Re: palm must smoke funny mushrooms!


: "palm" <palm650@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: news:1122760567.758495.98720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:: 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.
::


If I had of followed my doctor I would of been loosing my feet, and my sigh
t. The best people for advice is those that live it, and test it on a
daily basis. Your advice will at best kill someone, or cripple them for
life if they live that long. My doctor followed what you have outlined
above at first. It was not working for me. I am a type II I had to test
often to find out what my body was sensitive too. It is this sensitivity
that the ADA does not understand. I deal with diabetes everyday of the week
myself. If this group wasn't here I would of been up *** creek without a
paddle. My doctor is also starting to agree with me to a certain point.
Which is far better than what the ADA recommends testing for a type II. My
doctor has also said he was proud of me too. He also wishes more of his
patients did as good as I did. You don't know ***. Crawl back into the
hole you came out of.


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