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<blockquote data-quote="Pattidevans" data-source="post: 98058" data-attributes="member: 2062"><p>Dave</p><p></p><p>I don't normally post much in this forum, and so PMFJI, but having just read your other thread it sheds a lot of light on what may be the problem here. You said in the other thread:-</p><p>When you wake up your blood sugar is under 7.1 before you eat. BUT after breakfast it has risen to 16.6 which means that for a great deal of the time after meals your BGs are extremely high, very probably every single day after every meal. The gold standard is to be under 8 one hour after a meal and under 6.5 two hours after a meal. If you have only been testing once a week before breakfast then you cannot possibly know what your BGs have been after meals. That 16.6 should be a wake up call for you. You also sayThat is indicative of having had high BGs because the glucose is leaking out of your kidneys causing the strong sweet smell in your urine. Long term this can cause kidney damage.</p><p></p><p>High BGs are perfect breeding grounds for all manner of infection, in particular fungal infections such as thrush, which can affect men as well as women, and bladder infections. It's a vicious circle because whilst you have an infection your body is under stress and will be producing Cortisol, a natural steroid that will push up your BGs in it's turn. The high BGs then nurture the bacteria causing the infection.</p><p></p><p>I would strongly suggest that you adopt a more stringent testing routine to find out how high your BGs truly are and I suspect that if you can reduce your BGs then your UTIs will reduce exponentially. For a testing regime which will actually tell you what is what I suggest you read this link <a href="http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/joomla/jennifers-advice" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/joomla/jennifers-advice</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pattidevans, post: 98058, member: 2062"] Dave I don't normally post much in this forum, and so PMFJI, but having just read your other thread it sheds a lot of light on what may be the problem here. You said in the other thread:- When you wake up your blood sugar is under 7.1 before you eat. BUT after breakfast it has risen to 16.6 which means that for a great deal of the time after meals your BGs are extremely high, very probably every single day after every meal. The gold standard is to be under 8 one hour after a meal and under 6.5 two hours after a meal. If you have only been testing once a week before breakfast then you cannot possibly know what your BGs have been after meals. That 16.6 should be a wake up call for you. You also sayThat is indicative of having had high BGs because the glucose is leaking out of your kidneys causing the strong sweet smell in your urine. Long term this can cause kidney damage. High BGs are perfect breeding grounds for all manner of infection, in particular fungal infections such as thrush, which can affect men as well as women, and bladder infections. It's a vicious circle because whilst you have an infection your body is under stress and will be producing Cortisol, a natural steroid that will push up your BGs in it's turn. The high BGs then nurture the bacteria causing the infection. I would strongly suggest that you adopt a more stringent testing routine to find out how high your BGs truly are and I suspect that if you can reduce your BGs then your UTIs will reduce exponentially. For a testing regime which will actually tell you what is what I suggest you read this link [url]http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/joomla/jennifers-advice[/url] [/QUOTE]
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