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<blockquote data-quote="Glink" data-source="post: 1441466" data-attributes="member: 254742"><p>It's been almost 2 yrs now since I was diagnosed. My HbA1c's have always been pretty good but not my fasting #'s and not always postprandial. I read up and immediately went very low carb, like 25 g/day, and things got almost normal (all normal except fasting, which I cannot seem to budge down to "normal" no matter what). Then they got gradually worse, and I got frozen shoulder, so I got metformin. After a year or so I had lost almost too much weight (was never "overweight" to begin with) and was having trouble getting through substantial exercise without fatigue so I increased to around 75g carb a day for several months. For a while that seemed lovely (and my weight stabilized) but then my #s started going high again. I've been testing and checking on & off for a couple years now and have a pretty good idea of how different foods affect me--to the extent that this is possible, since the same exact thing on 2 different days can cause different reactions, but the major baddies for me are fairly clear (and sadly include pretty much all grains; I don't have much sweet tooth but I did love my grains). I have a lot of food allergies that precede the diabetes situation, so it's a pretty restrictive diet in some ways (no dairy, limited legumes, no shellfish, etc.).</p><p></p><p>I guess what I'm saying is that I didn't have immediate post-diagnosis denial, because I was feeling terrible (this is why I was tested to begin with) and bringing my sugars down with a LC diet and metformin helped me feel immensely better. I should try to remember that difference, because it was striking. Although they don't do GAD testing in my Canadian province and don't really recognize LADA, my GP acknowledges that this is likely my eventual pathway (he just can't order me the test, but since yes means yes and no means maybe I'm not sure it matters anyway). The slow apparent-worsening of my blood sugar control despite my LC diet and regular exercise (which makes my sugars rise in the short term; joke's on me!) is part of what makes this such a mind bender, I guess. I am always asking myself if I am just not hardcore *enough* to fix things, or if I'm being *too* hardcore and somehow going overboard/making things worse with this diabetes management stuff, since I am a fairly marginal case still.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, no more matzo for me!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glink, post: 1441466, member: 254742"] It's been almost 2 yrs now since I was diagnosed. My HbA1c's have always been pretty good but not my fasting #'s and not always postprandial. I read up and immediately went very low carb, like 25 g/day, and things got almost normal (all normal except fasting, which I cannot seem to budge down to "normal" no matter what). Then they got gradually worse, and I got frozen shoulder, so I got metformin. After a year or so I had lost almost too much weight (was never "overweight" to begin with) and was having trouble getting through substantial exercise without fatigue so I increased to around 75g carb a day for several months. For a while that seemed lovely (and my weight stabilized) but then my #s started going high again. I've been testing and checking on & off for a couple years now and have a pretty good idea of how different foods affect me--to the extent that this is possible, since the same exact thing on 2 different days can cause different reactions, but the major baddies for me are fairly clear (and sadly include pretty much all grains; I don't have much sweet tooth but I did love my grains). I have a lot of food allergies that precede the diabetes situation, so it's a pretty restrictive diet in some ways (no dairy, limited legumes, no shellfish, etc.). I guess what I'm saying is that I didn't have immediate post-diagnosis denial, because I was feeling terrible (this is why I was tested to begin with) and bringing my sugars down with a LC diet and metformin helped me feel immensely better. I should try to remember that difference, because it was striking. Although they don't do GAD testing in my Canadian province and don't really recognize LADA, my GP acknowledges that this is likely my eventual pathway (he just can't order me the test, but since yes means yes and no means maybe I'm not sure it matters anyway). The slow apparent-worsening of my blood sugar control despite my LC diet and regular exercise (which makes my sugars rise in the short term; joke's on me!) is part of what makes this such a mind bender, I guess. I am always asking myself if I am just not hardcore *enough* to fix things, or if I'm being *too* hardcore and somehow going overboard/making things worse with this diabetes management stuff, since I am a fairly marginal case still. Anyway, no more matzo for me! [/QUOTE]
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