Diabetes

Nurse did not have a clue when the 1st op would be,but i should be able to jump the entire waiting list by phoneing up St Georges and saying i`m a lifer in Wandsworth prison.

Mista H

Hi Soren,

Pity to hear that you have diabetes. Like with any structural serious sickness - one would like to reverse it at the moment of diagnoses.......while before diagnoses everybody thinks it doesn't touch me. 

I had my wake up call about 5 years ago while due to a stroke. I hope everybody in the forum get's motivated by these kind of posts to change there lifestyle before it's too late.

Cheers,

Bert

Read somewhere a few days back that they'd had some success in reversing type 2 diabetes with diet. IIRC it was something like 800 calories a day as vegetables and dairy drinks. Can't recall how long this was for. 

Regards,

Willy.

ITS ALL ABOUT SUGAR

Just been to visit the old man who is now in an EMi care home. In the dining room with him having a coffee when one of the other residents walks in and starts trying to make himself a CUP of coffee. Me being a good samaritan offers to help him. He cannot speak,but lets me take his cup,i ask him if he takes sugar and he holds up 3 fingers. i sit him down with his CUP of coffee,next time i look round he is back at the servery sticking 3 large TABLESPOONS of sugar in his cup. Yuk

Now i know why they hide the sugar from him.

mista H

Sugar.  Mmmmm.  I used to eat the stuff neat, put it on buttered rolls and have 6 spoons in a cup of tea.  That was on top of all the sweets.  Managed to cut it back to 3 spoons in a cup of coffee these days.

Joel Fuhrman runs a clinic in Pennsylvania, where he purports to be able to reverse diabetes. He's got a book called "Eat To Live" where he describes his theories in detail.

On hospital rotation I was going into a room to counsel a patient on his warfarin prescription.  As I enter the room a nurse is in there giving him his insulin shot, and his lunch is sitting there as well; macaroni & cheese & mashed potatoes - I wanted to go and b*tch slap someone for serving a diabetic such a meal while in a health care setting.  Ridiculous...bordering on criminal.

As long as this thread has been around, I apologize if that is a repeat anecdote...but I am not going to go back over 4 pages!

Jesus jota,have you got any teeth left ?

I remember many years ago when i had my business the boss at one m/cycle dealer i dealt with all he every drunk was coke,nothing else,no tea or coffee.

Mista h

Yeah I still have my teeth.  One or two fillings mind you.   

Looks like i`ve hit the jackpot with the 2 ops on my wrist Steve. Just had a phone call from St Georges to say that  the waiting list to see our lovely Sonja is horendous,BUT she is going to do them at a private hospital(St Anthonys) for me on a Saturday.Wine with my food me thinks.

Mista H

My doctor told me I  have got sugar does that  mean I can pea on my cornflakes.

Whatever floats your boat rupert. 

Hi I made a joke of my diabetics I was very surprised when I was diagnosed , They have got me early on diagnosed at 76 now at 77 DIY at 5.8 see the nurse once a year,Never had to see a doctor  I use a pushbike a lot but drink a pint of whiskey a week I think with age every body gets it regards.ps still eat bananas.

Forgot to mention I am not on any tablets controlled by diet regards.

I turned diabetic after getting a horrible virus, and then Guillon-Barre' syndrome which shut everything down such as insulin and testosterone and nervous system. I'm 6' and was 180#, with everything going on and the syndrome not identified, I spent 2 months as a raging diabetic and was never given the big panel blood test.  That is being reviewed.  Plus I was loosing weight and friends were feeding me. I ended up at 130# and a1C at 7.8 when my Dr came back from leave he saved me from dying.  3 years later I'm off insulin and on Metformin 170#, however the best thing is walking and exercise.

I try to stay away from potatoes, breads/pasta, no juices and increase veggies and fiber. Love mexican food with the beans here in LA.  I use the deli counter for various salads and cole slaw to increase things I can't make myself.  A nutritionist told me that dairy with the fat is bad, but yogurt with the fermentation bacteria is good, and she doesn't know why. Increasing fiber slows down the uptake of natural sugars. Juicy fruits like berries/ ripe bananas/ peaches/pineapples bad, but apples and less ripe fruit is great. I make lots of squash, green beans, veggie stews that are very filling.

Some mornings I go to a nice market and get a light breakfast, I see a bunch of old fat men talking, largest one has a cane and drinks a quart of chocolate milk every morning, nothing else. OMG!

You can have these things in small doses, then get out for a fast walk or exercise to burn up the sugars.  Friend told me if you buy a cookie or ice cream cone have a couple bites to satisfy the craving then toss it.  Yesterday my sugars spiked to 300, I grabbed a bag and walked 2+ miles round trip to grocery store. Tested at 155, and an hour later I was 110.  Pretty amazing. 

Diabetic for seven years now. Still able to manage it only with metformine.

I need to lose 40lb pronto - or diabetes will surely strike. Last blood test was 99. 100 - 125 is borderline. :-(

So - all the time on this forum has to be from a stationary bike at the gym. :-)

Soft grip without elastic.  In severe cases diabetes can severely cock-up the circulation, leading to gangrene and amputation.  The socks are to reduce trauma impact from over compression (crushing) of the leg tissue.