Diabetic Diet & Blood Gluecose

I don’t have enough money to buy strips for my glucose meter and need some help in getting some for free or at a reduced price.

Your doctor or whomever you are seeing for your diabetes should have free meters. My endo gives me free meters at least once a year. The doctors usually have them courtesy of the pharmaceutical companies. Also, free diabetic clinics usually have them too. Also, there is an on-line American Diabetes Association.com who can help you too with not just this but various services esp. if you are low income and not able to get your supplies.

Hope this helps.

I can’t believe its not butter!
Margarine though. Seriously.

My guess is no. But worth asking?

Yes. There are sugar free hot chocolate mixes in the supermarket. They are made with Splenda or another artificial sweetener. Chocolate, in its purest form doesn’t have sugar in it, the problem is the sugar added to it to make it sweet.

Paragraph on how Development of diabetes is directly related to feedback system, In your description describe how the feedback system works, organs, & molecules involved, also the direct effect of breakdown of a feedback system.

Does this bit of your homework really need to be explained? Glucose is high, pancreas releases insulin to bring it down. Glucose is low, pancreas releases glucagon to bring it up. It’s a feedback system. Diabetes is when the insulin either can’t be made, not enough can be made or the insulin doesn’t work as well as it should and therefore the glucose level stays high.

A. Stroke
B. Kidney Failure
C. Cancer
D. Blindness

I googled it and it looks like diabetes increases the risk for all of these, but that can’t be right. So do you know the answer?

Cancer is the least attributed to diabetes of all your options, although some researchers have argued that diabetes may also increase your risk of cancer.

We *know* that uncontrolled diabetes can cause cardiovascular disease, blindness, and kidney disease/failure. Cancer is just the most controversial of all those in your list.

My mom thinks I may have diabetes, mostly due to my constant thirst and more frequent urination. I also get numb/cold hands and feet very easily, though I have for years.
Tomorrow we will be seeing my step sister, who has diabetes, and would like her to use one of her test strips, what can I do before to make it more accurately show if I do in fact have diabetes or not? Should I eat more sugary foods, less, or nothing at all?

1) eat as you would
2) make sure a new lancet is in the device to poke your finger
3) wash and dry your hands