Details to be posted by first-timers on this forum & Links : For ways to reduce Diabetes / medicines.

New comers / First time posters, asking for ways to bring down their Blood Sugar / Medicines for Diabetes - Pls post the below details in YOUR post NOT here.

Age - ___________

Gender - Male / Female

Diabetic Since How many years : _____

Post your daily diet ( Item & Quantity ). For eg.

Breakfast - _____ or _______ or _____ ...........

Snacks - _____ or _______ or _____ ...........

Lunch - _____ or _______ or _____ ...........

Snacks - _____ or _______ or _____ ...........

Dinner - _____ or _______ or _____ ...........

Anything else - _____ or _______ or _____ ...........

Drinks - If any

Smoking - If any.

Exercises - ___________________

Height - ______________

Weight - ______________

or

BMI - ______________

Diabetic Medicines - ___________

Any other medical conditions and medicines - ___________

Your Last Fasting Blood Sugar reading - ___________

Your Last Post-Lunch Sugar reading - ___________

Your Last HBA1c reading - ___________

The above data will enable people here to help you better.

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Links for understanding Diabetes for FirstTimers & Others :

1) bloodsugar101.com/

2) If you can manage to get Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution ( a bit expensive ) book, DEFINITELY BUY / BORROW IT. It's worth the money. Read it from cover to end.

The important parts in the book can be read here online.

diabetes-book.com/readit.shtml

Edit : 2.a) For those who want a summary of foods to avoid & what to eat as per Dr. Bernstein,

lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/b...

3) Morning Sugar Levels High - Why ?

phlaunt.com/diabetes/175611...

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Edit 1: If you read link 2) Dr. Bernstein's book & links 1) & 3) thoroughly, before posting your questions, you may not only end up with better Diabetes Control with least / no medicines for Diabetes needed for your situation, but also, you may end up not even posting your question.

Just a question of spending maximum 2 - 3 days for the slowest reader. Just do it.

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Edit 2 : First & Foremost, get a Glucometer, if you don't have one, before initiating any Diabetes Control Program on you own or otherwise.

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Edit 3 : Please post your question as a new question. Definitely avoid posting your question in somebody else's question, as you will be hijacking someone else's question, the original poster will not get proper response to his original question due to the diversion created by you and even you will get improper & mixed responses.

Edit 3.a :

For those of you, who do not know how to start a new question,

After logging in, click on the dropdown next to "Communities" link at the top and then click on "Diabetes India".

You will see "Ask Question" button under "Questions", near the Top lefthand side. If you do not see this button, click on the "Questions" button link at top & then in it, click on "Ask a Question". It will take you to the Question Form screen. After putting your question, click on the "Preview" button & it will take you to the next screen, where you can check what you have posted. If you find some error, click on the "Edit" button at the bottom, edit & then click "Preview" again. If you now find everything OK, click on the "Submit" button & you are done with posting your question.

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Edit 4 :

There are sites like myfitnesspal.com, fatsecret.com, etc, where you can post your daily diet to get an approximate idea of your carbs, proteins & fat intake. This will help you definitely in diet management. You can even get the carbs, proteins & fat content, for your own recipes.

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Request the more experienced to add any further things, that they feel should be mentioned.

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Agree totally about Dr Bernstein's book. Have edited my post to reflect.

Also agree about the forum not being up to date along with modern forums.

I really miss the

1) Stickies

2) Reply with Quote

3) Reply with Multi-Quote

4) The WaterCooler Section

5) Moderators

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Hope someone responsible from the forum, starts getting things updated.

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[shrisamarth Volunteer]

No one has written about diabetes in such detail as Dr. Bernstein. But I think It is more technical for a person who don't know anything about diabetes. Bloodsugar101 is better option for them.

[dheerajjsangyam]

Recommending Recyan's post regularly & adding more tags to it will ensure that its stays on top more often...

[Hidden in reply to dheerajjsangyam]

Thanks.

"Adding more tags" - Can I request an elaboration on this ?

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[kmbuttx]

As desired -

Age - 65 years

Gender - Male

Diabetic Since How many years : 8 years

Post your daily diet ( Item & Quantity ). For eg.

Breakfast - Tea w/o sugar with 4 Marry Gold Biscuits

Snacks - No

Lunch - 2 Wheat Roti,salad,Green Vegetable , Curd,

Snacks - No

Dinner - 1 Roti, Dal or Vegetable, Glass of milk w/o sugar.

Anything else - No

Drinks - No

Smoking - No.

Exercises - Mornig walk 30 mints.

Height - 5 ft. 3 inch

Weight - 68 kg

or

BMI - ______________

Diabetic Medicines - Before BF and Dinner Gemer DS2 and Before Lunch Galvus 50mg

Any other medical conditions and medicines - ___________

Your Last Fasting Blood Sugar reading - 5.10.14- 154

Your Last Post-Lunch Sugar reading - 5.10.14- 198

Your Last HBA1c reading - 11.3.12 - 10.40 %

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[ShooterGeorge in reply to kmbuttx]

Hi kmbuttx,

Your question is now 4 months old. Your diet & medication would appear to be okay for many people including yourself & your physician. If those were okay, your lab reports should not have been like this (FBS 154, PPBS 198 & HbA1C 10.4).

I am sure many friends of this forum would have suggested alternatives. If you had followed some of those, by this 4 months your lab reports would have shown good improvement & you would have felt the energy in you. I too wish to have a look at those values. If it is already published here would you kindly share the link with me.

(I SEE SOME PROBLEMS IN THE DIET.)

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@kmbuttx,

Please copy & paste the above details in your other post

healthunlocked.com/diabetes...

After pasting it in your other post, pls delete it from here.

People who are responding to you in that post will be able to help better.

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[shrisamarth Volunteer in reply to Hidden]

@recyan

At last someone has followed your request.

[Hidden in reply to shrisamarth]

@shrisamarth,

Yes I agree.

It would definitely make it easier for you & others who try to help newcomers.

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[ShooterGeorge in reply to Hidden]

Very correct Recyan.

[vkmisra]

she is a FEMALE of 68 yrs age having type 2 diabetes for last 5 /6 yrs. She takes two wheat chapatis(ROTI), DAL, VEG OF SEASON, YOGHURT etc. in LUNCH and at dinner time again two chapatis and seasonal veg. Snacks like baked gram or peanuts etc. Breakfast-two boiled egg white, sprouts or gram flour chapati & skimmed milk one cup. she goes for a 2 km walk . Her weight is 77/78 with height 5ft 1 inch.

NOW SHE HAS STARTED LOW CARB DIET WITH MORE VEGES.

PLEASE SUGGEST IF THERE IS ANY MORE CHANGES IN DIET REQUIRED?

[Hidden in reply to vkmisra]

This should have been posted in your post.

For now, I have copy- pasted this in your thread. Delete this from here & copy-paste it in your thread.

healthunlocked.com/diabetes...

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[shrisamarth Volunteer in reply to vkmisra]

Reduce chapati to 1 at a time. Increase vegetables, add more beans to diet (sprouted and cooked). Use full fat milk. For snacking eat peanuts, almonds, walnuts. Gradual reduction in carb intake will reduce the weight.

[Hidden in reply to shrisamarth]

@shrisamarth,

Sorry, I forgot to put the link to @vkmishra's post.

Given below for posting your reply.

healthunlocked.com/diabetes...

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