My new boyfriend is a type 2 Diabetic. and sometimes his Blood suger is over 240. I am wondering if its something I am feeding him or if he is cheating on his diet!
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Carbs.  Although he needs some he is obviously getting a bit too much.  These include, chips, pretzels, bread, cereals, sugars, including beer and regular pop, corn, potatoes, junk food in general, and if he is eating a lot of fruits...they have natural sugars in them.\nHere's a link\nhttp://www.endocrineweb.com/diabetes/treatment.html
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I'm with the guy who thinks it's diabetes. Have your blood sugar tested asap. If you find out that you are, there's plenty you can do to help yourself....\nhttp://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/Type_II_Diabetes.html
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Sounds like you DB is not under control.  Even a blood sugar taken 2 hours after a meal should not be that high...You may not feel symptoms of hyperglycemia because your body is used to levels that high and it would be a lot higher before you felt differently...You need to check you blood sugars at least 4 times a day, starting with a fasting blood sugar first thing in the morning, then 2 hours after every meal and at bedtime.  If your doctor can't control you with the pills, he may have to start insulin.  Go see your doc and follow the dietary calories that were ordered for you....\nGood luck...
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No, I don't have it.  However, my grandmother does and she doesn't keep it controlled as well as she should so she has some complications.  My mother is a type II diabetic (non-insulin dependent.  Many people live healthy normal lives with diabetes as long as they watch what they eat and keep their blood sugars in a controlled range (they must check their blood glucose with the fingerstick blood test often!)!\nGood luck!
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Hello,\n\nI've been diabetic for 33 years and this is not a problem that only you suffer from. Most all diabetics crave sweets, it's all in the way you handle it. I'm don't know if you take shots or pills. I take shots and when and when a special moment occurs where I eat a super sweet something I take extra insulin. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR FIRST!!! Here's an example: I like ice cream cakes and if you look on the label you will see carbohydrates and a number like maybe 40 grams. My doctor explained to me that for every extra 10 grams of carbs I should take 1 unit of insulin. This technique is called a sliding scale and only your doctor should provide you with your own personal sliding scale. Also try the sugar free foods. Russel Stover's has a real good chocolate sugar free assortment. Jello Gelatin is good and alot of bakeries also make sugar free desserts, cakes, pies, etc. \n\nAs for you HA1C...don't forget that anything can cause your blood sugar to rise, such as cold medicine, stress, excitement, infections, depression, and many other things as well. Just one day of serious munching can affect your HA1C. This test reflects back to 6 weeks ago. There is available in pharmaceys a at home HA1C test, they're kind of expensive. Something else you might try and it can help you get a better idea of your overall control is to add all your before breakfast blood sugar test for 7 days and then devide that number by 7. This will give you a overall average for a week. Do the same for your lunch testing, evening testing, etc. \n\nI know that dealing with this disease can be frustrating and it seems so unfair that we have it. Don't give up, if I can make it 33 year with this disease so can you! It's OK to cry and get mad and afterwards hold your head up high and be proud of who you are - diabetis does not have to have control of you.\n\nGood Luck
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Doctor...doctor...doctor....go see your doctor or a nutritionist!\n\nAre you on oral meds?  How long have you been diagnosed with DM?  After a certain amount of time, if your diet doesn't control your blood sugars, your doctor may consider treating you with oral medication.  What is your weight like?  That could be a factor, too.
