Food Affecting Blood Sugar/What's A Hypo

[Finsky]

First couple of months? It's a bit late for that.
I have no understanding of what each food does to me, and unless I somehow find a meter/ from docs/ or myself buying one - I won't have. Seems like a daft way to go about things - not offering meters I mean.
Normalizing? Enough to be able to stop the damned pills? That would be nice.

Hey...don't loose your faith quite yet! I've been type2 for over 20 years and I'm really only just recently got properly grips with my blood sugars. I doubt I can reverse my condition but definitely can make it better and already reducing my medication levels ...and it is only early days of my new 'life'....who knows what we can do when we put our minds to it. I started with wish that 'if I only be able to bring my blood sugar levels down'..and got more than I bargained in return

 

[FranOnTheEdge]

Hey...don't loose your faith quite yet! I've been type2 for over 20 years and I'm really only just recently got properly grips with my blood sugars. I doubt I can reverse my condition but definitely can make it better and already reducing my medication levels ...and it is only early days of my new 'life'....who knows what we can do when we put our minds to it. I started with wish that 'if I only be able to bring my blood sugar levels down'..and got more than I bargained in return

Oh okay Finsky. I'd like to at least make it better - I just hate these pills, they have made it so hard to get out of the house with any confidence.

 

[CollieBoy]

Thanks for all that, I will ask the Doc, next time I see one.
I'm booked to go on a 'Desmond'.
I'll look out for dizzy spells - I thought that was an inner ear problem. No one said.

@FranOnTheEdge
I can only describe what a mild hypo(3.2-3.8) feels like for me: I fel dizzy, a bit like drunk. at that point I sit down with a cube of "Kendal mint cake" and wait for my BG to rise a bit

 

[FranOnTheEdge]

Buy a meter and the "how" will soon be answered. Your meter will tell you what you can eat and what you should avoid. When you get one we can help you use it to the best advantage.

I'll have to investigate it.

 

[FranOnTheEdge]

@FranOnTheEdge
I can only describe what a mild hypo(3.2-3.8) feels like for me: I fel dizzy, a bit like drunk. at that point I sit down with a cube of "Kendal mint cake" and wait for my BG to rise a bit

Good heavens, you can eat Kendal mint cake? That's just pure sugar, I thought that's the thing that I had to avoid like the plague now? Well it probably is for me, I guess people are always different.

 

[CollieBoy]

Good heavens, you can eat Kendal mint cake? That's just pure sugar, I thought that's the thing that I had to avoid like the plague now? Well it probably is for me, I guess people are always different.

@FranOnTheEdge
Kendal mint cake is exactly what you say, pure sugars and as such, quickly is taken into the bloodstream raising the glucose level moving you into a non-hypo state & it isn't a whole slab, just a small cube, smaller than a polo mint.

 

[FranOnTheEdge]

@FranOnTheEdge
Kendal mint cake is exactly what you say, pure sugars and as such, quickly is taken into the bloodstream raising the glucose level moving you into a non-hypo state & it isn't a whole slab, just a small cube, smaller than a polo mint.

I see. I can also see that there's a lot I don't know about diabetes.

 

[kokhongw]

First couple of months? It's a bit late for that.
I have no understanding of what each food does to me, and unless I somehow find a meter/ from docs/ or myself buying one - I won't have. Seems like a daft way to go about things - not offering meters I mean.
Normalizing? Enough to be able to stop the damned pills? That would be nice.

its not too late till it is too late. Many have been able to improve their conditions even after years of being diabetics and on high doses of medication/insulin.

Here is a Japanese study for some T2D who had the condition for more than 4 years of uncontrolled glucose level HbA1c >9% at point of study...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690585/

 

[FranOnTheEdge]

its not too late till it is too late. Many have been able to improve their conditions even after years of being diabetics and on high doses of medication/insulin.

Here is a Japanese study for some T2D who had the condition for more than 4 years of uncontrolled glucose level HbA1c >9% at point of study...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690585/

Oh I thought a previous message said you had to do it in the first couple of months, that's a relief!

 

[FranOnTheEdge]

Buy a meter and the "how" will soon be answered. Your meter will tell you what you can eat and what you should avoid. When you get one we can help you use it to the best advantage.

Ordered one, now I just have to wait until it gets here.

 

[bulkbiker]

Oh I thought a previous message said you had to do it in the first couple of months, that's a relief!

What the previous message said was for the first couple of months (after diagnosis) test everything you eat to see how it effects your blood sugars. Then you will get a better idea of what to avoid eating. Also I would not suggest eating Kendall Mint Cake unless you are on meds that can cause a hypo (severe drop in your blood sugars). As newly diagnosed and unless your bloods are very high you probably won't be prescribed those.

 

[Liam1955]

@FranOnTheEdge - Good to know you'll soon have a meter. Remember: Always wash your hands before testing to get an accurate reading. Diet and Exercise will have more effect on lowering blood sugars. Metformin takes time to build up in your system, it can take upto a couple of months to reach it's full effect .