Thanks Sally/James, my blood sugars can still be all over the place a times for reasons I can’t work out. I test my blood a few times a day and eat as low carb as I can. I struggle with my sugars rising after the gym. I’m now on metformin, Gliclazide, pioglitazone and inject Trulicity once a week. I find I’m more irritable when I’m high
You need to test your blood sugars immediately before a meal and then again two hours later. Try and aim for a rise of no more than 2mmol/L. Keep a food diary listing your results and exactly what you had at each meal. Side notes such as gym visits, having a cold or what ever, can sometimes be helpful. In this way, you will begin to see which foods aren't helping you. There may be some surprises. Tell us what you eat on a typical day. People here have loads of experience of low carb.
Thanks Guzzler, I will try testing when mid tantrum- although I think it’s when I’m higher rather than lower. I do get stressed very easily so yes I am probably stressed at the time.
I’ve been told by the GP that I sometimes test too often, when I test before and then two hours after a meal it normally goes up by around 2. A typical days food - breakfast scrambled egg and grilled bacon with a cup of tea. Lunch salad with chicken and Parmesan cheese, a few strawberries. Dinner cottage pie made with cauliflower mash. Snacks carrot, cuecumber, celery sticks, almonds, Alpen light bar.
That was the only symptom I had pre-diagnosis. I am usually very even-tempered but the first time I realised I was 'off' was when my poor mum was on the receiving end of a full-blown tantrum, @Emmasndco - from her 59 yr-old daughter! To my eternal regret, I shouted at my lovely, gentle elderly cat one morning (as cat slaves know, they will insist on being alarms...) not realising she was actually very ill and had to be pts that afternoon. Since cutting down on carbs, I am back to normal. Good advice above, but also seek out coping strategies when you feel the stress is taking you over. I think there are other members on the Forum who have such strategies but a web search would help. A step outside yourself (if that makes sense) just for a moment or two, and breathe in slowly for a count of four, hold for a bit, and then out for a count of seven, or whichever length suits. I hope you and your boyfriend can patch things up.
That sounds like a very good low carb diet, though do check the ingredients on the Alpen bar! By the way, ignore the GP. If you are getting useful information, you carry on testing!
Thanks Sue, I’m glad I’m not the only one it has happened to. I will try to stop and breath... trouble is I normally don’t realise how I have reacted until it’s too late and spend the next hour beating myself up as I’ve behaved like a complete idiot. I really hope we can work things out, but I’m not sure if he can cope with me anymore. He hasn’t spoken to me since Tuesday eve
Thanks for some really useful advice. I agree with you, I’m worse when something comes out of the blue. But I think I also have a habit of over reacting and taking things the wrong way. I don’t have trouble sleeping, but I definitely think I could do with looking into mindfulness.
Thanks Resurgam, As my sugars are normally higher in the morning (dawn phenomenon) I normally try to eat least carbs with my breakfast then allow myself a little more throughout the day. I will give it a go though!
It’s an alpen light bar, 10 or 11 g of carbs. It’s normally my go to for something to eat before
