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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
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- My pancreas
Hi guys.
Well, I’ve been trying to stick to under 20g of carbs daily for 12 days now. Whenever I’ve had ketones I haven’t been happy about it because my bloody sugar levels are still through the roof.
What’s worse is that I’ve spoke to my medical team and I’ve just got to wait for an appointment with my consultant but there’s a long list at the moment.
Diabetic nurse and dr happy for me to take correction doses of insulin but they’re not entirely sure why my levels are so high when I’m not eating hardly any carbs.
Is there any point in doing low carb and keto? I’m so fed up.
Why isn’t this working for me?
Is it insulin resistance that’s so severe even without carbs I’m soaring around at 18-20 without synthetic insulin?
Dr checked my c peptide and confirmed I’m deffo producing lots of my own insulin.
I’m scared to go into ketosis again despite showing blood ketones of 1.6, I felt well except for a headache.
Why aren’t my levels going down?
I’m on Metformin, the only regime that’s controlled my diabetes well enough so far was 25mg empagliflozin with Metformin, and I was eating carbs as the dr told me not to low carb.
I know you’re not medical professionals but even they seem to have given up on me.
For example today I took 10 units of insulin trying to get my levels from 17 down. Went for a walk, drank lots of water. Levels went down to 12 then shot back up.
I’m confident in making changes myself, and I’m really reluctant to go back onto background insulin and fast acting as it doesn’t make enough of a difference.
I feel like I’ve got glucose from years just sat in me with no way of letting it out.
I’m really upset today. Sorry but I feel hopeless.
Well, I’ve been trying to stick to under 20g of carbs daily for 12 days now. Whenever I’ve had ketones I haven’t been happy about it because my bloody sugar levels are still through the roof.
What’s worse is that I’ve spoke to my medical team and I’ve just got to wait for an appointment with my consultant but there’s a long list at the moment.
Diabetic nurse and dr happy for me to take correction doses of insulin but they’re not entirely sure why my levels are so high when I’m not eating hardly any carbs.
Is there any point in doing low carb and keto? I’m so fed up.
Why isn’t this working for me?
Is it insulin resistance that’s so severe even without carbs I’m soaring around at 18-20 without synthetic insulin?
Dr checked my c peptide and confirmed I’m deffo producing lots of my own insulin.
I’m scared to go into ketosis again despite showing blood ketones of 1.6, I felt well except for a headache.
Why aren’t my levels going down?
I’m on Metformin, the only regime that’s controlled my diabetes well enough so far was 25mg empagliflozin with Metformin, and I was eating carbs as the dr told me not to low carb.
I know you’re not medical professionals but even they seem to have given up on me.
For example today I took 10 units of insulin trying to get my levels from 17 down. Went for a walk, drank lots of water. Levels went down to 12 then shot back up.
I’m confident in making changes myself, and I’m really reluctant to go back onto background insulin and fast acting as it doesn’t make enough of a difference.
I feel like I’ve got glucose from years just sat in me with no way of letting it out.
I’m really upset today. Sorry but I feel hopeless.