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Adopting lower carb diet causing temp rise in blood sugar?

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Sal260

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My HbA1c has been creeping back up from 49 in Aug2020 to 58 in June this year. I initially successfully went from 107 to 49 after Type 2 diagnosis in March 2020.

A month ago I took myself in hand and went back to lower carb diet I adopted before aiming for 60-70g of carbs a day which worked for me.

Would this have the affect of short term rises in my blood sugars? After 4 weeks fasting readings in the morning have just come down to 7.3 from 9-10’s I was getting at the start.

I have just had the latest results and am horrified to find am now HbA1c of 65.

I hadn’t been eating any different from June to 4 weeks ago when I started strictly lower carbing again so expected it to be around the 58 or maybe slightly lower as I know it is an indication of levels over 12 weeks.

Would love love to know if anyone else has found increases in blood sugar when starting lower carb

TIA
 
Hi. This rise in BG while low-carbing isn't anything I have any direct experience of.

I do wonder if perhaps ypou've been eating more carbs than you think, perhaps because there are things like maltodextrin which officially are not defined on packaging as "carb" but which raise BGs nevertheless. I caught myself after several weeks using a product with maltodextrin - advertised as "zero sugar" - which wasn't helping at all.

It might be worth just having a proper inventory of all the things you're eating and checking quantities and percentages against your target daily intake.
 
Sal260 said:
My HbA1c has been creeping back up from 49 in Aug2020 to 58 in June this year. I initially successfully went from 107 to 49 after Type 2 diagnosis in March 2020.

A month ago I took myself in hand and went back to lower carb diet I adopted before aiming for 60-70g of carbs a day which worked for me.

Would this have the affect of short term rises in my blood sugars? After 4 weeks fasting readings in the morning have just come down to 7.3 from 9-10’s I was getting at the start.

I have just had the latest results and am horrified to find am now HbA1c of 65.

I hadn’t been eating any different from June to 4 weeks ago when I started strictly lower carbing again so expected it to be around the 58 or maybe slightly lower as I know it is an indication of levels over 12 weeks.

Would love love to know if anyone else has found increases in blood sugar when starting lower carb

TIA
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Just surmising here,
You only started back on low carb a month ago.
The hba1c is as you say over twelve weeks.
So being running for two months before with higher spikes that causes the increase in diabetic levels.
Your fasting levels could possibly be the lowest readings you get.
With T2 generally, it's your carbs and sugars that are significant to getting better outcomes.
Keep to low carb and your hba1c levels will respond, hopefully.
 
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