Re: Newbie questions

I would like to worn you, and not to change your testing or medication
regimen on advice from people you don't know. This "test eight times
a day" theory is "home made" and recommended to you by people who have
no medical education and no clue. It is based on "testimonials" of
less then dozen people, some of them with complications of diabetes,
that may or may not be true, and, even when true, may depend on other
factors, like genetic make up, type of diabetes, age of onset and so
on, and was never proven or even assessed by medical professionals.
This is just their opinion and in now way is supported by medical
establishment.
In contrary, American Diabetic Association (ADA) recommends lower
number of testing, one-two or less, for stable diabetics on pills and
3-4 for diabetics on insulin. This numbers will be followed by your
doctor and adjusted according to your condition, diabetic medication
you take, other medications you take and laboratory results.
Till new, "noninvasive" Glucometers, be available, you will be using
invasive procedure to check your blood sugar. And, though, it is very
important to test and be informed about your blood sugar levels,
testing is not save or harmless. As any invasive procedure it has it's
risks, like infection, bleeding and, by repeating stress, inducing
neuropathy, with bleeding (bruising) more common, but infection much
more dangerous.
Numbers of testing, recommended by ADA are not just "dreamed up", but
based on scientific research and balance of benefits and risks of
testing.
Before you even think about changing your testing and/or medication
regimen on advice from "somebody from Internet", please, please, check
with your doctor or Diabetes Educator and read this:
1)Frequent testing do not improve blood sugars.
"the frequency of self-monitoring was not related to glycemic control"
http://tinyurl.com/9ds79
2)"Tight control of diabetes" in not the same as "testing eight times a
day", as some will try to confuse you. Tight control is about diet,
exercise and your medication.
http://tinyurl.com/9k84p
3)As a diabetic, you prone to infections, of skin, among others. Every
time you penetrate your skin, you risk contamination.
"Diabetes Sets Stage For Heightened Risk Of Infections"
http://tinyurl.com/cvjco
4)There are many instances of infection, even when people don't test
unreasonably often.(by increasing number of test 4 to 8 times, you
increasing probability of infection 4 to 8 times,respectively).
"Japanese Doctors Warn of Dangers of Blood Sampling from Fingers"
http://tinyurl.com/ay34g
5)People have been hurt following ignorant and irresponsible advice
from this board.
http://tinyurl.com/bj3je
6)You don't need and can't make your "personal" "Clycemic Index"
charts. They exist, easily available, and you can't do them better
then they done, for example, at laboratories of Sydney University. And
if you go to the extreme,as some suggest here, of stabbing your finger
of more then thirty imes, do all tests right, for each food item
(14.000 on Sydney University chart), you will get numbers that will
correlate with "university" chart. Duh!
http://tinyurl.com/9ab6u
I would recommend you to go to American Diabetes Association web site,
where you can get information that you can trust.
http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
There is, also, message board, endorsed by ADA and moderated by health
professionals, so all "get rid of diabetes quick, easy and for sure"
schemes are weeded out. If you have questions, you can ask there.
http://tinyurl.com/7vtuy
You are up for a long haul. Choose your advisers carefully.
Good luck.



Terri A. Adams wrote:
> Doc tells me I have "metabolic syndrome". My last fasting blood glucose was
> 116 up from 114 (steadily going up). Has me on 2000 mg metformin/day.
> Wants to add Actos once a day. Says it will put on weight. Anyone have
> experience with this? I'm already packing way too much weight.
>
> History: Thyroidectomy for cancer 12/04; total hysterectomy (ovaries
> removed) 12/03; age 43.
>
> Thanks - Terri

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