Confused about what Americans and Canadians test blood sugar

according to google 100 mg/deci liter converts to
canadian 5.6 mm ol/liter .

more info to convert canadian to american you multiply 'your reading by 18. this should help to unconfuse you and me too.

I figure you can reverse it or keep metobolic syndrome or pre diabetes from turning into full blown diabetes with diet and exercise. My blood sugar is going down and I do not want the staples in my stomach. I have a niece in law who had it and well she was always cheating. I do not know what my blood sugar is now. I do not want to get one of those glucose meters (hate needle in the finger and besides if you do it enough times you sort of run out of places to pr1ck( meaning poke with a needle) and besides getting one test every three months is good enough.)
I do want to know if I go to the States for a visit and drop in to see a doctor and he says that my blood sugar is at 120 or 100 or something, whether to faint or to jump for joy.

hi again oh suspenseful those meters can help you to
know what foods raise or lower your blood sugarlevels'they
are now super easy to use, and the needle is so tiny that
it does not hurt, plus you can use and reuse all your fingers'
over and over, going by a1cs does not help daily lifeas you need to know each day how you are doing so you can alter your foods, and no you can not reverse diabetes, my g. if that were true'do you not think my doctor would have done that y ears back,do not kid yourself once you are fullblown you are a diabetic you have to learn how to control it and then just get on with your life, do not let it control you.

My doctor has not put recommended any of those meters yet. I think it is once he says, that means that your case is hopeless that you are full blown diabetic, not pre diabetic or if you eat proper, it will reverse, but for the rest of your life, etc. And since I only get tested every three months, he feels if I lose a little more weight, I will not have that worry.

hi I also would be lost without my glucometer to measure morning blood sugar every morning when I get up and thats way before I can have breakfast.
I want to know every morning where I am for the day and what I am allowed to eat with the blood sugar level I have when I wake up.

It's not that you can reverse diabetes, because you can't. Once a diabetic always a diabetic. What you can do though is manage to keep it down closer to the "normal" range.

Just recently my doctor said I was doing so well that she wanted me to stop the medicine for 3 months and try and control the diabetes with diet alone and then my A1C level will be tested at the end of the 3 months to see if diet alone can control it.

So it's not really reversing diabetes it's taking good control over it.

That does sound depressing. I am still on the near the border side and I have lost some weight, but if it is once a diabetic always a diabetic it must be something one is born with. After all, you cannot help it if you were born with the tendency to get fat in your middle or maybe it is a curse sort of like once your tubes are gone, they cannot grow back. Maybe it is a punishment for all that Halloween candy I ate as a youngster or my very sweet tooth then,
bit then why are so many children who ate candy then, not diabetic now?

Don't go on a guilt trip. What is past is gone, try to make your own future better.

I book marked it. I will have to go and read all the information, but what I learned would be very helpful. I want to know how to lower my blood sugar without going into starvation mode, and if there are any herbs that would help. I do know that cinnamon is good for it, but want to know if there are any others

My father had it. That is the whole trouble. I am trying to keep my blood sugar under control, but do not want to go into the no no diet. Another thing is that my husband does not have it. Now you may think good, but that means that I have to buy different things that he does. Next year I will have a garden but right now, unless it is in the harvest season, i have to pay more for what i get. I will check the Canadian Diabetes site because i want to find out who gave the hospital the idea that I can eat white flour stuff and no salads or raw carrots. I hope it was not them.

Your initial question was to find out how to convert Canadian sugar measurements into American values and Visa Versa. I sincerely hope you are clear about that part of my post. It is important to be able to convert these values if you are reading American publications.
As for the hospital giving you the wrong food I can only surmise that there was a mixup when the instructions were sent to the kitchen. I do not believe for an instance that diabetes is treated differently in Manitoba.

I hope it was a mix up or they were not as up to date as the rest of Manitoba was. We are sort of a bit behind in a lot of things though. But then hospital food is not that good for you anyway. I am not going to say that the diabetic information in Manitoba is as good as everywhere else in Canada. I am a bit of a skeptic, but I do know that that hospital view of what diabetics eat now*(not what they thought ten or twenty years ago) has made me reluctant to join any diabetic club here. If they had added some more fruit and vegetables and not had just pasta and ground beef, and that white rice pudding (white rice having a high glycemic value( I would have gone to the diabetic center in our neighborhood and asked for suggestions for recipes, etc.

If you go the the website for the Canadian Diabetes Association you will find plenty of suggestions and also what resources are available to you. This association speaks for all Canadians.
What puzzles me is if you were admitted to the hospital as a patient with diabetes, then you should have been seen by a nurse and dietician trained in diabetes who would have made up directions and sent those to the food preparation unit. On the other hand you say you are pre-diabetic. So maybe in those cases you get regular food because no special instructions are sent down. If on the other hand you were there because your husband was there and you yourself were not admitted you should have gotten no food at all. At least that is how it is in Ontario hospitals.

Thanks. That is what i was looking for. I guess when I read it, I will have to use my reading glasses. I was a bit confused, but I am not any more. Thanks.

Yes I had to read it a couple times but it made sense enough to me to post it for you. As always thank you for the BR.

Thanks

Zelo