I would suggest to drink psyllium husk mixed with water, 15 minutes every meal. It would prevent glucose spikes which is the number cause for diabetis, lowers cholesterol level, regulates bowel movement and it is also an instant relief during hyperacidity.
Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
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Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
#22This is very cool. I am fortunate enough to have access to a pump and have been hacking closed loops for a few years now using software like Nightscout, AndroidAAPS and xDrip+. My understanding is that none of these are exclusive to pump users, they just work a little easier with them. Maybe there is some interplay with these tools that you can leverage?
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#23A friend of mine had to take insulin dose daily. Talking around with people, he found out that diet with carbon hydrates (bread, potato, rice…) increased blood sugar. For the past few years, he is now on keto diet and eats 2-3 eggs per day, due to some missing aminoacyd (not entirely sure why). His blood sugar is normal and he doesn’t have to take insulin anymore. If anyone needs some more info, contact and I can ask…
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#24My dad had a strange case of Type-1 diabetes that manifested later in life, at the same time he also got hit with rheumatoid arthritis. > injecting insulin ~15min before you start eating would do wonders for neutralizing the BG spike, the issue is, nobody does it, My dad did. Yeah, it did cause a couple scares. He had very well-controlled numbers but it was all-consuming and I can’t imagine the average person being a…
The two T1D people I know both started as fairly small children, so perhaps having parents managing them made it easier for them to always do the injection 15 minutes ahead. I wonder if the author has looked at an insulin port: makes the injection aspect much simpler. https://www.diabetes.shop/i-port-advance/iport_6mm/i-port-ad...
I haven't, but I am now! Thank you for the suggestion
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#25For those of you on the cusp of diabetes, immediately start working out intensely and reduce your sugar intake. There is still time! It’s not inevitable
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#26One thing you would really benefit from that you don't need a doctor for is getting your BG displayed on a smartwatch. Assuming you have an Android phone and a compatible smartwatch (Galaxy Watch4 in my case): 1. You need to install G-Watch Wear App on your phone and watch 2. You need to replace the official Libre app with a 3rd party app supported by G-Watch like xDrip or Juggluco. There are a few of those, mostly n…
Did you have good luck with these?
I've tried 6 of these on my mom, at every price point, and compared with a prescription monitor (back of the tricep, needle thing). I couldn't find anything even remotely accurate.
Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
#27A friend of mine had to take insulin dose daily. Talking around with people, he found out that diet with carbon hydrates (bread, potato, rice…) increased blood sugar. For the past few years, he is now on keto diet and eats 2-3 eggs per day, due to some missing aminoacyd (not entirely sure why). His blood sugar is normal and he doesn’t have to take insulin anymore. If anyone needs some more info, contact and I can ask…
> A friend of mine had to take insulin dose daily. Talking around with people, he found out that diet with carbon hydrates (bread, potato, rice…) increased blood sugar.
I'm confused. Is your a friend a diabetic whose doctor never told them that carbs increase their blood sugar level? Because this isn't exactly hidden knowledge for diabetics.
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#28The fat thing mentioned in the post: fat seems to slow down absorption in my experience, though not to the extreme that some self-described “body hackers” (who don’t have DM) seem to think. I basically consider my malfunctioning pancreas to have been replaced/augmented by my brain, assisted by a cgm. My diet is rather boring but keeps me alive and keeps the BG in a pretty tight range. My biggest problems are hypo (us…
See, that's the thing. I've had T1D for 26 years now and I have stubbornly refused to accept that it's not a smart idea to eat anything I want. I am not going to give up hash browns until I lose a leg.
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#29>Aside: what do you .NET folks use nowadays?
Winforms lol, it just works and I don't have to spend most of my time trying to work out xaml stuff. Just add the components to the window, set up some event handlers, done
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#30>Aside: what do you .NET folks use nowadays? Winforms lol, it just works and I don't have to spend most of my time trying to work out xaml stuff. Just add the components to the window, set up some event handlers, done
AvaloniaUI is nice and a commonly recommended choice nowadays if you are targeting desktop.
It is interesting that the author chose to use Elm to describe C# code. If it is their preference, they could have gotten all that with writing the "core" of the project with F#, without having to change examples neither in the actual implementation nor in the blog post (the author does mention F# but not whether they looked into using it).