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<blockquote data-quote="Dennis" data-source="post: 29995" data-attributes="member: 1338"><p>Hi Beckchar and welcome to the forum,</p><p>I'm afraid it looks like you are being spun a few porkies by your clinic team. Your weight has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you should continue on oral treatment. It rather looks like they are advising on the basis of treatment cost rather than treatment effectiveness. The fact that on oral medication your readings have reduced from something pretty high down to 7s and 8s shows that the medication was working for you. It is quite likely that it needs to be tweaked a little, particularly following your most recent rise to 9 (I presume this is your HBA1C reading?).</p><p></p><p>There are several things that you can do. Firstly tell your clinic team that you would rather continue on oral meds (assuming that this is what you want to do). If they won't play ball then ask to be referred to a diabetes consultant (they are not allowed to refuse this request). </p><p></p><p>Finally, and most importantly, you need to look at what caused your previously reducing blood sugar levels to start rising again. Usually this is a result of diet. If you read round the various threads on the forum you will see that the most important thing that a diabetic can do to help themselves is to adopt what I would describe as a "diabetes diet". This is not a diet in the normal sense, but simply a reduction in the various foods that are most responsible for creating blood sugar in the first place. These are all wheat based products (bread, cereals. pasta), potatoes, rice and of course sugar. That doesn't mean don't eat these, but just have less of them than you normally would. You can always make up the difference by a larger portion of protein (meat of dairy) or vegetables.</p><p></p><p>As I said, have a good read round the forum and you will soon get a good idea of those foods that are better for diabetics and those to avoid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dennis, post: 29995, member: 1338"] Hi Beckchar and welcome to the forum, I'm afraid it looks like you are being spun a few porkies by your clinic team. Your weight has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you should continue on oral treatment. It rather looks like they are advising on the basis of treatment cost rather than treatment effectiveness. The fact that on oral medication your readings have reduced from something pretty high down to 7s and 8s shows that the medication was working for you. It is quite likely that it needs to be tweaked a little, particularly following your most recent rise to 9 (I presume this is your HBA1C reading?). There are several things that you can do. Firstly tell your clinic team that you would rather continue on oral meds (assuming that this is what you want to do). If they won't play ball then ask to be referred to a diabetes consultant (they are not allowed to refuse this request). Finally, and most importantly, you need to look at what caused your previously reducing blood sugar levels to start rising again. Usually this is a result of diet. If you read round the various threads on the forum you will see that the most important thing that a diabetic can do to help themselves is to adopt what I would describe as a "diabetes diet". This is not a diet in the normal sense, but simply a reduction in the various foods that are most responsible for creating blood sugar in the first place. These are all wheat based products (bread, cereals. pasta), potatoes, rice and of course sugar. That doesn't mean don't eat these, but just have less of them than you normally would. You can always make up the difference by a larger portion of protein (meat of dairy) or vegetables. As I said, have a good read round the forum and you will soon get a good idea of those foods that are better for diabetics and those to avoid. [/QUOTE]
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