@A DiabetesTeam Member that is a more complicated question.

First you would have to figure out "why" it's there. If that was an isolated reading after eating the french fries, they may have been the primary reason you went that high - so "maybe" no more fries = no more 300's

But if instead you are now "trending higher" then what typically were, so what I mean is you used to be able to eat "that meal" and you would stay a fair bit below 200 but "now" you are always closer to 300, that is an indication that something has progressed or your own insulin production has slowed down a little or maybe you are now a little more resistant to it.

Whatever the reason that would indicate a need for a change to or an addition of another medication (or insulin).

So simply, if it was something you "stuck in your mouth that one time", just don't do it again.

If it seems to be running "higher" no matter what you do, talk to your Doc and figure out how best to treat this (advancement).

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@A DiabetesTeam Member my Aunt's trouble with uncontrolled sugars took out her kidneys. For her last dozen or so years she was down to the dialysis lab three days a week - talk about putting a kink in enjoying your retirement years.

I can speak a little more about my father.

It would have been bad enough just losing the ability to walk but the high sugars also effected his vision and he developed diabetes dementia a good ten years before he died.

He was diagnosed at age 53 lived to be 82 but didn't take an unassisted step on his own for the last 15 years he lived and had constant pain from his legs - 15 solid years of pain, barely able to walk is not my idea of a good time - that is "lingering".

The infections that caused the leg problems also put a strain on his heart which left him constantly tired all the time - he barely had the energy to get out of his rocking chair to get to the washroom and that was for "well over a decade" - that is no way to live.

And that didn't have to happen - diabetes got him because he was "stubborn" - distrusted doctors and believed all that Big Pharma Crap - well I guess he taught them. Didn't go on meds until it was way too late. Refused to go on insulin until they told him his leg needed to come off if he wanted to live a couple of extra years.

He wouldn't listen to me at all - he may not have lived any longer but he would have been able to walk, see and think if he simply had have "gotten control" using whatever meds he had to swallow or how much insulin he had to inject.

If you ignore the Beast it will eat you slowly and it doesn't give a damn whether you believe it will happen to you or not.

I won't make that mistake myself. I'm not smarter then the beast. Whatever I need to eat or take or inject to keep my numbers in range is what I'm going to do.

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I believe you are referring to "Mounjaro" which is the "newest" drug in the class called GLP-1 Agonists that includes Ozempic, Trulicity and Victoza plus a couple lesser known ones.

Mounjaro was just approved a few months back (I think May of this year).

It has the same active (drug/ingredient - it works with the hormone our intestines produce that tell the pancreas to release insulin) as all of the well knowns ones I listed above but to try and "make it better" this new version also enhances a second hormone (released by the stomach) which also helps with insulin production.

So in theory it should work a little better, all else being equal, then the far more popular Ozempic (which seems to be the current favourite that is prescribed in this class), but should also carry all the same side effects, but also possibly some others since it is effectively "messing with 2 hormones" instead of just one like all the others in the same bunch.

I'm not suggesting "bad" but none of this class have been around very long. While the initial results look quite promising and they seem to work well nobody can tell you what they will do to you if you take them for 5 or 10 years.

But that is often the case. Uncontrolled Diabetes will kill you for sure and the death will be very painful and drawn out - you have to weigh that against some side effect that you "may" experience from taking a brand new drug with zero track record.

Thank you so much for sharing, Graham. Now I have another question.
How do I bring a high reading over 300+, down? I know to eat when it is too low but don't know what to do for high readings. The information you shared about
your family is scary enough that any diabetic should listen. You are a blessing to the rest of us. 😇

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