what should a type 1 diabetic with a suger addiction do?

Question

love greg

Answer 1

Ignore the people who suggested upping the insulin to cover your sugar intake, that isnt very clever when done regularly long term (its OK once in a while). Diabetic sweets can cause serious upset stomach and too much splenda or other substitutes are not a great idea. Therefore your only option is to exercise some self control and not eat so many sweet things. You do not have an addiction, you have a liking which you are making excuses for and making no attempt to control.
The stark reality, get control of the sugar or lose control of your diabetes and suffer the consequenses (not pretty, belive me!);

Answer 2

It's a problem we share!!!

I've had some success with finding alternative snacks - cherry tomatoes are sweet and don't affect your blood sugar, and berries are gen. v low in sugar but still taste sweet (check on the nutritional info. label - if there's below about 5g/100g you should be ok to eat them without doing too much to your blood sugars). Also try nuts and cheese (cheese strings are good!) - although they aren't sweet, they don't affect blood sugar and are protiens so make you less hungry. Try cutting out all sugar free drinks etc. - I read in a magazine that they make you crave sugar - I was v sceptical but tried it and it worked - much less cravings! If you crave chocolate try eating a small amount of really dark chocolate (it is an aquired taste!) - Green and Blacks sell packs of indiviually wrapped dark chocolate squares. Oh yeah - also try brushing your teeth or chewing gum.

But also, just because you have diabetes (this only applies to people with type 1 diabetes not type 2 (for anyone reading this who doesn't know what kind you have, you have type 2!)) doesn't mean you can't eat sweet things. To stay healthy you should stick to a healthy diet, but there are some insulin regimes that allow you to taylor the amount of insulin you take for what you've eaten, so you can eat what you want! These are the more intensive therapys - 4 injections or more a day or an insulin pump, so it's not for everyone but it does give you a lot more freedom. Ask at clinic/your dr or specialist nurse about basal bolus regimes, DAFNE courses and insulin pumps (pumps aren't always available on the nhs) - all of these could give you more freedom.

Hope that helps! :) xx

Answer 3

Seriously - its self control. They say you shouldnt eat sugary foods, lollies and junk food but we are only human as well, if you enjoy the finer things in life and have type 1 diabetes like i do (since i was 18 months old, im 26 now) you can very well eat and drink what you want. I drink tons of liquor and eat whatever i want, but at the same time keep track on how much sugar is going into me and also things that will lower blood sugar level (believe it or not Beer lowers a diabetics blood sugar level so always eat whilst drinking beer) and take a generous ammount of insulin to counteract it right before eating the junk or as quick as possible. I have had Keto-Acidosis several times and thats no fun, i got careless at those points and wanted to be normal so i didnt take my insulin with me and still ate and drank. I have no signs of long term kidney, liver, nerve, eye, etc damage as i get a complications assessment every four months or so done but i am lucky there, you may not be. they say it only takes the body to go through keto-acidosis once and your chances at having long term damage are doubled. Always take your insulin with you, and if you are impulsive ask your doctor about Humolog insulin, it works immediately and does not hit you like a ton of bricks. The other wonder insulin on the market is Lantus, i take both of these and have never felt better, i eat soooo much junk food but still stay active also gettin nutricious food as well. You can fight the sugar addiction but eventually it will win.

Answer 4

Now I ralise this might sound a bit bizarre but my suggestion would be to have some colonic irrigation and supplement with a good quality probiotic. The reason for this is that sugar cravings are often caused by an overgrowth of yeasty organisms in your colon. Having a couple of colonics and taing a good quality probiotic supplement may help you. There are also available sugars which have a low GI such as one made from the Blue Agave cactus and available at Tesco - as far as I am aware, deending on the type of diabetes I think you can use this substitute and it is not ha rmful at all.

Answer 5

learn moderation. I am a type 1 I was diagnoised as an adult (age 29 3 years ago) I loved sweets, I was always a healthly weight and overall ate healthly but I have since learned what I can eat and when. Sometimes just a little something is all it takes, like a hershey kiss or something small like that, only 3 gr. of carbs, so it's like not even eating it at all. When we have a dessert I still eat, but have learned to take a small piece and work it into the meal and insulin. I would assume it is easier for some and not so easy for others, so good luck.
One more thing I'd like to say I have tried sugar free candy and I perfer to eat a smaller portion of the real thing.

Answer 6

Seriously, milkyman, you need to seek information on the complications that can accrue from taking too much sugar. (Most of the foods that you eat are broken down into simple sugars, so there's no way for you to avoid it.) I'm sure that once you realise the things that can go wrong with your body ... apart from death ... will make you understand that you've got to give up your addiction.

Believe me, after being unable to control my diabetes for the last 26-27 years, I'm now in the position of being considered for an islet cell transplant. Obviously, such an operation would seem a godsend to many diabetics, but it's not a simple equation. You'd still have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life. There's no guarantee that the transplant would survive for the rest of your life, and you still may require insulin injections.

The suggestion made by evany is an excellent one. Be aware though that there's quite a waiting list to go on one of their courses. If only such courses were available years ago, I'm sure that I'd have learned something from it that would have prevented, or delayed, the complications that I now have.

Sadly, even though I have tried to maintain regular 'good' blood glucose control, backed up with input from my diabetes team, good control has evaded me ... hence, the complications.

I wish you the very best of luck with your control.

Take care.

Answer 7

confident. As I mentioned on your previous question, I desire glucose pills. they are much less stressful to eat than complicated candy, and characteristic a classic dose of glucose in each and every pill. they are very easy to eat. you will locate them in the drugstore next to different diabetic aspects, inclusive of lancets and glucose visual exhibit unit reflects. they are no longer very high priced. each and every so often a diabetic is so low that he can no longer chew ok. subsequently, juice or regularly occurring (no longer eating ordinary) soda is an suitable therapy. eating ordinary soda has no usable sugars or carbs, so do no longer use that. in case you haven't any longer have been given juice or soda, dissolve actual sugar or honey into water or tea, and characteristic the diabetic drink that. Then, while the diabetic can chew, persist with up with some protein and fat. 0.5 of a peanut butter sandwich is robust.

Answer 8

Make an exact plan to avoid sugar. Plan your day to avoid it. If people at the office are eating Jell Donuts for break, be by your self. If they bring you cookies for your Holiday, tell them to quite. Take all sugars out of your house, car, garage, tool shed, and bathroom and bedroom. Sit down with a Fellow Diabetic and practice not eating sugar, I repeat no sugar for a better tomorrow.

Answer 9

Well if you are a type one diabetic, that means you got diabetes as a child and should have never gotten a sugar addiction in the first place. There are hundreds of products out there now which are sugar free and are often considered to be "free carb choices" because they contain a net carb count of less than 5 grams. I do hope you are not injecting insulin too often and having insulin on top of insulin, because as you should be well aware, that will lead to low blood sugars and if it comes on too soon it could lead to seizures. I also hope you are taking proper care of yourself, checking your blood sugars at least 4 times a day and taking the proper amounts of insulin. You should also be checking your feet every day, but my guess is you aren't a diabetic at all...just someone who wanted attention by asking a question to get a rise out of people who actually do have this disease...at which point you should be so ashamed of yourself. My advice to you is to grow up.

Answer 10

You really only have two choices, control the addiction or die.

Sorry to be so blunt but refined sugar is as bad as it gets. I love my sweets too but I just have to stay away from them. Even sugar free products and spenda have carbs so watch it. The only sweet I allow myself on an unlimited basis is diet soda. It has 0 carbs and sort of satisfies that sweet tooth.