My husband is 40. He was told several
months ago that he has too high of sugar.
At the time it was normally 150-ish give
or take. The doctor put him on 2 kinds
of pills. His sugar lowered, now he is
on 1 pill.
Anyway......... He is 'crashing' as he
calls it several times a day and when he
checks his sugar, its always around 57,
66, in that area. Which is driving him
crazy that it gets that low and he gets
all shakey and so forth until he eats.
He seems to have to eat several time a day
so it doesn't go so low.
Well, I suggested cutting the pill in
half, but its so small, its just about
impossible. So, until he gets in to see
the doctor about this..... Does anyone
have this experience and how do you manage
your diet without crashing so much???
It's a rollercoaster!!!
Dawn
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nish0206
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 9
Posted: 05-22-06 03:06am
Why doesnt he take some good insulin?
This will help him lots... Especially
if he is dieting!
If that doesnt work...You should consult a
good dietician to prepare him a diet
program.
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littlesqueaks
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 296 Location: Caldwell, Idaho
Posted: 01-16-07 00:52am
Did the doctor suggest carrying around
some hard candy to suck on such as life
savers or something to that effect? I use
to care for a 5 year old who had to have
insulin shots and in his little tote where
his tester and things were was always some
kind of hard candy for those just in case
times where he may be low we could give
him a couple of those to raise his blood
sugar. Ask your doctor and see if this
could be helpful so that your husband does
not feel like he is eating all the time.
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playtowin123
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 8
Hello From a Newbie! Posted: 01-19-07 16:25pm
Hi out there. I wanted to introduce
myself to everyone. I've been searching
the web for info about diabetes and found
this board. I've never thought about
joining a board before, but after reading
through some posts, i'm happy I did. I
just want to say thanks to everyone for
the support you offer eachother here.
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playtowin123
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 8
Great Diabetes Video Posted: 01-26-07 11:48am
I found this site called realhealth.Tv
which has a great video. Even though I am
a new member, I think everyone here would
really like watching this film b/c it was
really nice hearing and watching someone
talk about their difficulties and how they
cope. I wanted to share this with
everyone here, hoping it would help you
guys too. Here’s the link h
ttp://www.Realhealth.Tv/site.Html?Goto=26&
amp;vid=27&vo=0
keep strong everyone!
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playtowin123
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 8
Re: Video Posted: 01-30-07 11:05am
I hope you all found it informative!
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Dale123
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 697 Location: Barrie, On Canada
Re: Normalizing Sugar Posted: 07-18-07 21:42pm
dawnbisme
wrote:
My husband is 40. He was
told several months ago that he has too
high of sugar. At the time it was
normally 150-ish give or take. The
doctor put him on 2 kinds of pills. His
sugar lowered, now he is on 1 pill.
Anyway......... He is 'crashing' as he
calls it several times a day and when he
checks his sugar, its always around 57,
66, in that area. Which is driving him
crazy that it gets that low and he gets
all shakey and so forth until he eats.
He seems to have to eat several time a day
so it doesn't go so low.
Well, I suggested cutting the pill in
half, but its so small, its just about
impossible. So, until he gets in to see
the doctor about this..... Does anyone
have this experience and how do you manage
your diet without crashing so much???
It's a rollercoaster!!!
Dawn
I am not vegan or never have been but
today I was looking for weight lose plans
and it said online that the vegan diet
works 6times better than any doctor
diet...
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henword
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 5
Re: Dale 123 Posted: 10-12-07 14:25pm
How does one quantify "6 times better than
any doctor diet?" Claims like this I would
regard as pure bunk. I have a doctor
friend who lost 50 lbs on the Dean Ornish
diet (near vegan and definitely a "doctor
diet"), I've seen other friends lose a lot
of weight on the Atkins diet, another
doctor diet and very non-vegetarian. The
key is really some kind of restriction of
calories. My diet BTW is vegetarian plus
fish as my only meat source.
