Help with Diabetes?

Question

I have diabetes and it runs 160 most of the time,
I drank sweet tea a lot, and I take diabetes medicine, but if I go a few hours without drinking the sweet tea, my diabetes drop to under 50.
I am wondering if I stop drinking sweet tea, would I even need to take the medicine.
I see a Dr. allot, but she doesn’t say anything about it. Just gives me the med’s.

Answer 1

Hello Tootsie!

You can make great sweet tea using Splenda. It has real sugar in it in addition to the substitute. Check it out! You should be very concerned with the low blood sugar of 50. You can faint, go into a coma, have a stroke, etc...If your doctor is not listening to you, change doctors. I am terminally ill and I've had many doctors. Some I fired for less than your doctors matter-of-fact attitude. You are talking about life and death. I found this article from a Prevention on-line Magazine:

An around-the-clock blood-sugar monitor that works like a smoke detector--beeping loudly if blood sugar plummets or skyrockets--could help kids and adults with diabetes avoid dangerous complications. (And let diabetics, and those who care for them, sleep easier.)

The Guardian Continuous Glucose Monitoring System, okayed by the FDA in 2004, uses a sensor to sample sugar levels in the liquid contained in the fat layer between muscle and skin. Info is transmitted to a beeper-size, wireless monitor. It tracks changes diabetics can't feel until it's too late: low blood sugar that can cause fainting, even coma, and high blood sugar that can damage kidneys, eyes, and nerves.

You can read more on the article at the source below. Please take care of this and don't be so non-chalant. It really is serious, honey.

Regards,
Raylene♥

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Answer 4

Its probably because your body is still producing the insulin it needs to deal with the sugar in the tea you are drinking. It takes time for the body to stop producing the insulin once the sugar is used up. With the added effect of the meds it can compound the problem.

You need to discuss this with your doc and/or a diabetic educator and try to do without the tea and see how, over time, your body is able to adjust. You may not have to take as much, or any, meds, but you will have to continue to monitor your blood sugars regularly.

Answer 5

Im sorry I don't know much about diabetes, but I do know it's very dangerous to mess around with...you REALLY need to get a new doctor! There is also a book call Prescription for Nutritional healing...it has Pages on diabetes...but please go see a new doc!

Answer 6

you need to have a protein like peanut butter&crackers- cheese& crackers to stablize the sugar- otherwise you will higher it and plumit back down. You also might want to consult a dietician for the appropriate diet for you.