Ahmed Afifi

 My seat came next to him on my flight heading to Stuttgart, Germany to attend a business seminar. He was a German man, as I learned later, in his mid-forties half-bald with small circular glasses, which adds a tinge of virtual intelligence to his face. He looked disheveled, erratic, and fidgeting in an impatient and restless manner. I did not pay much attention to him. I was thinking deeply about the intruder who showed up aggressively into my life lately. What will I do with this silent killer that attacked me suddenly? Diabetes has introduced me to nearly a dozen doctors and a plethora of new medications. Basically, I was given ordinary mainstream medical advice. I discovered later that most of this advice did not help me to achieve normal blood sugar. I also figured out later that the dilapidated guidelines, I was preached about, caused fatal complications and severe suffering for many people with diabetes all over the world. Unfortunately, I could not control my diabetes at ...

Living the twenty four hours a day trying to control the monster called Diabetes is something that I am immersed in since I was diagnosed with Diabetes and this continuous monitoring kind of life drove me on a path that had showed me, clearly, how   things related to DB management   are so misunderstood out there by many of fellow Diabetics, their endos or nutritionists.     There is a great deal of lack in real understanding   of   all the needs and requirements   for achieving normal blood sugar numbers especially in Diet issues.   In fact, if I am only supposed to control my Diabetes and that is it; it won’t be a problem but the reality is; being an activist in Diabetes management issue through social media websites had put me face to face with numerous cases of severely uncontrolled Diabetes; that always bring tears to my eyes. I am not that kind of person who settle down by just being sympathetic with people that need help a...

Dear fellow diabetic, I will put in your hand some useful steps that I learn as a diabetic by either reading or by experience ...I hope these steps will help you to achieving good numbers; if you really follow them strictly: 1. Eat less carbs ...eat no more than 60 gm of carbs daily. 2. Quit any mix insulin like Mixtard forexample and use fast acting insulin like Apidra, Humalog or Novorapid and basal insulin like Lantus or Levemir. 3. Educate yourself on how to count carbs and master it efficiently. 4. Buy a food balance. 5. Know your numbers...know your senstivity factor, insulin to carbs ratio and how to estimate insulin on board. 6. Master your insulin, its dose, its timing, its onset, its peak, its matching with the type of food that you eating. 7. Know your blood sugar target and stick to it as much as you can. 8. As a start follow a strict but moderate target like under 110 fasting, under 140 two hrs after food and A1C under 6.5. 9. Don't follow your Dr. Advises ...