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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Hello!
I have been eating low carb for about a month now. It's going well. I am taking daily rehydration salts and keeping to below 50g carb a day.
On advice given here I've got a meter and testing strips and have tested at intervals over the last few days. So now I can see what my blood glucose is doing - and it's confusing!
So, I seem to start the day relatively low (today was 8.2: whoo hoo! Lowest of any numbers since my first blood test before diagnosis (when I borrowed my T1 son's meter and it was 16.8) and then it climbs in the morning so that round about now I am around the 11 or 12. I don't eat breakfast and only have tea until about midday (sometimes as late as 2) when I have a salad lunch.
I don't seem to spike after meals; I've been testing 2 hrs after meals and there's little difference in the figures. Presumably because they're so low in carbs?
At bedtime my levels are still about 11.
I have been feeling rotten from mid morning: lightheaded, sick, headachey, foggy. It feels like I need to eat something but my sugars are high, so I'm reluctant to. Do I need breakfast? Should I keep going as I am? I am aware that I am eating considerably fewer carbs than previously; would this be making things high?
I don't understand why it can go up midmorning when I am not eating anything.
Any suggestions as to why and what I should be doing about it?
I have been eating low carb for about a month now. It's going well. I am taking daily rehydration salts and keeping to below 50g carb a day.
On advice given here I've got a meter and testing strips and have tested at intervals over the last few days. So now I can see what my blood glucose is doing - and it's confusing!
So, I seem to start the day relatively low (today was 8.2: whoo hoo! Lowest of any numbers since my first blood test before diagnosis (when I borrowed my T1 son's meter and it was 16.8) and then it climbs in the morning so that round about now I am around the 11 or 12. I don't eat breakfast and only have tea until about midday (sometimes as late as 2) when I have a salad lunch.
I don't seem to spike after meals; I've been testing 2 hrs after meals and there's little difference in the figures. Presumably because they're so low in carbs?
At bedtime my levels are still about 11.
I have been feeling rotten from mid morning: lightheaded, sick, headachey, foggy. It feels like I need to eat something but my sugars are high, so I'm reluctant to. Do I need breakfast? Should I keep going as I am? I am aware that I am eating considerably fewer carbs than previously; would this be making things high?
I don't understand why it can go up midmorning when I am not eating anything.
Any suggestions as to why and what I should be doing about it?