my best advice is to get on to amazon and order two books for him. links below. Amazon.com: The First Year: Type 2 Diabetes: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed (First Year, The): Books: Gretchen Becker,Allison B. Goldfine
and Amazon.com: Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars: Books: Richard K. Bernstein
he needs to understand that unless he is seeing a diabetes specialist that it is unlikely that the doctors are going to be the best person to tell him what to do.
he needs to get a meter and measure his blood sugars upon waking and before and after meals.
he should be aiming to get a waking number between about 70 and 100 and after meals (two hours after) he should be below 130-140.
the complications that high blood sugars cause are all nasty.
so he needs to read the books.
-- Joel.
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POSTCARD STATUS: 1 out of 20
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Age: 53
Diagnosed: July, 2007
HbA1c's
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early July 2007: 16.2%
early Sept 2007: 8.0%
early Dec 2007: 5.9%
early Jun 2008: 6.4%
triglycerides: 71 (0.8)
HDL chol: 50 (1.2)
LDL chol: 15 (0.4)
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