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<blockquote data-quote="Chook" data-source="post: 1373688" data-attributes="member: 24561"><p>The problem with not testing is that you won't know how different foods affect you. </p><p>When i was first diagnosed my Diabetes Nurse put me on metformin and told me to eat a healthy diet with low GI carbs with every meal, (which was exact what i was eating before I was diagnosed anyway). The next time I saw her was because i was feeling awful - she tested my blood and it was up in the mid teens. She prescribed some sitigliptin but still didn't give me a monitor - but said I had to be stricter with my diet. </p><p></p><p>Moving on a couple of years and I was really REALLY ill - I had just about every diabetes symptom AND I was keeping to the diet - so the nurse tested my blood again, this time it was up in the low 30s. The nurse put me on insulin injections five times a day and gave me a monitor - no mention of any change in my diet. I plodded on for a few years - I put on a stone for every year I was injecting insulin and I was constantly hungry. I looked and felt ill and old. Then one day after accidentally injecting myself with a high dose of the fast acting insulin I was at the end of my tether. I knew that if i ate more carbs i would have to inject more because i could see on my monitor how carbs were affecting my blood. So it seemed to me that the logical thing to do was to stop eating carbs as much as possible and it was like a miracle to watch the changes in my blood on my monitor. </p><p></p><p>Thats when I found this forum and learned how to use my meter as a tool to test my bloods reactions to different foods. Because of this I no longer need insulin and I've lost that 5st that I put on while I was injecting it. Best of all, I feel like I got my life back.</p><p></p><p>My own personal view is that if I had had a monitor from first being diagnosed and had used it to see how I react to different foods then i wouldn't have had all those years of misery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chook, post: 1373688, member: 24561"] The problem with not testing is that you won't know how different foods affect you. When i was first diagnosed my Diabetes Nurse put me on metformin and told me to eat a healthy diet with low GI carbs with every meal, (which was exact what i was eating before I was diagnosed anyway). The next time I saw her was because i was feeling awful - she tested my blood and it was up in the mid teens. She prescribed some sitigliptin but still didn't give me a monitor - but said I had to be stricter with my diet. Moving on a couple of years and I was really REALLY ill - I had just about every diabetes symptom AND I was keeping to the diet - so the nurse tested my blood again, this time it was up in the low 30s. The nurse put me on insulin injections five times a day and gave me a monitor - no mention of any change in my diet. I plodded on for a few years - I put on a stone for every year I was injecting insulin and I was constantly hungry. I looked and felt ill and old. Then one day after accidentally injecting myself with a high dose of the fast acting insulin I was at the end of my tether. I knew that if i ate more carbs i would have to inject more because i could see on my monitor how carbs were affecting my blood. So it seemed to me that the logical thing to do was to stop eating carbs as much as possible and it was like a miracle to watch the changes in my blood on my monitor. Thats when I found this forum and learned how to use my meter as a tool to test my bloods reactions to different foods. Because of this I no longer need insulin and I've lost that 5st that I put on while I was injecting it. Best of all, I feel like I got my life back. My own personal view is that if I had had a monitor from first being diagnosed and had used it to see how I react to different foods then i wouldn't have had all those years of misery. [/QUOTE]
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