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<blockquote data-quote="xyzzy" data-source="post: 318075" data-attributes="member: 40343"><p>What I would do orchid is drastically cut back on carbs just for a few days and see if that begins to have a noticeable effect on your BG's. By drastic I really do mean no sugar and just the tiniest quantities of rice, pasta, potatoes, cereals, bread and flour based products or better still none. If after doing that for a few days you still don't see a reduction in levels I really would go back to the doc and get some extra tests done. Many of us would say that getting your cholesterol lowered is great but getting your levels sorted is far more important as running levels in the high teens is very likely to be causing you damage. </p><p></p><p>What I and Daibell are suggesting is you don't meet the standard profile of a T2. Most T2's are producing a fair amount of insulin so effectively cutting carbs as a T2 allows the insulin you are producing to work against a restricted amount of carbohydrate and therefore you see a very noticeable drop in levels pretty soon after starting a low carb regime. There are T2's who like yourself are not particularly overweight but they do see their levels get better if they drop their carbs enough. Alternatively there are other types of diabetes such as late onset (LADA) which mean you may not be producing hardly any insulin at all. In these cases low carbing will normally only have a minimal effect on levels and therefore needs to be treated differently. The c-peptide test and GAD tests will allow the doctor to distinguish between the two types. It is quite common for doctors not to recognize that they have a case of LADA on their hands rather than plain T2 and many members have had to "help" their GP find out what's what in those circumstances. Around 3 in every 100 T2 diagnoses are thought to be wrongly diagnosed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xyzzy, post: 318075, member: 40343"] What I would do orchid is drastically cut back on carbs just for a few days and see if that begins to have a noticeable effect on your BG's. By drastic I really do mean no sugar and just the tiniest quantities of rice, pasta, potatoes, cereals, bread and flour based products or better still none. If after doing that for a few days you still don't see a reduction in levels I really would go back to the doc and get some extra tests done. Many of us would say that getting your cholesterol lowered is great but getting your levels sorted is far more important as running levels in the high teens is very likely to be causing you damage. What I and Daibell are suggesting is you don't meet the standard profile of a T2. Most T2's are producing a fair amount of insulin so effectively cutting carbs as a T2 allows the insulin you are producing to work against a restricted amount of carbohydrate and therefore you see a very noticeable drop in levels pretty soon after starting a low carb regime. There are T2's who like yourself are not particularly overweight but they do see their levels get better if they drop their carbs enough. Alternatively there are other types of diabetes such as late onset (LADA) which mean you may not be producing hardly any insulin at all. In these cases low carbing will normally only have a minimal effect on levels and therefore needs to be treated differently. The c-peptide test and GAD tests will allow the doctor to distinguish between the two types. It is quite common for doctors not to recognize that they have a case of LADA on their hands rather than plain T2 and many members have had to "help" their GP find out what's what in those circumstances. Around 3 in every 100 T2 diagnoses are thought to be wrongly diagnosed. [/QUOTE]
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