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Went back today to the endocrinologist. We are starting acarbose. We believe my body won’t tolerate a full keto diet due to other conditions, and despite following it for several months before referral to him it created a rather bad liver profile, and obvious stress on the body despite using...

I guess I’m not normal as I’ve a weird reactive hypoglycaemic thing going off. However my endocrinologist said the problem was we don’t actually know what a normal profile is (when presented with my libre downloads which look abnormal to me) I get spikes regularly over 10 my post meal spike is...

Today had my second prolonged ogtt. (The first one I didn’t hypo in 4 hours but did hypo after the test had finished at 6 hours. Today I hit a hypo at 4 hours, which took 90 minutes to come back up (and again after their ‘food’ at the end!) Today I managed to get down to 2.7 (Although this May...

Thank you both. I’ve already had preassessment and the RH is clearly documented in thebit where she asked about diabetes and then she asked about the libre I was wearing at the time. I then pointed her towards the endocrinology section of my medical notes for further details (although the...

Does anyone have any insights or experience about surgery and RH? I’ve been added to the waiting list for a relatively major gynae operation. I mentioned my RH at preassessment and the nurse said they may want me to stay in overnight (apparently my surgeon thought there was a chance of doing...

Lidl do a 10% fat Greek style one, think it’s 4.5g/100g but doesn’t cause any spike in my blood glucose....

It is good news, i’m making mistakes with putting foods together that in isolation don’t cause much of a spike e.g. I had takeaway curry and was ok, I had a low carb birthday cake separately and no rise and also I have a Greek yoghurt which alone causes no rise, but put the 3 together I rise...

So GP, WILL be referring to endocrine after all, the diet certainly stops my reactive episodes 90% of the time (tolerance per meal is dependent on protein/fat content but 30g carbs max per meal, usually much less, however some foods have been reacting unusually!), however, unfortunately I’ve...

If you email head office they can send you a list of the nutrition for the whole bakery range,I have it on my computer at work... I didn’t think the low gi was particularly low carb but I could be wrong...

GP isn’t referring me on, but has agreed it’s probably due to increased insulin, (reactive scenario) and it’s settled completely on low carb high fat diet and treatment wouldn’t be any different. So I’m a probably RH...

Thanks for the kind words, you are certainly right there are lots of nice things out there... I just tried the fathead pizza recipe... huge calorie and fat content, but for 13g carbs it certainly felt naughtier than that...and my blood sugar has barely budged (I presume due to the fat and...

Thank you for sharing. Last week i had costa white toast and marmalade (it’s my normal Saturday breakfast and I’m testing some theories so the doctor can see what happens) Had a minor hypo but didn’t last long. This week I tested their brown seeded toast and marmalade... Never ever ever ever...

Thank you everyone. I’ve stuck to lower carbs for 2 days, no hypos, exercise performance is good, with only a slight increase in glucose during exercise, a slow drop after which doesn’t result in hypos. I was getting overnight hypos which have also now stopped. I do think this is the solution...

I haven’t had a hypo for 2 days on lower carbs... and same amount of exercise so I think it works. I also had a couple of hypos overnight it would seem, but again none in the last 2 days... it works!! Hopefully it continues, I already feel tons better in myself. exercise seems to be causing a...

I don’t have diabetes so don’t have the luxury of changing insulin. My morning walk is fine, (I have unsweetened porridge, I get a small spike but nothing major) it was the afternoon and evening exercise that was the most problematic for me, I seem to have stopped hypos by reducing carbs in...

My fasting when I’m still in bed is in the mid-high 5’s, not high enough to meet the prediabetes threshold and gp said it was fine.... but I’m a bit on the fence about it. I’m otherwise healthy with no risk factors so I shouldnt be having hypos according to my ever so intelligent doctor, ...

Anyone with experience in meal spikes? After wearing the libre sensor for a week, I can see a trend of sharp spikes post meal (between 45mins and 1hr 15), usually upto 12 on anything 30g carbs or above. (from 5 or 6 depending) followed by sharp drop in glucose, which can lead to symptomatic...

Having a libre is really helping me see what is happening... my fasting glucose is currently not terrible, (although it fluctuated between 3.7 and 5.7 before breakfast this morning) I’m having a few nighttime hypos, potentially delayed from the exercise so will look at a protein based supper to...

At 2.7 (no exercise involved) I was dizzy, clammy, shaky, tired, headache, hunger. Eaten 60mins previous (cereal bar) and had homemade veg & lentil soup, whole meal seeded bread 2 slices, an activia yoghurt and a apple, approx 4 hours before the low. At 2.5 (after a 25 minute walk) I was...

Thank you for all your kind comments. I’ve managed to get a Libre sensor to test some changes and play around with diet and exercise for upto 2 weeks... , (I work in a paediatric diabetes team and used the local company rep... she was more than willing to give me one...) Day 1: low carb...