Diabetes Problem, please help...

[mulia24]

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thank you for sharing your experience in treating your mom. I think I'm in position like yours now. Then I'll need to consume less sugar start from now on, but I do love to eat chocolate like Cad**** (don't want to promote) that quite sweet and that means it danger.

I'll need to check carbs in every meal we eat everyday from now on. It quite difficult, but better to prevent than cure. thank you so much.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

I really don't understand, high level of blood sugar dangerous, high level of blood sugar happen when we eat food especially that have high glycemic index. but low level blood sugar also dangerous, it happen when we exercise. so, how to achieve balance?

and I'm surely need to buy that blood sugar meter although it seem to be expensive.

and one again, how is limit of good level blood sugar? I mean, what number in blood meter we supposed to get?

My type 2 diabetes started in middle age and I had tons of questions too. The whole thing really, really confused me. I had to break it down into really simple terms before I got things under control. I will tell you what works for me, but please, PLEASE understand that this may not work for your mom and is more about making your own plan and NOT about using my plan. This is just to show what a plan might look like.

I try to keep my meter readings between 80-120. In this range I feel good. When the readings start creeping up towards 200 I feel tired all the time and it becomes hard for me to think. The same thing happens if I let the readings fall below 80. I am very active physically (I have a small farm and raise horses) and I drink no less than 64 oz of water or tea a day, and usually more. I eat no sugar and very few things made of grain. My meal plan looks like this:

Breakfast: a generous bowl of Cheerios or oatmeal (to help with cholesterol) and milk.

Dinner (midday meal): a protein like chicken or beef and a huge salad. I put every raw vegetable that is in season into the bowl and I use the largest bowl in the house. I use a homemade dressing of olive oil and vinegar with lots of herbs but no sugar or salt. I also often add cheese to my salad.

Supper (evening meal): a protein like chicken, beef, or fish. At least 2 cooked vegetables like beans or cauliflower, broccoli, carrots. Another very large salad. A complex carbohydrate like potato or rice--and I limit the portion to 1/2 to 3/4 cups total. And usually a fresh fruit like an apple or peach or plum (all of which I raise and can them without sugar for when I don't have fresh fruit available).

Snacks/sweets: I use sugar-free Jello mostly and cubed cheeses like cheddar and provolone.

I keep my total carbohydrates below 100 grams for the day. As you can see, I don't eat bread or pasta. I seem to have problems with them--they shoot my readings way high so I avoid them.

Now most people want more carbs than I allow myself but I have found this is the level that works for me. It does take some experimenting to find the right balance. You really do have to experiment. Once I found what works for me, I'm the kind of person who would rather stick to the formula and not have to think about what to eat, so that is what I do. Most people, I know, get bored and want way more variety. My advice would be to get the diet under control and then only start adding to it very carefully so you can see what works and what messes up your readings.

Because I am lucky enough to have health insurance, all my testing supplies are covered. This allows me to test my sugar levels 4 times a day and adjust accordingly.

This is what has worked for me for about 10 years now. My weight is good. My readings are good. My blood pressure is still a bit high, but I am working on that one. My cholesterol is 180.

I hope this gives you a few ideas of how to make your own plan. I'm sure different foods will likely have different effects on your mom's diet. It takes experimenting with the meter readings to figure out which ones to avoid. For me it is bread. For some people it is milk, but milk/cheese and I seem to get along quite well. Exercise is vital and so is drinking enough fluids. Diabetes is really hard on the kidneys so the fluids help them stay healthier.

Good luck with this!


Rusty​

 

[Serama Man]

I have Type one; Needles for the rest of my life, LOL

 

[patnjess]

my daughter is on Lantus 2 times a day, it regulates the blood sugar, it is insulin but long acting. She is on Humalog, for extra carb foods and for breakthrough high sugars.

type 2 is really diet involved, but when insulin becomes involved, they will show you how to stay within the mean, (70-130 at least for us)






Thank you for the comments on my daughter. She was actually born with half her brain missing, and has other endocrine issues. So we believe that its all related.

 

[mulia24]

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Really complete detail about diet based on experience. the major need is the blood sugar meter, since I'll be able to know her blood sugar level anytime.

I'm trying to force her to do exercise, hard to force it, but I think she'll do it soon after she realize how danger this disease is.

I find much differential about what I can found here with what you eat there, quite a bit different. but I think a little adaptation to local food will do.

thank you so much for sharing your experience, I wish you can always get that blood sugar level at its balance level.

 

[mulia24]

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I'm sorry to hear it. I hope everything will get better although I know this is uncureable disease.

 

[mulia24]

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it would be hard to take many pills everyday.

It must be hard as parent to receive this truth, but I'm sure you are strong and will be to keep her to be able to live her life just as usual girl. Everyone have the same right to live a good life, she's very lucky to have parent like you. I'm sorry to hear about all that health problem happen to her and you are very welcome...