Will medicine always keep blood sugar down?

This is the problem with a lot of people. They want a doctor to give them pill or an operation to make them healthy. Yet in reality none of those can. They don’t want to take responsibility for their health. They know what to do but refuse. Why because it’s hard. It’s hard to get the regular and vigorous physical exercise. It’s hard to eat healthy food and decrease the fasts, sweets and salt. It’s hard to lay off the alcohol, tobacco and other recreational drugs. This is why most people in the USA make it to old age in a world of hurt being obese, diabetic and other diseases. Then they present to a doctor and expect the doctor to make them healthy.

Of course there are many people that do all the right things and get cancer, diseases and die young. Life is not fare.

Good health to you and your family.

My mom was a type 2 diabetic and she cut out all sugar. Then she got sick and had to stay in a rehab facility for awhile. They brought her a dessert with every meal. I scheduled a meeting with the HBIC to discuss why they were giving a diabetic sweets. She called in the diatician who explained that the medical doctors had come to the conclusion that diabetics can have sugar and it’s their carb intake that affects their blood sugar level and that the meal my mom was receiving was carb balanced and she should be eating her sweets and enjoying them. I left feeling as though I had just had smoke blown up my ass

When I got home, I emailed a close cousin who is the head pharmacist at a prominent hospital to ask about what I had been told. He checked with the hospitals lead dietician and she said that counting carbs was the approved method especially when feeding mass meals because there is no need to specialize each and every plate. It was deemed safer to count carbs than to individualize every meal. So, maybe your hubs is lucky that you’re feeding him carb safe meals without realizing it

I also have several friends who eat more sugar than I do and they seem to be just fine. As the medical field has progressed, so has our knowledge about diabetes. It seems that sugar wasn’t the beast that we were taught growing up. Nobody knew what a carb was back then

Since I don’t have a blood sugar problem,I might be wrong; but, I think your hub’s thought process is faulty. The meds do control his normally high sugar level. At the same time, the meds have no way of knowing how much sugar he has consumed. Yet I can’t argue with his success up to now. I still might suggest that you stay up to date on how to treat a diabertic who is having an abnormal spike in their blood sugar level so you can hopefully treat him until the paraedics arrive

I think I would ignore what my neighbor says which sounds frankly a little nutty to me and let her do things her way. If it were me and my husband wanted the sweets I would ask him to check his sugar daily in order to reassure you. Let the numbers tell.

Thanks for your response. How interesting. I knew carb intake had to be watched but didn’t know it was more important than eating sweets. My husband says he would know if his sugar went up because he read on Google that he would get very thirsty and urinate more. He thinks as long as he’s not doing that then his sugar is okay. I guess he could be right because for two years now his a1c is good every time he gets it tested which is every 3 months. He also eats healthy too. But every night he will have cake or pie with milk before bed. I don’t buy these things, he does.

1) Your neighbor is a dangerous nut job.
2) Your husband’s A1C is good, not great. Kudos to him for keeping it at a reasonable level without regular testing, but he is taking a risk.
3) Type 1 is much more dangerous than type 2, but that doesn’t mean type 2 isn’t bad.

My wife and I both have type 2. My wife’s sister had type 1, and she died from insulin shock when she was in her 30’s.
I take 1000mg of Metformin twice a day. My wife takes 500mg once a day. We both test every morning. We are mindful of carbs, but occasionally have something sweet.
A few years ago, I got an infection that nearly killed me. Seriously. I spent a week in the hospital before surgery. My A1C was at 9.7, and my blood sugar was over 300. Infections feed on high blood sugar, so it is vital to correctly control it.
I say Correctly because of my sister-in-law. She thought she could double or triple her insulin shots, then indulge in massive amounts of ice cream.
Regarding soaking your feet, it can be very therapeutic, but you must be careful not to burn your feet.

We have some very knowledgeable people here, but Fluther really isn’t your best resource for medical advice. Do some research on reputable medical sites.

Also remember that paragraph breaks (end a line, skip a line) greatly aid readability, especially for older eyes and maybe even eyes compromised a little bit by diabetes.

I’ve been to three funerals in the last four years of brothers or sisters of friends that did not try to control diabetes, all were on dialysis and had kidney and heart problem in the end.

Had another friend that came to a civic organization meeting one evening said she did feel well and didn’t want to drive ER; we called her husband, he took her to ER, her blood sugar was 700. She was lucky to be alive. She lost 125 pounds and now has to check her blood sugar once a day and is on oral meds (assume it is Metformin).

No. Every diabetic I know or have known had specific situations but all seemed to crave sugar. One died from consuming too many alcoholic sugary adult beverages on his honeymoon.