Blood glucose 23.8 type 2 diabetes

[mickellwife]

Welcome to the Forum Mickelwife. You have not given us enough information to be able to analyse your problem.
Which Insulin are you taking? What is your prescribed dose am & pm.? What do you normally eat in the evening for your meal and before going to bed? What other meds are you taking? It could be that you are not taking enough Insulin in the evening compared to the amount of carbs you are eating in the evening. Also inquire about the Low Carb High Fat diet from this site and also look up "diet doctor.com".

You will get good advice on this Forum from people who "been there". But don't forget to discuss this problem with your Doctor and DBN.

I'm on 750 mg metformin 1with each meal. I've just started. I'm on lantus once a day and just upped to 14. I have an appointment in 2 weeks to check howvim getting on. I normally have a stir fry or tesco healthy living chow mein x

 

[Kyambala]

I'm on 750 mg metformin 1with each meal. I've just started. I'm on lantus once a day and just upped to 14. I have an appointment in 2 weeks to check howvim getting on. I normally have a stir fry or tesco healthy living chow mein x

Hello micklewife. I think that your Doctor or DBN will advise you to gradually increase your Insulin every day until your blood sugar comes down to less than 7. Either that or they will put you on MORE Metformin. So called "healthy living" diets usually contain lots of carbs which for a Diabetic is anything but "healthy living".

The following information is from a post by "JOHNMRG" on this Forum and I would recommend that you think about trying it. Your Doctor and DBN may not agree because most Medical Professionals recommend the NHS so called "healthy living" diet which Diabetics on this Forum have found to be the OPPOSITE of what they found correct for themselves. Most people on this Forum speak out of their own experience.

"JOHNMRG" said: Try eating a high fat low carb medium protein diet. Bacon and eggs and avocado for breakfast fried in real butter. Skip the bread, milk, cereal, sugars, fruits etc. Dinner palm sized portion of protein and lots of "above ground veg" no potatoes carrots etc all have way too much starch and sugars. Change from beer to whisky and soda, no cokes especially not "diet" drinks as the brain can't tell the difference between real sugar and fake sugar so still produces way too much insulin and you become insulin resistant. I've been on metformin and glicazide for over 20 years. Been doing this lchf "Banting" way of eating for a year now. Stopped my meds about 8 months ago and BG is usually 4.5-5.6 unless I go off the rails when it then spikes high. The food you eat has the most impact on T2D. If you are overweight and eat fruit and grains and suchlike then you are insulin resistant. Doctors advising what to eat usually know nothing about how to treat it as they have been brainwashed with the wrong dogma. Start reading and take control of your own BG

To my mind, his advice is very good.

 

[Kyambala]

I'm on 750 mg metformin 1with each meal. I've just started. I'm on lantus once a day and just upped to 14. I have an appointment in 2 weeks to check howvim getting on. I normally have a stir fry or tesco healthy living chow mein x

Hello again. Try looking up "diet doctor.com" - the information they give is very good, tried and tested, and found effective.
You need to REVERSE your Diabetes as soon as possible and Diabetics on this Forum, and Diet Doctor.com Forum have found that the Low Carb High Fat diet works.

 

[JohnJ]

I've been on metformin since May 2015 500mg twice daily. Recently started having the odd hypo.

My doctor changed metformin to 500 mg once daily I've been on the stove now for about three months in which time I have gained nearly 2 stone in weight and watched my blood glucose increase slowly over this time.

I spoke with my GP yesterday to ask if I could go back to 500 milligrams twice daily and was told the best he could do was to put me on 500 milligram slow-release once daily. Until I see the specialist in January.

I've really had a bad night sleep got up this morning to do my blood glucose thinking that this may be the issue and I got a reading of 23.8 this is the highest it's ever been

I am new to diabetes I don't know what I need to do in order to reduce my blood glucose level

I was diagnosed in May 2015 and at that time I was promised an appointment to go and see a dietitian despite several requests I am still waiting also for some reason my doctor has stopped issuing the test strips for me to test blood glucose I am at my wits end don't know what to do .

Sorry for such a long post, I really hope someone on here can give me some useful information

 

[Kyambala]

Hello JohnJ. I noticed that you were attempting to reply to David.Wellings post - but that there is no message on your post.