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Hi everyone
My name's David and I type one diabetic and have been for 20 plus years. I'm on Nova rapid and levemir insulin and use a freestyle Libra 2 cgm.
I've wanted to lose weight so I decided to start a low carb diet or keto. I lost 10lb in water weight Which I was so pleased with but recently I've been checking my ketones after speaking to my diabetic nurse to advise that She didn't like the idea of keto but I stuck to it a little.
I think I'm in ketosis As I've had the symptoms of it but I've recently been really concerned about my ketones. My diabetic nurse said anything above 0.6 is raised ketones and I should monitor them. I've read things on the internet And it mentions anything above 1.5 and I should contact my doctors.
I had ketones of 1.3 yesterday but the thing is my sugar levels from being on a low-carb diet have been 4 mmol or less so not high sugars.
I'm worried about ketoacidosis but am I right in understanding it only occurs with high sugar levels?
Sorry for the long post Just need some advice
My name's David and I type one diabetic and have been for 20 plus years. I'm on Nova rapid and levemir insulin and use a freestyle Libra 2 cgm.
I've wanted to lose weight so I decided to start a low carb diet or keto. I lost 10lb in water weight Which I was so pleased with but recently I've been checking my ketones after speaking to my diabetic nurse to advise that She didn't like the idea of keto but I stuck to it a little.
I think I'm in ketosis As I've had the symptoms of it but I've recently been really concerned about my ketones. My diabetic nurse said anything above 0.6 is raised ketones and I should monitor them. I've read things on the internet And it mentions anything above 1.5 and I should contact my doctors.
I had ketones of 1.3 yesterday but the thing is my sugar levels from being on a low-carb diet have been 4 mmol or less so not high sugars.
I'm worried about ketoacidosis but am I right in understanding it only occurs with high sugar levels?
Sorry for the long post Just need some advice