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I've just be dx'd a few days ago, and my daylong class about diabetes, nutrition etc. is a month away. Can anyone shed some light on some things for me? I'm trying to get "the big picture".
As i understand it, the primary symptom if diabetes is high/uncontrollable blood sugar. Does diabetes itself cause the other problems (neuropathy, kidney issues, eye problems, etc.) or is it the high BG?
What I am trying to understand is that if I manage to keep my BG down to normal, is damage still occurring to me from diabetes itself? Or is the damage slowly creeping up only when the blood sugar gets high? I understand keeping BG down is no walk in the park, but I'm one of those analytical folks who needs to understand how things thing ticks.
I learned the hard way yesterday that all carbs, even non-sugars, will spike my BG. I have a crazy day yesterday and fell back into my munching habits throughout a 14 hour workday. My BG was 220 that night, the highest I've measured since this started (usually 140). My doc wants to get it down using diet so we are going to see howit goes for a month. I dropped 8 lbs and 60pts of Tri-G in 3 weeks initially, so he knows I am serious about this.
The scariest thing is that I felt no different with the higher BG than I usually do. without my meter, I would never have known. Now i see why they call it "a silent killer" along with high BP.
Surfer
As i understand it, the primary symptom if diabetes is high/uncontrollable blood sugar. Does diabetes itself cause the other problems (neuropathy, kidney issues, eye problems, etc.) or is it the high BG?
What I am trying to understand is that if I manage to keep my BG down to normal, is damage still occurring to me from diabetes itself? Or is the damage slowly creeping up only when the blood sugar gets high? I understand keeping BG down is no walk in the park, but I'm one of those analytical folks who needs to understand how things thing ticks.
I learned the hard way yesterday that all carbs, even non-sugars, will spike my BG. I have a crazy day yesterday and fell back into my munching habits throughout a 14 hour workday. My BG was 220 that night, the highest I've measured since this started (usually 140). My doc wants to get it down using diet so we are going to see howit goes for a month. I dropped 8 lbs and 60pts of Tri-G in 3 weeks initially, so he knows I am serious about this.
The scariest thing is that I felt no different with the higher BG than I usually do. without my meter, I would never have known. Now i see why they call it "a silent killer" along with high BP.
Surfer