[Diabetes-talk] Diabetes management strategy. Was Re: raw peeling fingers.

[d m gina]

I keep something with me, just incase lunch isn't at the time shared.
Now for me to have the numbers where you are, is a bit low for me.
I watch in the winter months where I would chect and see where they are.
Thanks for sharing.
What I am trying to say is in the winter months my sugars drop quickly. 
they don't understand that one, I don't either, but we just go with the flow.

Original message:
>   Hi there.

> I have read this thread with much interest. Personally, and judging from
> my own experience, it is necessary to test at least three times a day,
> and I say this for the reason that it is important to try and keep
> sugars stable rather than low.

> I must say that I am not too excited about people who say that your
> readings should be this or that, for as I understand it, the damage that
> is rendered to the body through diabetes, differs from person to person
> and from circumstance to circumstance. Testing at least three times a
> day not only gives you an idea of the pattern according to which your
> blood sugars move, but in my experience, it also gives you an idea of
> what levels would be suitable for you.

> The nursing sister I mentioned in my previous post, who actually helps
> me to monitor my condition, is herself rather dogmatic about fasting
> sugars. According to her, a good fasting sugar should be anything
> between 90 and 110. Now this system works well for me, but I have
> encountered situations where I have helped other diabetics, where the
> patterns suggest that they should have sugars over 110 for fasting, for
> the simple reason that they cannot get them down to those levels.

> I disagree with the dogmatic statement that sugars in a diabetic should
> specifically be one thing under certain circumstances and another under
> other circumstances. I have often argued the point with my nursing
> sister friend, not because I cannot maintain those levels myself, or
> because I have to starve to death in order to keep to those levels (and
> incidentally, I don't starve when I maintain those levels), but I have
> counselled folks before today who simply would find it impossible to
> maintain their sugars at that level.

> Regular testing is important also because the process of identifying
> movement patterns in blood sugar levels and stabilizing sugars, can take
> up to six months to accomplish.

> The other important factor is to be able to learn to listen to your
> body, because you may find yourself in situations where your glucometer
> is not available to you and you need to take action because your sugars
> fall too low.

> The other day, I attended a seminar and was told before hand, that lunch
> would be served at 12 noon. As it turned out, lunch was served a full
> two hours late and because my sugars are by nature very volitile, I fell
> into a hypo and was useless to the conference for the course of the
> afternoon proceedings. Needless to say, I had somewhat to say to the
> organisers, for this was a conference geared to the disabled and I had
> gone to considerable lengths to inform them of my condition, and to my
> mind, my informing them, simply fell on deaf ears. Furthermore, the lack
> of consideration was highly embarrassing to me.

> Being able to listen to my body tells me in advance whether I am going
> to go hypo or not and I know that my chances of going hypo are
> particularly good if I have a fasting sugar below 90.

> I have got this down to a fine art so that I can estimate my blood
> sugars to within 10 points before I even get to pricking my finger. This
> morning, for instance, I guessed that my fasting sugar would be 86 and
> sure enough, my test showed that it was 88--a reading which is lower
> than acceptable.

> Again, I personally take issue with people who say that your HB1c3
> should be at a specific level, for the simple reason that hB1C3 is based
> on your actual sugar levels and in my view, it is difficult enough to
> determine what those levels should be, let alone, what one's HB1C3
> should be.

> I will probably have mine taken when I go to the diabetic clinic on
> Wednesday, and my guess is that my HB1C3 is going to sit between 105 and
> 115, somewhere.

> Finally, I would be inclined to think that if your friend is not
> testing, that it is highly likely, given the circumstances, that her
> sugars are well out of control. My experience in the time that I have
> been counselling folks here, is that the ones who don't test, are the
> ones whose sugars are invariably out of control.

> The consolation prise for your friend is that if she can test regularly,
> and if she is given proper counselling, I believe that she could learn
> to listen to her body and hence the fact that testing might eventually
> have to be done less frequently.

> It goes without saying that I am making the catagoric assumption that
> the person concerned, is adhering to some sort of diabetic compliant
> diet, at least.

> --
> Michael Park
> "I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in 
> paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and 
> crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not 
> forsake them." (Isaiah 42:16 NKJV).

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