Recent Content by JulianneG

  1. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    It's so weird, things that are OK one week are so NOT OK NOW!!!! I think my liver and pancreas are playing fast and loose with me! I've cut out grains altogether now, fruit is a rarity and porridge is long gone. I was OK with all those things to start with, but now they'll spike. The weight...
  2. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Neil, I had a re-read of Dr Fung's book and the dawn effect, but to be honest I can't get a clear idea of whether it's actually a good sign or not. Reading over 9 scares me as that's nerve damage territory.
  3. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    OK, I'm having weirdness going on and I can't explain it. I'm fasting until at least lunchtime most days to try and get it back under control, it's what I was doing before my holiday and it was working well, there weren't unexplained big spikes. My first reading of the day was always higher...
  4. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Neil you are lucky! Maybe I'll get there too as time goes on. I couldn't tolerate the Metformin, so I'm doing it on diet alone and my weekly average is 7.1 at the moment, it's still gradually coming down after Devon, but it takes longer to come down than it did to go up! I wasn't even that...
  5. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    I've just got back from 2 weeks in Devon and it was TOUGH. I didn't eat any pasties or cream teas or anything silly, (oh but I wanted to!) but eating out was problematic and I had to try and work around the carb issue constantly, with varying degrees of success and it was so frustrating not to...
  6. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    It's good to know I'm not going crazy and imagining things! Thank you for the feedback everyone. It seems that pasta and I are to be strangers, whereas I can get away with a small amount of potato on occasion and don't have the same reaction at all.
  7. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Soooo, I've been doing really well - up until a family trip to Zizzi. I really didn't fancy fish and I was curious to see what pasta would do, I have the odd experiment. I didn't go for my favourite, I got the crab cannelloni as there's less pasta in the dish. Big mistake! Still waaaaaay too...
  8. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    So, further musings on my journey. Started taking Metformin, lasted 3 days and felt so utterly awful that I haven't taken anymore and will refuse to do so. Stomach pains, leg pains and I felt so exhausted I was like a 90 year old, I had to keep sitting down to rest. I feel great again now...
  9. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Interesting, thank you for that
  10. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Thank you for the tip Gran25, I'm sure I'll be needing that sooner or later! I love cabbage fortunately. New Haven Neil, it does seem that T2 'sneaks in the back door' as you put it, if you experience reactive hypoglycaemia, Winnie experienced that too if I recall correctly. I wonder if there...
  11. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Copilost, I completely get your analogy. I'm generally known for my 'hangryness' in the early evening, so it's astonishing to me that I was quite happy to read a story to the kids without being desperate to get downstairs and get dinner sorted. I could have not eaten at all but I admit, I did...
  12. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Hi Winne, thanks for jumping in :) the support here is AMAZING, I'd be struggling to know what to do without it. So, today I had a higher dawn reading and left eating anything until about 10:15 and then had a super low carb brekkie, one slice of w/meal multigrain toast, 3 scrambled eggs and 3...
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    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Copilost you go right ahead and ask, I don't mind at all because all information shared is information gained. I've learned so much just in the last couple of days, particularly that my lovely porridge with chopped banana and sultanas was a complete disaster carb-wise, even if I drop the banana...
  14. J

    Another slightly freaked out newbie

    Hello everyone, thank goodness for this forum and website, that’s all I can say. Last Friday I found out by accident that I was diabetic after a bloodtest because I was convinced I was in menopause, I’m 50 next year. A letter for diabetic eye scans plopped through the door, I thought they must...