No alcohol. None.

We don’t cook, we order out but have spoken with our regular Restaurants and they have no problem cooking without salt.

My wife diet is very healthy per se. She will miss what little bread she ate with meals. Since her Hotkins days, he diet has been mainly chicken and pumpkin (?). I make fun saying that she took care of more chicken than the aviar flu.

Excellent tips. Am most thankful. Will start looking for those glucose thingies.

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She will get used to the needles. Thats the easy part. She will learn injection sites that are less painfull like the underside of the arms between the elbow and shoulder. As she uses those spots the body will add small fat layers and the pain will mostly stop and the shots will be easier. She must rotate those spots or they can cause insulin absorbtion issues down the road.

The GCM's are great. I still uses the Dexcom G6. its really nice. When you finger stick it tells you what your insulin level is. With a GCM it tells you what it is and if your glocuse levels are going up or going down. Knowing if your levels are going up or down makes dosing much easier.

CARDIO.

Drink a lot of water.

I HATE vegetables but eating them is a big help. I make smoothies. Probably not as effective but I'll do it more often.

Some artificial sweeteners will raise your glucose level. Stevia is natural but can be a pain to cook with but it can be done. My GF makes cookies with it that are really good.

There is a product called Carbquick that you can use in place of flour. Its pretty good.

The disease seems to effect people differently so tou have to test a lot to see how things effect YOU.

My T2 is realatively not bad. Once you figure things out and adjust your lifestyle its mostly just inconvienient.

Best of luck.

Go keto and it can be cured.

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There is a product called Carbquick that you can use in place of flour. Its pretty good.

Thanks for that...I'd not heard of that one before and it sounds interesting.

O-O, she is going miss bread (I've found that I don't mind foregoing the sweets so much but bread, beans, rice, and potatoes are a real bummer to live without), but there are some things out there that can be at least an attempt at a substitute. If you can't get the carbquick stuff suggested above in Argentina, I'd recommend looking for almond flour. It's more expensive than regular flour, but it has a very low glycemic index and my wife has come up with some decent recipes using it.

If she already likes chicken, that's great...she can eat as much of that as she wants. I'd eat a lot more of it if it wasn't so darn expensive here. Pumpkin is moderately carby for a squash...she can probably still eat it but in moderation. Zucchini is very low carb and I eat a lot of that when it's in season. Broccoli and Cauliflower are good too.

You will slide right into it, and it will become an easy, and normal part of your life. Daughter, now 29, was diagnosed as a Type 1 diabetic at age 9. Big adjustment, but once you nail it, it's just this thing in the background. Oh, and you will both eat better.

If she is always hungry, there is a hormone test the doc can do, and a med to relieve the symptoms. The pancreas makes a hormone that signals you are "full" and if that process has been damaged, she will always be hungry, and will eat, and gain weight.

It can be fixed. My daughter lost the ability to make that hormone was always hungry, and ate too much, which in addition to weight, caused problems with her A1C. The hormone replacement worked, and she is now slim, and no longer always hungry.

Good luck, and don't panic, or be afraid. It's more of a mental burden, than a physical one, and she can live a long and healthy life.

T2D sucks. Sorry. Get a CGM. This will help in monitoring her "carb creap" in her diet. There is no human physiological need for dietary carbohydrates. Insulin should not be a strategy to "control" her diabetes. She may be able to drastically reduce her need for insulin by getting her insulin resistance in check. Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels. Making fairly simple changes will easily result in at least a 20lbs fat loss. Think of it as a subtle gift her body giving her with this diagnosis. It's not just diabetes, it's systemic inflammation, immune system disruption and countless other disease processes that are at play. Granted, women may have a more challenging time than men in getting things under control but the important thing is that there is no way this has to be a lifelong dependency on Pharma and the medical system. It's a superpower when you can finally distinguish between true hunger and cravings. Also, almost 75 percent of "food" is processed. The cleaner she can eat the better she will be. Eliminate nasty seed oils that are found in just about everything in restaurants and fast food. FYI, on a lower carb way of eating, salt is life. I really do hate doctors and the vast majority of bought and sold registered dieticians.

Sarah Hallberg Tedtalk (may God rest her soul)

When traveling with insulin pens, keep them in their original packaging with the prescription label. Use a travel cooler to keep insulin cool during trips. For food and daily habits, consider consulting a dietitian and ask for dietary options at restaurants.

Wife wasks what type or brand of cream for sore fingertips and belly before or after using the needles?

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O-O,
See if you can get a FreeSytle Libre 3. It will help her track her sugar 24/7.

I have injected insulin for over 20 years. Hopefully you can get insulin in Pens. It is the easiest way to inject insulin.

Please reach out with any questions.

Rolan, my brother from different parrnts! Haven’t heard of you since the Lockdown Zoom Sessions.

Thank you for the offer, will do if necessary.


