Pycnogenol is good for vision.
Benfotiamine is another.
My mom takes Dr.David Williams Blood Sugar Advantage
and her blood Sugar gets controlled by these 2 pills alone.
Please read other posts here by other and you will get the picture.

Try to give your mom Cinnamon tea. Boil Cinnamon sticks
in distilled water for sometime and give her the drink.
Lemon drink with meals also helps.
Bitter Melon tea can be purchased at Chinese Stores.
Get her baked chips. SHe is lacking minerals i think.

The link below is about b1 in a synthetic form (synthetic form of vitamin B1,Benfotiamine)…But my feelings ?why go for the synthetic ONLY ..? We we can get the real b1.... from out food…right now I’m starting, doing sprouting ( I’ll post on my sprouting results in a few weeks …very good so far) but ..there are foods that we can eat and get results, domino effect within.

Check out the post from a few weeks ago (in this forum) about b1...how we, diabetics, because of higher urine output, squander away out nutrition via peeing them out… and become highly depleted, washed out (literally). Now… concede this repeated fact over weeks or months or even years…and you get the picture…the body is not growing, replacing healthy building materials, nutrition which is needed for good healthy growth. So it would take some time to get the healthy rebuilding in place for the total re growth…perhaps yearss ( as it took years to get the bad health) ..that’s where patience comes into our working, controlling daily todosss. ..any way…get her some b1.… and other water soluble vitamins into her systems…daily…. Cause she is/could be…out of them-serverly for years???… best see the doctors for the overall …to ones health…in the good old usa….

Choices….choices…personal choices…the old saying... you can lead a horse to water…but you can’t make a horse drink…. Seems personal motivation is much needed to make stuff work…work well… I have this problems with a parent as well…we do the best we can…doing good..is always good. You, #109287, have a noble HEART FOR ANOTHER, …prayers for your soul to be blessed in your gallant comings and goings with that inner peace in your daily walk, lucidhunt

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You did not say if the problem was diabetic retinopathy or diabetic cataracts.

As far as getting the blood Sugar down chromium is the most important. Chromium polynicotinate is the most effective. Chromium picolinate is better known but 300 times weaker. Recommended dose for chromium polynicotinate is 200mcg 3 to 4 times daily.

Magnesium is also beneficial for both production of insulin and to prevent insulin damage. Magnesium malate is my first choice followed by magnesium citrate. Avoid magnesium carbonate and oxide. Recommended dose is 300mg 2 to 3 times daily. Do not take it with calcium for this purpose.

I also recommend the herb gymnema sylvestre, which is both a Sugar blocker and it increases insulin receptivity by opening receptors. It should be taken about 15 minutes before meals.

long but hope you will read it and read it aloud to your mom as well.

My mom was like that and never listened to me and wanted to keep her old crappy eating habits and lifestyle and suffered and died 2 years ago. She was not a diabetic but was on kidney dialysis. I tried for ten years to get her to listen to the extensive knowledge I had in vain but she saw it work to stop to heart attacks in progress when nitro did nothing and have another amazing result that convinced her to try and shocked her but sadly she died of her last heart attack while we were in process of ordering the herbs.

(story of the heart attack and it working told here

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She told me that well over half the people at the dialysis center were diabetics and wound up on dialysis. Read your mom this post for it is all true.

Dialysis increases your risk of heart attacks 30 times. It cause my mom who had no prior heart problems to have 9 heart attacks in one year, that last left her dying nurses to let her die the pain was so awful. It was a horrible thing to witness for her children. Mom, you cannot put you and your children and daughter through that over some potato chips and foods you love.

I was just diagnosed with diabetes myself in the last 3 months. I( tended not to apply what I knew. The week I was diagnosed with A1c of 7 I took my blood Sugar reading a few times a day..3 days in I got a reading too high for the meter to read over 600 and a dozen reading in the 500 and 400 range and many, many in the 200 and 300..the lowest in the morning was 160.

This scared me to death..I saw my future..potential loss of vision and all that entails, loss of limb. loss of independence, loss of IQ and confusion, loss of kidney function and dialysis and its super unhealthy, restricted diet, low fluid intake (2 cups a day) hospitalizations and multiple heart attacks (more on this below), loss of hearing and nerve damage..in fact, damages in every cell. I thought of the 3 relatives with it..two who went blind and one who died from a diabetic coma.

