Please help!A problem with diabetes..!?

First of all you will have this forever. Next, your glucose numbers are alarming. You need to have the doctor get you stable with insulin.Most of your test should be just before you eat. That is if you get stable . Then you might be able to cut down on tests.

If you eat a low glycemic index diet. While lowering your carb intake will cause you to use less insulin.

http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

Take care

Ben Trolled

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If your diet and the amount of insulin you take is the same as it was then something else has changed. You do not say how old you are but if you are still growing then you may need more insulin. As Im sure you know, eating more carbs / sugar will raise your blood sugar BUT feeling tired with a high sugar suggests that you are not getting enough insulin so even if you are eating normally your body responds by breaking down fat (hence the weight loss) to increase the sugar in your blood. Without enough insulin you cannot use that sugar as energy so you feel tired. Have you used the same injection sites for a long time and can you feel 'lumps' under the skin? Sometimes a condition called hyperlipidotrophy develops and insulin is not absorbed from those sites. Infection can cause a raised blood sugar but you would probably know about that by now if it has been a problem long enough to cause weight loss. You need to speak to a diabetic specialist nurse or diabetes doctor. Something is wrong and needs sorting but dont worry too much, just speak to someone who can help. :-)

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There is a machine called the Dexcom which is almost like an insulin pump but instead of giving you insulin, it constantly checks your blood sugar. It is really good for seeing when exactly your blood sugar spikes. It might be that you just need a higher insulin to carbohydrate ratio, or sometimes, I find that if I get low while I"m sleeping, I'll wake up high because my body is trying to compensate. The best thing to do is talk to your doctor. Good luck!

P.S. I added the link to the Dexcom site below.

For one, you did not specify weather it is Type 1 or Type 2. If it is Type 1 then nothing will change other than you getting used to it. I have mine for 17 years now.

If it is type 2 then there are a few cases of it being reversed when it was caused by obesity. Otherwise, you just need to learn to live with it and it's not that hard. I check my glucose levels no more than 5 a day and that is considered the perfect number - you are keeping a very close eye on your levels and you are not over-doing it. Ussually I go down to 3 per day.

it is tough my sister in law is insulin dependant and she works as a nurse has a full and active life and is happy i am a nurse and do understand in some way but you only need to check your sugar twice a day if it isnt to high or to low dont think about it to much just let it be a part of routine and it only takes a few seconds. good luck and hope everything works out o.k.

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