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<blockquote data-quote="louisew2605" data-source="post: 2581191" data-attributes="member: 567952"><p>I was put on basal only in september. I started 5:2 intermittent fasting on 6th January 2023. I am on Low carb 60g every day. Hbac1 on 29th December was 7.1. My Diabetes:M app is now estimating it at 6.4. ( but that included 2 months of very high readings at the start) I have reduced my basal insulin gradually to 12 units from 23. I have actually not been able to reduce it quickly enough and have had a couple of hypos at night. But I did get a Freestyle libre in case of this and I wake up anyway and take glucose. I can actually see my blood sugar dropping quite quickly in the evening and often have to have carbs to bring it up to 6 to avoid it. Dropping it another 2 to 10 tonight probably if needed. Absolutely no support from the diabetic nurse. Told to go low carb, no literature, no advice to look at website communities, no invitation to diabetes education. She didn’t even tell me to adjust my basal until i went in and told her I felt terrible 24 hours a day. Then she told me I could adjust it every 3 days So I decided to go for remission myself. Not overweight, so can’t lose too much weight, but lost 6lbs so far, which is advised even for thin diabetics to reduce visceral fat. Feeling fabulous and positive now</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="louisew2605, post: 2581191, member: 567952"] I was put on basal only in september. I started 5:2 intermittent fasting on 6th January 2023. I am on Low carb 60g every day. Hbac1 on 29th December was 7.1. My Diabetes:M app is now estimating it at 6.4. ( but that included 2 months of very high readings at the start) I have reduced my basal insulin gradually to 12 units from 23. I have actually not been able to reduce it quickly enough and have had a couple of hypos at night. But I did get a Freestyle libre in case of this and I wake up anyway and take glucose. I can actually see my blood sugar dropping quite quickly in the evening and often have to have carbs to bring it up to 6 to avoid it. Dropping it another 2 to 10 tonight probably if needed. Absolutely no support from the diabetic nurse. Told to go low carb, no literature, no advice to look at website communities, no invitation to diabetes education. She didn’t even tell me to adjust my basal until i went in and told her I felt terrible 24 hours a day. Then she told me I could adjust it every 3 days So I decided to go for remission myself. Not overweight, so can’t lose too much weight, but lost 6lbs so far, which is advised even for thin diabetics to reduce visceral fat. Feeling fabulous and positive now [/QUOTE]
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