I thought of the nice man in his 40s who just quit smoking for me and survived a 60 mph crash where the car flipped several times and left him with blood spurting out of an artery in his neck and how grateful he was to be alive and saw him lose his toes to diabetes and die from it in in young age only one year from being diagnosed. I thought that could be me.

I am a compulsive eater..I love to eat and though I ate a good whole food diet and not THAT much animal. I did love my meat, eggs and cheese, I researched and saw that a raw food vegan whole food diet can reverse completely diabetes.

I have become a vegan or strict vegetarian giving up all animal and eating 80-90% produce. I gave up buffets, fast food and junk food. So far I am about 50-85% raw. That is the hardest as nearly everything in my pantry most from the health food store is processed in some way.

I hate walking but I immediately started walking0--every day 6-7 days a week. At first I could not walk 50 years. I had to rest every minute almost. Now I am up to 30 minutes. I do rest but I am walking or swimming. Soon I will start water aerobics.

And you know, it is not that bad. I am losing weight although not currently restricting my calories. I have found produce, raw nuts and seeds, beans and a few whole grains (I cut down on this and fruit and am eating low on the glycemic index..potatoes are way too high so I imagine chips are also high and to be avoided)..eat good all week and use the chip as a reward if you want..no more than two I'd say.

You can make raw vegan pizzas, lasagnas, fudge and brownies and so much more..I have tried some new foods like young coconuts and ground cherries I never had before. I am juicing and making all manner of delicious raw vegan foods. I rarely even use lettuce type salads as so many interesting ways to eat produce. I bought a spiral cutter to cut zucchini spaghetti... a search online will overwhelm you of all the yummy substitutes for chips. In fact, dehydrated foods are considered raw and lots of chip type recipes that are healthy and raw and can be substituted. One need not feel deprived.

The many combination of raw veggies I make is astounding. I have eaten up to 50 different kinds of produce a day..my fridge and shelves are overflowing. I go to the supermarket and find all I can get is the beans and produce. Not fun shopping but it is at health food store and farmer's markets.

You mom needs to really think about what her future holds and rethink her resistance to you and what you are trying to give her out of love. I always felt I could learn so much from my children and have both when they were little and now that they are adults. It is hard to know your mother can be well and she refuses to try and not just haphazardly but with resolve and courage and dedication..as much dedication as getting sick took.

I hope she will not do to you what mine did to me. I never quit trying for 10 years despite enormous opposition and even gossiping insults on how I was torturing her...that is the very words my sister on the phone used as my mom consented to let me try to stop her painful and excruciating heart attack I walked in on when nitro did nothing and she refused to go the hospital. It stopped within 2 minutes and she transformed before my eyes.

At the hospital as she wanted to die she got angry when I started crying as she refused what she had just taken once in the Er as she lie writhing in agony and begging to die. I gave her cayenne tincture that that got her calm and able to talk and listen and share last good memories and words of love from the dozen relatives gathered there. I saw how that single dose of cayenne got her blood pressure to normal from the 30s when they found out she had a living will and were going to give her the drugs that killed her and shut down all her body organs.

"Don't do this to me" she said when I started crying for I was the only one still trying to save her life as I knew she did not have to die even at that late stage in the game. And though it has been 2 years, I still am angry and sad over it and started crying as I typed. I want your mom to hear this and ask herself is she is willing to not listen and leave you feeling similar. Are her potato chips and stubbornness worth doing that to those who love you and are upset and frightened to watch you deteriorating.

My mom was deathly sick the whole time on dialysis and that seems to be where your mom is headed. They always took out too much or too few fluids. She was constantly getting high fevers and if they removed too much, her eyeballs dried so much she had to lift her lids. She started going blind form it and that was awful to see her pain. She was either facing constant hospitalizations as her blood pressure dropped to the 30s (she had had high blood pressure but dialysis did this) or she was so washed out she could scarcely move.

Each treatment left her too sick to do anything but cry and sick for over 35 hours. They screwed up her veins so bad that she had to have surgery that failed trying to get the needle in. They could not get it in for 5 days thogh they did two other surgeries elsewhere...her neck and body was a mass of bruises at their hands in the hospital. She had bruises the size of small watermelons plus.

The poisons overwhelmed her body so much she lost her mind. She was talking crazy and we thought she would be left like my aunt who the hospital somehow let poisons overwhelm her and she did lose her mind permanently and was never the same.

Luckily for my mom and us, they finally got the needle in on the 5th day at the hospital and she-thankfully- was able to get her blood cleaned via dialysis and she recovered her mind. They told us if you do not get dialysis once you start, you will be dead in a week.