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Woohoo! Another Bernstein follower! Great book, but I still haven't heard him address how some diabetics live into their 60's (we have a couple members here) without using his methods?

Anyway, Grace, your team is trying to advise you on your care...I don't want to undermine them as they are professionals and I am just a dude behind a computer far away somewhere--BUT, if you feel their advice is not working for you, tell them that. Arm yourself with evidence as to why you feel their tactics need adjusting for YOU: Bring your blood sugar results, and if you have time, show them your blood sugar results eating their way and eating your way.

There is a school of thought that carbs are the enemy...Maybe so, there is a lot of debate about it. But there is little debate that eating too much is bad for you. And if you have evidence that eating as you have been advised to eat is ruining your blood sugars, then present that evidence. You are at least as important, if not more important, than anyone else on your "team".

[grace girl]

I really appreciate everyone's input. Just being able to talk about these things with other's who actually know what I'm going through means so much. My husband is very supportive, but not dealing with diabetes himself, his understanding only goes so far.
After thinking about all of this a LOT this weekend, I've decided to make yet another appt. with the endo tomorrow morning, and sit down with him and see if we can't come to an understanding. Whatever the results are, I'll know what to do one way or another. It's ridiculous for me to go through yet another week so frustrated. All this frustration probably isn't helping my bs, either!

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Originally Posted by grace girl

I really appreciate everyone's input. Just being able to talk about these things with other's who actually know what I'm going through means so much. My husband is very supportive, but not dealing with diabetes himself, his understanding only goes so far.
After thinking about all of this a LOT this weekend, I've decided to make yet another appt. with the endo tomorrow morning, and sit down with him and see if we can't come to an understanding. Whatever the results are, I'll know what to do one way or another. It's ridiculous for me to go through yet another week so frustrated. All this frustration probably isn't helping my bs, either!

Put yourself in the endo's shoes...They are taught to ask certain questions, seek certain things from diabetics: How are your blood sugars? Did you bring your blood sugar log-book? How have you been eating? What have you been eating? Yadda yadda yadda...And from what I can tell, for every ONE diabetic who can produce a blood sugar logbook, there are 50 who cannot. For every ONE that gives a hoot about their health, 50 act like it's no big thing. So endos/doctors get calloused. So my advice is to go in armed with your data, show him/them why you want to change course. If blood sugar control is paramount in this fight, you have to prove to them you did your due diligence and your sugars went whack. They might say "take more insulin", to which I would ask "Why?" and point out that before you started eating more, you required LESS insulin and your sugars were better, <--THAT is the point of all this.

Good luck with it all, it can be very frustrating. There are a couple/few good books that any person with Type 1 diabetes should read, and probably their spouses too: Pumping Insulin by John Walsh (even if you do not pump, he makes a lot of the mysteries of diabetes clearer) and Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution. Bernstein has his AVID supporters, and his detractors, but his book is worth a read. I've also been told Think Like a Pancreas is a good read as well, but I have not picked that one up yet.

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