This past weekend while bending over to move my grill my back caught me again. I wound up in my bed looking at the ceiling for 3 days. Well it happened again yesterday so I called the spine doctor that I had been refereed to and he told me to come on in and he would figure out whats causing it. So I get there around 11:30am and the nurse begins all of the first time patient work such as my vitals, height, weight, etc. Well one of the things they a record of is your blood glucose level. When she took mine it was at 423. She checked it with a second meter just to be sure and it was at 418. They stopped the exam right there and advised me to get to the hospital ER ASAP. So we left there and headed strait to the ER. They took me strait back and took my blood glucose again, This time it read 410. I had not ate anything since 8am that morning so they decided to run a full blood workup on me.
So the final verdict is that I have Diabetes, I still have no idea why my back is catching me, and I have to change my whole lifestyle once again.
2 years ago I was told that I was boarder line hypertensive which means I was on the way to having high blood pressure. So I modified my diet greatly, cut out 99% of the bacon and fried foods I was eating. I got that under control in less than a year. The Dr I was under then was really great on advising me about what I needed to do.
The Dr. at the ER yesterday was very vague on the diet I needed to switch to. His only advice was to stop eating white bread and switch to whole grain wheat. I called and set up an appointment with my normal doc, but he will not be able to see me until July 15th. So does anyone here have Diabetes? What should I avoid eating other than high sugar foods which is a given.
I do still walk, Not every day but at least 3 times a week. Average is about 2.75 miles each session. I think I am going to go back to 3 miles a day 5 days a week and get my ass into the gym for more working out.