Posted on 04/15/2007 12:53:48 PM PDT by neverdem
CJC does nothing to my bg’s. With normal insulin and increased water consumption, however, I just vaguely feel a bit better. Urination is pleasant instead of fearful.
I take all my supplements with meals and shots, so it all just goes “into the mix”.
Oh, go ahead. I hear the freshly baked apple pie, with cinnamon, beckoning you: Over here redhead..... over here.... come on .....
Help me out, Jeff.
It is my son who has the diabetes, so I am not relating personally.
Did you have pain with urination?
No pain, but your urine composition is a fair indicator of bg control. When diagnosed, a very dangerous condition (ketoacidosis) is very well indicated by urine with an obnoxious, acetone-type odor.
As part of his assessment, your son’s doc will occasionally take urine samples (as well as blood A1C), to check on his kidney function. Small blood vessel damage can show up concurrently in the kidneys and eyes. In the urine, when the blood vessels aren’t optimal, protein can be passed, which is a very Red flag.
My diabetic husband takes cinnamon faithfully. We don’t think it helps him. But he still takes it because of the strength of what we’ve read.
Thanks...I was disappointed, of course that it won’t help my kaybugs.
BTW...I drink cranberry juice for my kidneys..and I don’t have diabetes..but I used to get bladder and kidney infections..
I don’t anymore.
Before getting DM1, I used to just LOVE the stuff to drink.
If they would make a CJ without ANY sweetener, I’d drink it. Love bitter/sour stuff.
What I take is, obviously, in capsule form, so no high-fructose corn syrup (or stupid federal farm subsidies) for me!
Just saw cinammon , either powder or capsules, yesterday at COSTCO. Was in a hurry and didn’t stop but it caught my eye. It is with all of their vitamins, next to fish oil.
My dad suposedly cured himself of diabetes by eliminating all forms of sugar, except fresh fruit, and he started running marathons. He was diabetes free for approx 20 years, then it came back and he’s been on insulin now for 10-15 years. I’m gonna tell him about the cinnamon thing. That would be really cool if he could go off insulin again.
Dang...yes, I hadn’t thought of that..I am still having to get used to thinking about things like that.
My granddaughter’s bs goes high so often that I am always having to test her ketones...I think she hates that more than testing her blood.
Yeah, it's known that auto-immune diseases are difficult to get diagnosed right or diagnosed at all. It took 7 years from the first hospitalization for me to get sarcoid diagnosed. Celiac was one of the things tried along the way. Dropping wheat gluten did nothing for me.
The MP is claiming a lot in terms of the various diagnoses it might address. However, all of them are also treated by the same set of corticosteroids, so this would not be the first thing to treat auto-immune disease as group.
The doctors describe sarcoid as 'a systemic disease of unknown origin'. The ones I saw pre-MP seemed to understand this as meaning sarcoid can attack any organ or system in the body, which makes it hard to diagnose as it can present almost any symptom in the medical lexicon. From my own experience, and talking to other sarcoid patients, it's clear that sarcoid is a systemic and progressive disease and it will eventually attack every system and organ in the body. Starting with high fevers and IBS symptoms, the sarcoid progressed to diabetes, thyroid symptoms, and retinopathy. It's not unknown for fibromyalgia to blossom into lupus, or lupus to become sarcoid. All of my sarcoid symptoms are gone or receding.
Once understood as a set of pathogens that use a shared trick to evade the immune system, it's understandable that a single approach (though with wide spectrum antibiotics) can cure a bunch of symptoms masquerading as separate diseases.
That's progress.
Most newer references seem to stress insulin resistance.
Those are the only mechanisms for cinnamon's effect on blood glucose that I've come across. Enter cinnamon and type II diabetes into PubMed's query box in the third link. You'll get 11 titles, most with abstracts.
I’m a type 2 diabetic and use cinnamon lot on apple sauce and grits, etc., and have never really seen a difference in my blood sugars.
I’ll try the caps. Thanks. cinnamon itself doesn’t seem to help.
If you make your own fresh, and don’t drink a ton of it, it’s not so bad for you. It’s how MUCH you drink that makes a difference. I only have a couple of ounces with my pills.
106 is a great reading! If I go below 90, my eyes get ‘splotchy’ and I get whoozy. I would be SOOOO happy with 106. It’s a normal reading—between 80 and 110 is good.
That is much better than the fishy aftertaste from taking fish oil capsules that are also supposed to control cholesterol.
for later reading
Cinnamon is easily available in capsules. I started out taking 2 three times a day, then cut back to one, then to 1 twice a day. It works well enough that an occasional “booster” is all I have needed to worry about. My morning sugars are now around 80, which is normal.
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