New Drug Regimen

[Mister Agenda]

I've been systematically getting rid of sugary products in my pantries and freezers ever since my diagnosis. This has been a bonanza for my housemaid, who has carried home a full shopping bag of these items each week. Last week she took away all the barbecue sauces and frozen, barbecued chicken in the freezer. Tomorrow I'll tell her to take home all the frozen Chinese dinners and some condiments whose main ingredients is sugar. I recently purchased sugar-free honey and chili sauce to use in some of my recipes.

Remember that blood sugar can be heightened by ANY carbs, not just sugary stuff. Too much bread or pasta can give you just as much trouble so you have to watch those too.

[brewer]

UGH - getting the meds right for just about anything can be a pain.

For reasons other than diabetes, I have been on a medication merry-go-round for the past few months.  What the doctor told me about one of them and what his PA actually prescribed have two different effects on me.  I finally sent in a message on the portal (because Heaven forbid you get to speak to a person) and got a call from an actual human who set an appt for tomorrow afternoon with the doctor and not his PA.  We have to get this straightened out.

Then in a couple months I go back to the cardiologist to once again fight about taking statins, which make me sick and can cause issues with what the other doc is working on.

smh

For the most part I don't trust PA's or nurse practitioners.

[Gwaithmir]

I've been systematically getting rid of sugary products in my pantries and freezers ever since my diagnosis. This has been a bonanza for my housemaid, who has carried home a full shopping bag of these items each week. Last week she took away all the barbecue sauces and frozen, barbecued chicken in the freezer. Tomorrow I'll tell her to take home all the frozen Chinese dinners and some condiments whose main ingredients is sugar. I recently purchased sugar-free honey and chili sauce to use in some of my recipes.

Remember that blood sugar can be heightened by ANY carbs, not just sugary stuff. Too much bread or pasta can give you just as much trouble so you have to watch those too.

My doctor already told me to cut down on pasta. He also said that wheat bread or rye bread is better for diabetics than white bread. I'll be consulting with a dietician during my next checkup.

[AFTT47]

I've been systematically getting rid of sugary products in my pantries and freezers ever since my diagnosis. This has been a bonanza for my housemaid, who has carried home a full shopping bag of these items each week. Last week she took away all the barbecue sauces and frozen, barbecued chicken in the freezer. Tomorrow I'll tell her to take home all the frozen Chinese dinners and some condiments whose main ingredients is sugar. I recently purchased sugar-free honey and chili sauce to use in some of my recipes.

Remember that blood sugar can be heightened by ANY carbs, not just sugary stuff. Too much bread or pasta can give you just as much trouble so you have to watch those too.

That was my demon. I used to eat little but pasta and go through a party-size bag of potato chips in 3 days. I didn't eat candy. My sweet tooth vanished 30 years ago.

I made a major change in my diet and lost 150 pounds in 18 months (350 to 200). My A1C went from 8.2 to 5.5. I am officially in remission (diabetes) after three tests after going off blood-sugar drugs. It is definitely doable.

Be especially wary of potatoes and rice. When you put a potato in your mouth and chew it, it combines with your saliva and the result is pure glucose. Sweet potatoes have a reduced problem. If you must have some potatoes, make it sweet potatoes. Same thing with rice. White rice has the exact same problem. Other types of rice are better (or more accurately, not as bad). Best to avoid rice altogether. Whole-wheat pasta and bread is much better than the white variety.

The most important thing I can offer is that dietary change is difficult at first but after a time, you wonder what the big deal was. It becomes easy. You actually develop an aversion to going back. That's the way it worked out for me, anyway.

Best of luck to everyone who makes an effort to affect those aspects of their health they have the power to control.

[europeanatheist]

Hi Gwaithmir
I wish you luck with the diabetes treatment. Few suggestions from my side (MsC in Food technologies and PhD industrial biotech, wife PhD in pharmaceutical science
- Walk: never enough to stress how walking is important. If you do not want to walk outside of your house for whatever reason, just watch TV while you bike on a static bike or walk on a threadmill
- Go in bed early, get at least 7h of sleep --> this adjust your natural insulin level
- Do a little exercise as soon as you wake up, really 3-4 minutes of intense exercise: that pump up your adrenalin level and you will not crave sugars in the morniing to "adjust" from sleep to wake
- Carbohydrates: as long as you eat moderately (60 - 80 grams portion) of unrefined ones there is no issue
- Eat legumes and pulses: chicken peas, beans, broadbeans etc they are perfect: rich in fiber, plenty of protein and with low glycemic index carbohydrates
- Not indulge too much in iperproteic diets: they are bad for your kidneys and you can form sugars in your body starting from aminoacidic cathabolism