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In medical school, they never told us that eating too much sugar brings on diabetes, but I do think there is some truth to what you say, that eating alot of sugar contributes to causing Type II diabetes.  (Right, type I diabetes, which is very severe insulin dependent diabetes, is caused by failure of the insulin producing pancreatic beta cells.  it isn't dietary at all)  In type II diabetes, your pancreas is still producing insulin, it just gets "tired" and isn't producing enough insulin, and/or the cell receptors for the insulin, where the insulin has to do its thing, get resistant to the insulin.  In a sense, you wear the system out eating too much sugar.  Also, many type II diabetics are too fat.  Getting too fat does something to make the insulin receptors resistant, and also causes a huge demand for more and more insulin.  Certainly eating alot of "sweet" foods contributes to being fat.  Also, chromium is a known cofactor required for insulin to act correctly.  Refined sugar has no chromium in it, neither does refined flour.  (whole wheat flour does have chromium in it).  So you are eating sugar and refined flour, which requires insulin and chromium to metabolize, but you aren't getting any chromium with it.  \n\nWhat does "junk food" have in it?  It is all high in sugar and/or refined flour.  I think these are the modern foods, which contribute to poor health, including diabetes.  Also these junk foods are high in fat, esp. the evil trans fat.
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I assume she is a type 2 diabetic.\n\nIf she takes it in addition to her normal medication and diet, then there is no problem.\n\nIf she takes it instead of her normal medication and diet, then she is very foolish, and will eventually pay the consequences.
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You mean "Eat Right for Your Blood Type"?  It has some good information, but I don't think it applies to everyone.  I agreed with some of it, I disagreed with some of it.  Personally, I think you should just enjoy what you eat and do it in moderation :)
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As a diabetic you shouldn't eat anything with sugar in it. I realize some dr say it's ok on occassion, but the problem with that is, they assume that the diabetic knows what "occasional" means. When I was in my teens and youth, I didn't want to deal with the fact that I had diabetes, so I ate what ever I wanted. The immidiate result was really high glucose levels for very extended amounts of time. Your body will aclimate to high sugar levels, but you will definately suffer long term consequences such as nueropathy and high blood pressure, which over time will lead to loss of feeling in the feet and hands, osteoperosis, reproductive organ malfunction or failure, blindness, strokes and/or heart attacks. \nI used to be out of controll with my blood sugar levels. The day they told me I was blind and that it would permanent if I didn't get it under control, I fixed it. Surgeries reversed the blindness, but the long term effects of being out of controll had already begun to affect me. I eventually ended up on dialisys and have begun to lose some of the feeling in my right foot. I was on dialisys for two years before getting a kidney/pancreas transplant. Any one of those complications will bring your normal life to a screaching halt.\n\nI know, It's really hard to eat right all the time. After a month or two of eating right and exercising, it will become second nature to you. I don't eat very much starch foods or carbs. Back when I went blind, that was one of the things I cut out of my diet and that was 18  years ago. I had my transplant 6 years ago, but I was so in the habit of not eating starchy and high carb foods, that even now, I feel like I have a brick in my gut and I weigh 500 pounds if I eat the average amounts of these foods. No, I'm not pencil skinny, nor would you or anyone else ever guess there was anything wrong with me in the first place. once you start eating right and working with your diabete's instead of against it, the easier it will be to live life like it should be lived.\n\nWhether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you listed some of the key foods you should stay away from. As hard as it may be, stay away from candy, foods that are high in sugar, soda pops, fast foods, fatty foods and carbs. People will tell you don't cut all carbs out of your diet, Thats what gives you energy for your muscles. And thats true, but if you eat a well balanced diet, you'll get plenty of carbs from the fruits and vegatables you eat. Yes, there is carbs in those foods.
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The link I'm providing is a study titled, "Type 2 Diabetes: An Inflammatory Disease Process? Clinical and Physiological Links Between Diabetes and Heart Disease." \n\n"In a large seven year study, for which over 12,000 patients were screened, cardiovascular risk was demonstrated to be associated with an elevated white blood cell count (WBC) ..."\n\nI'm not a doctor, nor am I suggesting you may have heart disease, but the study is an interesting read, nonetheless.\n\nI hope you find the answer you're looking for.  Good luck!
