Navigating Diabetes Management

I didn't know you had MS as well, but one of our co-directors, Osman Khan, he has MS as well. You're okay. He'll be chairing the webinar. I'm going to go to the next question. The last one is what do you what do you feel that the health share diabetes community could do to help you in this season? Whenever we say, for example, if I do approach them, maybe guide me to the right people and sections and so somebody can come back with the knowledge And say, for example, I don't know, maybe some people have issues with their eyes, some kidney problems, some people have heart problems. And sometimes you don't... I wouldn't know if I have a problem with heart problem where to approach, even if I go to my doctor. Doctors, I'm sorry to say this, but doctors do not have all the... They just want to see the patient in five minutes and out. And I'll be at that time heart patient, kidney patients or whatever patients need. a proper care and say, OK, you will be seen by this, this, this. So maybe this health care sections would be able to provide the right information. So we are so as diabetes, you know that you will reduce your complication and you will have the quality of life more quicker. And yeah, and yeah, that's basically And when you go to the doctors or your own diabetic doctor or whatever, they say, okay, they will not put you to the right place, I'm sorry to say this, because the waiting list for everything else is very long, even for a physio, even for anything is very long. So you need somebody just to say, yes, you can have this appointment at this time, which is more, which is more good and, you know, thinking, oh yes, there is help out there, instead of waiting for months and months. But because I've had it for so long, because I was 13 when I had it, now I know where I've gone wrong. And I do try, because you just need to, in type 2-1 diabetes, you just need to give an extra doses of insulin, insulin, unless it's very, very high, then obviously you would need to go into hospital and be admitted, but I don't want to be ever in that case. Whereas I know that you just need to, by eating the right doses of your medication and by giving the right quantity or the quantity of the insulin, you should be able to work it out and bring your sugar under control. Obviously, within 24 hours to 48 hours, it should go down. Unless you are on steroids, then that's a different problem, because sometimes when you are given steroids, it takes about a couple of days, because then the sugar level goes up and down very, very quickly. I think it's just, if your sugar level goes up, and if you're a type one diabetes, diabetic, you need to take control there, you need to see what you've eaten and how much, you need to work out your regime of your, say, one unit equals to this much of carbs. And say, for example, one unit is three carbs and you need to give yourself according to that. Try and, I mean, some people, insulin, when I first started and I got into this insulin, I used to give myself too much insulin and tend to eat, then used to eat the wrong food. So make sure you don't. Now I do, even if I eat something and I've given myself less units, I know that while my sugar is, I don't know, 12, I can give myself one more unit to bring it down. So that's how you play around. It doesn't just come automatically very quickly. And also don't forget to take your medication at the right time before food or even after food. sometimes if you've eaten too much, you can still take one unit and don't forget your metformin. Like I sometimes do forget, I'm not saying I don't, but I give myself enough insulin to bring my sugar levels down. So that's really important that you take your insulin and your medication at the right time to bring your, so your sugar level is under control all the time. Because it takes after two, and you test your sugar after two hours of eating, because it takes two hours for you to get to the right reading again after you've eaten. That's an important point. And also, I never used to have nuts or anything. Everybody has, you know, you want to nibble at something. So what I do now when I'm working, I have small nuts or peanuts or whatever it is, small quantity so instead of eating the wrong food I just have a handful of nuts or some kind of fruits like which are small in sugar like avocado or something like that, apricots which is not too much of sugar, sugar control you know like forget about bananas and stuff because obviously that's a lot, piece of apple piece of avocado or something like that so you at least you are nibbling something and at the same time you are not eating the wrong food and your sugar is not going up so high either that's another and you're not putting on weight that's another issue in diabetes