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I thank you for bumping this up, as I missed this thread the first time.
I will try magnesium, since I have long thought (Type I diabetic) that my cells do not process the insulin I take very well, and I take a lot of insulin, even on my low-carb diet (I have an Omnipod pump).
I do tend to eat a lot of salad with butter-crunch lettuce that I grow; while it is a source of magnesium (looking it up just now), it is still rather minimal. I will try to incorporate spinach, as well as the supplement. We shall see!
Check spinach and oxalates. I don't eat fresh spinach but cooked some times.
I shall update: early last week I purchased a magnesium supplement, and began popping one in the morning.
I did not notice any difference in my blood sugar levels for the first four or five days (kept track, in part, by my Dexcom device).
However, by day six I noticed a definite improvement. Indeed, I guess on day seven or so I took my 'usual' dose of Novolog (via my Omnipod, using the extended feature) to cover the carbs in a food I often eat: I ended up fighting off low blood sugar by taking 3 or 4 glucose pills over the next hour or two.
I also suffered from the 'dawn phenomenon': I may wake up to a blood sugar level of 115, but if I did not take a hefty bolus immediately (say, 10 units), even without eating, my blood sugar would, in the next hour or two, raise to 170 or so (meaning, I fought high blood sugar for the rest of the day). The last few days: gone. No morning bolus needed until I have breakfast (which is always very low carb, not more than four grams, if that).
I have not changed my eating habits. Yet, it is incontrovertible, at least in my case, that the insulin is working as it should. I guess that the magnesium takes some days to become fully effective.
Anyway, count me, at least as of right now, as a convert.
I shall update: early last week I purchased a magnesium supplement, and began popping one in the morning.
I did not notice any difference in my blood sugar levels for the first four or five days (kept track, in part, by my Dexcom device).
However, by day six I noticed a definite improvement. Indeed, I guess on day seven or so I took my 'usual' dose of Novolog (via my Omnipod, using the extended feature) to cover the carbs in a food I often eat: I ended up fighting off low blood sugar by taking 3 or 4 glucose pills over the next hour or two.
I also suffered from the 'dawn phenomenon': I may wake up to a blood sugar level of 115, but if I did not take a hefty bolus immediately (say, 10 units), even without eating, my blood sugar would, in the next hour or two, raise to 170 or so (meaning, I fought high blood sugar for the rest of the day). The last few days: gone. No morning bolus needed until I have breakfast (which is always very low carb, not more than four grams, if that).
I have not changed my eating habits. Yet, it is incontrovertible, at least in my case, that the insulin is working as it should. I guess that the magnesium takes some days to become fully effective.
Anyway, count me, at least as of right now, as a convert.
Amazing and thanks for the update. Do MD's go to the magnesium issue?
If only diabetics knew this important mineral. Everyone for that matter.
I knew on young man with Type I and he went thru so much, have lost contact and I know 2 women with Type 2 but they don't "hear" me with what I bring to them, they keep trying various meds.
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Amazing and thanks for the update. Do MD's go to the magnesium issue?
If only diabetics knew this important mineral. Everyone for that matter.
I knew on young man with Type I and he went thru so much, have lost contact and I know 2 women with Type 2 but they don't "hear" me with what I bring to them, they keep trying various meds.
I am going to inform my diabetes doctor (endocrinologist) when I see him next month. My last A1c was 7.0 percent (the best I have ever measured), and I shall be interested to see if it improves. Since my readings have become much more stable, I would hope so.
I am going to inform my diabetes doctor (endocrinologist) when I see him next month. My last A1c was 7.0 percent (the best I have ever measured), and I shall be interested to see if it improves. Since my readings have become much more stable, I would hope so.
It will be interesting to hear what the endo says about "your" findings. Thinking about the young fellow I knew with Type 1, I heard about him thru his grandmother, he would not take care of himself, I recall he was passing out often. The mag would be something that would help him too, but we've lost contact and grandmother died. Plus I attempted to get him on grape seed ex as there is a lot of info on this antioxidant and reduction of diabetes.
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