Teeth and Sugar

As I mentioned in another blog posting, I recently discovered that I wasn't going to have to get a payday loan to pay for some new teeth, I'm able to get the VA to pay for it.

My teeth got in pretty bad shape after I developed diabetes. The first step in getting new dentures is to pull all your teeth. Then it takes the VA a couple of months to get the new dentures fitted and made. In the meantime I'm eating a lot of soup.

I was making with mostly just vegetables (I'm having kidney problems and am supposed to keep my protein intake low) and I wasn't putting any potatoes, noodles, or rice in the soups because of carbs.

The result has been that I've had a couple of t hose diabetic low carb attacks I'd always heard about but never experienced. Since I don't take insulin I don't ever get too much insulin. But the soup diet caused me to end up unintentionally restricting my carb intake even more than usual. Too much it seems.

Learn the signs of low blood sugar.