Puteri’s World

The items I ordered from my favorite food supplement store yesterday.

Item No: 0561 TURMERIC EXTRACT 95% CURCUMIN Quantity: 1
Item No: 5092 GREEN TEA RED CLOVER Quantity: 1
Item No: 7439 MELATONIN Quantity: 1
Item No: 9732 CAYENNE PLUS FORMULA 973 Quantity: 1

Order Total: $40.48

Three had to do with their ability to lower blood glucose level and one is supposed to be helpful in bringing down blood pressure.

I read an article about melatonin, and thought I’d give it a try. I have stopped taking a diuretic drug because of its tendency to raise my blood glucose level, and since then my doctor has not prescribed me anything to replace it.

Actually, I was supposed to attend a pre-diabetic class this afternoon, but I started having chills during the day. A sore throat developed some time yesterday everything and today, chills and some coughing.

After the pre-diabetic class, I am supposed to make an appointment with my doctor and he will evaluate the status of my pre-diabetic condition and maybe give an alternative prescription for controlling my high blood pressure.

Now I will have to re-schedule my pre-diabetic class. I hope I won’t have to wait a month for the next class, like I did for today’s and then not be able to attend it at the last minute!

This evening, as our usual practice on a Friday night, we went out to dinner. Since it was still drizzling after a day of high winds and rain, we decided to eat at our local sushi restaurant instead of driving 10 miles to the next town for a Chinese Seafood Buffet.

Twice before, after a sushi dinner my blood glucose readings were higher than normal. I had vowed to stay away from sushi after those two experiences! Oh well, so much for the vow!

However, this time I remembered to take my gymnema sylvestre capsule before leaving for the restaurant. Gynema sylvestre is an herb and proven to have sugar lowering properties.

As usual I ordered one of my favorite sushi rolls on the menu, as well as green tea. I drank several cups of tea throughout the meal, and after the meal I took a tablet of alpha lipoic acid. Alpha Lipoic acid is known to speed up the removal of glucose in the bloodstream.

Because of the weather we skipped the usual shopping after dinner and went straight home. I spent a few minutes on my exercise bicycle hoping that that bit of exercise will also help with lowering my blood glucose.

Two hours after dinner, I did my blood glucose test. Wow, I was happy to note that it was 115 mg/dL. The blood glucose reading for a normal person is under 120 mg/dLl two hours after a meal.

That means I do not have to totally give up sushi as long as I remember to take my gymnema sylvestre capsule before a meal, take my alpha lipoic acid tablet after the meal and do some exercise after the meal. And oh yes, drink some green tea during the meal! Green tea is also known to have some blood sugar lowering properties.

I love sushi and what a relief to know I can continue to eat sushi. Of course I can further help myself by refraining from ordering the BIG rolls!

I was at my doctor’s office last week, and I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic. He took me off the diuretic drug he had prescribed me a couple of years ago for my prehypertension. He wants to see if the drug had anything to do with the rise in my blood sugar level. He wants to evaluate my blood sugar level when he sees me again in four weeks, and possibly prescribe an alternative drug to control my hypertension.

Since I was no longer taking the diuretic drug, I had to look for a more natural alternative. I have always found tea to be diuretic and recently I read that ginger is a good diuretic.

I went a little overboard at the tea section of the Asian supermarket recently. I bought more than just ginger tea. I also bought teas that were supposed to have sugar lowering properties. Better to drink tea if it works, then take drugs, eh! Some of the teas, especially the one containing gymnema sylvester tastes horrible! It’s medicine, what can I expect?!