What or who do you control sugar for?

I am a blockbuster person with type 2 diabetes. I was diagnosed in April 2011. I am over 60 years old this year. Back in 2000, when it was time to cut corners, I took early retirement and returned home. Because my husband's work unit assigned me a house, I moved from Wuchang, where I had lived for 30 years, to Hankou, without any friends or acquaintances. Because we just moved here, the house is a mess. I had cleansing at home for three months, but I ended up with chest tightness and pain. I had no choice but to talk to no one at home. There were a lot of stock traders at that time, so I also joined the stock group. During a lunch break, a drugstore tested blood sugar and blood pressure for free, but I couldn't stand the persuasion of the promoter. The test was nothing serious. They said my blood pressure and blood sugar were too high. I was suspicious of their test, so I went to the hospital for a checkup. The result of the checkup was that the blood pressure was fine, but the blood lipids were a bit high, with a fasting blood sugar level of 6.1. I was prescribed some medicine to lower blood lipids. This reminds me of my eldest brother and younger brother who both have diabetes, and their diabetes was over 20 when they were discovered. I thought, I can’t wait until it gets serious before controlling it, I have to control it immediately.

 

Therefore, I started my exercise. I went to the University for the Elderly to learn aerobics, played waist drum in the morning, and danced square dance in the evening. To use a modern new term to describe it, it’s called streaking. It turns out there is no such word. Not only did I exercise, my blood sugar was also under control, and my mood improved. This nakedness lasts for ten years. In 2010, because my grandson was in kindergarten and no one was taking care of her, I followed the girl to her home to take care of her grandson and do housework. Because I didn't have time to exercise, I had a physical examination the next year and found out that my fasting blood sugar was high. I did a glycation test and found it was over 6.5. I was diagnosed with diabetes, and I have since entered the ranks of diabetes. The first doctor prescribed it to me for a month but he still couldn't get it down and was always changing the medicine. I didn't think it was possible, so I found another doctor, who adjusted me down in half a month. I have just joined the sugar group and have no experience in controlling sugar. As for testing blood sugar, I only check it once a month when I go to the hospital to prescribe medication. After taking hypoglycemic drugs for three years, I later discovered that my blood sugar was extremely high. Maybe I had taken the medicine for a long time and developed resistance.

 

After being introduced by a friend with diabetes, I came to Wuhan Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital and found the director of the Department of Internal Medicine. He advised me to stay in the hospital for adjustment and changed all the medicines. I switched to a combination of insulin and long-acting insulin every morning and took it during the day. The medicine was mixed in the hospital for a week. I'm thinking that I need to find a group where people can communicate with diabetes and learn about sugar control. Therefore, I searched several sugar-loving groups on the Internet. When I joined the sugar friends group, I saw so many experts in controlling sugar. It was really eye-opening for me. Learn more about sugar control here. Through the guidance of experts and combined with your own actual situation, you can formulate your own sugar control plan. Through communication, learning, adjustment, and multiple tests, I basically mastered the essentials of sugar control and found my own rules. First of all, you need to adjust your mentality. Your mentality has a great impact on blood sugar. Blood sugar will fluctuate with your mood. I remember that while I was hospitalized, my blood sugar had always been stable. One time I was about to check my blood sugar when I suddenly received a phone call. This phone call made me feel very bad. After receiving the call, I went to check my blood sugar. The result was over 12 o'clock. This made me Realize how important mentality is to blood sugar. Shut up and move your legs. In recent years of sugar control, in terms of food, I have to eat less or less of what I can't eat, at regular intervals, and pay attention to nutritional balance. I can't ignore nutrition just to control blood sugar. After meals, keep exercising, dancing, singing, and walking briskly.

 

Through long-term exploration, I have basically mastered the rules. How much to eat every day and how long to exercise have become regular rules. In terms of testing, the diet and exercise duration will be adjusted every day based on the test results. Our daily testing is not just to check the level, but to use the testing data to analyze our diet and exercise, and adjust our medications. When blood sugar is stable, you can spot check it. When it is unstable, you need to test it more often. Only by observing changes in blood sugar at any time can you effectively control blood sugar. Each food has a different impact on blood sugar, as well as the amount of exercise, which are all very important. I found out my own rules through frequent testing, so that I can control my blood sugar easily.

 

I often learn knowledge and communicate with sugar friends. I never understand anything, and I enrich my sugar control knowledge through learning and communication. There are many experienced sugar control experts in the sugar-loving group. If anything is unclear or does not understand, it can be solved through communication. Although we older people cannot compare with young people, and there is no need to control blood sugar that low, we should strictly control it according to our own situation to reduce complications. My sugar control goals are: 4.4 to 7.0 on an empty stomach, and 4.4 to 8.0 after meals. This way, I can try to control it within this range. If it is higher or lower, find out the reason. Through analysis and further summarizing experience, you have to walk the road by yourself, and you can only refer to the experience of others. Share a paragraph: People with diabetes do not live for "sugar", but for health. Since it is for health, then they should eat a healthy diet and live a healthy lifestyle, not just eat a sugar-control diet, take It is only a medical plan for reducing blood sugar, which is the pursuit of health value in our lives. The road to sugar control is long, but as long as we can keep running the five-wheel drive, I believe that we will be in control of our blood sugar.