Originally Posted by MelodyL

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Brian:

One more good piece of info that I have just discovered (all by lonesome by the way). I am ALWAYS trying to find various kinds of foods that are 1. healthy, 2. low glycemic, and 3. just all around good for you. (and hopefully it will be tasty as well).

Well, boy did I hit the motherload when I stumbled across this.

Simply put....I have discovered SPROUTING!!!

Don't laugh. I used to go to the health stores (the ones that served food), and I used to buy the various pints of sprouts (never knowing that I could sprout them myself). I just plunked down $2.99 to $3.99 for those little boxes.

Some were Broccoli sprouts, some were alfalfa, etc. I would just toss them in the salad and eat them.

This was years ago.

But lately (because they opened up an organic food store within walking distance of my house), well, I went in and holy cow, all the produce, the sprouts (and packages of seeds, organic lentils, etc.).

I went online, watched youtube videos and decided "why buy these when I can grow them in my kitchen".

Well, for 2 weeks now, I've been growing organic sprouts in my kitchen.

I've been adding them to my salds, mashing them up and adding them to Alan's veggie patties, WHATEVER!!! I HAVE BEEN SPROUTING.

Well you should see the difference in my sugar readings. Holy cow. They actually lowered my Lantus to 16 (I'm not on any other diabetic meds).

This morning my sugar reading was 106 and in the afternoon it's 110. Yeah, sometimes if I don't eat every 4 hours, it will read 170, but that's not the norm. My a1c is 6 (down from 9) when I entered the Accord program.

My goal is to go off of insulin. Don't know if I'll get there but that's my intention.

And if eating sprouts helps me attain this (and it's great for the digestion, and full of enzymes), well to me, it's a no-brainer.

I just made veggie patties with my left over vegetables from yesterday, and I threw in some ground up Lentil sprouts. Holy Cow, are they good.

So as far as diabetic eating, I now have found something that I can grow, eat and it helps my body.

All good, right?

melody

Originally Posted by arnoldbk

I just joined this forum and I have some questions. I am an overweight type 2 diabetic. I was diagnosed in 1996 and almost immediately acquired severe diabetic neuropathy - worse than people who had diabetis for 30 years. I have a spinal cord stimulator, duragesic patches(150) and Vicodin ES for breakthru pain. Does anyone have any suggestions to relieve neuropathic pain?
I am going to try the sprouts to get my sugar down and my partners- his A1C is 11 and his sugar is frequently over 300. He had gotten it down under 200 for the first time in years but when he hit the doughnut hole in medicare he couldn't afford his Insulin (NovalogN). His doctor gave him Novalog but he is having a real rough time getting it under control. He loves salads and sprouts - we just didn't think of using them.
JudyH