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personal side note: you probably do run some nonzero ketone level when you wake up. test it if you like. don't worry about the number as long as you feel well and the number is somewhere that doesn't scare you. None of what I'm about to say is backed up by anything resembling evidence. Take it...

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No, but I've heard SSRIs and antipsychotics can, by the same mechanism (depressing dopamine, so impairing glucose tolerance) cause and accentuate type 2 diabetes.

It could be neuropathy. It could also be an infection? just spitballing here.

Exactly NONE of the type 1 diabetics I have known in my life were born with the condition.

Isn't glucose dumping technically called "oxyhyperglycemia" - sharp hyperglycemia from the meal? Isn't it usually caused by gastric dumping?

The way this is being described sounds to my uneducated ears like the crashing is happening at 120 min, not 300.

i've heard highs are quite tiring and a friend of mine has reported sleeping through alarms and napping throughout the day (and being suspended from his job for 3 days for absence...) due to hyperglycemia. the mechanisms behind lows make it make sense that they could wake you up. though I have...

well, I don't have a history of diabetes, but downing a 75g serve of congee only set me up to 8½ mmol/L (which only qualifies me as having impaired glucose tolerance), and milk carbs don't seem to jack with my moods (which are why I've been on a low carb diet for so long).

I think it's a pressure effect that's both causing and being caused by the kidney disease, but that's linked to the hyperinsulin axis of type 2 diabetes, not really to the sugar. The cholesterol meds can actually destroy the kidneys if they cause rhabdomyolysis - this is the primary reason I...

while I am personally very pro-low-CHO, I've heard of people's glycemic control going to pot on it too. at the end of the day, the most important thing is to get good glycemic control without hyperinsulinemia, and get all of your micronutrients and all of your essential macronutrients.

I've not done any studies on it, but i think what's happening is that the low carb diet is unmasking a magnesium deficiency (which I hypothesise is causative of atrial fibrillation) because it causes sodium wasting and the sequelae thereof.

It's apparently quackery (given it was the Wheat Belly guy's thing) but I've heard of a mixture of plain milk of magnesia (magnesium laxative) with plain fizzy water (not tonic, not flavored) being used to replenish magnesium levels orally in people who have infusion-dependent magnesium wasting...

Huh! Do you find things are generally better (this infection is easier to control, &c) if your blood sugars are closer to those of someone who doesn't have diabetes mellitus?

your autocorrect either hates you or me, and I can't tell which edit: how was that rated informative?!?!?!

Is it not so that you should test your glucose regardless of whether you drive when it comes to insulin secretagogues?

I assume you mean alpha lipoic acid?

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Can you explain what you mean by a testing kit?

I'm of the opinion that the nurse was way too blasé about the matter in not referring you to more detailed medical attention, and you should insist on deeper investigation. The nurse was absolutely right to tell you to keep an eye on things. To that end, were that my body, I'd be buying a blood...