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<blockquote data-quote="freshlybrewed" data-source="post: 949525" data-attributes="member: 201440"><p>Described it like a boss, the "impending doom". Tell me what GP/endocrinologist knows what that feels like!</p><p></p><p></p><p>OMG he wanted you to do that too!? The last thing you'd want to put someone through. He may as well said to me, "Please come and stay at our torture chamber where you'll go through living hell for three days, and we mean you WILL visit the depths of HELL not figuratively speaking ACTUALLY speaking. And we cannot guarantee we'll pull you back out of it either, you could die and we don't care". That's the attitude I got from the endocrinologist I saw.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I tried complex carbs, and maybe complex carbs work for people who like disgusting tasting food. Brown pasta, yeah... I love that stuff don't you? There's a good reason why they polish rice and refine wheat. But some people love the taste of the good old mother earth natural wholesome products. I'm not one of them. But I do love fresh veg and full foods, so I opted for LCHF instead. It surprises me why the dietician never suggested Ketogenic to me, it would have been the logical way to go.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've been there, for several years this thing PWNED me bad and I didn't go out unless I really had to. And like you I used to take loads of food with me if I did. The fear will pass when you can see for yourself your BG sensitivity is more stable. By that I mean when you don't feel symptoms of low BG like you used to.</p><p>The fear is your friend, you want it whilst you're prone to symptoms though.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Prevention is the best treatment - ie don't eat the carbs that bounce your BG around so you end up getting hypo symptoms in the first place.</p><p>When I was on carbs I found toasted oats (Granola) cereal bars were the best to stave off hypos. As soon as I felt BG going down I'd have one of those and it would perk me up for another 30min. But if disaster struck then something like an apple or apple juice would do, I even had spoonfulls of sugar or honey at times. Glucose tablets... worth carrying but to be honest if you're carrying cereal bars and apples with you, it's unlikely you'll get low enough to need glucose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freshlybrewed, post: 949525, member: 201440"] Described it like a boss, the "impending doom". Tell me what GP/endocrinologist knows what that feels like! OMG he wanted you to do that too!? The last thing you'd want to put someone through. He may as well said to me, "Please come and stay at our torture chamber where you'll go through living hell for three days, and we mean you WILL visit the depths of HELL not figuratively speaking ACTUALLY speaking. And we cannot guarantee we'll pull you back out of it either, you could die and we don't care". That's the attitude I got from the endocrinologist I saw. I tried complex carbs, and maybe complex carbs work for people who like disgusting tasting food. Brown pasta, yeah... I love that stuff don't you? There's a good reason why they polish rice and refine wheat. But some people love the taste of the good old mother earth natural wholesome products. I'm not one of them. But I do love fresh veg and full foods, so I opted for LCHF instead. It surprises me why the dietician never suggested Ketogenic to me, it would have been the logical way to go. I've been there, for several years this thing PWNED me bad and I didn't go out unless I really had to. And like you I used to take loads of food with me if I did. The fear will pass when you can see for yourself your BG sensitivity is more stable. By that I mean when you don't feel symptoms of low BG like you used to. The fear is your friend, you want it whilst you're prone to symptoms though. Prevention is the best treatment - ie don't eat the carbs that bounce your BG around so you end up getting hypo symptoms in the first place. When I was on carbs I found toasted oats (Granola) cereal bars were the best to stave off hypos. As soon as I felt BG going down I'd have one of those and it would perk me up for another 30min. But if disaster struck then something like an apple or apple juice would do, I even had spoonfulls of sugar or honey at times. Glucose tablets... worth carrying but to be honest if you're carrying cereal bars and apples with you, it's unlikely you'll get low enough to need glucose. [/QUOTE]
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