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Egg yolk have 200 mg. cholesterol in each one, and I don't do egg beaters because of the extra added ingredients. I was eating eggs and cheese to keep down the sugars. My cholesterol is 80 % produced by the body and only 20 % from food. I use 99% fat free ground turkey breast. Even with some good steak seasoning it can taste like dry, spicy cardboard, but with a package of pea pods in a stir fry, it is good.
My supplements include a multi, exra calcium and magnesium per doctor, 3 gram of fish oil (including the salmon), and aspirin. PLUS as of the blood test last week 10 mg. of pravastatin. I don't like statins and I have read that women don't get the same cholesterol lowering effect from them as do men.View Thread



Back when Dean Ornish was recommending all that whole grain carb, I tried that diet and my tyiglycerides went up over 425. Not for me! Some people can eat more carbs than others. On a diet of 40% of the total calories being carbs 30 % protein, and 30% good fats, I can keep in the prediabetic range. I do not believe, for me, that total vegan would work because I am so sensitive to carbs. For some people, it might work.View Thread

There could be several reasons why it was still so high. They sort of all boil down to the idea that the food you ate for dinner had more carbohydrates (sugars and starches) in it than your own body's insulin could handle, even with the glyburide which makes your pancreas beta cells try to produce even more insulin than they could without the drug. If your own body plus the drug still cannot handle all the sugar you ate, then the sugar will still be in your bloodstream.
That means you need to talk to your doctor and tell him your numbers NOW, instead of waiting for another appointment weeks or months in the future. He will decide if you need still stronger medicine, and may sign you up for a dietician to help you plan meals with less sugars and starches.View Thread




That is a lot of insulin. Were you are various meds before that, which didn't seem to work? Are you watching your sugar and starch intake vary carefully? Excess glucose (sugary and starchy foods) intake will make you feel very tired. Are you on an insulin which you take before meals to counteract you carb intake or an insulin to act all day? What is you blood sugar (by your glucose monitor) before meals and 2 hours post prandial? Do you know which food tend to spike you sugars? You look young from your picture. How long have you been a diabetic? Definitely do not change meds without first seeing your doctor.View Thread
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