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wannabe remember one test does not a pattern make. that could be just an aberation so take it easy on yourself and just chart your blood sugars for a few weeks and get a feel for how your body reacts blood sugarwise to foods, sleep and exercise. Canuk has a every good stickie about how and when toi test for good results. you may find some very legal Atkins foods spike your blood sugars. We know from the results of a low carb diabetic group that some of the hydrogenated starches, sugar alcohols, glycerine, and other thought to be low blood sugar impacting frankenfood ingredients effect different diabetics differently some had no effect and others for the same food same meal had spikes.
The A1c is just a simple blood test that can be drawn at the same tinme as your other tests. it looks at the blood sugar interatction for the last 3 months in your red blood cells. They now know high sugar effects the hemoglobin molecules so a diabetic can't eat out of control for weeks clean up for the doc to test and then go back eating out of control again without the doc knowing it. this was a huge issue for folk causing damage that their docs were mystified about cause the blood sugar would be perfect on office testing days. that is another reason many meters now store the test results and docs ask the patients to bring them in with them so the doc can see the tests.
I know how scary this can be as I have a family history of it and saw first hand the effects it can have medically on my grandmother.
Not all diabetics have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, but because if the heart damage the the high blood sugar can cause from either high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol-plaque clogging arteries many are placed on preventive drugs like the statins.
high blood sugars will elevate blood pressure even in normal nondiabetic folk. the difference is a nondiabetic will get the blood sugar down fast by creating more insulin and not have any blood pressure damage to small blood vessels but the diabetics can't do that.
Hang in they wannabe. We know you will get on top of this and be reporting back great results.
wannabe remember one test does not a pattern make. that could be just an aberation so take it easy on yourself and just chart your blood sugars for a few weeks and get a feel for how your body reacts blood sugarwise to foods, sleep and exercise. Canuk has a every good stickie about how and when toi test for good results. you may find some very legal Atkins foods spike your blood sugars. We know from the results of a low carb diabetic group that some of the hydrogenated starches, sugar alcohols, glycerine, and other thought to be low blood sugar impacting frankenfood ingredients effect different diabetics differently some had no effect and others for the same food same meal had spikes.
The A1c is just a simple blood test that can be drawn at the same tinme as your other tests. it looks at the blood sugar interatction for the last 3 months in your red blood cells. They now know high sugar effects the hemoglobin molecules so a diabetic can't eat out of control for weeks clean up for the doc to test and then go back eating out of control again without the doc knowing it. this was a huge issue for folk causing damage that their docs were mystified about cause the blood sugar would be perfect on office testing days. that is another reason many meters now store the test results and docs ask the patients to bring them in with them so the doc can see the tests.
I know how scary this can be as I have a family history of it and saw first hand the effects it can have medically on my grandmother.
Not all diabetics have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, but because if the heart damage the the high blood sugar can cause from either high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol-plaque clogging arteries many are placed on preventive drugs like the statins.
high blood sugars will elevate blood pressure even in normal nondiabetic folk. the difference is a nondiabetic will get the blood sugar down fast by creating more insulin and not have any blood pressure damage to small blood vessels but the diabetics can't do that.
Hang in they wannabe. We know you will get on top of this and be reporting back great results.
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