Specialist Doctor’s Advice on Blood Glucose Lowering! You have high blood sugar, and you’re not sure what to do about how to lower blood sugar fast and quickly. You’ve heard there are ways to lower your blood sugar quickly, but you’re not sure if they work or are safe. In this blog post, you’ll learn […]

FUNDAMENTAL TIPS TO CONTROL DIABETES In this article, we will be talking about fundamental diabetes control tips. I think both type 1 and type 2 requires a holistic approach. We will give tips about diabetic diet, healthy eating, exercise for diabetes, monitoring blood sugars, taking diabetes medications, how to deal with problems around diabetes and […]

How often should a diabetic check blood sugars? Diabetic patients who are not using insulin should check blood sugar once or twice a day. Patients who take 3 or more injections of insulin should check blood sugars at least 4 times a day. We are going to talk about when and how often to check […]

Symptoms and Signs of Diabetes Signs and symptoms of diabetes can include but not limited to: Excessive thirst and urination Weight loss Hunger and fatigue Blurry vision Numbness or tingling on the feet Dry mouth and itchy skin Slow healing cuts or wounds Frequent infections Erectile dysfunction Chest pain   Many patients come to me […]

Why Telemedicine/Telehealth for Diabetes? During this coronavirus epidemic, everybody is now looking into telemedicine/telehealth. Most people have some understanding of telemedicine. Yet a lot of people do not know how to do it. At SugarMDs we look at telemedicine differently. For us, telemedicine is not just seeing the diabetic patient on the video. The basic […]

How does insulin resistance lead to prediabetes, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome We define Insulin resistance as a less than normal response to normal insulin concentrations. Prediabetes is the condition between insulin resistance and diabetes. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of metabolic derangements such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Insulin resistance eventually leads to a prediabetes state. So, when someone […]

1. Diabetes is a progressive disease. To understand what diabetes is about, we need to understand how diabetes happens.  Diabetes is a multifactorial disease.  Today, we are going to talk about type 2 diabetes only. Type 2 diabetes is not just insulin resistance or insulin deficiency as some might think. Diabetes type 2, starts with […]

In this article, we will talk about hypoglycemia/low blood sugar. Low blood sugar, in other words, hypoglycemia happens when blood sugars go below a certain level. Everybody feels hypoglycemia/low blood sugar at different blood sugar levels depending on their baseline blood sugar level. We will talk about that later in this article. Medically, hypoglycemia/low blood […]

DIABETIC NEUROPATHY OVERVIEW is a type of nerve damage because of diabetes.As a diabetes specialist, I hear about neuropathy commonly from my type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients. Diabetic neuropathy is so common that up to 26% of patients already have diabetic neuropathy at the time of a diabetes diagnosis. A generalized type of neuropathy […]

Is diabetes curable? Is there a cure for diabetes? I get this question all the time in my diabetes practice. Most of the time, the first reaction for somebody who was diagnosed with diabetes is to look up if there is an existing cure for the diabetes. What is a cure? So, let us talk about […]