Does your Mum take any medication for her arthritis? Has she been advised on all her options for managing the condition?
Its probably methotrexate.. that's what my old ma took for her arthritis. We recently weaned her off it as it's not really good for long term use but she's moaning about aches and pains.. but then she does live on sugar..I can't remember the medication she is on. It was well over a year ago now when she made a seemingly endless succession of visits to medical people, and we also looked online for solutions, and we came to the conclusion that she was at the end of what the NHS had to offer. We even considered, and still may consider pain-relieving drugs from, shall we say, alternative, sources.
Its probably methotrexate.. that's what my old ma took for her arthritis. We recently weaned her off it as it's not really good for long term use but she's moaning about aches and pains.. but then she does live on sugar..
I think Methotrexate is used for rheumatoid arthritis but if she has osteoarthritis then I imagine she'd be offered NSAIDs and paracetamol (which can be surprisingly effective if taken regularly several times a day).Its probably methotrexate.. that's what my old ma took for her arthritis. We recently weaned her off it as it's not really good for long term use but she's moaning about aches and pains.. but then she does live on sugar..
At what age does one try less?
Once a day monitoring is a waste of time and teaches you nothing at all.
From what I've read of it on this forum, your sense of humor suits me just fine, @AdamJamesYou weren't to know this, but it so happens that I'm already narrowly avoiding entering a tailspin of self-doubt and self-loathing about just how awful and destructive and offensive my sense of humour is.
From what I've read of it on this forum, your sense of humor suits me just fine, @AdamJames
Haha, now you've made me curiousit's the bits you don't read that are the problem
Anyway I love you too, and say hello to the dogs, cats and reindeer from me
She's 92 has meals on wheels most of the week and mainly eats the desserts.. she refuses to eat anything green. Last time she had a funny turn the paramedics took her blood glucose and it was 7.9 . She lives on her own in a wardened block and when she comes to us she hardly eats anything so to be honest there's not a lot I can do and I'm sorry but she is not coming to live with me ever.. We got her off statins and methotrexate but then she started to have atrial fib so is now on meds for that and high blood pressure (which I'm pretty sure may be white coat syndrome). There comes a point where you just have to say what will be will be...Have you tried getting your mum off sugar or reducing carbs? I haven't worked out the details accurately, and I'm pretty sure my mum is going to be well over 50g a day, but we have successfully persuaded her to change her diet quite dramatically for a few months now.
Really you found testing once a day useful?********. It turned my life around.
This is terrible advice with no place on this forum.
I am going to say, at the beginning of this journey, that i found testing once a day to be more useful than nothing at all. Maybe @JonM1 is not yet a regular tester?Really you found testing once a day useful?
How? Most of us test multiple times to see the impact of various foodstuffs on BG levels not sure how you could do that testing once a day..
She's 92 has meals on wheels most of the week and mainly eats the desserts.. she refuses to eat anything green. Last time she had a funny turn the paramedics took her blood glucose and it was 7.9 . She lives on her own in a wardened block and when she comes to us she hardly eats anything so to be honest there's not a lot I can do and I'm sorry but she is not coming to live with me ever.. We got her off statins and methotrexate but then she started to have atrial fib so is now on meds for that and high blood pressure (which I'm pretty sure may be white coat syndrome). There comes a point where you just have to say what will be will be...
I think most of us get it wrong somewhere. I have been put in my place several times! Keep up the excellent posts.Very kind of you to say so, but it's the bits you don't read that are the problem, I can definitely get it very wrong
Anyway I love you too, and say hello to the dogs, cats and reindeer from me
Haha, my father used to buy biscuits for his white rat. And tea and milk, as he claimed his rat needed a cup of tea with milk in the morning and a biscuit in the afternoon. Must have been a British rat , I guess.She's always bought biscuits for the dog
********. It turned my life around.
This is terrible advice with no place on this forum.
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I'm not surprised she hardly eats anything when she visits you if she likes sweet stuff. Your house is probably like a food desert to her. Very importantly spelled with one s in this case
To be honest I'd been taking the view 'what will be will be' with my mum for years, and am still surprised she's sticking to this new food regime. Mind you I think she's been sneaking biscuits in under the radar. She's always bought biscuits for the dog which we know were definitely for the dog, but I'm pretty sure she's getting them more frequently these days.
I only test once a day because I'm on a consistent diet avoiding all carbs where poss. I find testing fasting glucose every morning very useful. We don't all use the same methodology.Really you found testing once a day useful?
How? Most of us test multiple times to see the impact of various foodstuffs on BG levels not sure how you could do that testing once a day..
Yes I know that but someone posted very forcefully to a previous thread which I think they had misread..I only test once a day because I'm on a consistent diet avoiding all carbs where poss. I find testing fasting glucose every morning very useful. We don't all use the same methodology.
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