New member Rick here.
Hi,
My name is Rick, and i’m a new member to this group. Last week I was
diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I don’t have the usual symptoms
commonly associated with T-2, though I can’t say it was a complete
shock. I’m 49, over-weight, and haven’t exercised much this past year.
I guess one question I have is what is the groups opinion on the
best/most painless glucose testing equipment? Are test strips
compatible with different reading machines? I have started to cut out
sweets/sugars, fats and carb’s from my diet.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.
Rick
May 30th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
testing doesnt hurt, any machine with strips is fine, just dont jab too deep.
lose some weight, do some excersizes and you might beat it. the longer you stay
overweight the harder your pancreas works. and one day you will be on insulin.
getting to the correct weight will make you feel tons better to.
Hi,
My name is Rick, and i’m a new member to this group. Last week I was
diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I don’t have the usual symptoms
commonly associated with T-2, though I can’t say it was a complete
shock. I’m 49, over-weight, and haven’t exercised much this past year.
I guess one question I have is what is the groups opinion on the
best/most painless glucose testing equipment? Are test strips
compatible with different reading machines? I have started to cut out
sweets/sugars, fats and carb’s from my diet.
Thanks in advance for your consideration.
Rick
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June 1st, 2006 at 10:58 am
Rick Salazar wrote:
> I guess one question I have is what is the groups opinion on the
> best/most painless glucose testing equipment?
Hi Rick - In my opinion the Freestyle Flash is the hands down winner
here. I test on my arm not my fingers and it really works there unlike
other meters I tried. For me there are too many nerves on my fingers and
I prefer them not to have holes in them to get infected somewhere - and
besides my hands get cold then it is hard to make them bleed enough.
All this meter needs is a tiny pinhead or less of blood to work,
and it comes with a dial so you can set it for the right amount of
"prick" for you. It has a light to see at night, and beeps when it’s
done and is very quick with the readings.
Oh and it is the smallest meter on the market, takes the least
expensive strips - or very close - about 49c each.
I have been very happy with it.
Worst meter in my book is Ascencia breeze by Bayer. It is huge, clumsy,
takes for ever, needs half a pint of blood (well three pricks ion my
case) does NOt work on the arm whatever the manufacturer says - and
sometimes it spits out its expensive strips instead of using them
correctly, wasting them. It’s quite accurate if you don’t mind waiting
for ever for the reading and you like having pincushion fingers - but
there’s more to life than that in my book.
The freestyle flash is accurate IF you do not use too big a blood drop.
SO once in a blue moon I poke myself with a setting of 4 instead of the
2 that works resulting in a drop big enough for some other meter (lancet
depth dial can get moved by mistake when you pull it out of it’s holder)
and then I just redial and poke again. Since it is painless it’s no big
deal but it happens very seldom. One can check the dial setting before
poking of course - I am just too lazy.
I discovered the drop size thing when trying to use an Ascencia size
drop to read both meters from the same drop for comparison - can’t do
that! Ascencia NEEDS a giant drop, and Freestyle NEEDS a tiny one.
Oh yes - Freestyle will send you free record books to record your
numbers, that fit into the natty little case.
Now where’s my commission from Freestyle for this plug??
:-)))
Namaste,
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:26 pm
tristan wrote:
> lose some weight, do some excersizes and you might beat it.
AND eat high protein low carb.
> the longer you stay overweight the harder your pancreas works.
I would rephrase this:
The more carbs you eat, the harder your pancreas works. Cut them out,
give the pancreas a rest, and the weight will leave anyway.
> and one day you will be on insulin.
Being on insulin is often a good thing.
I CHOSE to be on insulin as my only medicine. I use it along with a very
low carb diet (as in 10% of my calories from carbs), to keep my blood
sugar where it belongs.
Initially I needed 15 units of insulin a day - that was May this year
but soon the blood sugar was controlled; and I started reducing the
insulin, and now I use maybe 5 units a *week*.
I would not need it at all if I did not have cortisol-producing
carcinoid tumours (the original cause of the diabetes in my case)
Results show in the lab tests:
My fasting insulin used to be several times the high normal number, so I
had serious insulin resistance - and now it is great - it is 7 with
normal being 7 to 30!!!
So insulin should be seen in proper context - and not considered
something to dread. It’s a tool to get your blood sugar down. If you use
it that way and not just as an excuse to eat carbs - it works better and
with less side effects than any other drug.
I have zero side effects from the insulin - and a LOT of beneficial results.
(I use fast-acting Novolog.)
> getting to the correct weight will make you feel tons better to.
So true:-)
Namaste,
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:19 pm
i dont believe in a high protein diet, it causes complications and cancer, just
dont eat foods with high, simple carbs too much, like white bread.
tristan wrote:
> lose some weight, do some excersizes and you might beat it.
AND eat high protein low carb.
> the longer you stay overweight the harder your pancreas works.
I would rephrase this:
The more carbs you eat, the harder your pancreas works. Cut them out,
give the pancreas a rest, and the weight will leave anyway.
> and one day you will be on insulin.
Being on insulin is often a good thing.
I CHOSE to be on insulin as my only medicine. I use it along with a very
low carb diet (as in 10% of my calories from carbs), to keep my blood
sugar where it belongs.
Initially I needed 15 units of insulin a day - that was May this year
but soon the blood sugar was controlled; and I started reducing the
insulin, and now I use maybe 5 units a *week*.
I would not need it at all if I did not have cortisol-producing
carcinoid tumours (the original cause of the diabetes in my case)
Results show in the lab tests:
My fasting insulin used to be several times the high normal number, so I
had serious insulin resistance - and now it is great - it is 7 with
normal being 7 to 30!!!
So insulin should be seen in proper context - and not considered
something to dread. It’s a tool to get your blood sugar down. If you use
it that way and not just as an excuse to eat carbs - it works better and
with less side effects than any other drug.
I have zero side effects from the insulin - and a LOT of beneficial results.
(I use fast-acting Novolog.)
> getting to the correct weight will make you feel tons better to.
So true:-)
Namaste,
Irene
–
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www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
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June 3rd, 2006 at 11:57 pm
tristan wrote:
> i dont believe in a high protein diet, it causes complications and
cancer,
Perhaps you are thinking of saturated fat?
The protein will help *prevent* cancer, and it will rebuild broken down
organs including kidneys and liver for example - and is needed for any
repair and maintenance. It has helped me *reverse* my cancer. So it is
not the protein that "causes" complications and cancer but the
accompanying saturated fat that people forget to replace with good fat :-))
People are afraid of protein because it is often accompanied by
saturated fat which IS inflammatory.
But you need not eat high-fat protein.
What I do is use something like 95% fat-free ground beef from my
butcher, and add EV olive oil. This is strongly ANTI-inflammatory and
anti-cancer, at the same time as being high protein.
(If I was blood type A I would use chicken instead of beef, but I’m O.)
> just dont eat foods with high, simple carbs too much, like white bread.
In my book that stuff is pure toxin - but protein is good food and
tastes better.
Steak and egg with mushroom, tomato and asparagus - scrumtuously better
than bread for health!
Namaste,