Happy New Year! If you've been following this blog, you took time last week to think about your priorities in regard to your diabetic health. (If you missed last week's blog post, you can download this PDF copy: Setting Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics. Now it's time to implement those plans! Goals for January: To … Continue reading New Year, New Month, New Week, New Day
Category: Blood Glucose
Paradox of Disease and Diabetes
Occasionally I encounter such an excellent post by members of other diabetes groups that I just have to share verbatim. One such post is from Otoniel Santiago, a Facebook member, who does not have a blog of his own but has given me permission to share what he wrote. It is as follows: Consider the following … Continue reading Paradox of Disease and Diabetes
When Your Blood Sugar Is Over 200
When you have low blood sugar (under 67 mg/dL), there are specific things you can do to raise blood sugar back to normal (70-99 mg/dL); but it's not so easy when you have high blood sugar. For anything over 300 mg/dL, I would definitely phone your on-call advice nurse and ask for help. For blood … Continue reading When Your Blood Sugar Is Over 200
For Low Blood Sugar
For the weekly poll question of May 3-9, I asked for responses to "What I do first if my blood sugar goes too low is," and listed the following options (the number of responses is shown after each option): * Use ½ glucose tablet at a time and check BG every 20 minutes (1 response) … Continue reading For Low Blood Sugar

