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My doctor recently started me on insulin, and is ordering regular blood tests. I have to be fasting for these tests, but in the middle of the night, my bg has been dropping to the point where I feel so nauseous and dizzy that I get up to use the bathroom and have to lie on the floor for a while...

Shame on your doctor for not giving you any info for 2 weeks, that's far too long for you to go without being proactive. As long as you are feeling bad, you should be drinking plenty of water, which it sounds like you are doing. Try to restrict your carbohydrate intake to 60 g per meal (you...

With each meal, you're supposed to have 45-60 grams of carbs (this includes carbs in milk, certain vegetables, and other things people usually discount as carb-free) If you snack between meals, snacks should be less than 15 grams of carbs, and you should subtract that amount from your meals, so...

my doctor said I should not take ibuprofen. It wouldn't mess with your blood sugar readings, but it could cause serious problems with kidneys and other organs, and since you're already at a high risk for these problems, I'd stay away from it. You have two different orders, from two different...

The only reason I've heard is that some nurse thinks the patient will get a false low reading and they will take sugar to fix it, and make themselves sick. Personally, I think that's bull. It's important that every diabetic person should have their own meter, and any doctor who thinks it's...

I have had highly elevated bg levels for a long time, and my doctor recently started me on insulin. The first three days, which was the first time my blood sugar was perfect in over two years, I got so nauseous and faint that I had to leave work and go to the emergency room, where they told me I...

I'm not sure about this, but it might be the type of insulin he's on. I'm taking lantis, and my injection site is always red, puffy and painful for a couple of hours after I inject, which my doctor says is not supposed to happen. She thinks that the particular type of insulin I'm taking may be...

Glucose is a simplified form of carbohydrate. Complex carbs, which make up noodles, oats, and your homemade bread, are just large amounts of glucose molecules combined into one larger and more complicated molecule. When you eat your bread, your body breaks the complex carbs down into the...

My doctor told me that metformin has a half-life of 12 hours, which is why I have to take it twice daily. If your diabetes could be controlled by exercise alone, your doctor wouldn't have perscribed metformin. Neither one is more effective than the other, since you need both the be healthy.

Your nurse sounds very irresponsible. It's obviously more important for you to know what your blood sugar is on a regular basis than it is for her to be worried about a possible wrong reading. I'd definitely ask your doctor, and if you can't get one from them, I might switch doctors. That is...

I was a vegetarian when I was diagnosed (I'm not anymore, I figured it was too much work to work around eating meat AND carbs) But if you really want to do it that badly, there's no reason you can't. Instead of eating the same vegetables and cheese, though, I'd try to get more tofu and soy...

I did that the other day. I'm supposed to take one nightly injection of 20 units I called a nurse at my hospital, and she told me to take 10 units the morning after I missed, 15 that night, and to get back on track the next night.