Can’t find the device mentioned above but the one with the patches is available locally. The diabetologist said it is unnecessary for now. My wife is not insulin dependent for now, she requires it and we’ll work towards making it a permanent needleless habit.
When the crisis was declared some value in her blood test was 4000 when it should have been 200 tops.
They used insulin to bring down that value and will stay on it until it gets to a manegeable and more healthy value. Looking good, she’s responding well to treatment. Hopefully in a few months she won’t need the pen anymore and will switch to pills.

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another skill to acquire, is to recognize common foods that are simply insanely high in such as 'corn syrup' etc. Everything from soda pop to cold slaw has mega doses that are horrid for diabetics.

An older concept as "glycemic index" helps understand the rate at which those mashed potatoes are converted to a high blood glucose reading. Some of us find such as 'sweet potatoes' are far lower in such affect. I've developed a serious enjoyment for various squash varieties in place of macaroni & pasta.

The finger tip skin will become less sensitive to the test sample lancets eventually. I had to learn the hard way about not using the actual finger pad area.

There's a lot more places to rotate injection needles. BD ultra-fine short, 8 mm x 31g on injection pen works pretty well for a lot of diabetics.

If you have diabetic educators available for the first massive beginner tricks to learn it will be easier to gain control.

Cheers.

I'm confused, you mentioned insulin pens, but also mentioned she'd possibly be clear in a few months, if you are T1D then she won't be rid of it, if T2D then yes diet, weight, its possible to get your A1C down below 6 and not need shots or pills.

Typical T1D is insulin shots

T2D is treated with oral medicine such as Metformin, and now with Semiglutide or Ozempic Link or other brands either injection weekly or pills in addition to Meformin.

A side effect of Semiglutide is weight loss, she could drop 10 to 20 pounds on it alone in 2 to 3 months (potentially) since it curbs the desire to eat. Not sure if it's in your country though...

Both place emphasis on exercise and diet, walking will reduce A1C as well, get her out on a short walk two to three times a day, nothing long or challenging in the beginning, a little moderate activity will help.

I'm a little confused, too.

Nicky, has she been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, or Type 2?

T1D, as I understand it, is incurable. Can only be mitigated with insulin injections.

T2D is curable with diet and other lifestyle changes.

A little thing that helps me is to mix an oz of Bragg's apple cider vinegar with 8 oz water and squeeze the juice of 1/2 lemon. Mix that up and drink it first thing when you get up.

I fast until a late lunch and then quit eating for the day in early evening. Often I'll have a nightcap mixed same way.

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Wife wasks what type or brand of cream for sore fingertips and belly before or after using the needles?

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0-0, when she is testing her blood have her try using the side of her finger and not the actual fingerprinted pad. Less nerves closer to the side of the finger and less painful.

My online pharmacy (forced on us by work) can't get the libre3 in. I have been using the libre2 for awhile now. Much better than sticking my finger.

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I'm a little confused, too.

Nicky, has she been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, or Type 2?

T1D, as I understand it, is incurable. Can only be mitigated with insulin injections.

T2D is curable with diet and other lifestyle changes.

We’re still confused too.

This is what we got:
She was treated with insulin because her sugar was way too high, they say she was a time bomb.
Kept three days with fluids and insulin to cleanse her system and she responded well to this treatment.
The objective is now to establish a healthy baseline and teach her to make it a habit so she won’t require insulin in the future, just pills. She’s not D2, they claim, this is temporary.
So, she uses insulin but is not dependent on it for now. She requires it. Doctor’s words.
Her previous chimotherapy treatment left her veins shrunk, thin, hard to find and puncture. A painful ordeal each time she requires to be tested and now to measure her blood regularly. Nothing can be done about this.

Sugar thick blood and thin veins is what forces her heart to pump like crazy. What brought us to the cardiologist in the first place. Finding answers to a bunch of unspoken questions.

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Please push for c-peptide and antibody testing. C-peptide measures her body’s insulin production. The presence of specific antibodies, there are at least five antibodies with GAD65 being the most often tested for, points to T1. Adults who fit T2 criteria are often automatically assumed to be T2 and some are misdiagnosed and receive the wrong treatment for years. Cancer adds another wrinkle to the story especially if it involved the endocrine system or pancreas. See if they’ve run those tests and make them do it if they haven’t.

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Please push for c-peptide and antibody testing. C-peptide measures her body’s insulin production. The presence of specific antibodies, there are at least five antibodies with GAD65 being the most often tested for, points to T1. Adults who fit T2 criteria are often automatically assumed to be T2 and some are misdiagnosed and receive the wrong treatment for years. Cancer adds another wrinkle to the story especially if it involved the endocrine system or pancreas. See if they’ve run those tests and make them do it if they haven’t.

This. I was 36 when I got diagnosed, and they initially just assumed I was T2. They actually started me on Metformin, but once the C-peptide and Gad65 tests came back we had to change the whole approach.