I did my weekly BG test this morning--it was 5.4. This evening I had a totally delicious treat of an Indian meal. Tested three hours after it was 8.4.
And why would it not be ??? Two dishes had a thick sauce and I ate a quarter of an onion naan plus two poppadoms with various pickles.. I feel sure I have sinned. But why should I?
The desirable BG level seems to vary a lot and seems to get moved to increase the number of people classed as diabetic and increase pill and test strip sales.
It really seems to me the diabetics industry WANT to get everyone in the country classed as diabetic for some reason I can't fathom out. Money? Jobs?
Maybe those two readings are MY normal. I can't see how BG can avoid rising after a rich meal. I keep thinking so what? It will come down again. It always does.
I'm waiting for the December scare articles planted in the press and TV News with vile photos of rotting toes of a rough sleeping alcoholic to keep me scared shirtless.
A neighbour aged 76 told me in conversation he takes three diabetic pills, two blood pressure pills and a cholesterol pill per day. After a breakfast of a bowl of cereal (any sort--sugar puffs that morning) two slices of white toast with marmalade he sometimes hits readings of 15 or 16 just before his mid-morning snack of ,maybe, a toasted teacake with jam.
Then lunch, snack, then evening meal and bedtime snack give him plenty of chances to "get his carbs".
His diabetes nurse is very pleased with him and he seems quite happy. I don't know why and I don't think he knows why he tests his BG levels because he seems to make no response to what they tell him.
We went to visit a woman in hospital who handled her diabetes well with insulin. The doctors changed every thing and she kept having hypos. They brought her lunch which included a hefty slice of treacle tart with custard. As she said " they are clearly trying to kill me--probably to save money"
This is Alice in Wonderland territory. As time goes by I get more and more suspicious of the motives and agendas and intelligence of the operators in this strange confused growth industry.
And why would it not be ??? Two dishes had a thick sauce and I ate a quarter of an onion naan plus two poppadoms with various pickles.. I feel sure I have sinned. But why should I?
The desirable BG level seems to vary a lot and seems to get moved to increase the number of people classed as diabetic and increase pill and test strip sales.
It really seems to me the diabetics industry WANT to get everyone in the country classed as diabetic for some reason I can't fathom out. Money? Jobs?
Maybe those two readings are MY normal. I can't see how BG can avoid rising after a rich meal. I keep thinking so what? It will come down again. It always does.
I'm waiting for the December scare articles planted in the press and TV News with vile photos of rotting toes of a rough sleeping alcoholic to keep me scared shirtless.
A neighbour aged 76 told me in conversation he takes three diabetic pills, two blood pressure pills and a cholesterol pill per day. After a breakfast of a bowl of cereal (any sort--sugar puffs that morning) two slices of white toast with marmalade he sometimes hits readings of 15 or 16 just before his mid-morning snack of ,maybe, a toasted teacake with jam.
Then lunch, snack, then evening meal and bedtime snack give him plenty of chances to "get his carbs".
His diabetes nurse is very pleased with him and he seems quite happy. I don't know why and I don't think he knows why he tests his BG levels because he seems to make no response to what they tell him.
We went to visit a woman in hospital who handled her diabetes well with insulin. The doctors changed every thing and she kept having hypos. They brought her lunch which included a hefty slice of treacle tart with custard. As she said " they are clearly trying to kill me--probably to save money"
This is Alice in Wonderland territory. As time goes by I get more and more suspicious of the motives and agendas and intelligence of the operators in this strange confused growth industry.