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I'm over the worst of it, thank goodness (and touch wood), but still on the mend from an horrific stomach virus. Starting to think about ingesting something other than water. But, what? I have been eating LCHF for about 8 months now. No meds other than metformin (which I haven't taken in a few...

Wow, thanks for all the responses. Mostly, I'm relieved that it's not just me being sensitive to the low-highs. My doctor makes me feel like I'm a crybaby because I have #s many diabetics would love to have. I just--I work had for those #s and I wish they would hold a little more consistent...

I'm not low calorie. I make sure to get plenty of fat. I'm not really supposed to be losing any more weight. The metformin does seem to be helping, especially with the fasting #s, which I just could not get down any other way. But, I hoped the medication would help more than it has been! I had...

Andrew, I am not sure what you mean by do not eat the carbs. My carbs are mostly coming from things like nuts, broccoli, zucchini, spinach, lettuce, and occasionally a small amount of raw carrot, raw beat or cooked sweet potato. I don't know how much more I can cut back and still be eating...

Has anyone else experienced this? I've been diagnosed pre-D for almost a year and been able to keep things within the pre-D range with a combination of LCHF diet and eventually metformin. (Was already thin and active, so that kind of advice was not helpful.) Seems like things have gradually been...

Update: I got a script for metformin! Fingers tightly crossed that this does the trick. I'm so relieved to have some sort of action plan, since there's really not more I could do with diet & exercise, and my plan had become just not eating when my sugars were getting high, resulting in too much...

Excessive thirst & urinating, swelling up of hands and feet, recurring yeast infections, sore throat that would not go away no matter what, dizziness, occasional blurry vision (hard to read fine print), killer fatigue, depression, sudden weight gain (concentrated around the middle), headaches...

Well, now the endo's office has called--they have cancelled the appt I had scheduled for Feb and sent me back to my GP. I feel very angry since this was the same endo who told me on our first appt in Sept that he'd be following me forever and that he'd get to the bottom of this, and at the time...

Thanks. I took a look and doubt RH applies to me. I never test as having low sugars, and when I feel bad it's always high. However, one other odd-seeming thing I forgot to mention above is intestinal gas & bloating. I had a chronic problem with this since I started to feel bad a couple years...

Thanks. I will ask again about GAD. I don't know if they will run it or not, because it's expensive and my numbers don't look that bad. I'm not sure how to get my case taken seriously; despite all the rhetoric about how patients need to take decisive action early on to prevent progression, it...

Thanks for replying. I don't think I have access to a diabetes nurse; the diabetes clinic is too busy and won't take a mere prediabetes case. Can you give an example of a normal meal? I don't think I've had one in a long time, because the tests with more carbs I've done (e.g., 1 piece of...

Hello, fellow prediabetes folk. Never thought I'd be posting here! I was diagnosed with impaired fasting glucose/prediabetes last June. I'd been having symptoms for almost 2 years: really excessive thirst and urinating, ridiculous fatigue, vision problems that would come & go, puffy hands &...