Wellness

[Poodlepet2]

I have never researched this @CatLoverDogsToo, but I bet there are more deaths from Type 2, than type 1 when you look at the factors that contribute because of everything you said...

I have joked with my ARNP about going on sliding scale insulin for mango season.....It's a joke-People seem to think that if they know the carb content, they can just adjust their insulin dose and eat on.....and so they continually stay obese- yes-I used that word-and then they want to blame their doctors or insurance.

We absolutely need more testing strips made available-there is so much we need as a country. For the first time, we may outlive o ur children.

I am apologetic about meandering here, but it is all discouraging.

All I can say is be your best-and you are, as @ Moonchilde and @Trinity 11 is....we all try.

Poodlepet2

[Q4u]

@CatLoverDogsToo you are SO right.  Maybe because my Mother's friend had it and hid candy all over her house and ended up in horrible condition, that I saw at a young age.... or our Tax Man for years and years who is numb from the waist down with neuropathy because he has never followed what the doctors have told him (according to his wife) and has never tested and eaten what he wanted.  And as a kid I watched the very funny Totie Fields, loved her.... and then found out she had her leg amputated because of Diabetes.  I asked my Mom what that was all about because I was horrified..... and this stuff has stuck with me. 

Diabetes is insidious and will rot a person from the inside out.  If that isn't graphic enough to scare the beejeebes out of someone nothing will.  If you have Diabetes, you have to worry.... you have to understand sugar, complex and simple carbs, learn about the food you are eating and even stress and what happens to your numbers when your body is sick or injured.  If you are Diabetic you HAVE to watch your numbers.....

[chrystaltree]

Ok, I see that axe you're trying to grind when it comes to Type 2's.  I'll let that go and just say that the goal of the study is to assess and improve glucose monitoring.  Which is a good thing.  

[sidsmom]

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@CatLoverDogsToo wrote:

The thing that scares and aggravates me is when I hear a person with Type 2 say to me: "Oh, I don't have to worry. I eat what I want, I don't have the "bad diabetes", I'm not taking shots." I am helping my daughter redo her new classroom and I cannot tell you the number of teachers and parapros that keep saying this.

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@CatLoverDogsToo

I totally agree w/ your sentiments.

In this very forum, in our little subculture of QVC, I see this all the time.  It's really pronounced when the winter holidays ramp up & recipes of greasy, bacon-y, lardy, milky, cheese-y sludge is met w/ responses like 'OMG that sounds awesome!' while proclaiming to have to 'watch their numbers'...then in another forum, they are complaining about how bad they're feeling when they can control their BS#s.   So many T2 people, whether they want to express it or not, thinks 'Just one bite & I'll adjust my insulin later.'  Guaranteed. 

[docsgirl]

This topic came at just the right time for me as I was diagnosed on Friday, June 16.  My fasting blood glucose was 144 and my A1C is 7.9.  My doctor told me I was 'officially diabetic.,' but didn't say what type. I'm 71 years of age and have never been sick a day in my life other than a cold or bronchitis.  He put me on Metformin and I will be attending Diabetes Education classes in July.  I don't take shots and I wasn't told to test for anything.  This is all so new to me and my eating habits have to change radically.  I'm scared and know this is my fault.  For several years my doctor kept telling me that my blood sugar was gradually rising and if I want to avoid becoming diabetic I needed to change my eating habits but I chose not to heed his advice.  I know it's up to me to get this under control.  I love to eat all the wrong things.  If anyone has any suggestions before I get to the classes, please pass them on to me.  Any and all information would be deeply appreciated.  Thanks so much.               docsgirl

[sidsmom]

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@docsgirl wrote:

This topic came at just the right time for me as I was diagnosed on Friday, June 16.  My fasting blood glucose was 144 and my A1C is 7.9.  My doctor told me I was 'officially diabetic.,' but didn't say what type. I'm 71 years of age and have never been sick a day in my life other than a cold or bronchitis.  He put me on Metformin and I will be attending Diabetes Education classes in July.  I don't take shots and I wasn't told to test for anything.  This is all so new to me and my eating habits have to change radically.  I'm scared and know this is my fault.  For several years my doctor kept telling me that my blood sugar was gradually rising and if I want to avoid becoming diabetic I needed to change my eating habits but I chose not to heed his advice.  I know it's up to me to get this under control.  I love to eat all the wrong things.  If anyone has any suggestions before I get to the classes, please pass them on to me.  Any and all information would be deeply appreciated.  Thanks so much.               docsgirl

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@docsgirl

Go to Google.

Type in 'diabetes plant based'.

Tons & tons of information on how to reverse.

[lolakimono]

@docsgirl

[CatLoverDogsToo]

@docsgirl  I am sorry you have joined the "diabetes club", the club that no one chooses to join. Firstly, please stop blaming yourself. No matter what the media and others say, it really is not your "fault". Blaming yourself is counterproductive at this point.

As for diagnosis of Type 1 vs Type 2, many, many people are diagnosed as Type 1 later in life.  Mary Tyler Moore was diagnosed after the age of 30. I was diagnosed Type 1 at age 56. It is now believed that a very high percentage of people diagnosed as Type 2 are in reality Type 1's.

You will need to start taking good care of yourself. A HgA1C of 7.9 is roughly equivalent to a blood sugar of 190. Not a good number.

I suggest you go to Walmart and pick up a Relion Prime meter and some strips. These are fairly accurate and inexpensive. I don't care what any "study" says, you need to test for many reasons. You test before eating and 2 hours after eating. This will tell you how you are reacting to foods and which ones drive your blood sugar up.  More information is always better than little to none.

High carbohydrate foods are not good to eat, this includes starchy ones such as potatoes, pasta, bread, corn, grains of any kind. I know there is a poster here who continues to recommend a "plant based" diet, but her recommendations are simply wrong for diabetics. Please ignore most it not all she posts. I am sure she means well, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Poodlepet started a thread a while ago concerning diabetes, and there is a lot of good information there too.

Metformin is a good medication, but it will not work "right away" so you will need to be patient.

If you have any other questions, there are many of us on the forum that have lots of experience and are willing to help. We will cheer you on in your quest for better health!

[sidsmom]

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@CatLoverDogsToo wrote:

 High carbohydrate foods are not good to eat, this includes starchy ones such as potatoes, pasta, bread, corn, grains of any kind. I know there is a poster here who continues to recommend a "plant based" diet, but her recommendations are simply wrong for diabetics. Please ignore most it not all she posts. I am sure she means well, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

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@docsgirl

Yes, I'm that plant based poster, hence my post upthread.

Food has hurt you....now food can heal you.

If you want to follow the rollercoaster of T2 Diabetes

for the rest of your life, don't listen to me.  

I'm just offering 3 words...Diabetes Plant Based. 

Do the research.

It's been proven time & time again, YOU HAVE THE POWER

to heal your condition....it's not too late!  Instead of other posters

who only negatively suggest how to live w/ T2, I'm offering you 

positive healing.  Yes, I'm that poster.  Guilty as charged.

I'm offering you to be a NON-diabetic. 

BUT....I'm also the poster who doesn't have T2 diabetes.  

Like the saying goes...'Choose your teachers carefully.' 

[ID2]

Sorry @sidsmom but if you aren't a diabetic I really don't know how you can constantly preach the "become a non diabetic only if you eat my way"! Unless you have a doctors degree I really feel you have no place preaching. It kind-of gets real old. Until you've walked in our shoes (I'm a type 1) then I feel you don't know anything. JMO