Hi
@farheen123,
I was diagnosed over 52 years ago when there were no finger-prick blood testing machines, only urine testing, no fancy insulins or pens to inject them with. Yes, it was scary.
By contrast theses days you have glucometers and even other fancier devices to show what your blood sugar is doing.
That is a great boon compared to my start.
What i would have given to have that gift 52 years ago, to enlighten me and take away that insecurity.
Perhaps every time you need to test, whether say, before a meal or 2 or 3 hours after or some other time you have been asked to test, think of it as a gift, one that stings but gives valuable feedback.
Sometimes when testing my blood after 1980 (when the first truly portable home monitoring glucometers became available, first in the world in Sydney, Australia) - a high reading would get me down. It did not help that the message from doctors back then was that high blood sugars are bad and they were my fault! It took quite some tome to get over that impression..
But even if you feel discouraged by your readings, there is always a good one there somewhere, and so I learnt to count my victories and try to learn from them.
Some doctors can be real control freaks and be stick in the mud about insulin doses. So i learned to make adjustments myself. Not the recommended thing to do and back then there were no diabetes nurses one could discuss dose changes with.
Nowadays credentialed nurses and educators exist and can provide an avenue to start the process of being able to alter insulin doses to best suit diet, exercise and so. That gives some freedom, self-determination, the easing of a burden.
Over 52 years there are other changes to diabetes management, not only with technology but with the study of diet.
There have been umpteen different versions of diabetes diets in the past 50 years, whether directly designed for diabetics or adapted from other areas.
My personal experience was that none worked very well in keeping BSLs under best control until one approach i learned about recently.
You have mentioned you have been prescribed a 'healthy diet' but not what type of the many diets and educational approaches to diet for TIDs out there.
I see that
@Marie 2 has suggested a dietary approach which includes healthy diet as well as less healthy things on occasion if one wants to 'splurge'.with the assistance of your health team to enable this.-( if I have interpreted her words correctly).
As an alternative, given your described struggles with your healthy diet and testing of bsls, pleaee consider reading the book or ebook 'Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution'.
This approach may not be the popular if you wish to splurge at some stage, but there is data that shows that it gives the best BSL readings overall. It is the approach i would have wished for 52 years ago. But that is just me.
It meets the criteria for healthy diet but does need to be done with your health team involved as the much lower carbs in the diet requires adjustment of insulin doses to prevent hypos. Great bsls, very few hypos but need for bsl checking is the hope.
Grouos on the net called True Grit Type One, and Dr Bernstein's Advocates are supporters of this approach if you are interested.
By all means ask here or them more about it if you are interested. And no, we do not need 150 g of carb per day for our brains to function. Ask any doubting dietitian how the Inuit and Laplander tributes have survived for many, many generation on a zero carbohydrate food intake.
Most of us TIDs were quite sick before we were diagnosed, and it takes time for the blurred vision, any weight loss etc to settle. Achieving normal bsls consistently is a big confidence boost and great feeling of security.
Of course there is much to learn and only time can do this but please continue to read, ask questions - and use the horizontal menu on the Home page here under Living With Diabetes, at the various diet options, what are acceptable bsls etc.
You can also use the search box upper right of Home Page or Forum page to look up other things, like the 'honeymoon phase',.which
@Marie 2 mentioned, and cgm etc.
And if you need to know more about why normal as possible BSLs are emphasised or need a reason or incentive to keep testing then search maybe DCCT ( Diabetes Control and Complications Trial)
Best Wishes and ask away.
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