Broken?

I am beginning to get my head around the notion that DB is not a disease that can be controlled just by thinking about it. And neither can it necessarily be controlled just through diet and exercise.

T manages to keep his blood glucose level below 10 mmol most of the time - last night he was hungry and wanted to eat.  His blood glucose level was 9, and he knows that if he eats a sandwich, it will still be elevated further than that a couple of hours after the food. So I cooked a stir-fry of mushrooms, prawns, fine green beans, mange tout, half a pepper, half an onion, courgette, some umami paste, and some ground ginger and chilli.  Two hours later, his glucose level was the same - which is great, but is this really what he needs to do if he's hungry but has high blood glucose?

I am sure there are easier meals to prepare than all the washing and chopping that went into the stir-fry, but it's going to take a while to find out what they are, and all the while I am half believing that it's futile anyway.

Seriously, if someone's diabetes is so bad that even a little bit of carb sends their glucose through the roof then what? Medication, obviously. And I suppose Arataeus's chilling description of the course of the disease is what would happen otherwise.


I think I'm rambling. There is a lot to take in, a lot to do, and the idea that it may ultimately make no difference with regard to whether T has to take medication is horrid.

He's trying a very low-carb day today to see what happens to his blood glucose. He had scrambled eggs and ham for breakfast, and will have chicken and fruit for lunch. Dinner? Who knows. Pork loin with roasted vegetables probably.