23rd March 2007
Let me add some perspective for you.
Your 6.3 deserves congratulations, even though you would like it lower, it nevertheless, is quite good!!!!! You are doing a good job.
My doctor tells me of one of his diabetes patients who is shooting 120 units of Lantus daily, covering with Novolog, and doesn't get HbA1cs of less than 11. He is quite sure that his/her eating habits are atrocious. He has little doubt that a painful life followed by a premature grave is in store for this person, if no radical changes are made.
I am surprised at the attitude with which you folks are being instructed, I suppose it does boil down to money. It is rather important for you to know just how certain food loads react in your body, and how you are to modify your intake of it, in order to maintain a good sugar control and avoid the serious complications which can come with poor control over years. You are
absolutely right about the "horse being already out of the barn" if you wait for the HbA1c.
I encourage you to not feel guilty at all, and order your testing supplies as necessary to live a good and healthy life for the sake of your loving chidren and your family.
If they are truly concerned about the cost, they should invest some of the social insurance money into renewable glucometry without consumables. It would be my hope that Australia and the UK who have socialized medicine could lead the US out of their "dark ages" (we have the God-forbidden shame of 48 million of our people uncovered with medical insurance, in one of the richest countries on earth)..... talking about being "all about money" - I don't think you hold a candle to us.
Your 6.3 deserves congratulations, even though you would like it lower, it nevertheless, is quite good!!!!! You are doing a good job.
My doctor tells me of one of his diabetes patients who is shooting 120 units of Lantus daily, covering with Novolog, and doesn't get HbA1cs of less than 11. He is quite sure that his/her eating habits are atrocious. He has little doubt that a painful life followed by a premature grave is in store for this person, if no radical changes are made.
I am surprised at the attitude with which you folks are being instructed, I suppose it does boil down to money. It is rather important for you to know just how certain food loads react in your body, and how you are to modify your intake of it, in order to maintain a good sugar control and avoid the serious complications which can come with poor control over years. You are
absolutely right about the "horse being already out of the barn" if you wait for the HbA1c.
I encourage you to not feel guilty at all, and order your testing supplies as necessary to live a good and healthy life for the sake of your loving chidren and your family.
If they are truly concerned about the cost, they should invest some of the social insurance money into renewable glucometry without consumables. It would be my hope that Australia and the UK who have socialized medicine could lead the US out of their "dark ages" (we have the God-forbidden shame of 48 million of our people uncovered with medical insurance, in one of the richest countries on earth)..... talking about being "all about money" - I don't think you hold a candle to us.