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Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

scottie1 said:
Hello

My blood sugar has been in the high 20's and 30's for approx. one week.

I don't know what is causing it, have not been eating or drinking anything I shouldn't.

My eyesight is very bad at the moment, I feel like the my head is spinning. My left foot is feeling numb and I feel really poorly.

I spoke to my GP at the end of last week and he suggested insuin but did not take it any further and said I needed a blood test so I had one yesterday.
The nurse said she would mark it as urgent and it would be back today, it hasn't come back and the surgery does not seem concerned at all.

Please could anybody advise.

Thank you.
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Change your Doctor .
 
Hi Scottie, Do you like marmite? . I leerrvvvv it and put some on the bread underneath the cheese for an extra kick. Just a thought if you're looking for something to add a bit of extra interest.
 
rowan said:
That's exactly what happened to me in the middle of January, a real scare that finally motivated me to sort myself out :)
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Sorry to hear you have been unwell and had a scare Rowan. I wish it hadn't taken this to make me see sense but I suppose things happen for a reason and we can only go onwards and upwards.
 
Janiept said:
Hi Scottie, Do you like marmite? . I leerrvvvv it and put some on the bread underneath the cheese for an extra kick. Just a thought if you're looking for something to add a bit of extra interest.
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Never had it Janie, but am open to trying new things now. Thank you.
 
Janiept said:
Hi Scottie, Do you like marmite? . I leerrvvvv it and put some on the bread underneath the cheese for an extra kick. Just a thought if you're looking for something to add a bit of extra interest.
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On the bread? Does it not spike you?
 
Scottie
Did GP / DSN ever get back to you with test results?
 
Peanut butter on ryvita. I actually buy the lidl version as they are only 4g per biscuit (and a lot cheaper) and then have my peanut butter about a centimetre thick. It is just yummy.

Shepherds Pie - was you around my house as that is what I had. Unfortunately mash potato is probably the worst form of potatoes you could eat as the act of mashing breaks the long chains and makes it digest and enter the blood stream very fast. I would say that is what you found. Not to worry we all live and learn and the stairs will help ;)
 
Andrew Colvin said:
Peanut butter on ryvita. I actually buy the lidl version as they are only 4g per biscuit (and a lot cheaper) and then have my peanut butter about a centimetre thick. It is just yummy.

Shepherds Pie - was you around my house as that is what I had. Unfortunately mash potato is probably the worst form of potatoes you could eat as the act of mashing breaks the long chains and makes it digest and enter the blood stream very fast. I would say that is what you found. Not to worry we all live and learn and the stairs will help ;)
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Oh sugar, forgot the stairs. So sorry, will do them tomorrow - twice.
 
Andrew Colvin said:
Peanut butter on ryvita. I actually buy the lidl version as they are only 4g per biscuit (and a lot cheaper) and then have my peanut butter about a centimetre thick. It is just yummy.

Shepherds Pie - was you around my house as that is what I had. Unfortunately mash potato is probably the worst form of potatoes you could eat as the act of mashing breaks the long chains and makes it digest and enter the blood stream very fast. I would say that is what you found. Not to worry we all live and learn and the stairs will help ;)
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I'm going to try mashed celeriac on a shepherds pie, it's good mashed :)
 
scottie1 said:
Oh sugar, forgot the stairs. So sorry, will do them tomorrow - twice.
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Dont do too much or it can raise your Blood Glucose Levels. There is no time like the present BTW - I often used to do them "on my way to bed" so that I would be nice a warm
 
rowan said:
I'm going to try mashed celeriac on a shepherds pie, it's good mashed :)
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No worries for me with mash as my shepherds pie and nuts and raisins for desert raised me to a heady 6.2
 
scottie1 said:
No, they didn't and when I called for blood test results I was told I needed to see a GP. My urine tests were fine though.
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Perhaps if you get any trouble getting an appointment you could ask for a GP to phone you?

Our GP's are doing skyping appts now and call backs in evenings from their homes to try and help patients. Do your practice do the same?

If you can't get an appt do consider asking for a GP to phone you...
 
scottie1 said:
Greem & Black chocolate must be an aquired taste :***:
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lol. Now my tastes have changed a lot since diagnosis. I never liked strong flavours, coffee, dark choc, etc and now I like them all but can't stomach really sweet things now.
 
donnellysdogs said:
Perhaps if you get any trouble getting an appointment you could ask for a GP to phone you?

Our GP's are doing skyping appts now and call backs in evenings from their homes to try and help patients. Do your practice do the same?

If you can't get an appt do consider asking for a GP to phone you...
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No, my surgery doesn't offer those kind of appointments and getting one to call you is near an impossibility. To get an appointment, you first have to go through the dragons on reception who, it seems, know as much as the doctor about whats wrong with you. Hence why I never call myself and get my husband to do it.
 
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