05 December 2004
A non-invasive glucose sensor that can fit in the eye to measure sugar levels has been developed. It would save patients from frequent pricking of fingers
I am a patient of diabetic. I got it in 1982-83. Initially I did not care much about it. My diabetic early morning in fasting used to be ranging 118 to 125 and after 2 hours of breakfast ranging 114 to 118 ie. after breakfast it used to come down. I was then working abroad. There the very high standard diabetic military hospital used to check me. This situation remained from 1983 to 1996/98. I used to do jogging in the evening for an hour or sometime one and a half hour. Then my sugar level started ranging at 140-150 and my doctor prescribed me one diabetic control tablet which I did not like to use on the general assumption that once medicine used its potency keeps on increasing. Incidentally in this military hospital every three months once a diabetic specialist from UK used to come as consultant. One day on my appointment day it was his turn. Seeing my file he remarked that in his life he has not seen a patient like me who enjoyed full sugar control for 15-16 years without any medicine. He told me that every patient may he be suffering from diabetic or TB or what else has a “honey moon” period. Age, natural in-built strength, will power all play a role in a patient. According to him in 1983 onwards I was comparatively young or had just entered into middle age hence that above natural elements helped me. Secondly diabetic was in its initial stage hence my jogging too helped reduce it. But by the passage of time my health started natural decline, my natural resistance came down and my aggravation of diabetic kept on increasing. He gave me an example; on headache one tablet does work. But a person who keeps on having headache by the passage of time one tablet does not work on him, he would need two. Similar is the case with a patient as this Expert told me. He summarized medicines help control and stop from further development but inside the body all these diseases keep on eating the man and with passage of time when natural strength goes down the disease surfaces with more sensitivity. He advised me to start using one table as had my regular doctor prescribing me. I started using it and now I have come to one and a half tablet. My strength of jogging has reduced to 30-40 minutes and now by end 2004 my sugar ranges between 160 to 190 normally
I read an article “Snake and Sugar”. It stated that if you are sitting in your sole single room house. You see a snake entering into the room and immediately you run out to call some help or bring some lethal instrument to kill the snake. You remove each and every single item from the house out even the photo frames, carpet but you did not find the snake. It must have crawled out of the house when for a minute you went to bring the instrument but since you did not seen it going out the fear of snake will always remain on your mind that it is hidden unless you physically with you naked eyes do not see it going out. The article stated similar is the situation with Diabetese. Once you are diabetic everything you eat automatically your mind starts calculating claries and thet level of sugar and this thinking in return causes more higher sugar level in your body.
The mistake which I made was that when in 1983 diabetise started with each piece of food my mind started thinking of “sugar” and the level attached to it. Then every one, as is usual in our society, knowing I was diabetic gave me his own opinion and prescription. I never used prescriptions or experiences of others nevertheless these affected my mind more with pressure if not worries. My physical health started declining and I felt I was become weaker gradually. The one good thing was that I never trusted advertised prescriptions, advices given in the articles or magazine doctors which in fact create more worries etc.
After I have in fact suffered a lot it dawned on me some 5 years ago that as much one cares for the diabetic the more would it rides on his head. Then one day a light came in my mind that diabetise as is with other disease is because of some disorder of the body namely either anything has gone in excess or is less in the body which caused this disorder. By not eating this thing and that thing because a doctor or a general article said so in fact creating more problem. This light came while reading Ibn-e-Khaldoon who stated ALLAH has created each food for the man kind. Every food has its own characteristics . By discarding one food eg. mango or potato or biryani in fact I was creating more and more deficiency of some ingredients which deficiency in returning is creating more disorders. Since that day except for raw sugar I started eating every thing again but with caution. I today take biryani but not full plate but a quarter and rest I take roti (bread) with some other curry. I take mango but not 3 or 4 mangos but only one small mango. Sometime now my breakfast comprises bread with a banana. It has improved my physical health and energy and brought me back to normal working strength. Now I take cold milk with 1/8 7 Up. This and that. Now instead of fortnightly or monthly I check my sugar once in 6 to 8 months.
The lesson gained was do not leave any “Naimat of ALLAH”, eat everything but little, do not create deficiency in the body by avoiding certain foods, do not worry so much about sugar; more one will think the more it will ride on his head and eat him internally. While care for no deficiency, equally is vital for caring any excess.