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WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD O' DIABEETUS (blood glucose monitor recommendations plz)
12/5/17 | marty_f

Posted on 12/05/2017 7:54:53 AM PST by martin_fierro

Well, your ollll' marty was recently diagnosed with early stage Type II Diabeetus.

Doc prescribed pills that sound like some Yankee RINO's name: "Metformin."

I'm doing all the Intarweb research that I can on the topic but I'd like to hear FReepers' personal takes on what to look for in a blood glucose monitor.

I figure if I'm going to be using this monitor for awhile it should be a good one. The one the Doc suggested -- that my insurance would most readily pay for -- doesn't get good reviews at all ("wildly inaccurate readings").

Your input please!


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: darkshearesfault; diabeetus; diabetes; imnotdeadyet; wilfordbrimley
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To: right way right

You might reconsider making a Drs appointment. The sooner the better. From a reluctant patient.


81 posted on 12/05/2017 9:32:33 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: chuckles

Your legs are painful as in cramps?

If so...I have been taking magnesium and cramps have disappeared.


82 posted on 12/05/2017 9:33:29 AM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: who knows what evil?

and keeps the bowels lubricated


83 posted on 12/05/2017 9:34:11 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: martin_fierro

I recommend the Reli-on micro. The strips are reasonably cheap compared to others. They are available in Walmart.

In addition to the cost of the strips, you want a meter that uses as small of a blood drop as possible. That minimizes the size of the stick necessary to get the blood, the pain, and the likelihood that you don’t get enough blood on the strips and waste a strip.


84 posted on 12/05/2017 9:36:05 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: martin_fierro

Do your homework, FDA has warnings on Metformin. Doesn’t matter what med GI distress is the norm from these meds.

A1C1 keep it under 7. BIGGEST THING USE AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST, NOT A PRIMARY, 4 YRS DIFFERENCE IN SCHOOL AND KNOWLEDGE.

If ins is charging high co-pays look at Wal-Mart for meter and test strips. Cheapest place for them about $25.00. That is where my Type 2 son gets his. 100 per bottle. WARNING they are put in bottle BAR CODE UP, TOUCH IT AND IT WILL ERROR. How many times a day you test will play a big roll in your cost.

1) low carb/sugar
2) lose weight
3) increase protien
4) lots of H2O
5) no eating after last meal unless it is protein.
6) more exercise like walking
7) watch all cuts/wounds for infection
8) symptoms of Peripheral Neuropathy in hands/feet/legs
9) dry skin
10) heart issues


85 posted on 12/05/2017 9:37:29 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: martin_fierro

Accu-chek Guide. bolts right up to your phone...


86 posted on 12/05/2017 9:41:30 AM PST by halfright (Deplorable in Florida)
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To: garyb

YEAH, I’VE READ THAT!

Thanks for the tips. Strip costs are one of the factors I’m looking at. I suppose different meters take different strips, right?


87 posted on 12/05/2017 9:42:05 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Delta 21

HIT ME SMACK DAB IN DUH DIABEETUS


88 posted on 12/05/2017 9:42:49 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

When I was diagnosed with II I purchased a meter and then went about testing myself. There was absolutely no rhyme or reason to the fluctuations — whether I fasted, sucked up ice cream or gorged on pasta. I threw the damned thing away and decided that a sensible diet free for the most part of sugar would do the trick. Eighteen years later I’m still around, as is Metformin.


89 posted on 12/05/2017 9:43:54 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: martin_fierro
By coincidence, this item appeared on the BBC News just a few hours back:
I beat type 2 diabetes with 200-calorie drinks

"Nearly half of patients have reversed type 2 diabetes in a "watershed" trial, say doctors in Newcastle and Glasgow."
90 posted on 12/05/2017 9:45:35 AM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Red Badger

I second this. Metformin is a good drug, but it can be overwhelmed.

I have switched to a zero carb diet — boy I miss the desserts and the bread and the beer.

But it has put my blood sugar levels back to normal and I am losing about two pounds a month. I do not miss the food I used to eat now, and just made it through Thanksgiving with no weight increase.

It is a big deal to not eat carbs (called the keto diet) you have to ask burgers to be wrapped in lettuce and give up the bun. BTW, bread is something bad for us that really adds taste to food so the soner you give up on it, the better for your life long health.

You can beat this with diet and exercise — but it takes personal desire to do this approach — but it works.


91 posted on 12/05/2017 9:47:36 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Trump has one good idea after the other.)
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To: Red Badger

No! Cornbread is soul food! Cultural appropriation!

;^)


92 posted on 12/05/2017 9:48:20 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: DCBryan1

CPCP didn’t lower my A1C. Only low carb diet.


93 posted on 12/05/2017 9:49:24 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: elcid1970

Soul food???

The Indians, uh, er, Native Americans had it first!.................


94 posted on 12/05/2017 9:52:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

For hamburgers Use Portobello Mushrooms, grilled, for the bun...................

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alexandra-guarnaschelli/grilled-portobello-mushrooms-with-balsamic-recipe-1922891


95 posted on 12/05/2017 9:57:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

https://draxe.com/portobello-mushroom/


96 posted on 12/05/2017 9:59:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: martin_fierro
Remove sugar from your diet. Keep the carbs down as low as possible.

Fast one day a month.

I would not go anywhere near medication for your condition, but that's just me.

I dropped 97 pounds between Groundhog day and the Fourth of July by removing most carbs from my diet and the occasional day of no food at all. Better yet, I eat all day long and snack in the middle of the night, and I don't put on weight.

I haven't felt this good in a very long time.

97 posted on 12/05/2017 10:00:18 AM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: martin_fierro

bkmk


98 posted on 12/05/2017 10:04:22 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: martin_fierro

Cut out the soda.

Walk for at least 30 minutes a day. Hopefully more.
Really, limit the breads and starches. Reintroduce yourself to veggies.

Measure everything. What you eat. The size of what you eat. When you eat.

You don’t need to show it to anyone—no one is going to be checking your answers—but you will see patterns, and mistakes. Plan your day, work your plan.

It is hard to do over the holidays. But I can tell you that you probably feel like crap now. A few days knocking out the bad stuff and you will realize how good you feel.

I’ve fallen off the wagon for the past few months and I feel like crap every morning. Do do what I do, do what I suggest


99 posted on 12/05/2017 10:05:21 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Day in & Day out, the biggest issue to me is, the lancet machine, the “clicker”, if it’s no good, you don’t get adequate blood. In hospitals & skilled nursing facilities, they have real terrific clickers. (The lancets are dedicated, not interchangeable, they only work on the same kind.) I don’t know what is the name of a good one, but I would be lost without the one I have now.


100 posted on 12/05/2017 10:22:18 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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