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Normal blood glucose upon waking should be relatively low.  Before eating, a normal healthy person should be between 70-110.  \n\nFind another doctor for a second opinion.  I tell you this because 4 years ago I was doing all of this same thing -- except because of a chronic dry mouth condition I didn't realize I was drinking more water.  I thought I had a bladder infection.\n\nMy doctor used my urine to check for bladder infection and ran another quick test to check for protein -- she reported to me in 10 mins that my bladder was fine -- it was Diabetes that was my problem.  \n\nI was 36 yrs old -- I had lost 45 lbs in 3 months because of a recent divorce and child custody issues.  I was stressed out after my husband just left, I had to sell our house, move from 1400 sq ft to 800 sq ft and figure out how to move on. \n\nI was put on oral meds -- because it was adult onset the dr assumed I had Type 2.  It wasn't working.  I found another dr and had more testing done -- it was discovered that I am actually Type 1, I am now insulin dependant.  I also have a second autoimmune disease:  Sjogrens -- which will give all the other symptoms you are having: chronic fatigue, low energy, short term memory loss, night sweats and other wonderful things. \n\nGet a second opinion -- and tell the dr you choose what your suspicions are.  At best, ask for a full blood panel to also check your hormones -- this could be something hormonal and is causing your sugars to be affected.
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Levels up to 100 are considered normal, and levels between 100 and 126 are considered pre-diabetes. You did the right thing by rushing him over to the ER.  With proper treatment they will be able to lower down to normal, do further testing to see what is going on, and provide the correct regimen for controlling it.
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Yes, a blood sugar reading of 92 is great, but that does not mean that your daughter is not diabetic. In order to determine this for sure, consult with your doctor and have an A1c test done on your daughter. As a type 2, you know that the A1c test will give you an average for about 120 days. This will help determine whether or not your daughter's levels are running high consistently or if the 92 that you got on your own was an indicator of normal blood sugar levels. \nOther blood test will also help determine whether or not she is diabetic. \n\nWhile decreased healing is one symptom of diabetes, it could also be the symptom of something else... infection, etc. If the sores are there longer than they should be, then get them checked out by a doctor ASAP to avoid serious complications (infection, scarring, etc.). \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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You may have something going on with yourself. When some people acquire the dreadful disease of high blood or diabetes, their sex life changes, especially if this occurrence is sudden. Get your self check out, talk to your doctor about this and don't be ashamed to ask question.
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Glucose Fasting-70-110 mg/dL.(3.8-6.1 mmol/L)\nGlucose PP/R- Upto 160 mg/dL (8.8 mmol/L)\nYour second reading 1.32 does not appear correct.\nYou should also take HbA1c test every 3 or 4 months.\nEat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Diabetes food.
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sounds as though he may have pancreatitis- it is an inflamation of the pancreas. it is a glad that sits behind the lower part of the stomach and extends down toward the spleen and left kidney. the pancreas has two primary functions- to produce digestive enzymes and release  glucogen and insulin- \nreccomended  nutrients-\nchromium picolinate-300-600mcg daily-maintaines blood sugar\n\ngarlic- as directed on label  - antiviral and antioxidant\n\ndigestive enzymes- as directed on label- needed for proper digestion-\n\nyou may also want to use acidophilus to help maintain healthy flora in the digestive tract-\n some supplements canno't be taken- for example people with high blood pressure may want to avoid garlic as it thins the blood.  if you can't afford a DR. then please research the problem and the things that are good for it before taking them-\nenzymes and acidolphus are things that are already in our bodies so this should not be a problem-   \ndiet is the main cause of diabetes- even a ripe apple can cause a spike in the sugar levels. perhaps you husband could keep a journal of what he is eating to find out if anything is setting off this pain-  i eat a great deal of raw(uncooked) veggies- salads- and friut- this helps with my pain- i also take acidophilus and garlic- green foods, and enzymes(if i eat a cooked meal) which i do.    you have a vast amount of info at your fingertips here on the internet- use it to your advantage- God bless you!       most supplements can be purchase at walmart