Five years ago, at age 65 and after 3 years of progressive loss of feeling in my feet, and my Dr always instructing me to fast before each appointment, my A1c was about 7.5 - although my fasting glucose was normal. He never did a glucose tolerance test.
He handed me a copy of a “diabetic diet” brochure and a prescription for a meter, along with instructions to just monitor my glucose for a week. I learned that non-diet soft drinks, sweet & sour pork over a small mountain of rice, or a loaded baked potato sent my glucose above 240. Bread and pasta also raised it, but not as much.
But the diabetic diet seemed to emphasize carbohydrates! So after some research I settled on a pretty informal low-carb diet - except for various fruits - which I have adhered to ever since. My glucose averages under 100, measured morning and night, and my A1c is back to 5.5.
Am I diabetic? I still have peripheral neuropathy, and my opthalmologist has found early cataracts in both eyes, as well as early “low-tension” glaucoma that I am treating with eyedrops. And when I drank a mint julep (sugar syrup and bourbon) last Derby day at my wife’s UofL alumni party, my glucose paid another visit to 200+!
Five years ago, at age 65 and after 3 years of progressive loss of feeling in my feet, and my Dr always instructing me to fast before each appointment, my A1c was about 7.5 - although my fasting glucose was normal. He never did a glucose tolerance test.
He handed me a copy of a “diabetic diet” brochure and a prescription for a meter, along with instructions to just monitor my glucose for a week. I learned that non-diet soft drinks, sweet & sour pork over a small mountain of rice, or a loaded baked potato sent my glucose above 240. Bread and pasta also raised it, but not as much.
But the diabetic diet seemed to emphasize carbohydrates! So after some research I settled on a pretty informal low-carb diet - except for various fruits - which I have adhered to ever since. My glucose averages under 100, measured morning and night, and my A1c is back to 5.5.
Am I diabetic? I still have peripheral neuropathy, and my opthalmologist has found early cataracts in both eyes, as well as early “low-tension” glaucoma that I am treating with eyedrops. And when I drank a mint julep (sugar syrup and bourbon) last Derby day at my wife’s UofL alumni party, my glucose paid another visit to 200+!
The confusion in the Medical field was rampant. Most doctors then thought you treated Type I and Type II the same way: Insulin. I sensed the confusion and did the research. I had two Doctors prescribing Insulin and an ADA diet with lots of carbohydrates. I feel the L-rd led me to a Christian Doctor who used Ha1c I was able to stop the Insulin and take Glucophage( Metformin ), diet and exercise. I bought a Bowflex and began serious resistance training. I began to do two Protein drinks and one meal a day. My Ha1c dropped to below 5. Later, I sold the Bowflex. My wife and I began an Atkins diet and my BS dropped 100 points in three weeks. My drink of choice now is Dalwhinnie over shaved ice, I, like you, was diagnosed as a Type II Diabetic fifteen years ago when I was fifty-five.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
and had been made aware of Metabolic Disorder with a Dr Ron Rosedale.
Recently my feet began hurting, I started daily testing: BS of 240.