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Hi I am new and am so worried about my husband I need advice. He has type 2 for 3 years on metformin 2 a day and done fab. Recently he has not been managing well it's Christmas and well he has been naughty!!! His sugars have been very high the last few days. Yesterday they were ranging from 14 - 10 this morning when he woke it was 14 after not eating for 12 hours. It has given him a shake and he is trying hard to eat the right foods but it's Christmas and he does like a drink! He is feeling miserable about the whole thing. He will not go for a check up and never has he is so scared about being put on insulin injections that he refuses to go it hasn't been a problem as we have always kept it under control until now. It's only been 2 days of being high from what I know so should I be worried about him? Should I make him go dr or will it be safe to leave until all the Christmas festivities are over and I can put him back on his diet which was working fine before. Even his nurse on the one time he did go was amazed at how well he was doing!! He is 34 years old and slightly overweight and has a family history of diabetes.
I hope that someone will help as with 3 young children I want him to enjoy Christmas and be around for many more!!!
 
Hiya, I replied on your two other posts, so hopefully you'll get your answer there. Don't worry, he'll be fine. Be religious about controlling sugar levels through diet and everything else will look after itself as best it can. You can have a great christmas, drink alcohol, and eat good things; just watch the starchy carbs. See my other replies for details. The key is understanding that sugar levels rise in the blood whenever ANYBODY eats carbohydrates, especially starchy ones. In a non-diabetic, the Pancreas reacts by quickly releasing insulin to bring the levels back down. In a diabetic, either the Pancreas doesn't release enough insulin quickly enough, or the insulin it does release isn't effective. So to avoid high blood sugar, you either have to take increasingly powerful medication (ultimately insulin) or, like lots of us, avoid the things that send the sugar levels up in the first place - the carbohydrates. you can't really avoid them all, so we eat less and eat the ones that aren't so bad - the low GI (glycemic index) ones. Again, more details in my other posts!
 
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