Hi, I’m Zouhir
Founder, writer and developer of HighBloodSugarSymptoms.co. I am not a doctor. I am someone who got a diagnosis, had to work out what it actually meant day to day, and started writing it down.
The short version
I was born in 1998. Some years later a doctor told me I had diabetes, and that was the end of one version of my life and the start of another.
Nobody hands you a manual. What I got was a diagnosis, a few leaflets, and a lot of appointments that were shorter than the list of questions I had brought. So I learned the way most people learn this: by making mistakes. I would try something, watch what my numbers did, and work backwards from there. Some of those mistakes were expensive in ways that do not show up on a meter.
I read everything I could find online. Some of it was excellent. Most of it was forum arguments, contradictory advice, and pages that were clearly written by someone who had never had to think about a 3am reading. I took what looked credible, tried it, kept what worked and dropped what did not. Slowly, things got better.
I am a software engineer, so at some point the obvious thought arrived: the thing I actually needed was a way to see my own data clearly. So I built it — for me, to solve my problem. Logging a reading in seconds instead of a notebook. Seeing a trend instead of a scatter of numbers. Walking into an appointment with something a doctor could read in ten seconds.
It changed how I managed my condition more than anything else I had tried. Which made keeping it to myself feel absurd. So I released My Diabetes: Live Better free, for anyone who wants it.
This site is the second half of that same idea. The app handles your numbers. These guides are the answers I went looking for and could not find in one place — written plainly, and written by someone who has actually needed them.
What this qualifies me to say — and what it doesn’t
My expertise here is lived experience, not clinical training. I have no medical degree and I am not qualified to diagnose you, to tell you what your numbers mean for your body, or to change anything about your treatment.
What I can do is read the primary sources carefully and write them down in language that makes sense. Every guide on this site cites its sources — the CDC, the American Diabetes Association, NIDDK, the WHO and NICE — and links straight to them so you can check me. No guide here has been reviewed by a named clinician yet, and every article says so on its own page rather than letting you assume otherwise.
If something here contradicts your own care team, believe your care team. They can see your full picture. I can’t.