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Thanks Brunneria, Isn't it a ****** when we have to finally admit we know what we know and now we have to act on it. Glad you're enjoying the carb free life. Me too.....:-) I agree, the fat must have been part of the slow burn but when I eat chocolate I'm up and down within 30 mins or sometimes...

Thanks Lamont D. Always love your replies to questions although they often have me scurrying off to do more research. Indeed, as I was researching gliptin and other things I stumbled across some research about the HOMA-IR and the QUICKI....both equations/ calculators for insulin resistance...

Hi- I've posted on the forum a while back whilst in the early stages of trying to find out what is wrong as most GP's are more or less useless. Since then I have been diagnosed as insulin resistant, which I have reversed with diet, however, I suspect I never actually was IR. On the upside I...

Hi - did you ever get to the bottom of this? I have been diagnosed as insulin resistant but like you am incredibly carb intolerant...I spike and stay spiked for hours with a single piece of bread. I'm wondering about the possibility of being LADA or type 1.5 given I am not overweight, and...

I would buy another libre and start tracking food and see what you find. I was similar to you, hypos in the early morning, waking up with headaches and often in a sweat and spiking after food. I knew about some of the spikes from finger pricks but the CGM was a revelation. I'm better with...

I always say a CGM such as libre freestyle is best as it gives 14 days worth of readings 24/7. Expensive but worth it. Can use your phone as the reader so no need to buy one of those. I also found Ben Bikman, his books, podcasts, website etc to be really useful to give an understanding of what...

Interesting you have the same lentil issue @Carpetsalesman Thought I was the only freaky one ;) I had some last week in a soup I made and had my 'funny hour' for the first time in ages - passed out about 1.5-2hrs after eating the soup. I'm guessing it was a hypo, wasn;t wearing a CGM...

@Grothenberg I know how you feel. Doctor's have told me over the years I'm fine, despite the fact I know I am not. Even when I said my post meal BG was 9 at 2 hrs I was told to stop testing and just ignore the problem. 7 years later finally got the insulin resistant PCOS diagnosis, along with...

That's great to hear. I'll check out the Lustig lecture too - thanks for the info. As @bulkbiker says, it's all individual re BG range but I feel best at 4.2-4.8 as a fasting level and up to 5.8 post meals. That said, I'm struggling to get below 6.1 for either at the moment. Also the CGM will...

Yup, spot on. I bought 2 to start with and fortunately it coincided with Christmas so I ate whatever I normally would, in the interest of science of course ;-) I then tried to transition to a more low carb diet for the next 2 weeks and used the 2nd sensor afterwards by which time I was pretty...

I've found listening to Dr Ben Bikman on youtube etc really helpful. He's a researcher without any irons in the fire so seems to be completely open to data. His knowledge of insulin is second to none and once you understand it it makes ditching the carbs super easy. His mantra for eating is...

Always good to have agreement :-)

Yeah I noticed that but mine seemed to be OK early on when wearing it, I would test both - finger prick then look at CGM 15 ins later and it was within about 95-99% accuracy although this tailed off at the end to about 75-95%. I also had a couple of hypos during the day (G&T induced :)) and CGM...

Indeed, you have my total sympathy. Not sure what your endo has told me but mine mentioned that my blood pressure may well be linked to my insulin resistance. Case in point, I snarfed a McDonald's egg mcmuffin the morning of my endo appointment as I had a feeling I would be told to cut out the...

Hi- I'm newly diagnosed too and PCOS, high blood pressure and PoTs :-) My endo started me on metformin and spironolactone. Have to say I've not noticed any side effects of the metformin and although I would like to come off it I'm not in any rush to. I have a meeting with him next week so we'll...

Sounds as though you're doing amazingly well. I was diagnosed as insulin around the same time as you and likewise, I had an initial complaint burst and lost a few kilos so was spurred on by the changes I saw but like I hit a funk, even without the health scare. I think sometimes it is just so...

Nothing :-( Same as Lamont D - actually I've been really naughty recently as I went hypo after a G&T so I've used that to lower my blood sugar if I've eaten something that's spiked me. Anything that even sniffs of a carb spikes me - last night ate a teeny tiny portion of rice - 10.1 at 2.5 hrs...

really interesting read from the Dr with the CGM....surely he is insulin resistant or on his way....if it really is normal for a non diabetic to spike that high after sugar then are all the levels they give us wrong or is the body just entirely unable to manage any sugar at all? He seemed to...

Sorry seemed to include my reply in with your thread?? And I guess that's the point, it's an average. My friend is Type 1 and has a normal, 30 Hba1c, but is like a yo yo so it averages our OK. My endo is the only medical professional I have met you mentioned the average effect to me unprompted...