Recent Content by stevew242

Interestingly, one meal a day didn't mean ketones when I first started that regime over 5 years ago as I started the day with a surge of glucose thanks to dawn phenomenon and a lot of resistance. It was only when glucose levels started to come down as I appeared to "empty out" of glucose that I...

I'd recommend the ketogenic diet when you start eating- it worked really well for me. I only got myself into a mess by allowing too many carbs in over a period of time due to work and personal stress. There's no absolute need for carbs, your liver can make enough through gluconeogenesis. Also...

I have had a reoccurance of nightmares just recently. Not as intense as the ones you describe, but I'm becoming a bit fearful of going to sleep. I suspect it relates to a number of things that have all happened at once for me and having left permanent employment to do contracting and discovering...

I have massively improved my diet so am hoping it will help and I can keep the amount of insulin to a minimum. I'm still in mild ketosis all the time, so suspect there's defintely a deficiency there but as I've said in other posts, I'm also worried I'm resistant as well. It's encouraging to know...

Sorry it has taken a while to reply. Your experience is interesting to me as it is similar to mine - have you given up on extremely low carb and exercise? I don't have the freestyle libre but may get hold of one. Because I'm now self-employed and currently taking time out to sort myself out, I...

I was discharged from the endocrinology dept to my GP. The eye tests, foot tests etc. continued as did the HbA1c for a while, which started to creep up. The last couple of years I failed to get around to HbA1c although I did keep up retinal scans nearly every year (and certainly last year) and...

Thanks for your reply. At the moment, the focus has been on getting blood sugar down and no blood tests beyond the basics have been done. They did test for the antibodies the first time around and I think other tests (C-peptide) suggested I was still producing insulin. The weight loss the first...

Hi All, I was diagnosed with T2D in 2012. Initially there was some confusion over the type as I'd accidentally lost a lot of weight and was in ketosis (not high, but in the warning range) with very high BG (~25 mmol/l). Between 2012 and 2014 a learned a lot about diabetes, diet etc. and decided...