Type II Diabetes

[Axxe55]

Click this link

Calculate Your BMI - Standard BMI Calculator

Standard Body Mass Index calculator.

www.nhlbi.nih.gov

and put your height and weight in the calculator and screen shot the result.
Before answering your question, I'd like to know your BMI first

accoding to the cart i think it's 22 i'm 5'11"weight was measured wednesday at 146six months ago iweighed in at 185at the doctor's office

 

[Axxe55]

Click this link

Calculate Your BMI - Standard BMI Calculator

Standard Body Mass Index calculator.

www.nhlbi.nih.gov

and put your height and weight in the calculator and screen shot the result.
Before answering your question, I'd like to know your BMI first

five feet and 1inches weight was measured at 146 on wednesday eveningsix months agoweight was 185 lbsat the doctor's office

 

[vmax]

accoding to the cart i think it's 22 i'm 5'11"weight was measured wednesday at 146six months ago iweighed in at 185at the doctor's office

The way to add calories to your diet without spiking glucose is to go for the higher fat containing foods

Have ground beef at 85%

Brisket

Avacados..and that includes guacamole

Extra virgin olive oil..you should have a teaspoon a day for your heart anyway
Make your own salad dressing using that and some red wine vinegar
Use it to toss on your vegetables
I like the light tasting version

No sugar added or organic peanut butter is high in calories

Breakfast sausage with your eggs in the morning

Plain greek yogurt

Cottage cheese -not low fat type

Cheese

Snack on nuts like almonds and pecans

 

[Axxe55]

The way to add calories to your diet without spiking glucose is to go for the higher fat containing foods

Have ground beef at 85%

Brisket

Avacados..and that includes guacamole

Extra virgin olive oil..you should have a teaspoon a day for your heart anyway
Make your own salad dressing using that and some red wine vinegar
Use it to toss on your vegetables
I like the light tasting version

No sugar added or organic peanut butter is high in calories

Breakfast sausage with your eggs in the morning

Plain greek yogurt

Cottage cheese -not low fat type

Cheese

Snack on nuts like almonds and pecans

cottage makes me gag!other options than cottage cheese?

 

[vmax]

cottage makes me gag!other options than cottage cheese?

I listed about 10 things
Cottage cheese was one..
Just don't eat it!

 

[candcallen]

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[leVieux]

Nope.... they never mentioned it. Must be relatively new info?

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’’Alzheimer’s’’ is but one of several underlying conditions which can result in similar progressive dementias.

Some, like multi-infarct dementia, Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, & some hereditary conditions can be diagnosed by combination of History & MRI findings.

’’Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus’’ can cause rapidly progressive dementia and can be recognized or strongly suspected from MRI. As this one is reversible IF caught early, it can be a diagnostic and surgical EMERGENCY.

To make a specific diagnosis of Alzheimer;s, a brain biopsy is necessary; but as there is little effective treatment, few brain biopsies are done. So, most Alzheimer’s diagnoses are ‘’presumptive’’.

leVieux
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[leVieux]

Phuck being "managed" by the medical industry.

Traditionally, diabetes is self managed one way or another, but lately I notice in increase in docs that refuse to let patients do that.

Mine wants me to take a fixed amount of food and a fixed amount of insulin... IMO this is old school and far too intrusive.

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»Manage » in that context means trying to delay worsening, avoid complications, keep medications properly adjusted, and prolong useful life.

No one would force you to cooperate with treatments.

Good Luck !
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[leVieux]

Local VA clinic due to distance to VA hospital. You get ONE NP doc... period. Seen once a year unless something goes wrong. Unless one gets "telehealth" which IMO is cheating the patient that deserves the physical presence if an actual doc.

And don't even THINK about suggesting I see docs on my own... can't afford that shit!!!

Endocrinologist? Ha ha... in my experience didn't know any more than an NP with good experience in treating diabetics. And two hours away on bad roads. They, along with the GI, lost me because they left the area and didn't pass me along to another specialist. Phuckers!

And BTW, "scientific discoveries" are no reason to go back to the old school authoritarian model of dominating patients!!! If doc can't, or more likely won't, articulate a reason to gain my buy in... it ain't gonna work.

Years ago, I was taking 100iu of Lantus twice a day, before use of Lantus was fully understood. On a visit to a new VA NP, she hit the roof when I asked for a refill and said there was no way she was going to "allow" me to take that much glargine. She said she would not order it no matter what. I was shocked cuz I was used to managing/titrating for success. Left the visit on poor terms.

I wrote a secure message to complain. My VA friend interceded and told the NP that I was NOT a stupid guy, and all she had to do was explain her reasoning to me. Subsequent phone convo turns out she was an ok doc and had a lot of experience treating diabetic vets in the Great Lakes, plus there was new research on how to use glargine as a baseline while using aspart for sliding scale. OK, that works. It's all in the approach. I resent being thought of as a dummy that will just do as ordered.

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Sorry to hear that. Way back when I did that kind of Medicine, before 1980, I and most colleagues would have provided outpatient visits for a Vet who couldn’t afford it, for free.

Over 20% of our care back then was uncompensated Charity. Guess things have changed. They even charge me now.

Thank you for your service to our Nation. Hope you do well !

leVieux
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[Vaquero]

Loved ones have died from Alzheimer's, ALS, cancer, and vehicle wrecks.

