Hiya my name is Sarah, I'm 19 and have been diabetic for the last 13 years.
I have recently had very poor control over my diabetes, and have developed lactose intolerance.
Now this is where it gets complicated so please stay with me.
Around 8 months ago I had a crazy time of craving nachos (with the cheese and all the trimmings on), now this in its self was weird as id never really craved foods or anything like this before, so i did all the usual things of checking if i was pregnant, which i was not, the thing that made me also query this was the fact that i was throwing up on a regular basis, and thus for losing weight rapidly. Now with my insulin regime i am on (basil bolus) i only inject my fast acting when i eat, and have my long acting of a morning. So as when i was throwing up i wasn’t eating thus for not injecting my fast acting, as my level usually drops when I’m ill. This particular time i was high as a kite, so ended up in hospital with a DKA.
After spending a long weekend in hospital, i was not only very thin, weighing less than 7 stone (i am only 5'3) i also was very careful on what i ate, and reined my control in on my diabetes. Things improved and i continued to eat normally. then after a large amount of stress and change in my life i started to lose my grip on my control and it began to slip, and when i say slip it was like a meteor crashing to earth, as a young teen i had bad control any how, my hba1c would have been around 9, and now i would love it to be 9, because it is currently around 13.
And this fact also got me thinking, as i am currently in the process of sorting my diabetes out so as not to cause anymore risk of long term effect, i noticed that over the last 6 months i have started to gain weight, not that this is a very bad thing but once i explain my theorem then I’m sure you will understand.
As i have previously mentioned my bad control, lactose intolerance and weight gain. i was looking at a weight loss program just out of curiosity to see what i can improve in my diet. They then got on about the body storing fats when the blood sugar is not stable, then the penny dropped, as over the past few months my diabetes has got more and more out of control i have been gaining more weight. (see the link) and now i have developed lactose intolerance, now my diabetes is at its very worst. When i never had this problem before, even when my control was bad not atrocious.
Now i am wondering about the connection between lactose intolerance and poor diabetes control. and was wondering if anyone else out there had had the same problem, or some similar scenario that may help me with my theorem. i have looked on the internet and haven’t come across anything like what i think, as most of it relates to type 2 diabetics as opposed to type 1.
oh just to add, when i initially when to the doctors about my throwing up etc, they had no explanation, and could only say that i had ibs, which it does run in my family but i don’t get any symptoms apart from a pain in my abdomen, which i also get once eating cheese, but both of these have developed since my control has worsened.
I have recently had very poor control over my diabetes, and have developed lactose intolerance.
Now this is where it gets complicated so please stay with me.
Around 8 months ago I had a crazy time of craving nachos (with the cheese and all the trimmings on), now this in its self was weird as id never really craved foods or anything like this before, so i did all the usual things of checking if i was pregnant, which i was not, the thing that made me also query this was the fact that i was throwing up on a regular basis, and thus for losing weight rapidly. Now with my insulin regime i am on (basil bolus) i only inject my fast acting when i eat, and have my long acting of a morning. So as when i was throwing up i wasn’t eating thus for not injecting my fast acting, as my level usually drops when I’m ill. This particular time i was high as a kite, so ended up in hospital with a DKA.
After spending a long weekend in hospital, i was not only very thin, weighing less than 7 stone (i am only 5'3) i also was very careful on what i ate, and reined my control in on my diabetes. Things improved and i continued to eat normally. then after a large amount of stress and change in my life i started to lose my grip on my control and it began to slip, and when i say slip it was like a meteor crashing to earth, as a young teen i had bad control any how, my hba1c would have been around 9, and now i would love it to be 9, because it is currently around 13.
And this fact also got me thinking, as i am currently in the process of sorting my diabetes out so as not to cause anymore risk of long term effect, i noticed that over the last 6 months i have started to gain weight, not that this is a very bad thing but once i explain my theorem then I’m sure you will understand.
As i have previously mentioned my bad control, lactose intolerance and weight gain. i was looking at a weight loss program just out of curiosity to see what i can improve in my diet. They then got on about the body storing fats when the blood sugar is not stable, then the penny dropped, as over the past few months my diabetes has got more and more out of control i have been gaining more weight. (see the link) and now i have developed lactose intolerance, now my diabetes is at its very worst. When i never had this problem before, even when my control was bad not atrocious.
Now i am wondering about the connection between lactose intolerance and poor diabetes control. and was wondering if anyone else out there had had the same problem, or some similar scenario that may help me with my theorem. i have looked on the internet and haven’t come across anything like what i think, as most of it relates to type 2 diabetics as opposed to type 1.
oh just to add, when i initially when to the doctors about my throwing up etc, they had no explanation, and could only say that i had ibs, which it does run in my family but i don’t get any symptoms apart from a pain in my abdomen, which i also get once eating cheese, but both of these have developed since my control has worsened.
