Re: Introduction and questions

[Guest guest]

Rush wrote:

> Hello All-

>

> Some questions,

>

> Is it normal to feel dizzy, lightheaded and jittery when first taking

> Glucovance?

>

When first lowering your blood sugars you might get low sugar symptoms.

> Since starting treatment for the Diabetes, my Neuropathy symptoms are

> actually worse than they were before, is this normal when first

> working to

> get the BG under control?

>

You might just be feeling it more, or you might actually be feeling the

normal setting in and your not used to it. You can hope. I went from

full loss of feeling to near the hip to just some loss in the foot.

> Is there anything topical that can help relieve the burning? (I can live

> with numbness, but the burning is horrible.) Anything dietary or vitamin

> related to help it? (soaking my feet does nothing no matter the

> temperature

> of the water.)

>

At the pharmacy, in the diabetic section, I've seen foot creams

specifically for diabetics. I've never tried them. You might even be

able to find it in a well stocked store like Safeway.

> I am so glad to have found this forum, I have learned an amazing amount

> being here.

>

So have we all. And questions like yours help us learn more.

> Thank you all in advance

> -Rich

> Having good days and having bad days, but at least I am HAVING days.

[Guest guest]

It's quite common when you first start treatment for diabetes that

lower BG numbers feel like low blood sugar even if they aren't. That

will improve.

With the neuropathy, the increased pain is usually a good sign - a

sign that your nerves are healing. Ointments with Capsazin (sp?) in

them help some people with the pain.

Delia

[Guest guest]

I missed the original of these please tell how you dropped 62 pounds in 4

months!!??

Messaged edited by moderator. My weight has dropped

> from 360 to 298 since June and is still dropping...

>

i

[Guest guest]

Hi Shar-

I lost it in a 3-pronged attack.

I cut my overall calories from 2400+ per day to ~800 per day. I cut 90% of

the fat, carbs and sodium from my former diet. And exercise.

Mind you I don't recommend the type of exercise I had over the summer.

Bicycled 4 miles per day (Not too bad) and spent the last 4 months clearing

3 acres AND a 450 foot driveway through a heavy woods AND removed all the

boulders - with only a chain-saw, an old Ford tractor and my decrepit body.

I don't move so good now :-) I expect not to lose like that now that fall

and winter are coming...

-Rich

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At 21:17 9/25/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>I missed the original of these please tell how you dropped 62 pounds in 4

>months!!??

>

>

>Messaged edited by moderator. My weight has dropped

> > from 360 to 298 since June and is still dropping...

> >