Hello everyone,
New member and I don't have diabetes (yet) my husband does, so I hope its it's ok to post here with my questions about diabetes.
He is 35 years old and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year. He is on metformin, 1 tablet after every meal. He is very much overweight at being nearly 120kg and standing at 5'10.
Anyways he checked his sugar an hour ago and the reading was 15.9! He had dinner at...9 p.m and lunch around 1 p.m. didn't have anything in between as he has been trying to do intermittent fasting. He checked at 3 p.m. and it was 13.9 and at 11 p.m. and it was at 15.9 even though he had taken his pill. So I have some questions:
1) does his medicine need to change because this is not the first time it has gone this high after having a meal and taking metformin. Does metformin take longer to work?
2) how much role does food play in controlling t2 diabetes? We are southasian and our diet mostly consists of carbs (think Indian food which has rice and naan bread etc). My father and mother in law both have diabetes and both eat regular Indian food and their readings are usually normal.
3) would losing weight help in reversing his diabetes? Since its quite recent and he was previously in the prediabetic group.
4) what can I do to help him? He thinks this can be managed by food, but I have no clue how to go about this. Can someone guide me to the right place where I can find out about what he can and can't eat. He has stopped eating sugar. No biscuits, ice creams or sugar in tea but he still likes aspartame in his tea and eats fruits. Should we quit that?
Thanks for all your help.
New member and I don't have diabetes (yet) my husband does, so I hope its it's ok to post here with my questions about diabetes.
He is 35 years old and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year. He is on metformin, 1 tablet after every meal. He is very much overweight at being nearly 120kg and standing at 5'10.
Anyways he checked his sugar an hour ago and the reading was 15.9! He had dinner at...9 p.m and lunch around 1 p.m. didn't have anything in between as he has been trying to do intermittent fasting. He checked at 3 p.m. and it was 13.9 and at 11 p.m. and it was at 15.9 even though he had taken his pill. So I have some questions:
1) does his medicine need to change because this is not the first time it has gone this high after having a meal and taking metformin. Does metformin take longer to work?
2) how much role does food play in controlling t2 diabetes? We are southasian and our diet mostly consists of carbs (think Indian food which has rice and naan bread etc). My father and mother in law both have diabetes and both eat regular Indian food and their readings are usually normal.
3) would losing weight help in reversing his diabetes? Since its quite recent and he was previously in the prediabetic group.
4) what can I do to help him? He thinks this can be managed by food, but I have no clue how to go about this. Can someone guide me to the right place where I can find out about what he can and can't eat. He has stopped eating sugar. No biscuits, ice creams or sugar in tea but he still likes aspartame in his tea and eats fruits. Should we quit that?
Thanks for all your help.