Diabetics on medication are led to believe Diabetes is some sort of a game you play to see how much Sugar Starch input you can still "get away with".
Here is what we see those defending the current continuation of medications that are being shown to kill diabetics earlier then those taking no medications at all and running what was thought to be dangerously high blood sugar levels.
The ploy here is that doctors are not going to get anyone diabetic to stop their high sugar consumption so they need to do is help them survive as long as possible with their continuing their life high sugar input lifestyle.
This is like telling the smoker, okay you can continue one pack a day since we know we wont get you to quit. We will get you some medication to cut your hacking and coughing down to a more tolerable level and we will get you a meter to see if you can regulate just how much lung irritation you can get away with. .
To do that for your diabetes, assuming you are not going to control your input, they use various combinations of whatever types of prescriptions necessary to hopefully keep the patient blood sugar in tolerable range.
For the patient to determine if the prescribed drugs are keeping the blood sugar within reasonable range, a finger stick blood test meter is supplied with test strips costing about $1. each.
Some patients test an average of as much as eight times a day. Medicare and most insurance will pay for about 3 test strips per day.
Most patients do not calibrate their meter with every package of test strips using a calibration solution. per the instructions. The result is machines can be 20% off as a matter of practice uncalibrated.
They are never accurate enough to determine hypoglycemia, or too low blood sugar that drives you into insulin shock (unconscious) (rebound of too high insulin from insulin raising prescriptions.) so they can not be used for that. In contrast the concerns about high level or 20% inaccuracy is not as important since you would likely do little different if your reading was 200 or 250.
Patients usually go back in a month for readjustment of their prescriptions. If a drug like Metformin restricting the speed of blood sugar getting into blood stream, is inadequate, they often will prescribe a second drug to force your pancreas to produce extra insulin to. lower your blood sugar.
Have never heard of a single doctor that tests your insulin level to see what it is currently producing before prescribing insulin raising drugs to force your pancreas to produce even higher insulin levels.
Often your pancreas is already making two or three times normal insulin to try to get blood sugar to reasonable levels.
So drugs forcing your Pancreas to make ever higher insulin levels is going to likely put dangerous levels of insulin in your blood stream and/or eventually cause your pancreas to totally shut down from exhaustion.
Thereby making you a type one diabetic since you have lost all blood sugar control and are now totally dependant on insulin shots for life.
Some foods will not show up on your blood glucose readings until two hours or more later, others almost instantly, You will have constant concern about what is the right time to test. You will need to bookkeep your readings to learn best times and most accurate reading times.
When you get an ungodly high blood glucose reading from eating something high sugar that you apparently not get away with, what is it exactly knowing about the high reading, do you do about it?
Prescriptions are normally taken once per day and so any reference to high or low readings is only informational, little or nothing you can do about it, except perhaps run around the block to try and lower your blood sugar.
Test meters are stressful in indicating huge blood sugar dangers or overages, (often inaccurate) but leave you no avenue to do much of anything about it.
Actually, if what they gave you isn't working to allow what you want to keep doing, just ask for "stronger' medications a second pill that drives your pancreas, to double or triple insulin output,......... until it quits from exhaustion, and/or eventually leading to even artificial insulin shots....... then you just bookkeep and up the insulin to mesh up with your high sugar input.
Neighbor with diabetes says, "Diabetes is no big deal, you just have to "take medications" and you can pretty much go about life as usual.
You then do finger prick blood testing every few hours to see if you are getting away with it correctly or not according to some arbitrary figure on a meter.
Need to watch now for insulin rebound and hypoglycemia, you were watching for high blood sugar, now you have to also watch for low blood sugar and going into insulin shock and loosing consciousness etc when on insulin shots or medication driving your pancreas to triple production of insulin. New hazard to test and bookkeep for.
No one tells you high insulin levels do body damage that contributes to premature death, they merely tell you "Very Important to control you blood sugar so you do not get "diabetic Complications,".
If you ask why you are not seeing your insulin levels, on test reports, you are told it is "not important" and we do not test for that, only your blood sugar levels.
If you insist on an insulin test report and you have a high number, they will likely tell that is "normal" and not to be concerned about.
We as usual, invite you to research this subject yourself, it is your life expectancy involved here.
Dr. Bernstiens book explains why Diabetic Doctors die earlier in statistics then general diabetic public. Bernstien speculates is that they likely follow their own diabetic instructions closer then the general public does.
Editors Note:
Look for many articles soon by Doctors Admitting that the Suppressing with Medications and constantly testing
Glucose Levels has Been an Almost a total nearly worthless mistake. There is a 1993
study that started the whole thing on suppressing blood sugar with medications, that if you read it will realize that study was totally flawed. There have been no scientific studies supporting it an now several totally debunking it, and that they are ignoring. Many are waking up and realizing what have we been doing here?
Pretty difficult to admit they have been wrong all this time.
The Diabetes Association still pronounces, you can stay on your regular diet as long as you suppress the high blood glucose levels with medication.
This believe it or not, is the fund raising drive you send money so they can continue this sort of nonsense. Umpteen billions of fund raising over 70 years and have never cured even one diabetic, only overseen the biggest epidemic increase as any disease in history.
