Molly I havent read all the msgs on this thread. Who buys the food when you go shopping at the superksrket and puts it in the shopping trolley? If it's you, then you need to start buying food that is lower in carb......a bit less biscuits, bread, rice, pasta etc. Hubby can only eat food that is bought. If its not bought, then it cant be eaten.
@iHs Generally speaking he will buy the food as he is retired and his routine is to go out for lunch and do some shopping whilst I am out at work....however I would say that he does not eat much bread now (doesn't like the loaf I eat), we do not have rice or pasta...I have a small drawer for my packet of biscuits, other than that there are no biscuits in the house...I only give him about 3 small new potatoes....
The things he does eat are a bowl of porridge (some mornings but certainly not all as he generally skips breakfast
) ....cereal has run out and not been replaced...today he had eggs on toast for lunch when he was out...he will eat yoghurts and I have introduced the idea of eating nuts and cheese for snacking if required......if he buys a cake he will now buy one for me but not for himself......we generally don't have desserts...
So unless I am missing something there I would say that we are cutting down on foods that contain carbs...... (am happy to be corrected if I am wrong)...... and that where possible I am providing reasonably healthy meals at dinner time...... I also feel that he is gradually becoming aware of what he shouldn't eat which in my book is progress on where we were a while ago when i think back to what he did eat before.....
If he does choose to buy or eat other things whilst I am out at work etc there is nothing that I can do about that....but my general view is that he is trying to be better with regards to eating...
Clearly though something isn't working right to still have such high blood results.......tested again this evening and it had come down to 17.1...an improvement on earlier but still high..
A bg level of 24mmol is high but unless other symptoms show, a hospital will probably discharge back to the care of GP and the possibility of other diabetic meds added which may or not have side effects.
Other than his head feeling a bit strange there are no other real symptoms that I can identify which the hospital could work with....will try to monitor more closely over the weekend and if still high after the weekend I will book an appointment with the GP / nurse for next week...