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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1240848" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Hi [USER=328563]@lee1035[/USER] sorry to hear about your accident and diabetes and cancer.</p><p></p><p>Are you on any palliative medications? Steroids can push your blood sugar up.</p><p></p><p>Yes, blood sugar in the 20s is high, it should really be in single figures.</p><p></p><p>To be honest, if I were you, I probably would be tempted to just ignore any diabetic diagnosis. Type 2 can be treated with oral medication (metformin most commonly, which often causes digestive upset) or with diet and exercise involving fairly radical low carb diet overhaul to be effective.</p><p></p><p>The point of treating diabetes is mainly to avoid long term diabetic complications, that happen over years rather than months. High blood sugar can have some immediate symptoms - tiredness, hunger, frequent urination so if you are being bothered by these symptoms (over and above that which you would have anyway bearing in mind your other medical issues) you might consider avoiding really obviously sugary and/or carby things. But if these symptoms aren't especially apparent then I would just be eating whatever I fancied and making sure I was enjoying everything to the full. </p><p></p><p>Very best wishes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1240848, member: 32394"] Hi [USER=328563]@lee1035[/USER] sorry to hear about your accident and diabetes and cancer. Are you on any palliative medications? Steroids can push your blood sugar up. Yes, blood sugar in the 20s is high, it should really be in single figures. To be honest, if I were you, I probably would be tempted to just ignore any diabetic diagnosis. Type 2 can be treated with oral medication (metformin most commonly, which often causes digestive upset) or with diet and exercise involving fairly radical low carb diet overhaul to be effective. The point of treating diabetes is mainly to avoid long term diabetic complications, that happen over years rather than months. High blood sugar can have some immediate symptoms - tiredness, hunger, frequent urination so if you are being bothered by these symptoms (over and above that which you would have anyway bearing in mind your other medical issues) you might consider avoiding really obviously sugary and/or carby things. But if these symptoms aren't especially apparent then I would just be eating whatever I fancied and making sure I was enjoying everything to the full. Very best wishes. [/QUOTE]
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