Eating meat is fine, as long as you aren't using any kinds of marinades that have sugar or corn syrup in them.

Cut bread and sweets out as much as possible. Cut the amount of rice, potatoes, and pasta you eat in half. Walk when the weather is good. Go back to the doctor in exactly 3 months (like, make the appointment from now) and get tested again.

Edit: if you like fresh fruit, eat apples and cherries. They don't cause a lot of spiking. Eating 25 fresh cherries instead of a dinner roll will help fill you up.

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GI tract bleeding and extreme dizziness from stupidly low blood sugar.

The bleeding was primarily from a wild excess of lactic acid. Which got handled in a painful 20.5 hours. But which led to the weirdest weekend of my life thanks to the insurance fraud of my treating "physician ".

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those fuckers are the biggest fraud con artists that exist. The whole system is fucked up. It's basically legal to steal people's money. Obamacare didnt go too far.

How did you develop this condition? that scares me. At least you can eat a lot of chocolate and be fine with it.

Truth. One problem I'm gonna have will be potatoes going forward will be potatoes though.

Maybe I'm part Black Irish.

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I don't eat healthy if at all while drinking too much. The irony is that I'd been scaling the drinking back until my miserable last seven weeks.

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Can we just kill this guy now and resurrect StoneRoses?

Hell, I'd even take back JimmyPasta.

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This guy

Maybe the wrong thread for this, but we are seeing the early effects how the hospitals have decided to handle the post covid shortage of quality RN and physician staff.

Hospitals are filling staff shortages with traveler RN's, they fill spots, but are only there for a short time, so do the bare minimum, and have no long-term affiliation with the hospital so they really don't work very hard. You also see a Hospitalist when your admitted and they are sometimes not the best doctors.

However, the biggest issue, and I'm living this with mom, is that if you don't have a good primary care provider you see either an APN or a doctor that was either at the bottom of their med school class or is from another country. They do very little and miss out on labs or signs that should be dealt with early, but become big problems later, often requiring hospitalization for the very test or lab results that should have been dealt with in the office months ago. Was able to direct care for my mom during her last hospitalization, but I know exactly what her labs/test mean, so was able to talk with the Hospitalist and get her issues treated. Her nurse, who was a traveler, had no idea how to navigate in the charting software they used, so had to show her how to find her previous test results and how to select her pharmacy.

It's a very transitional time in healthcare right now, but very few people other than those working in the hospital environment really know what's going on, and there is very little creativity within hospital administration or within local/state/federal governmental types to meet the new demands.

Hospitalists should be banned. I have a professional relationship with my doctor so that when I'm really sick the doctor can direct my care. Not hand it over to some insurance jockey.

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You know me like that.

I use to work w/ this guy long time ago where he said his sister in law was a terrible nurse. That so many patients died in her care and continue to. It sounded like he did not much like her and maybe was exaggerating this story but I wouldn't dismiss it.

I'm sure there are some really bad doctors and nurses out there. In these cases, does the system weed them out or they just hop from hospital to hospital?

Since my diagnosis I've walked at least a mile daily. The only day I missed was yesterday because rained pretty hard outside.

I have cut out on pretty much all sugar foods that I know are bad. I did have a weak moment at the Batman movie where I ate some popcorn but not the entire tub. But I still shouldn't have. Also no junk food / fast food since that time.

Threw out any sugary foods I had in my possession. The thing that is hard is over the weekend, I usually have a 10pc Nigiri I get at Japantown market. I am getting mixed signals about not eating rice at all vs eat rice once in a while, sushi is fine. Not sure but I'm feeling if I do eat a rice meal, I'll keep it small and also hoping my daily workout routine balances it off.

added - oh shit, i forgot for dinner last night I had Shrimp Pad Thai. It was noodles and shrimp but I know it's greasy. Bad or good?

Salads are really hard to get use to. I am counting on exercise to balance a lot off if I happen to have weak moments.

Metamucil is a wonder powder. Restores your guts to the original shine.

probably go brown rice over white rice

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"...if you don't use it, you'll get cancer and die"

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Red beans taste better and give you a lot of protein.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

If your looking to clear the pipes and only have access to OTC meds, nothing works better than the good 'ole Colonoscopy prep regimen of Dulcolax followed by a bottle or two of Mag Citrate, can usually find both of them on the same shelf at Walgreens, but be pretty close to the bathroom for several hours.

Im not a fan of brown rice so maybe I'll look into the beans.

For sushi, others have recommended me go w/ Sashimi but not a fan of it.

One thing I have been lacking on is drinking lot of water. I think I maybe 1 bottle a day. I got to increase that x10.

they recommend just under 4 liters a day of water

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Hope they at least talked to you about doing a GI workup and are monitoring your HGB levels moving forward.