Fran said:[email hidden] said...
Quoted message said:I'm not so sure a non-diabetic needs a glucose meter.
Taking on food when not strictly necessary is only likely
to result in an expanded waistline if done too frequently
as the body is able to cope with the extra carbohydrate!
I agree that it wouldn't normally be a necessity; however
since I can relate to the symptoms mentioned by other folk,
it wouldn't do any harm to check on a regular basis over,
say, a couple of weeks, to find out if it's worth bothering
the mediquack with.
But what do you do if you find an odd result and the
mediquack pooh-poohs it?
I went right off sugar overnight last summer and found that
I suddenly had loads of extra energy and vastly improved
eyesight. With a history of diabetis in the family I went to
the doctor who sent me for a fasting blood sugar test, this
apparently conclusively said I wasn't diabetic but that
doctor suggested reactive hypo-glycaemia or an insulin spike
(I think?) Some months later I bought a blood sugar meter
for christmas and started testing myself, this proved that
the sort of undisciplined eating that one does over
christmas left me with blood sugars that very rapidly fell
from about 7 to 3.9 and falling within 20 minutes of eating,
I don't know where it goes after this as I then tend to
"crash out and sleep very soundly" for anything up to 12
hours. Apparently if anyone tries to wake me I'm grumpy and
irritable to the point of downright rudeness, but I have no
awareness of this at all ;( The missus tends to chuck a
duvet over me and go off to bed without me. . As this sort
of event had been all too common before I started cutting
sugars from my diet I went back (sadly to a different
doctor) looking for advice on what I should do if I felt
such a problem coming on as it seems to me that if the
problem is caused by feeding it surely won't be checked by
eating more? This doctor rolled his eyes in horror at the
idea of people buying their own blood sugar meters and I
felt I was treated as a time waster and left in disgust
vowing that I'd fine tune my diet without any help thank you
very much.
Things are slowly improving by trial and error and the
latest sacrifice has been my "highly decadent treat" of a
single can of beer of an evening. Strangely this feels no
hardship as the rewards in improved health are beyond price.
Now to the inevitable question, can anyone here be more
use than my doctor and offer any further tips to
improve things ?
regards
Tim
