Well I'm in long acting insulin and frankly I'm disgusted if that is the case as my diabetic centre said to only read the sugars labelI use the total carbohydrate value from nutrition information when working out insulin doses. Not sure where you're located but worth mentioning the carb value does not include fibre in the UK but does in the US.
Carb content.so I've been told when looking at food the thing to look at is carbs of which sugars and not the overall carb number but since I've started on insulin I'm starting to believe that's not the case can anyone give any advice please
Well I wish they'd ****** well told me if that was the reason. Extremely ****** of now tbhAll carbohydrates (except fibre) are reduced to sugar which raises blood glucose during digestion. Don't know their reasons for telling you to only look at sugar content - perhaps they are familiarising you with carb counting before adding bolus insulin later? Although it would still make more sense to count total carbohydrate in this case.
for the last year I haven't been on insulin I just needed to control my diet so I was just looking at the sugars number and I've been eating stuff that's only had 3 g of which sugars but now looking at the total carbs number they've had 20 g of carbs....no ****** wonder my test result numbers
One of the first things you learn is trust no one.Well I wish they'd ****** well told me if that was the reason. Extremely ****** of now tbh
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One of the first things you learn is trust no one.
I understand your anger and frustration.Well I wish they'd ****** well told me if that was the reason. Extremely ****** of now tbh
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I was at a first rheumatologist appointment yesterday, and after I’d asked a couple of pertinent questions, the doctor sort of looked at me with an impressed face and said “do you have a medical background?”. No, but a fair bit of science and background reading on the reasons I was referred in the first place. The appointment went at a much higher level of discourse after that. I suppose they have to assume the patient might not have a great deal of medical/nutrition/science/anatomical/immunological knowledge to start with. I’ve found the problems start when they don’t take on board that you can understand all the information and continue to talk at you like you’re six.I honestly beleive that the lack of information given boils down to the fact that many HCPs consider we patients too dumb to understand, bless em they think we would become confused. The confusion happens because we are given too little and, too often erroneous, info.
I'd posit that goes along with the demonisation of fat since it has 2 entries on the traffic light label smh.As a T2 I wasn't even told to look at the full nutrition label. I was told to look at the traffic light symbols for the sugar content. "Go for as many greens as you can and avoid too many reds"
I was at a first rheumatologist appointment yesterday, and after I’d asked a couple of pertinent questions, the doctor sort of looked at me with an impressed face and said “do you have a medical background?”. No, but a fair bit of science and background reading on the reasons I was referred in the first place. The appointment went at a much higher level of discourse after that. I suppose they have to assume the patient might not have a great deal of medical/nutrition/science/anatomical/immunological knowledge to start with. I’ve found the problems start when they don’t take on board that you can understand all the information and continue to talk at you like you’re six.
I’ve started asking to be copied in to the correspondence now, which means I can read things at my leisure and double check anything I’m not sure on.
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