Can you be misdiagnosed with Diabetes?

[Josh B]

I'm a total whole wheat person but every day it seems the "whole wheat" gets lighter and lighter.
In fact about everything keeps getting watered down or "blended"

 

[franklin2]

I was also told like salads, whole wheat goes through quicker. In other words you are sitting on the toilet more often. I guess it doesn't stay long enough to create the havoc that white bread does.

 

[Josh B]

Salads are roughage anyway, drop a cup of ranch dressing on there and head for the can

 

[sgtsandman]

It depends on what is in the salad. Iceberg lettuce? Cardboard might have more nutritional value. There are much better types of lettuce you can choose that taste decent and not end up with kale, which gets you back to cardboard but on the otherside.

Very true on the roughage though. It helps clean out the gunk stuck in there and makes your gut more efficient.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I spend 1/2 my life on the porcelian pony anyways.

 

[cbxer55]

Salads are roughage anyway, drop a cup of ranch dressing on there and head for the can

I prefer Italian anyway.

 

[cbxer55]

I spend 1/2 my life on the porcelian pony anyways.

LOL!

 

[Rangebinder]

On bread rember back when a loaf of bread would start to mold if didn’t eat it in a week, I guess if you eat anything and you like it eat in moderation can’t be good for you. I struggle with that.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

On bread rember back when a loaf of bread would start to mold if didn’t eat it in a week, I guess if you eat anything and you like it eat in moderation can’t be good for you. I struggle with that.

The mold problem is the reason I keep the whole-wheat bread in the refrigerator. Chilling retards molding. Whole-wheat will start to mold faster than white bread.

Some people freeze loaves of bread because they like to buy in bulk. My mom used to do this. In my experience the bread (white or other) isn't very good after thawing, so I don't freeze any.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

The mold problem is the reason I keep the whole-wheat bread in the refrigerator. Chilling retards molding. Whole-wheat will start to mold faster than white bread.

Some people freeze loaves of bread because they like to buy in bulk. My mom used to do this. In my experience the bread (white or other) isn't very good after thawing, so I don't freeze any.

My wife makes it batches and we freeze it. Just polished off a loaf of swedish rye from a batch she made for Christmas yesterday at lunch. Not as good as fresh but still pretty dang good. I think I got three more loaves to go yet.

If you are going to run it thru the toaster I don't think it matters much fresh vs frozen.

 

[Snoranger]

I know what you’re going through Rusty.
Back in April I spent a few days in the hospital while they tried to get my blood sugar down. I was feeling weak, run down, and dehydrated. By the time I went to get checked out, my blood sugar was at 905 and my A1C was 15.6.
With a little diet change (stop drinking soda and sweet tea mostly), Metformin, I my A1C has been 5.6 since Sept and I haven’t seen a blood sugar reading over 110… even after eating too much pasta.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I know what you’re going through Rusty.
Back in April I spent a few days in the hospital while they tried to get my blood sugar down. I was feeling weak, run down, and dehydrated. By the time I went to get checked out, my blood sugar was at 905 and my A1C was 15.6.
With a little diet change (stop drinking soda and sweet tea mostly), Metformin, I my A1C has been 5.6 since Sept and I haven’t seen a blood sugar reading over 110… even after eating too much pasta.

Mines basically back on track too after cutting all sweets and metformin. But 15.6? Wow dude. Glad they got you straightned up after that.

Its weird how it affects people differently, mine was 11.1 and i only symptoms i had was being thirsty and pissing alot. My sis in laws was like 8.1 or something and she was bascially fainting

 

[Bear in the woods]

Been on the border since I was 15. so 34 years later. I have noticed signs of it becoming more often.. always have managed it with eating anything I want. Just in smaller portions. And more often. I haven’t seen a doctor since Marine Corp . That was in my early twenties. May need to finally start changing my diet. It runs on both sides of my family. I Have also always burned food off fast doing heavy labor type jobs . lol not gonna lie. I refuse to work like that anymore. Been hard on my body. Guess I need to do a restoration job on myself instead of my trucks

 

[JoshT]

Damn, here I was thinking that the covid vaccine gave me Diabetes. Reading this is making me think it might have been a Ranger that did it.

Was diagnosed a month or so after getting a "mandatory" Covid vaccine for work. Seemed like a good thing to blame it on to me. Was officially diagnosed the week after Thanksgiving in 2021. The week before Thanksgiving my optometrist encouraged that I get checked immediately after seeing something in my eyes. Went the next day and surprise, blood sugar of 362. The A1C taken 2 weeks later (coonest I could get an appointment anywhere) was 12.5. Like manyt here I didn't know I ahd a problem and the doctors were shocked.

The doctor put me on metformin with the A1C test results and it was brought down to and stayed around 6.7 since. Now on Synjarday, still fairly stable on A1C. I don't check BS daily because there's not much I can do about it at this point and I got tired of poking holes in my finger for nothing. Was doing good with droping weight and had gotten down to a comfortable 175-180 lbs around this time last year. Got a new job in 2022 and am more stationary, it has let my weight creep back up to the 200 mark. Need to find a way to work in some more activity during the day.

Turns out the BS was affecting me more that I realized. What the optometrist saw that prompted the sugestion was microaneurysms in my eyes caused by diabetes. Apparently I was suffering from Diabetic Macular Edema which caused swelling in the retins and was messing with my vision. It caused straight lines to be wavy and blurry spots, but seems like it came on gradually enough that I learned to compensate for it without noticing. I've had to get injections in both eyes approximately every 8 weeks for about 1.5 years now. Unfortunately no end in sight at this time, but still managed to retain 20/20 corrected vision (worn glasses since 3rd grade) for almost the entire time.

 

[Terrys87]

This getting older is for the birds. When I was young, I could not gain weight. I was under weight. Now I am older I can't keep the weight off very easily. Eyesight, hip, cholesterol numbers are all going downhill. Hello enlarged prostate and no more sleeping 8 hours at a time.