Blood Sugars are Awesome!

[MontanaRebel]

Good Morning all!

Well thought I would share a little about me and diabetes...

I have had so much trouble with my sugars being stable but that was me because of being in denial and eating what I want.

I started the Atkins diet on Monday and in two days lost 8.7lbs and my sugars are excellent. Here are my readings since Monday morning.

129, 121, 130, 123, 115, 99, 113, 110, 111, 120, 128, 115....

Those are the most stable readings I have had in a long time..

I take 35 units of Humilin N twice a day and Humilog on a sliding scale...

[canuck]

woweee bud, isn’t it awesome, low carbs gives you more control than any drug...hope you test two hr after, are you decreasing insulin, have you had lows, watch carefully, what did doc and rehab say on Monday when you had assessment and you were gonna tell them about this program. bet you feel better and not soo tired....I am proud of ya, put the order for the black box on hold ey!!!! :wave ha

[MontanaRebel]

The doc was all for me going on the program and took my blood measurements and will check back with him in a month or so...Will watch my sugars closely and if they drop to much(which they should with more weight loss) the doc will lower the Insulin intake. :icondance

[canuck]

tell your doc goodonhim for keeping up to the science of medicine and goodonya for doing it rightDid you get creatinine levles checked???

[MontanaRebel]

Did you get creatinine levles checked???

Ok what are those? :geek

[canuck]

One of first things Atkins says is to get it checked prior to starting on the program and particularly for diabetics, if you have been diabetic for long time and not taken good care and have hi bg your creatine levels can be high, it a test for measuring how well your kidneys function and if it is not normal then he says not to do the program. reason being kidneys that are already compromised don’t process protein like a healthy kidney does. not that Aktins causes kidney damage, that is a myth but having kidney damage isn’t good for you and you need to minimize some of your proteins. Read the chapters in Atkins where he talks about this, its right at the beginning of the book. It’s a simple blood test.

[MontanaRebel]

Thanks for the info!! Johnny :hug