Thank you! I need to be well for Friday, as I’m going into hospital for an operation on one foot and a steroid injection in my other foot. More things to ruin My December numbers!
Have another hug, and I wish you and your feet well on Friday.
Thank you! I need to be well for Friday, as I’m going into hospital for an operation on one foot and a steroid injection in my other foot. More things to ruin My December numbers!
Glad it's not just me then.I’ve declined the jab for over ten years now, instead opting for high daily doses of vit D
No one produces glucose.
Your body does create glucose from the food you eat. It doesn't endogenously produce glucose. If you are eating lees than 40g of carbs then yes, your body is turning protein and amino acids in fats into glucose. It is not producing glucose.
So, no one produces glucose. That's not a thing. That's not how the body works. You don't magically produce glucose from nowhere, you have to eat something for it to be turned into glucose. It's not produced enogenously by the body.
Does that clarify?
Why not do both?I’ve declined the jab for over ten years now, instead opting for high daily doses of vit D
I consider it to be professional misconnect for anyone with high-risk clients not to have the flu jab because even if you only get it very mildly so, therefore, get no symptoms, you can still pass it on. (The problem is that the flu jab is least likely to work well in the people who are at most risk.)
Why not do both?
Maybe if you have reduced your blood sugars to non-diabetic levels through a low carb diet then you are no more at risk from colds and flu than the general population.
And there’s another thread posted last evening from a Type 2 who’s ended up in hospital on an insulin drip due to flu raising her sugars into the 20sLook at the BG graph that is posted on the first page of this thread by someone with some of the best BG control from low carb I have seen, yet with a minor virus, her BG nearly doubled. The problem is not an increased risk of getting the flu, it a greatly increased risk of a very bad outcome if we do get the flu.
That person has sleep apnea.And there’s another thread posted last evening from a Type 2 who’s ended up in hospital on an insulin drip due to flu raising her sugars into the 20s
Oh sorry it wasn’t apparent she has sleep apnoea from her post!That person has sleep apnea.
"By definition, if you have a sleep-breathing problem, your immune system is overly active. And so is your nervous system. This is why your body over-reacts"
http://doctorstevenpark.com/colds-viruses-and-sleep-apnea
So we always need to look beyond diabetes. I'd not dissuade anyone who was diabetic with a compromised immune system from having the flu jab.
I simply don't believe diabetes is reason enough to have it. That's why others raise the issue from time to time of 'co-morbidities'.
As always it's a personal choice
Geoff
So we always need to look beyond diabetes.
I agree completely! Oh and that bit of your arm opposite your elbow is called your antecubital fossa! Not quite as succinct as elbow!This is nothing really to do with your point, I know, but I just wanted to quote you out of context because the words work for what I'm about to say ...
It occurred to me today, while spending ages looking for the Vitamin D tablets in Tesco and a whole barrage of people shuffled past me coughing and sneezing proudly into the air as if it was some form of self-expression, that if people actually made the effort to try to stop spreading this stuff, quite literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world may actually live for another year.
There's no perfect solution. Putting your hand over your mouth isn't great because you then touch stuff, but it's better than nothing and goes some way to demonstrating you are a higher life form with an understanding of the universe rather than a farmyard animal.
I've developed a habit of sneezing / coughing into my arm, the flexible joint thing where the top bit connects to the bottom bit and has an elbow on the other side, I'm pretty sure it must have a name. That's not likely to come into contact with much. And I always turn away to do it if I'm near people or food.
I'm not sure if this sounds like a rant, but that is what I'm trying for!
I agree completely! Oh and that bit of your arm opposite your elbow is called your antecubital fossa! Not quite as succinct as elbow!
Diabetics are not only entitled to anti-'Flu jabs, but anti-Pneumonia jabs too.
I'm still waiting for mine - apparently there is a shortage of the vaccine.