[Diabetes-talk] question

[Mike Freeman]

Paul:

If I remember correctly, you are a type II diabetic on oral meds.

First, I'm surprised you'd say there were no vegetables on camping 
trips. I recall hobo dinners where we threw ground beef, potatos and 
innumerable veggies wrapped in aluminum foil in the fire and cooked the 
heck out of them -- delicious! And one can always grill veggies. And 
eating 'em raw works just as well when camping as at home! (grin) But I 
will allow as to the fact that dehydrated veggies do leave something to 
be desired! (grin)

AS to how long it will take to get back in control, I'm afraid there's 
no easy answer: each individual is different. Moreover, depending upon 
what oral meds you're taking, you may come down into your target range 
quickly or it may take a few days. If you're on metformin alone, I 
suspect that eating very low-carb for a few days will get you back in 
range. Certainly this will also work if you're on a sulfanylurea also 
but you must be careful that you eat enough carbs to balance out the 
insulin the sulfonylurea is causing your pancreas to produce.

AS to your meter, it's a matter of taste whether or not you change the 
time zone. I don't bother. Moreover, if your medicine and meal plans 
require you to eat at more-or-less the same times each day, keeping your 
meter on your original time zone will give you a better feel for what 
your body expects.

When heading east (I'm in the Pacific time zone), I generally tried to 
eat one or two hours earlier and took my meds (in my case, it was a 
regular and nph insulin mix) when I ate the first meal of the day a bit 
earlier so that dinnertime on the East Coast came out about right for 
the evening dose (I took two shots a day then). Now that I'm on 
fast-acting insulin with meals plus basal shot at bedtime, I don't worry 
much about timing in that I only take the fast-acting stuff when I eat 
and as long as I don't eat, I'm not too likely to go low.

Bottom line: there's no hard-and-fast recipe; you'll have to do a bit of 
experimentation and trial-and-error work with your body as the subject 
of the experiments. I know this may not be the most comfortable answer 
you might like but this is the essence of good diabetes control: 
eventually, you should get so that you know as much or more about your 
particular case of diabetes than your doctor does!

Good lukc!

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul & Paula Jordan" <paujor at fuse.net>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:58 AM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] question


I have recently returned from a week and a half vacation with the kids 
in
Arizona.  Among other things, we went camping in Cedona for about 3 
days.

My profound learning from that was that when camping, there are no such
things as vegatables, what a learning!!!  We cooked over open fires, 
and,
truly the food was great.

This has proved to be a real disaster for my glucose control, and, now 
that
I'm home, how long should I expect for everything to return to normal?



Also, can anybody give me info on testing, and how to handle traveling
across time zones, and what to expect?  Thanks in advance.



Paul

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