was rated as two servings, so double everything. No wonder so many people are overweight. One would think they could come up with a cure for diabetes as it seems a lot of people struggle with it and getting worse.
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shaz
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Yeah, I've never been one to eat sweets but you can get way more than you realize with the processed stuff.
callmefence
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My fasting blood sugar was pegging the scale. After Thanksgiving dinner last year it was near 300.
After 3 months of eating nothing but meat , eggs and REAL cheese. It was less than 100. I'm off of all diabetes meds, blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds . Near my ideal weight and feel outstanding. The food pyramid we have been taught is wrong. Plants and their fruits and seed are not good food imo. Try it for one week , I dare you... last visit to my doctor...if you don't step in front of a bus , no reason you won't live to a hundred. Type 2 diabetes is not diabetes..it's a product of your diet.
After 3 months of eating nothing but meat , eggs and REAL cheese. It was less than 100. I'm off of all diabetes meds, blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds . Near my ideal weight and feel outstanding. The food pyramid we have been taught is wrong. Plants and their fruits and seed are not good food imo. Try it for one week , I dare you... last visit to my doctor...if you don't step in front of a bus , no reason you won't live to a hundred. Type 2 diabetes is not diabetes..it's a product of your diet.
