JoKalsbeek
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- Type of diabetes
- I reversed my Type 2
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- Diet only
Good morning Courtney,Hey Jo,
I have tried cutting carbs nearly completely but I am just going to see what works best from now on. Definitely not a good experience. They want to take me off gliclazide but when I ran out before I felt rubbish when I did not take them unless taking more metformin balances it out? If I am type 2 if I managed to feel fine without tablets I would go with just the diet control. Although since using these tablets I get headaches behind my eyes mainly every day nearly and constant dry mouth still which is annoying.
That is crazy, did they not label it on the menu? I have not ate out at restaurants much since been diagnosed as I was worried about that. St least you managed to walk it off I need to start learning that exercise needs to be a bigger part of my life now. I just need to get into the habit of going to the gym or swimming. A pump stuck to someone? Ouch isn’t that painful? I hate needles so just picturing a bigger version of a needle!
I am terrified of needles! Omg I was exactly the same I am still nervous when pressing the button it takes me a good few minutes to build up courage.
I am hoping it is more towards type 2 although it is very rare that my sugars go below 10 after eating. I cannot wait to get more energy I have definitely felt more drained lately I have never relied on tablets before even when I got bad stomach pains I stayed away from tablets.
Thank you so much, it has helped a lot just to talk everything over! I will have a look now I need to start focusing properly on my diet rather than just cutting out a lot. I never want to experience a hypo again I feel bad for people who get them often. I am praying the doc has the answers
Courtney
How are you feeling today? If you're still a little off (tired maybe?), it could be because of the hypo. Sometimes they leave you reeling a little for a day after. So try not to worry about it, it's normal if you're not feeling 100%. As for running out of glic and not feeling too hot after that: You were probably still eating too many carbs not to feel cruddy. If your bloodsugars went high -say, because of granola for instance,- you'd feel wreched indeed. It's really one or the other: take glic and have carbs (which in the long run isn't preferable), or cut carbs drastically and stop the glic if it starts causing hypo's. If you change your diet, the chances of complications reduce dramatically. If any of that makes sense. Just don't get too far into it if you don't quite know what you're doing yet, because like with the granola, you'd get spikes you can't handle. So learn about what you can safely eat first, (read a LOT on low carb/high fat and keto. Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code for instance will help. Your meter is a good guide, but it helps to know what is *likely* to spike you.). Read first, put into practice later. Especially if you don't want to come off the gliclazide just yet, AND want to avoid hypo's.
As for a pump or continuous meter, the needles are incorporated into a plaster/patch, and they're tiny. And not quite needles either, from what I understand, but more like filaments. I never had one though, just went low carb and called it a day. The perk of being a T2: control comes relatively easy. (Well, when comparing it to my other illnesss anyway... T2 is the easy one. Rheumatism, migraines, hypothyroid etc are a little more complicated to tackle.)
Ah, the salad.... They listed honey and fruit with other salads, so I thought the tuna'd be safe. Turns out that restaurant just really, really loved their locally made honey, and dumped it in everything. Thankfully the place was located in a rather lovely park, where we went for a walk, and afterwards we went to a market elsewhere where I got a good bit of walking in as well. After a little while of low carbing, your insulin sensitivity gets better, so where first I would've had a massive spike due to this, now it was sort of okay.... Still a slight spike, but not as bad as it would have been a few years ago, and easily handled with a nice, brisk walk. Things just keep getting better, if you stick with it.
Hope all's good today! Again, good luck with the doc!
Jo