Breakfast

[membrew]

I am type 2 and take 2 x 500mg metformin twice daily. . (I also have had an underactive thyroid for 20 years. finally seeing an Endocoligist(?) tomorrow about this)
Over the lst few months I have suffered a lot of sickness and do not know why. This is not normal and Dr does not wish to keep providing anti sickness pills.
For breakfast I used to have a small bowl of cornflakes with skimmed milk and green tea. At weekend I would have a piece of bacon in a Lidl roll. These rolls no longer available. But it does not matter what I eat I could still be sick.
Yesterday and today I seem to be ok. Do not know if this is because for one week now I have cut out milk completely.
Could not face dry cornflakes and the only bread we had in was white rolls. Had half a white roll toasted with butter for breakfast. Felt fine but two hours later did a blood test and my reading was 12.6. This shocked me and I am sure it was the white roll. Not eaten white breads for years. I am usually struggling to keep readings around 7.

If leaving out milk what would you suggest that is not huge for breakfast and of course I now know not to have white bread.

Thank you in advance. I read this site so much I feel confident I should recieve a few suggestions.

 

[LooperCat]

Almond milk is a good substitute for the regular stuff, and is very low in sugar.

 

[Alexandra100]

Could not face dry cornflakes

I would leave out the cornflakes as well as the milk. Cornflakes are high in carbs and rubbish nutritionally. Have you tried lowering the carbs in your diet? I suspect that might help your nausea as well as your bg. Metformin can cause digestive upsets in many people. Do you take yours with meals, which is said to help? Personally, I no longer eat differently at breakfast than at other meals, that is I will eat fish, chicken or eggs with low carb vegetables. If I have to leave the house quickly I will prepare most of the meal the might before and eat eg cold chicken, lettuce, mayonnaise etc. I even wash the lettuce in advance and store it covered in the fridge. I am surprised at how quickly I have adapted to this new way of eating after so many decades of breakfast = cereal and milk.

 

[membrew]

Thanls Mel. I will try it. It is not normal for any food or drink to affect me. Will let you know how I get on.

 

[membrew]

I would leave out the cornflakes as well as the milk. Cornflakes are high in carbs and rubbish nutritionally. Have you tried lowering the carbs in your diet? I suspect that might help your nausea as well as your bg. Metformin can cause digestive upsets in many people. Do you take yours with meals, which is said to help?

Thanks Alexandra. I did not realise a few cornflakes came as high carb so will look for something else. I do take the metformin with my breakfast and evening meal. No one told me though, I just did it.
Thanks.

 

[Arab Horse]

Thanls Mel. I will try it. It is not normal for any food or drink to affect me. Will let you know how I get on.

I assume you are not on slow release metformin as you take it twice a day. My diabetic nurse changed my metformin to slow release and after a couple of weeks I started getting indigestion and it also lowered my eGFR so I took myself off it.
For breakfast I have loads of spinach (wilts down to nothing!) with some other chopped up veg fried in coconut oil (with a lid on the frying pan) and when the veg are cooked I add one or two beaten eggs and cook until the eggs are done. It is not what I would choose to have but it is edible! I occasionally have fried eggs with haloumi and bacon for a change. It keeps my glucose at a reasnabvle level.

 

[daisyduck]

Lots of people take Metformin without problems. Unfortunately I am not one of them..
It made me nauseous, gave me a permanent headache and bowel problems.
I'm much better without them and on a low carb diet.

 

[Arab Horse]

I san take the normal ones but not the slow release.

 

[Resurgam]

Has no one ever explained that diabetes means that you don't process carbohydrates at all well?
I'm not getting at you - I'm just rather bewildered by the number of posts from type twos who are consuming carbs and not even bothering to check their blood glucose to see if they can tolerate high density starches.
Feeling sick seems to be a perfectly normal reaction to taking Metformin - loads of people experience that and worse - much worse in my case - but no one wants to record adverse reactions or even acknowledge their existence - but the Metformin and statin I took for a few weeks caused horrendous problems.

 

[Arab Horse]

Has no one ever explained that diabetes means that you don't process carbohydrates at all well?
I'm not getting at you - I'm just rather bewildered by the number of posts from type twos who are consuming carbs and not even bothering to check their blood glucose to see if they can tolerate high density starches.
Feeling sick seems to be a perfectly normal reaction to taking Metformin - loads of people experience that and worse - much worse in my case - but no one wants to record adverse reactions or even acknowledge their existence - but the Metformin and statin I took for a few weeks caused horrendous problems.

I think most of us are well aware that we can't eat card rich foods. Even my breakfast of veg and eggs raises my BG unless I have a very small amount but as I am underweight I need to have enough so I don't lose any more weight.