My blood sugar has not been doing so great lately. I've started taking Actos again and there has been no low blood sugars. Perhaps taking it will help decrease my blood sugars and get it back down.
I've been fairly active. I plan to walk in a couple of hours if it does not rain too much. Only threatening to do so right now. It threatens to rain more than it actually does though.
I'm afraid once again that I am headed for insulin. Its probably only a matter of time. If it would help me loose weight, I'm all for it. Whatever it takes that doesn't kill me is a good thing as far as I can see. I wonder what others know about this, will I loose weight if I get on insulin with better sugar management?
This morning my blood sugar was 135 while fasting. That is good for a diabetic but its been higher than that the two prior mornings. It has been 175 both mornings and right now its 235. I ate more for breakfast than I usually do. I double dipped. Eggs with Macaroni and Cheese.
Okay so that's a little strange but the eggs were just not enough today. The mac and cheese probably pushed my blood sugar up. It has not been good the last few times I checked and now I'm back to taking all the diabetic meds I was when I got here, well except for Precose. I can't get that here.
I admit I'm afraid to go on insulin living out here in the province as opposed to a large city Maybe its not as scary as I think it is. I'm afraid of low blood sugars. I'd rather stay out of the hospital. Low blood sugars can send a diabetic to one. Your comments on that would be helpful too.
Its probably a losing battle, I don't know if I'll ever get back up to walking an average of one and a half miles per day. Maybe that's what it takes. That would be better than insulin. It was also be better than all these meds. I'm just going to have to push myself. I think I'm averaging 1.5 miles every other day. Seems like that would be enough!
These cold showers that most of us must endure in the Philippines tend to cause me not to walk. I walk in the afternoons and the water is colder in the afternoon than it is in the morning. I just really need to get over that and take those cold showers!
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Hello Irembright, welcome to the forum. I don't understand :blush: In all your postings here that you placed you are talking about how wonderful your tips are for diabetics and now you wrote about how your sugar level is worrying you.
Ok... Straight out forward... Your message was confusing... Though it seems like you are a Type 2 diabetic, with overweight and it's becoming hard to get time for you to walk (either that or you just find walking too difficult) witch you used to find a good way to keep your sugar level under control withouth some of the meds.
Now you are thinking of going back to insulin but are afraid of hypoglycemias. Though what confuses me is where you stated that you are taking actos (I would like more information on that if you don't mind because i'm not sure how soon i can find the time to look it up) and you mentioned that it's good for you.
Now if my assumptions were correct and you are:
1) Changing medicine to insulin and are afraid of hypoglycemias
2) Can't or not able to take walks long enough (due to time, weather or physical issues)
3) you are concerned about the mentioned meal (eggs with macaroni and cheese) (not really all that relevant).
Now from you previous posts, as Blair mentioned, you had usefull tips for diabetics. Are those ineffective? If so in what way do YOU think it's not working? Which part seems to be the weak link?
Now to some of the feedback from myself:
First of all know that I am not an expert on type 2 and i do not know how the pills and meds work. But if you are going on insulin dependant because the regular meds can't help, that's just something you will have to live with. It's nothing bad. Now about your concerns about low sugar levels with insulin - i will say what i always do in these situations: the doctor is not in control of your injections - you are. He is the advisor who has not only to give you the basic dose witch is kind of a foundation for adjustments, but also should provide with info on how to adjust the injections on your own.
As a diabetic you must know that it's not your lifestyle that has to adjust to diabetes control, but the other way arround. So long as you watch out for yourself the bg is going to be fine. For egzample: my bg definetely isn't what you'd call good (but that's because i'm forgetfull.. yah... bad memory at this age...) but the fact is i know how to adjust and when i try to do it bg levels stay at the norm.
In short: if you go over on insulin you must learn how to control your base and bolus. Even if you are forgetfull as I am, you must get it engraved inside the back of your skull (that's just a metaphor) so that if you even don't keep it great, you can still hold the avarage at the very least witch is needed to avoid complications.
Now about excercise. If you can't find the time for those walks, how about taking a walk to all those places you go by bus or car if it's not too far away. I ussualy walk a remainder of the way home instead of going by bus. And if there's no other way and you are desperate walk arround you home, do some situps or pushups (if you can, but if it's too stressfull or you have heart problems take it easy).
Finaly for the meal you mentioned: as far as eggs are concerned - they are a no carb product and thus have little imidiate impact on your bg level (though i find it that the bg level rises after a longer while, but i have other theories on that). Cheese again is a no carb. So that leaves just the macaroni. Check the package to see the carbs in that and watch out how much you eat. And perhaps you ate something else?
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