Alzheimers =diabetes ?

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mete

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Study shows the onset of alzheimers is accompanied by drop in insulin production and as the disease progresses insulin production further drops. www.webmd.com This is a very interesting connection !!
 
Over the past few months, I've let mine go unchecked, I'm trying to get it back under control (upper 200's in the morning). I've noticed that when my sugar is really bad, I get foggy upstairs and can't remember anything. When it happens at night, with eye pain, it is downright scary.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Over the past few months, I've let mine go unchecked, I'm trying to get it back under control (upper 200's in the morning). I've noticed that when my sugar is really bad, I get foggy upstairs and can't remember anything. When it happens at night, with eye pain, it is downright scary.
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How's your blood pressure? When's the last time you had your kidney function tested? Does your medical insurance cover dialysis?

200 in the morning is critically dangerous.
 
The time it was 350 scared the s out of me. Number one beer, and you know what I mean Esav. Pain in the morning when I wake up in my sides. I'm on Avandia and Metformin. It doesn't help either that I weigh 350, and love good food. I'm working, although not hard enough. Thank God, my blood pressure is fine, but my doc is worried that my cholesterol, which is perfect, might get bad real fast.
 
I weighed about 250 and took it down to 180 in three years. I had to shed a lot of muscle to do that, which is why it took so long. The biggest factor was learning, forcing myself, to EAT LESS. Small portions, no seconds, not even of lettuce, to lower my stomach's expectations of massive amounts of fodder.

At first, I didn't even worry about WHAT I ate, as long as it was LESS. Then later I worked on passing up Twinkies and Coke and ... you know.

Now I'm fat again but at least I CAN control blood sugar. If it's 200 or so, after a good meal, I go for a walk or work out for 30 to 60 minutes, and I'm hypoglycemic again. :)
 
When I was diagnosed, I lost a lot of weight through walking five miles a day and cutting out all carbs. Working in retail meant a terrible diet, but I got constant excercise. Then I got a job tapping a keyboard, and went from a size 38 to a size 54, now I can get into 48's again. My family and friends, even coworkers are deathly worried about me. I've got an eating problem, that's a fact. It's really hard around the holidays to cut out the good stuff, but I'm really scaling it back. For awhile there I was eating candy etc, I thought I could handle it. I can't. I've lost some weight, my clothes fit a lot better, I can breathe easier, but I just don't feel good. My sugar is going to kill me if I can't just get a handle on it. My doctor is desperately trying to help me. Shes told me that she can't lock me up anywhere, I have to do this on my own. I wrote about this stuff several months ago, and I'm pretty much still in the same boat. I do have a sleep apnea machine, I can't even remember the name of it, cpap, there you go, but I haven't used it in a month, because I haven't called the company to replace a mask I broke in my sleep. Sugar has an effect on your daily life, when mine gets bad, I feel like I'm in a fog. I posted about what to get my little brother for Xmas in the Discussion forum, one of my friends at work told me around the beginning of the year that what my brother wants is for me to be alive.

This is turning into a gripe on my part. I just got the Firefly tv season dvd set, I'm going to go watch that while I ride the excercise bike. Some good news, I've been walking a half hour every day since last weekend.
 
Mind if I join in? Over the weekend, I was diagnosed with diabetes.

This means a real lifestyle change for me.

Yeah, I gotta lose weight and take meds, and measure my glocose a few times a day, yada yada yada.

I will not have a problem with exercising more.

I will not have a problem with smaller portions. (Hell I can have all the celery I want.)

However, I do love my single-malt scotch whisky a lot.

And I am BEGINNING by cutting back by 75%.

I tell you folks, I am not a happy camper.

However, the good news is that while diabetes may tip the scales toward Alzheimer's Disease, or, just as likely, that the body's defenses against one are linked to the defense mechanisms against the other, the title of this thread is just wrong. I can go into this in as much or as little detail as any of y'all wish.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I posted about what to get my little brother for Xmas in the Discussion forum, one of my friends at work told me around the beginning of the year that what my brother wants is for me to be alive.
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Stick with it. It gets easier once you start seeing results. You KNOW that, you've done it before.

Complain whenever you need to, gripe about the unfairness of it. Life ISN'T fair, but the rest of want to help.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I posted about what to get my little brother for Xmas in the Discussion forum, one of my friends at work told me around the beginning of the year that what my brother wants is for me to be alive.
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There are a number of other folks who would like for you to stick around as well.

Esav said that "At first, I didn't even worry about WHAT I ate, as long as it was LESS. Then later I worked on passing up Twinkies and Coke and ... you know."

This is exactly the advice that the specialist and the nutriionist gave me.
They know full well that crash diets don't work. So work on LESS. One thing at a time. You like good food? Great-- then don't waste your "allowance on crap like hot dogs-- a small tuna steak (sushi quality, of course) is better.
Find someone to consult with who will hep you set reasonable goals. Reasonable meas something that you can live with. Key word here: live.

Be stubborn.
 
My soon to be 86 years old grandmother had type 1 diabetes for about thirty years. Last year the doc told her she didn't have it anymore. That lady made every single rich eastern European dish you can think of, but she only took a taste while she was cooking. Strong old lady, for sure. She got sick earlier this year, and her sugar was really high. She was mad for a week! She still watches her intake every day.
 
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