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RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 07-13-2022
The best range is between 90-125. I start getting sweaty and loopy if it gets into the 70s. But the main problem is my pancreas doesn't produce the necessary insulin to break down the sugar. Too much sugar in the blood stream starts to destroy the blood capillaries in the extremities. It also results in the nerve endings going haywire, which is why I currently have a lot of neuropathy in my feet. It's a lot of tingling and weird feelings. If it continues the feet can die.
Losing a lot of weight would be a great help to helping me stabilize my sugar in the desired range. But since I am having trouble doing that, I take two drugs: Metphormin and Glipizide. Metphormin is the main aid and the Glipizide acts as a booster to the Metphormin. Earlier this year, my doctor seriously considered putting me on insulin to help me control my diabetes. I bought him because I don't want to go down that road. But it is probably in my future.
It is a fine line to get the sugar levels just right. It's like Goldilocks said, this one is too hot and that one is too cold but this one is just right. Only sugar. And I'm not a girl.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 07-13-2022
Yikes. I’m sorry, my friend.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 07-13-2022
Full disclosure - I was recently put on metaformin for my diabetes. I stopped taking it however because it was messing with my stomach, and given my current drug intake, I can't afford to be any more nauseated than I already am (at the world too, not just the damn meds). I haven't told my doc yet. I need them to stay focused on the problem at hand...
I suffer from neuropathy too but in my hands. It has made my left hand particularly edgy lately, what with the nerve pinch and the dog bite healing itch. My left palm gives me new sensations all the time now. I was driving this morning and I got a deep shooting ache in the marrow of the bones of my pain. At least, my palms didn't get hairy like they said they would if I spent too much time m... oh never mind.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 07-13-2022
It is what it is. I have a lot more sympathy for my father these days.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 10-20-2022
My A1C dropped from 7.6 to 7. Yay. Diet and exercise works!
Eh, who am I kidding?
It's the metformin.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 10-20-2022
Both help.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 11-22-2022
Well, isn't this fucking great news.
Quote:Over the course of the pandemic, scientists have learned that the coronavirus can lead to a wide range of ongoing health problems — including diabetes, according to a new study.
New research published in the journal BMC Medicine this month is shedding light on how COVID-19 can also put a person at greater risk of developing diabetes — both type 1 and type 2 — after an infection. The study is a meta-analysis, which means that it combined and analyzed data from other studies on the same topic.
Nine studies, which included nearly 40 million participants, were included in the analysis. Six of the studies were conducted in the United States, with another two in England and one in Germany. Seven of the studies included only adults, one included only adolescents and one had no age restrictions. Overall, more than 4 million of the participants had contracted COVID-19 and more than 34 million in the control group had not. Altogether, following a COVID-19 infection, the incidence of developing diabetes was roughly 15 out of 1,000 people in a given year.
“To our knowledge, this is the largest and most wide-ranging analysis of this kind to date,” the researchers noted in the study.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 11-22-2022
I crossed over from prediabetic to full blown diabetic just as the pandemic began. Since diabetics are high risk, it allowed me to get my first vax early. Four vaxxes later and here we are...
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 11-22-2022
It's good to know that there are two Vax resistant strains of Covid out there at the moment and are rapidly becoming the dominant strains.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 11-22-2022
There’s also a brutal flu going around. A few friends have gone down to it. Keep washing your hands and sterilizing…
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - The Queen - 11-26-2022
(11-22-2022, 04:36 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I crossed over from prediabetic to full blown diabetic just as the pandemic began. Since diabetics are high risk, it allowed me to get my first vax early. Four vaxxes later and here we are...
Only four? Haven’t you gotten the bivalent booster?
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 11-27-2022
Just the bivalent. Not the bivalent booster. That was the last one. You’ve had five already?
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - The Queen - 12-03-2022
(11-27-2022, 12:57 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Just the bivalent. Not the bivalent booster. That was the last one. You’ve had five already?
Original shot, three boosters, then the bivalent; total of 5.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Drunk Monk - 12-03-2022
Ah. I only did two boosters. I don’t travel as much as you. Not a great excuse but there you have it.
RE: Blood Sugar Fun - Greg - 12-04-2022
No. You're just attending large gatherings of people.
They have a nice setup at our community center where we can just show up and get the shot in all it's assorted flavors.