Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself - 6

Even before going for a short photo trip last Saturday, I found that my throat was burning and I kept on coughing. This means that the so called heat in the body has moved to the throat. In fact, a week ago, I had suffered pain in top right teeth. The pain was not in a fixed area and that proved to me that the teeth had nothing wrong.

I told my Doctor this Monday and he changed the medicine to deal with the throat first. Will this change delay my recovery from diabetes? Not really, it is because no matter where the 'heat' is, the medicine to release the 'heat' will be good for the body as a whole.

For those who have no knowledge about Chinese medicine, it may not easy to understand such kind of treatment. In simple words, the organs of the body are functioning interactively. If we have some bad thing, 'heat', it can move from one part to another. The Chinese medicine is not killing the 'heat' directly. It is released through the excretion function. This is the goal, but the 'heat' may go to other areas first, especially those weaker parts.

I have mentioned the numbness of my fingers and feet. The numbness has reduced gradually; it is much less frequent now. That is a vital sign for recovery. I believe the blur eye sight would be the last part to recover. The two tests this week stay at 150 exactly. From two plus to one plus may require more time.

Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself - 5

Due to a photo trip starting from Nov. 23, I had to stop taking the Chinese medicine from Nov. 22, to avoid the diarrhea side effect during my trip.

After coming back in the late evening yesterday, I take this chance to test the urine again this early morning before breakfast. Without medicine for four days, it should be the best condition for this test. Good, it remains 150, just two plus. That means the condition of my diabetes is quite stable.

I do not expect to jump back to 50 in a short time. As discussing with my Doctor, this case might be started a few years ago. It is because I have begun to control my diet some years ago. I control the quantities only, not the varieties like most did. For me, I believe that the body needs a lot of ingredients to keep up with my activities from mind to limbs. Only spicy food is taken out from my daily consumption. Red meat, white meat etc. remain in my recipe though the quantities are reduced to about half of what I had before. Recently, New York Times has an essay, "The Claim: White Meat Is Healthier Than Dark Meat", repeating again the wrong concept of white meat. However, most people will not accept this fact and still keeping the wrong information in their minds. No problem, it is their lives and they are the only ones to respond for any mistakes.

For me, I am still working from 8 am to 11 pm. The only difference from before is I have half hour sleep after lunch daily.

Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself - 4

To recover from diabetes, it is not a short term treatment. But I believe that if the treatment is right, it would not be too long.

The reading this morning seems to be 130-140. Due to the chart has 50 and 150 and the color is slightly lighter than 150, so I guess that it should be about 130-140.

Improvement from 4 plus to 2 plus was quick, but it is certain that moving down from 150 to 50 or less will not be a short term outcome. Although I do not have the exact record, yet I think that it has taken a long time of disorder to reach the 4 plus situation. Therefore, it should not be a quick fix case.

Same as my previous experience, I have to keep the same treatment until fully recover. Certainly, I cannot be the same way as before. Getting older is something that I have to face. Fortunately, I had spoiled my life from all kinds of entertainment and I do not have any regret at all.

The old saying that you must enjoy when you were young is not wisdom, but a true conclusion from long term experience and statistics. No one would be exception.

Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself -3

My case may be easy to manage because I discover it earlier. I do thank the insurance company, otherwise I might not know until sometime later.

Knowing the symptoms should be an important part of our lives.

From the "Diabetes Mellitus", the general symptoms cover

increased urine output;
increased thirst;
weight loss despite an increase in appetite;
fatigue, nausea and vomiting.

From other sources, the additional symptoms are blur eyesight and multifocal sensory neuropathy including numbness etc.

In fact, about a year ago, I had some minor problem. The fingers and feet were numb occasionally. I had checked and could not come out with any confirmation.

About nine months ago, when I went to replace my eye glass, the optometrist told me that my right eye was hard to examine. Therefore he chose the lower adjustment for safety. He also said that it was a common behavior to use one eye that lead to such problem. Yes, I did find that I used my right eye only. I started to concentrate to use both eyes to see.

After finding the diabetes problem, I discussed with that optometrist again. He knew that some people like my age would have blur eyesight but he remembered that no one had blur eyesight with one eye only. I may be the exception.

