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I was diagnosed, just a few years ago myself. Vision was okay, but nerve pain and numbness in my fingers and toes was becoming a problem.

I went balls to the walls to battle this.

I cut out ALL sugar! I gave up EVERYTHING! Sugar, milk, candy, baked goods, white bread, pasta, potatoes, and on and on.

I read EVERY label of everything for sugar content.

My daily counts and A1C improved dramatically.
I lost 75 pounds.

Here are some plusses, I added honey to my coffee. It’s sugar, but absorbed differently.

100% Whole Wheat Bread. NOT “wheat bread”, 100% Whole Wheat Bread. No high fructose corn syrup. All brands are not alike, check the sugar content and ingredients.

Whole wheat pasta, whole wheat tortillas.

Almond milk “unsweetened”. My main drink is unsweetened ice tea, that I make myself. I add a splash of lime, or a splash of cranberry juice (lower in sugar than other juices) and lately apple juice, since I am doing so well.

Cranapple Iced Tea! (Mister Coffee Iced Tea Maker a must)

Don’t sweat the small stuff. Ketchup is okay. READ LABELS. Sugar amounts AND serving size.

AVOID all the cancer causing sugar substitutes. Substitute honey or NOTHING! It would be a shame to survive diabetes only to die from cancer. NO DIET SODA! NO SODA!

Water and unsweetened ice tea are available at almost EVERY restaurant.

BONUS! I pay no bottle or can fees and I don’t have to store and return any bottles and cans!

VITAMIN B-12. I can’t say enough about B-12. 90% eliminated my nerve pain! I do take more than an average dosage, but heh, I’m above average! I do take many other supplements for various reasons. It’s hard to say what effect they have on my diabetes.

I hope this helps Laz or anyone else with diabetes.

Oh, by the way. What made me change my ways on this was what my doctor told me when I said “ yeah doc, but I feel fine”. Then he said: “Sure, you’ll feel fine, right up to the moment you drop dead from a stroke”.

Wake up call!