Dear Woofer...it's me again. I dont mean to be a pest...and I am no doctor
but I am no stranger to diabetes either.
IT has been with me and my family for over 50 years. My mother and almost all of my aunts and uncles died from the disease
My wife died from the disease and last year, Pete almost died from the disease. I have been dealing with it for ten years now
There is nothing very complicated about the disease. You monitor your blood sugar and you adjust and medicate and exercise and diet accordingly...and you treat it seriously
IT sometimes seems to me, based on your writing, that "Junior" feels you have an extremely mild case...by the way he is treating you. I hope I am wrong in my interpretation.
Testing yourself twice a week...tells you next to NOTHING at all. All it indicates is what your sugar was at a certain time on a certain date. Most healthy non-diabetics have wild swings of sugar on any random day or time..by as much as 40 or 50 points...depending on what they last ate.
What is really important is how is your body doing 4 hours after a meal, day after day.
A normal person recovers to normal sugar. A diabetic..doesn't
For testing to be meaningful...you need to test each day, three or four times a day: before breakfast, before lunch, before dinner and occasionally before bedtime. And each time...at the same time of day. This is the reason that most insurance companies will cover 90 test tapes a month. It is not that they are kind and generous. It is what most doctors recommend to their patients
Only then are the readings meaningful Only then will you spot the behavior patters of your body and how it handles your food and emotions...and the impact of exercise.
And you need to keep a log of these readings...and adjust your treatment (food intake, exercise and/or medications) accordingly
If you stabilize, You can cut back to two readings a day..and them maybe one.
This is what is called diabetic management. Diabetes is a serious disease. Most people with Diabetes, get worse over time...Their readings deteriorate and they end up taking insulin..
If your current treatment doesn't improve, and I sincerely hope it does, I suggest you see a diabetic specialist..instead of junior.
I know of no serious diabetic doctor that would recommend the type of testing (two times a week) you are doing or who tells patients that diabetes starts at Aic 7 or 8.
Both readings are too high and both lead to long term problems
As I have said..I am no doctor...but I have dealt with this disease for over 50 years...and I am no stranger either
The biggest mistake people often make is not treating it seriously enough..and even not testing at all/ They fell well..so they assume all is well.
Good luck Hope you dont mind my views about how your doctor appears to be handling this. I don't know the whole case...all I have to go by is what you write but he seems to be treating this rather mildly
I dont mean to be a pest...and I am no doctor
but I am no stranger to diabetes either.
IT has been with me and my family for over 50 years.
My mother and almost all of my aunts and uncles died from the disease
My wife died from the disease and last year, Pete almost died from the disease. I have been dealing with it for ten years now
There is nothing very complicated about the disease. You monitor your blood sugar and you adjust and medicate and exercise and diet accordingly...and you treat it seriously
IT sometimes seems to me, based on your writing, that "Junior" feels you have an extremely mild case...by the way he is treating you.
I hope I am wrong in my interpretation.
Testing yourself twice a week...tells you next to NOTHING at all. All it indicates is what your sugar was at a certain time on a certain date. Most healthy non-diabetics have wild swings of sugar on any random day or time..by as much as 40 or 50 points...depending on what they last ate.
What is really important is how is your body doing 4 hours after a meal, day after day.
A normal person recovers to normal sugar. A diabetic..doesn't
For testing to be meaningful...you need to test each day, three or four times a day: before breakfast, before lunch, before dinner and occasionally before bedtime. And each time...at the same time of day. This is the reason that most insurance companies will cover 90 test tapes a month. It is not that they are kind and generous. It is what most doctors recommend to their patients
Only then are the readings meaningful
Only then will you spot the behavior patters of your body and how it handles your food and emotions...and the impact of exercise.
And you need to keep a log of these readings...and adjust your treatment (food intake, exercise and/or medications) accordingly
If you stabilize, You can cut back to two readings a day..and them maybe one.
This is what is called diabetic management. Diabetes is a serious disease. Most people with Diabetes, get worse over time...Their readings deteriorate and they end up taking insulin..
If your current treatment doesn't improve, and I sincerely hope it does, I suggest you see a diabetic specialist..instead of junior.
I know of no serious diabetic doctor that would recommend the type of testing (two times a week) you are doing or who tells patients that diabetes starts at Aic 7 or 8.
Both readings are too high and both lead to long term problems
As I have said..I am no doctor...but I have dealt with this disease for over 50 years...and I am no stranger either
The biggest mistake people often make is not treating it seriously enough..and even not testing at all/ They fell well..so they assume all is well.
Good luck
Hope you dont mind my views about how your doctor appears to be handling this. I don't know the whole case...all I have to go by is what you write
but he seems to be treating this rather mildly
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