A newbie to both group and diabetes.

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I have been a lurker for the last few days and decided it was time

to introduce myself. I felt like I was spying )

My name is Robbin and I will be 36 next week. I have two children

ages 13 and 4. I have been married to the most wonderful fella for

the last 10 years and he's a keeper. I live in Mobile, AL.

I was digignosed with diabetes a few weeks ago and boy has it hit me

hard. To start off with I was a gestational diabetic 13 years ago

with my daughter but not with my son. It all started about 3 months

ago I went in for a rutine eye exam to up grade my perscription and

decided to go with contacts. When I went back a week later for the

check up my eyes had totally changed. This happened every week for

a month. In the mean time I was sent to my Dr. and had my blood

sugar checked with the office meter and it was normal and then an

A1c test that came back as 5.9%. I was told I did not have

diabetes. All this time I was having other syptoms of a diabetic

that I remembered from 13 years ago. (tiredness, blurry vision, cold

sweats, sick to stomach, the shakes, thirsty, going to bathroom,

etc). I had to have my liver checked because of a medication that I

was on and we thought that was giving me the problems (Lamacil for

toe nail fungus). He also checked my insulin while he had a vial of

my blood and my sugars came back at 198 in the AM with nothing but a

cup of coffee with equal in my system. So a 3 hour glucose test was

scheduled. My fasting was 93, my 1 hour was 240 and my 2 hour was

204. Each time sugars were found in my urine also. So then I was

diaginosed as a diabetic. So he tells me I'm a pre-diabetic and

hands me a pamplet with a 1,500 calorie diabetic diet and says do

this and excersise and sent me on my way.

So I am left with tons on questions. I did get him to write me a

prescrtiption for a meter and have one and useing it all the time.

I have the Gretchen Becker book and am in the process of reading it.

So here goes....

#1. Can a person be sensative to higher than normal blood sugars

even though they are not above 200? I have problems when I go above

120 with blurry vision and get tired all the sudden. The only time

I have been over 200 was 214 after I ate a bad thing... I know smack

my hand.

#2. I am testing all the time to see what will and what won't raise

my blood sugar. At what time do I need to check after I eat a meal

to get the truest reading from that meal? 1 or 2 hours after?

#3. Once your sugars have gotten above 200 is there anything you

can do to bring them down? Like when a person has low blood sugar

they eat sugar to raise it back up. Or is it just a time thing?

#4. I've done really good with taking the sugars out of my diet but

carbs are my biggest problem. Until I know what does and does not

raise my sugar am I going to have to test every time I eat or will I

get to a point that I will just KNOW what raises it by the way I

feel?

#5. What excatly is my target blood sugar reading??

I think that is all that I will bother you with at the moment. I

have some more but this post is getting way too long as it is. I am

glad to be here and look forward to learning from people who have

the same problems that I do.

Robbin

Mobile, AL

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 10/6/2004 5:40:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

rlcballen1@... writes:

At what time do I need to check after I eat a meal

to get the truest reading from that meal? 1 or 2 hours after?

Most people check 2 hours after a meal.

#3. Once your sugars have gotten above 200 is there anything you

can do to bring them down? Or is it just a time thing?

When I have a high number I go for a walk.

#4. I've done really good with taking the sugars out of my diet but

carbs are my biggest problem. Until I know what does and does not

raise my sugar am I going to have to test every time I eat or will I

get to a point that I will just KNOW what raises it by the way I

feel?

I still test after I try new foods. I do not feel any difference if I have a

reading of 80 or a reading of 150.

#5. What excatly is my target blood sugar reading??

The Joslin Diabetes Center website has a lot of good information. Here is

the link giving target blood sugar readings.

http://www.joslin.org/education/library/wbggoal.shtml

hugs

Eunice