Keatek
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- West Coast of Scotland
- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
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- Nothing really.....maybe brussel sprouts! Oh yep. Here's a good one! People who treat you with contemp. The second they do, they are a lost cause and you will never be the same to them or them to you....
Hi there, I'm a type two, I self monitor my own blood glucose (BG) levels.
I have some questions and a wee bit of background to them.
The first is, why do I crave the need to eat so much sugar?
On more than one occasion, I have awoken at three in the morning and have literally been shaking and almost crying out for something sweet. I've eaten chocolate a couple of times and this has "calmed" the cravings down. Ive easily gone back to sleep afterwards.
I'm a great believer in doing what my body says, I spoke to a doctor a few years ago (and well before my type 2 diagnosis) when I became vegetarian and she told me that I would probably find myself adding things to my diet without thinking about it. For example extra margarine or butter on bread. I stayed vegi for about four years, met a polish girl and ended up eating meat again. Pretty much because I would have starved to death in Poland!
My second question relates to my Mum. She was diagnosed as Type 2 several years ago. She has done nothing about it. But she has been telling everyone who will listen she has ME or the yuppi flu. Recently mum took a really bad nose bleed and had her blood checked at around midnight, she had a blood glucose of 23 which she blamed on her nose bleed. She went to see the Doctor a few days later and he expressed concern, I wasn't there but he definetly told her something because she asked me to check her BG on a couple of occasions.
The first reading I took from her was a fasting one, in the morning before any food or drink. The BG was 23. Then I took another one about a week later which was about two hours after her breakfast and her BG was 19. I did a third test in the afternoon about a week after that and her BG was 21. I believe these figures are astronomical, and I have told her.
Mum was a Health visitor for twenty years before her retiral about four years ago. So telling her anything medical is like nailing jelly to the ceiling!
I did a course on, my own, diabetes which was run by the NHS. Every symptom that the course discussed my mum had or has had at some point. She blames everything on her alleged ME, NOT her diabetes.
Mums seventy now, has eyesight problems, feet problems and her mood can swing like pendulum.
But she will not put anything down to diabetes and has tried to blame her BG levels either on this bad nose bleed or ME. I, tried to, put her right on that as I believe everything is related to diabetes and not ME. I use the same Doctor as she does and am going to discuss it with him, I know he won't tell me anything but I can at least give him the 'heads up' as they say!
I'd like your thoughts on that please.
Finally! I was told on the diabetes course that we should not worry about eating fruit. It's not to be counted or as the course tutor said "the sugars in fruit don't count towards our daily Glucose levels". I'm struggling to believe that as there is fructose and I assume that would turn into Glucose at some point.
I'd be grateful for any comments or discussion point on the above.
Thanks in advance!
I have some questions and a wee bit of background to them.
The first is, why do I crave the need to eat so much sugar?
On more than one occasion, I have awoken at three in the morning and have literally been shaking and almost crying out for something sweet. I've eaten chocolate a couple of times and this has "calmed" the cravings down. Ive easily gone back to sleep afterwards.
I'm a great believer in doing what my body says, I spoke to a doctor a few years ago (and well before my type 2 diagnosis) when I became vegetarian and she told me that I would probably find myself adding things to my diet without thinking about it. For example extra margarine or butter on bread. I stayed vegi for about four years, met a polish girl and ended up eating meat again. Pretty much because I would have starved to death in Poland!
My second question relates to my Mum. She was diagnosed as Type 2 several years ago. She has done nothing about it. But she has been telling everyone who will listen she has ME or the yuppi flu. Recently mum took a really bad nose bleed and had her blood checked at around midnight, she had a blood glucose of 23 which she blamed on her nose bleed. She went to see the Doctor a few days later and he expressed concern, I wasn't there but he definetly told her something because she asked me to check her BG on a couple of occasions.
The first reading I took from her was a fasting one, in the morning before any food or drink. The BG was 23. Then I took another one about a week later which was about two hours after her breakfast and her BG was 19. I did a third test in the afternoon about a week after that and her BG was 21. I believe these figures are astronomical, and I have told her.
Mum was a Health visitor for twenty years before her retiral about four years ago. So telling her anything medical is like nailing jelly to the ceiling!
I did a course on, my own, diabetes which was run by the NHS. Every symptom that the course discussed my mum had or has had at some point. She blames everything on her alleged ME, NOT her diabetes.
Mums seventy now, has eyesight problems, feet problems and her mood can swing like pendulum.
But she will not put anything down to diabetes and has tried to blame her BG levels either on this bad nose bleed or ME. I, tried to, put her right on that as I believe everything is related to diabetes and not ME. I use the same Doctor as she does and am going to discuss it with him, I know he won't tell me anything but I can at least give him the 'heads up' as they say!
I'd like your thoughts on that please.
Finally! I was told on the diabetes course that we should not worry about eating fruit. It's not to be counted or as the course tutor said "the sugars in fruit don't count towards our daily Glucose levels". I'm struggling to believe that as there is fructose and I assume that would turn into Glucose at some point.
I'd be grateful for any comments or discussion point on the above.
Thanks in advance!
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