I can't control that stuff.
I'll live my life as God and i see fit. It'll end on his terms. Not mine.

 

[Axxe55]

Phuck being "managed" by the medical industry.

Traditionally, diabetes is self managed one way or another, but lately I notice in increase in docs that refuse to let patients do that.

Mine wants me to take a fixed amount of food and a fixed amount of insulin... IMO this is old school and far too intrusive.

sad to say most of us and especially as we get older have other health issues and we are being managed by big pharmaevery day we either manage or face greayter health risks

 

[benenglish]

So, most Alzheimer’s diagnoses are ‘’presumptive’’.

I spent a day with a wonderful woman who was on the board of the American Heart Association. I asked her "How can you tell when someone actually crosses over the line and has heart disease?"

Completely deadpan, she says "Well, you wait till they die, do an autopsy, take out the heart, and take a close look at it..."

That was funny but it kicked off an informative discussion of the difference between a disease and the markers of disease and how one didn't necessarily mean the other was present. Fascinating, really.

 

[leVieux]

I spent a day with a wonderful woman who was on the board of the American Heart Association. I asked her "How can you tell when someone actually crosses over the line and has heart disease?"

Completely deadpan, she says "Well, you wait till they die, do an autopsy, take out the heart, and take a close look at it..."

That was funny but it kicked off an informative discussion of the difference between a disease and the markers of disease and how one didn't necessarily mean the other was present. Fascinating, really.

Doctors and Pilots should always keep several “alternate courses of action‘’ handy !

 

[SARGE67]

Am updating and typing out my current meds taking for visit to my cardiologist check-up tomorrow. Doing all that really irks a part of me, seeing 9 different RX meds I have to take each day, not even counting all the supplements of which I choose. Having to keep an organized list with times of day is driving me bonkers. Having a triple bypass 10 years ago, then a pacemaker installed, later on the wires to pacemaker replaced, then last year the pacemaker replaced, then a heart attack, stent placed. Then other issues requiring other meds daily. Hell, I need a vacation from docs and meds.

 

[Tnhawk]

Am updating and typing out my current meds taking for visit to my cardiologist check-up tomorrow. Doing all that really irks a part of me, seeing 9 different RX meds I have to take each day, not even counting all the supplements of which I choose. Having to keep an organized list with times of day is driving me bonkers. Having a triple bypass 10 years ago, then a pacemaker installed, later on the wires to pacemaker replaced, then last year the pacemaker replaced, then a heart attack, stent placed. Then other issues requiring other meds daily. Hell, I need a vacation from docs and meds.

Why does the doctor need to ask me for a list of meds? he's the one who prescribed them.

 

[leVieux]

Am updating and typing out my current meds taking for visit to my cardiologist check-up tomorrow. Doing all that really irks a part of me, seeing 9 different RX meds I have to take each day, not even counting all the supplements of which I choose. Having to keep an organized list with times of day is driving me bonkers. Having a triple bypass 10 years ago, then a pacemaker installed, later on the wires to pacemaker replaced, then last year the pacemaker replaced, then a heart attack, stent placed. Then other issues requiring other meds daily. Hell, I need a vacation from docs and meds.

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Before all those inconveniences; guys just “dropped-dead” all the time. you always have the option to refuse and let nature take its course.

Ask your Family.

A Dear lifelong Friend, 69, was found dead yesterday morning by his granddaughter.

Your choice. . . . . . .

leVieux
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[candcallen]

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Before all those inconveniences; guys just “dropped-dead” all the time. you always have the option to refuse and let nature take its course.

Ask your Family.

A Dear lifelong Friend, 69, was found dead yesterday morning by his granddaughter.

Your choice. . . . . . .

leVieux
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That's clearly what he meant.

 

[bbbass]

That was funny but it kicked off an informative discussion of the difference between a disease and the markers of disease and how one didn't necessarily mean the other was present. Fascinating, really.

Yes indeed.

I have markers for atheroschlerosis (sp) according the a current EKG. In the past, same thing plus a chem stress test indication. They sent me in for an angiogram, which was a goat rope but that is another story, and the angiogram was perfectly clean.

Now they want another stress test. So it would seem I am going down the same road again with markers but not the disease. Maybe. I guess we'll see.

 

[SARGE67]

Why does the doctor need to ask me for a list of meds? he's the one who prescribed them.

In my case, I have a primary care, a cardiologist, a pacemaker specialist and a gastro doc. They all have their RXs.

 

[SARGE67]

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Before all those inconveniences; guys just “dropped-dead” all the time. you always have the option to refuse and let nature take its course.

Ask your Family.

A Dear lifelong Friend, 69, was found dead yesterday morning by his granddaughter.

Your choice. . . . . . .

leVieux
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Of course I do and can get frustrating. None of us are going to get out of here alive and indeed nature will eventuall take its course no matter what. I was born at night but it wasn't last night. Am currently in the midst of choosing this med over that as of today and hate the choices. One (Plavix) a severe blood thinner can be a game changer on the others including supplements I've carefully chosen thru the years, can't take it and them both. I took it for a year and just taking off a Band Aid sent me to an emergency clinic, wife came home from work. It took off a layer of skin and I couldn't stop the bleeding. Plavix is the one drug I can honestly say does its job - thins your blood so good even your dentist will freak out and demand a release from your doctor.