Initial results February 2010 - most recent results June 2010
A1C from 11 to 6.4
Blood Sugar from 289 to 128
Cholesterol from 261 to 123
Triglycerides from 260 to 84
LDL (Bad fats – lower is better) from 167 to 62
HDL (Good fats –higher is better) from 42 to 44
WTG Peeps,
Glad I don't have your FBS, I wish I had your Cholesterol.
...I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes in February 2010. Thats why I was so down in the dumps, not cooking/posting much.
Were you down in the dumps because of the diagnosis or because of the diabetes?
When my Type 2 was diagnosed I was relieved because it explained many years of problems.
... But tonight due to not feeling so good, back and joint pain and lack of sleep
Add to that my waking most days feeling as though something was going to crash through the roof and land on me ... some days something pretty massive .... and I know
exactly how you feel.
my daughter is cooking. Not a very healthy meal for a diabetic but all I have had today is
The hell of it is, is nutrients are somewhat retroactive, calories aren't.
I went out and worked a hay wagon for 5 hours on an egg sandwich, a banana and dilute Gatorade. Does not mean I can come home and eat 3,000 calories. I had to eat to replace my reserves of nutrients/ amino acids/ to keep my body from eating itself even more while keeping the calorie count low.
Then I spent the rest of the night staring at the fridge and salivating. It SUCKS!!! LMAO!!!!
Oh well.
(I am supposed to eat something whether a meal or snack every 2 -3 hours which helps give the sugar something to work on and not build up in the blood)
?
I think you have that backwards, eating
is sugar.
Shes making the New Kraft Mac and cheese in the bag.
:barf:
I told her to add peas and tuna to it. It will have to do for now because MY ASS is a draggin' LOL.
Funny how that works. Now when I eat I can feel the energy and life spreading through my body. Before ... well, before was before.
I use to be able to take care of hte hungries with chips or a candy bar. No more. My bodies readjusted to want
real food and is no longer happy or able to be fooled with fats or sugars.
>>>
My oldest friend is Type 1 and has been on the needle for 40+ years, and a few things he has shared with me .. he's shared some of these things for 40 years and I didn't 'get it' till about 3 months ago ...
1) Sugar is just a number. Something like the temperature of the human body. We all know it's "suppose to be" 98.6 deg F, but we all also know that some peoples normal temp is higher and others is lower. 98.6 is just a number to measure against.
Same with glucose. 80-120 is "normal" with 100 being the 98.6. Wife and I went to the fair, split a meal, split a lemon aid or two (I restricted myself) and about 6 hours later came across a 'glucose screening' booth. Wife was 96, I was 126. I told the person in the booth I would know this tomorrow, person in hte booth said I would be fine, bringing up point 2.
2) The Medicos don't know a whole lot about diabetes nor do they want to listen. Of course there are exceptions but overall I have found his statement to be somewhat true. I told the person in hte booth I would "feel it" the next day. I may wake with a slight body ache or slight depression, depending on how much I consumed in the next couple of hours. I never said I wouldn't be 'fine'.
When I told the nurse at the doctors office I was checking my sugars 4-6 times a day she insisted I only needed to check it twice a day. If I had been checking my sugars only twice a day I wouldn't know I have to stay away from oats because my body seems to process it immediately and give me a 80+ (++) point bump in glucose, but I can chow down on (my home made) bread, and pasta, and not worry about it too much.
More than once I have found myself having to make the choice between wearing a stupid smile and bobble heading or make my point or get an answer.
3) Many with the diabetic condition don't take care of themselves. This point has sub sets. (A,B, ...) My Grandfather had Type 1 and died in his 50's because he didn't take care of himself. My oldest friends (Eric) father denied my friend had the condition, no child of his could be diabetic (interesting family dynamic). While at the above mentioned fair there was a vendor trying to push something on wife, then on me, I said I'm Type 2, would be fun but I can't, then the barker says
he too is T2 and someday he's going to have to start taking care of himself. He then tried pushing pills on me ... What?
?
When I told Eric I had the Sugars he asked me "Do you wan to live or do you want to die". I said WTF Eric, don't make this drama ... Eric told me how when he was 8 years old his doctor (who was diabetic) asked him that question so he has asked others with the condition the same thing. Eric is the person doctors steer their patients who need tough love.
So Eric asks me if I want to live or die then explained how sugars damage and destroy nerves and organs, and how (us) Type 2(s) won't die or be in a coma tomorrow if we don't take care of ourselves,
BUT the accumulation of nerve and organ damage can take years off our lives, and hasten the decrease of our quality of life.
Hookie Dookie!
(... Z?) Shame. ? I think some denial may erupt from feelings of shame. Wife heard me talking about this condition openly and asked me if I didn't feel embarrassment or ... shame. You see, my mother in law developed insulin dependent Type 2 and felt shame about it. ? What? Seems my mother in law was embarrassed. What!!
It's not like I'm discussing a moral failure. It's a medical condition, it is what it is.
It's also what
it isn't. A mental condition.
4) What I/a diabetic does today can have an effect
three days from now! I've noticed myself having an odd day, checked the logs and darn, that could explain it.
I use to have migraines, lots of them ... last migraine I had I checked the log, turns out I went below the lower limit of "caloric intake" the day before, and was doing hte same that day also. Seems as long as I don't push the low limits two days in a row I'm OK.
5)
We're all Different! This is probably the most important point. None of us are the same. I think this is a major reason the Medicos are the way they are. They have a mentality that they have to have an answer but the only to have an answer is to treat us as though we're all the same. I had better not go down that path ....
Anyhow, we're all different. You and I and our condition may share 90~99% commonality, what works for you
may work for me but I can't count on it. You may be able to eat oats/oatmeal and milk. I touch the stuff and I'm off to the races.
Go figure.
Oh my, I didn't mean to write all this.
Peep! Keep it up (or down, whichever particular number is better.
)
Glad to see things are going better, and I'm told things will get even better!