The conclusion now is if someone is over 50, any similar symtoms whether listed or not in related information, it is always better to apply urine test to confirm.

Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself - 2

I have been reminded that more accurate result would be before taking any food or drink except water. So yesterday when I waked up, I tested again. The result was still two plus because the color was closer to 50 than 500 (three plus); just a little bit darker than the test on the previous day. It is decided to test twice every week from now on.

My treatment will be continued since it is better not to have the high reading coming back.

The best way in life is to listen to your body. I must admit that I had not noticed for at least two years. This careless behavior got my two teeth already. My excuse is the over concentration for a project that started two years ago.

Before going to review the recent case, I prefer to say more about my chosen treatment.

In fact, this is not the first time. When I was 19, after going to X'mas parties for seven nights continuously, I had Jaundice. This article is in Merck website. During that time, I searched many books because there was no Internet yet. My analysis was different. The disorder of the liver for my case should be taking too much tasty food. So I decided that there was no need to see any doctor. The treatment was simple: no salt, no sugar and no oil until recovered. The only additional was snake skin soup to move away the yellowish substance of the skin and whites of eyes. The fact is to let the liver stop over-production by natural method.

Due to my home was a bit far from the office, I had to ask my colleague who would go home for lunch prepared by his wife. She was asked to prepare separate food for me. Vegetable, fish, meat were cooked with water only. No taste food was not hard for me. The difficult part was I always hungry and had to prepare bread next to my pillow in case I waked up in middle of the night due to hungry. This is the first time, may be the last time, in my life to suffer such type of starvation!

During that time, a full three weeks period, my superiors and my family members always asked me to see the doctor. I did thank their advice, but I told them that I had confidence in my own treatment.

There was a famous Chinese opera comedian, Mr. Leung Sing Po (I am not sure whether his English name is right). He had the same problem at the same time. Certainly, he went to the doctor. Later, he had Gallstone and surgically removed. From this result, I do believe that he went to western doctor who would usually not ask the patient to avoid tasty food like I did.

My treatment was right and I had fully recovered after three weeks. The only outcome was my weight gained one or two pounds every month thereafter. Perhaps my internal organs had improved greatly due to the no salt, no sugar and no oil treatment.

I do not encourge other to follow my way. Without medication, it may be dangerous for some. Unless you have the full knowledge, otherwise just take my experience as reference only.

Nothing better than be a diabetes patient myself

Yes, I am not joking. It is a personal experience going on now. This is not a short story since I want to find the actual symptoms from my memory. But that will be the topic later.

Frankly speaking, I have seldom visited any western doctors since grown up. Certainly, I did not have any body check too.

It was by chance when insurance company wanted me to have a simple check up a few weeks ago. Without any experience of this kind, I had taken two cups of coffee that morning. The insurance company knew that I am a smoker for years since the age of 15. The doctor checked my blood pressure and listened to the lung and heart beat before checking the forelegs. Nothing wrong, he said. Then for the urine test, he said I had four plus, a very high level of sugar in simple terms. Of course, I told him that I had two cups of coffee that morning. So he asked me to visit again the next day and not to take any food or drink except water from mid-night that day till the next test in the morning. So I did and he tested and advised me that the result remained the same. You had to take the blood test, he said. The lab was just a few doors away at the same floor.

Three days after, I called the doctor, his nurse told me that the same result for my blood test and it was confirmed that I had diabetes and asked me to see any doctor that I knew.

Therefore, I had to start searching for information from the net and from others. A good article is: Diabetes Mellitus.

One friend told my wife that he got a healing recipe, green guava fruit with pig pancreas soup.

So I start my own arrangement that includes:

taking Chinese medicine from a Chinese Doctor;

drinking the soup once to twice a week;

reducing the sugar for my coffee and trying to have two cups a day instead of three.

After two weeks, with eight doses of Chinese medicine, I use the Medi-Test Glucose by Macherey-Nagel this morning. The reading is 150. As I do not know how to compare, then I visit their site as well as other information.

Glucose-Test and What are mg/dl and mmol/l?

Then I confirm that my reading is two plus. Of course, we must not rely on one test. But at least this shows that improvement is real.

I shall continue to post here what happens later and the knowledge that I get from this valuable experience.