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New dianosis - confused

After a meal you would want to aim for a change initially of not more than 3ml rise at 2 hours... do not test at 1hour after a meal.

The finer tuned you can get this the better for the future.
 
Thanks.

GP has given him a prescription for tablets (not sure which ones yet) and told him to "get his sugar from fruit as natural sugar is OK He is keen for me to pick him up a blood gloucose monitor though so that should help us work it all out.
 
At least a meter offered...
 
Carbs = sugar = anything ...ose are all not good for a diabetic. A bg meter will give you a grasp of what is going on. Try to get the increase 2 hours after eating to below an increase of 2. Any snacks within the 2 hours count, so keep grazing to a minimum, difficult at this time of year when friends and colleagues offer various goodies as a treat. Within a short time of low carbing you should find that the initial bg drops to single figures, then aim for the 5's with a maximum of 7.

Always wash hands and dry thoroughly before testing, any residual dampness gives a false reading upwards. Keep strips warm and in a dry atmosphere too (i.e. not in the bathroom), try not to touch the tip when getting out of the tub and inserting in the meter.

Do check out the medication for possible side effects and the percentage of people affected by them. Then decide whether to start taking them or whether to continue with your diet and exercise control.
 

I was like you mate, totally lost and confused.

Follow the low carb program -

https://www.lowcarbprogram.com/

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/

Avoid potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, noodles, wheat, white flour, grains and all starchy vegetables like sweetcorn, carrots, peas, parsnips.

Switch to low carb high fat diet - natural healthy fats from meat, poultry, oily fish like salmon; nuts like walnuts, pecan, almonds; avocados, butter, cheese, full fat cream, extra virgin olive oil etc.

Eat low glycemic “above ground” vegetables like cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, kale, red peppers, aubergines etc.

The only “fruits” that we can really have are berries like raspberries, strawberries and blackberries, sweet fruits and blueberries high in fructose are best to be avoided.

Avoid sugar and other sweeteners, use “Stevia” (200x sweeter than sugar but zero carb); also avoid cheap peanut, corn, canola cooking oils, sauces with hidden carbs and sugars!

No more sweet fizzy drinks and fruit juices.

Drink plenty of water with sliced lemons!
 
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Well the GP has got him an appointment booked with the diabetes nurse in Jan. Just been talking to the pharmacist and her assistant (who is type 1 herself) both were amazingly helpful, very in favour of low carb diet and lots of useful advice.

Got a bg meter but not from GP reading was 20.0 before eating and then 22.2 after. Hubby struggling to restrict fuit and had had an apple as part of that. He is trying though and has made huge changes so far. Happy we have the meter so we can get a handle on it now.

Annoyed with mother in law as going to hers for tea tommorrow and she has refused to cater for hubbys diabetes because she has already bought the food and all her food is healthy (low fat high carb to suit father in laws heart disease) hubby difused the situation between me and her by telling her he will take his own food with him. Really annoyed as when the shoe was on the other foot I went out of my way to cater for father in law, grrrr.
 
Fasting blood gloucose 16.5 this morning. Plan for today coconut milk yoghurt with raspberries and mellon for breakfast. Ham salad wrap with mayonaise for lunch. Taking chickendrumsticks and scotch eggs with us to in laws to have with salad and whatever else looks ok from their spread.
 
im not impressed at the moment with doctors leaving him at that level is stupid. however your hubby seems to be getting a understanding of what he needs to do. our current locum gp changes every week has decided that my wife with lupus does not need treatment or to be refereed to a consultant.
if your hubby starts to get unwell take him to hospital bypass this doctor. he really needs to be on meds sooner. below 14 is safer below 10 even more so. i just dont get the medics lack of interest. they know the effects of poorly controlled diabetes. its a massive cost saving to have good controlled diabetics.
 
Has hubby started taking new med yet?
 

I thought OP said had been given tablets??
 
just re read it they have a script for pills but not got yet. im guessing thats metformin. not sure that going to be good enough for the ops husband only time will tell. but any signs that he is getting sicker go to the hospital.
 


How are you getting on mate?
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Andrew
 
I picked up the metformin last night so has started it. Prescribed twice a day but pharmacist advised starting once per day first few days to reduced side effects. I am an HPC myself in a different field and discussed levels with a senior nursing collegue who was unconcerned mind you her experience would be of managing those levels on a ward and when you are used to managing poorly patientsyou can get a little blase about abnornal things because you see them all the time.

I dread to think what his levels were last week when he was munching sweets and drinking sugery coffee I suspect his levels have been sky high for months certainly the last 2 months whilst is blood results were sat in the psychiatrists inbox waiting to be reviewed. I have complained about that!
 
Has a review date been arranged?
 
wifes a district nurse where we are they would have wanted more active management. she has just mentioned a new drug out its a once weekly injection not insulin its meant to be good but she has forgotten its name.
 
I agree with Phoenix55 about cutting down carbs and going instead for things like a Lidl hi protein roll if you need bread and salad for tea and bacon and eggs not wheat for breakfast is a good start but you might find like i did that my stomach was upset but better this to get the blood glucose under control. Amazingly I also agree that low carbs means more energy. The advertisers used to tell you to eat a certain milk chocolate bar to boost energy but the opposite is true as the body converts fat into energy instead. ACS
 
He has a nurse appointment 8th Jan.

Tonights Christmas buffet at the inlaws was a dietry disaster. Hubby didn't make it to supermarket so he decided to risk it and arrived to a lay out of white rolls, pizza, indian snacks, chocolate, mince pies and cider. That left him with salad, cocktail sausages and mini scotch eggs and scraping the toppings off the rolls. He didn't manage to resist the cider or one of the rolls either so expecting a sky high reading tonight.

How do I know if he's getting unwell enough to need hospital if thats not a stupid question. He's having dizzy spells but pharmacist warned the metformin might do that.
 
You do right to be annoyed and complain. However, take heart, once bg levels are reduced due to better diet, it appears that very many of the bad effects can be reversed, some quickly, some much more slowly. I have experienced some of this myself, but I am also citing Jenny Ruhl and Dr Bernstein, two of the most reputable writers on diabetes, both of them diabetics themselves who have survived into old age fairly unscathed. You might like to get hold of JR's excellent book "Your Diabetes Questions Answered - Practical Solutions that Work and Keep on Working" or at least have a look on her site http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/
 
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