Advice Please

BG as high as those are the likely cause of your feeling dreadful
As to what to do about it.
I have no easy answers just a couple of suggestions
You say your numbers have been good until recently and that your diet has not changed.
It's worth your while keeping a food diary for a week or so. Writing down EVERYTHING you eat and your blood test results. If your GP isn't prescribing test strips for st least a couple of tests per day,now would be the time to ask for them .to get this prblem sorted out.
The food and blood glucose diary might show up somwthing going wrong.
The other suggestion, is to cut back on your starchy foods and see if that helps.
Either way you will do better if you can moitor often, so ask your doctor for enough strips.
Hope things improve. Please let us know.
Hana

god luck topcatt
Hana

Hi topcat,

If you are feeling ill and your blood sugars are rising, make a call to NHS direct and see if they can advise you.

Catherine.

Did you GP comment on your cold hands and feet?

I have a (not related to diabetes) hereditary anaemia problem from time to time, this has always caused me to feel cold in fingers, toes and tip of nose.

Since I started on the path to diabetes a couple of years back, I've noticed that whenever my anaemia appears again, my BG reading goes up quite a bit - and I see that anaemia can also cause you A1c to go up too.

http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/pr ... elNr=79722

A small number of people get anaemia caused by the interaction of Metformin in the gut - it stops absorption of B12 from food and as you slowly become B12 deficient, so too does a form of anaemia often appear.

I was never on Metformin long enough for this to be a problem, but my GP did mention it in passing, bearing in mind my recurrent anaemia. If I'd had to stay on Met, I'd have had to go for frequent B12/anaemia tests.

The only drug I take now is Glucobay/Acarbose intermittently; it does not interfere with vitamin absorption.

Might be worth mentioning to your GP - just in case he is overly focussed on your BG and didn't fully take on board your cold extremeties. It may, of course, be nothing whatsoever to do with this - we are all different!

If it *is* anaemia, a couple of shots should restore you to normality in only a week or so - here's hoping!

Hope this helps.

mark

You say your eating the same foods - sometimes manufactures change their recipe so it might be interesting to check this.

Plus our bodies can get used to having the same thing so it might be good to change - hard I know but if what you were eating isn't now working it might be due for a change.

Best of luck
Sue