Am I healthy though a diabetic? Please help?
CUTE GUY asked:
I am a diabetic diagnosed two months before. I have taken only two fasting blood tests (10 hours of fasting one empty stomach after the last meal). First one was 115 and the second one was 133. I did not take any tests after that. I do not have a glucose meter also.
I am a diabetic diagnosed two months before. I have taken only two fasting blood tests (10 hours of fasting one empty stomach after the last meal). First one was 115 and the second one was 133. I did not take any tests after that. I do not have a glucose meter also.
I follow the normal diet of fish, vegetables, brown bread (bakery product), green apple. Once in a week I do eat either chicken, mutton or beef.
Early morning on empty stomach, I do drink water of fenugreek seeds soaked overnight.
I do treadmill for 30 minutes five days a week.
I have lost 6 kilos of bodyweight due to exercise and totally avoiding aerated drinks and cookies in the last two months after being diagnosed as a diabetic.
Do I still need to monitor my glucose?? I feel my vision is not that proper. Otherwise I do not feel any real discomfort.
Please advise. I am living in Dubai and we get Accucheck glucose meters here. Are these okay.
Please answer to avoid the confusion in my mind.
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Accucheck is a good meter. It is one of the better ones available almost world wide.
Ok, the test strips for any of the meters is a bit pricey, but an absolute necessity.
Can you get the South Beach diet and cook books? You should be able to get one at a library. Not familiar with the culture in Dubai so I cannot advise you on much other than avoid root vegetables, most grain and cereal products as much as possible. Also soft sweet fruits are a real glucose raiser for most of us. Milk products of any animal are rather high carbohydrate foods also.
For sure you need to keep the bread to a minimum. Even the brown whole grain breads are a bit higher in carbohydrates than most of us would prefer.
This site should help you to understand just what diabetes is and does to us if we allow the glucose levels to remain too high. It should answer most of the questions you have.
The doctor should have done a blood draw to get an HbA1c result. This is the average of about 3 months glucose averages. It is the percentage of glucose molecules clinging to the red blood cells and is expressed in a percentage number with 5 being ideal.
Your numbers are not too horridly high, but you could get some better control there, maybe. Keep doing what you are doing now as it seems to be helping you to lose weight and that really counts. It helps the body to not be quite so insulin resistant so the natural sugars found in foods of plant source to work better in your system.
Much good luck trying to control this.