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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
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- I am an old but card carrying hippie so the things I don't like are too numerous to mention. I am not a patriot of any kind. My country continuously shames me and themselves.
There is probably a page for this kind thing. My wife is insulin dependent and brittle like crazy. I have been asked to oversee her meds practices. If she is too low or too high mistakes are very dangerous. We have had diabetes since `74 but Jennifer being a nurse took care of that herself up until recently. There have been so many insults to her brain chemistry and physiology that there isn't much resiliency left there. Over the years I haven't said much if she wants a few beers in the evening.
However, I don't know how to evaluate their presence in our life these days. I think we must differentiate between simple and complex carbs and favor the complex for reasons we all know. She knows this at some level since we have a history of paying attention to what we eat. She is rightfully fed up with the whole thing and who can blame her. Still I'd like to know the degree of harm/ simple carbs in a beer. In this case I doubt there are any complex carbs since it's all liquid and I like to know how concerned I should be about two or three beers ...... but then there is cookies pretty soon we are talking mainlining glucose in mass quantities to quote Dan Akroid. The thinking is I'll cover this w/insulin. Fine and dandy at 20, 30, 40, 50, but at 72 there be dragons!
Can anyone point me to reliable info on how many carbs in which foods, and how much insulin to cover them. I have a million questions and I don't seem to be getting notified of answers so maybe I'd missed something in the registration process. I have a bit of a problem navigating this site because someone may be trying to reinvent the wheel. I'll try to find out where I went wrong on the notifications. I apologize in advance if my nearly terminal dyslexia rears it's homely head. I try to check everything but you know how that is. I have spell check on and have selected follow and notify below.
Thank you very much,
Ron
However, I don't know how to evaluate their presence in our life these days. I think we must differentiate between simple and complex carbs and favor the complex for reasons we all know. She knows this at some level since we have a history of paying attention to what we eat. She is rightfully fed up with the whole thing and who can blame her. Still I'd like to know the degree of harm/ simple carbs in a beer. In this case I doubt there are any complex carbs since it's all liquid and I like to know how concerned I should be about two or three beers ...... but then there is cookies pretty soon we are talking mainlining glucose in mass quantities to quote Dan Akroid. The thinking is I'll cover this w/insulin. Fine and dandy at 20, 30, 40, 50, but at 72 there be dragons!
Can anyone point me to reliable info on how many carbs in which foods, and how much insulin to cover them. I have a million questions and I don't seem to be getting notified of answers so maybe I'd missed something in the registration process. I have a bit of a problem navigating this site because someone may be trying to reinvent the wheel. I'll try to find out where I went wrong on the notifications. I apologize in advance if my nearly terminal dyslexia rears it's homely head. I try to check everything but you know how that is. I have spell check on and have selected follow and notify below.
Thank you very much,
Ron