Re still having high bs levels

[DILIGENT]

HI to all,

I am still having high blood sugars every day when taking glipzalide in the ange of 12.5 all the time upon waking and 18-23 bs through out the day i m trying to eat healthier but this bs is every day fell asleep earlier for 4hrs why is it so high all the time doing my head in.

Anyone any info please as to what i should do??????

Diligent.

 

[sugarless sue]

Medication can only help so much. Here is the advice we give to new type2's, see if any of it is of help to you.

This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different .

It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.

The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such a bread, potatoes, pasta and rice also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.

The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels.

Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.

When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.

As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!

As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.

It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.

 

[Sue Morton]

A friend of mine sent me a guidline done by the NHS "Type 2 diabetes" "the management of type 2 dibetes - Issue date May 2009 with updates of March 2010. On page 12 1.4 Self-monitoring of plsma glucose and it says there "offer self-monitoring of plasma glucose to a person newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Plus to those as quoted in 1.4.2 it says "to those on oral glucose-lowering medications to information on hypoglycaemia. So why do we not get the tabs on prescription? Why are we not offered this? My BS has not stablised yet and am ranging from 8 to 12.1 and the only way to know what my BS is doing is to test. I am at the moment on 2x500mg of Metformin and trying to control my diet having porridge and yogurt for breakfast and salad with chicken for eveing meal and lunch sometimes as well. It is exstremely hard gwtting to grips with food my DN has explained to me what I can eat but its still like a mine field going shopping. But I would like your advice on these tabs and why they are not given to us? :?:

 

[catherinecherub]

Hi Sue,
The metformin you are on is classed as an oral glucose lowering medication and you should not be paying for these on prescription.
I do not know from your post if you have test strips or not. This is a PCT decision and varies from area to area due to cost.
Hope that answers your query.

Catherine.

 

[adm]

A friend of mine sent me a guidline done by the NHS "Type 2 diabetes" "the management of type 2 dibetes - Issue date May 2009 with updates of March 2010. On page 12 1.4 Self-monitoring of plsma glucose and it says there "offer self-monitoring of plasma glucose to a person newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Sue - do you have a link to this guideline?

 

[Herman lausan]

Hi, My friend

God those are really high numbers. Period. Everyday you are causing damage to your whole body. Heart , kidneys , eyes , vascular system , nerve endings. You got to quit trying , and do eat healthy. Most people will never understand carb. counting. Besides it don't work unless you are a Genius that does not cheat on the size of food. We are human. But one thing I know that when I started on a Low Glycemic Index diet My glucose just out of thin air dropped to normal levels. But at the very same time I started Exercise . Daily , everyday , 7 days a week.I chose Nordic Walking . Its walking with 2 sticks.

mendosa.com/gilists.htm Its the best index on the internet. I knew what and what not to eat in one week. I only test every 3 months My FBS was 96 or 5.3. With the exercise my High Cholesterol and high blood pressure went to normal in 3 months of exercising.WOW .
You can do it too. Please do . We all care about you and want the best.