Hello
First thanks for all the info. My husband was diagnosed as a type 2 just over a year ago and suffered many of the hurdles I read about frequently on the forum, you know lack of/conflicting information, poor communication and some wonderment that he wanted to be actively involved in his own treatment, monitor his own blood levels etc.
Low carbs have worked well for him – thanks Fergus one of your postings was the first that I read and it helped so much! He is well controlled with the help of Metformin which made a positive difference to him from day one (reading posts recently I know that is not the case for all but for him it really has hit the spot).
Now my turn, having a friend visit while my husband was doing his blood sugar she wanted hers doing, both of theirs was fine, around the 5 mark, so they did mine 9.9. OK I eat mostly the same as my other half at the same time, well I’m the one that does the cooking. So we decided we would check mine the next morning, it was still high 8.7. I have now monitored it over a number of days. My problem is this, during this time I made sure that I ate extremely carefully, but with the result that morning fasting readings varied between 6.7 and 10.2. So then I visited the doctor, then spent an evening stuffing myself full of pizza, chocolate, biscuits etc (GP frustration) and had a reading next morning of 5.7.
Sorry for the long ramble, but can anyone help explain the inconsistency. By the way, I am also visiting the toilet frequently, night and day with great urgency and often wake up in the morning feeling very hot (I thought for a while I was getting hot flushes again – left them behind about 3yrs ago). Any help greatly appreciated, as I would like to be armed before I revisit my GP, as his favourite comment is always “so I don’t understand, what are you trying to tell me”
Thanks
Bea
First thanks for all the info. My husband was diagnosed as a type 2 just over a year ago and suffered many of the hurdles I read about frequently on the forum, you know lack of/conflicting information, poor communication and some wonderment that he wanted to be actively involved in his own treatment, monitor his own blood levels etc.
Low carbs have worked well for him – thanks Fergus one of your postings was the first that I read and it helped so much! He is well controlled with the help of Metformin which made a positive difference to him from day one (reading posts recently I know that is not the case for all but for him it really has hit the spot).
Now my turn, having a friend visit while my husband was doing his blood sugar she wanted hers doing, both of theirs was fine, around the 5 mark, so they did mine 9.9. OK I eat mostly the same as my other half at the same time, well I’m the one that does the cooking. So we decided we would check mine the next morning, it was still high 8.7. I have now monitored it over a number of days. My problem is this, during this time I made sure that I ate extremely carefully, but with the result that morning fasting readings varied between 6.7 and 10.2. So then I visited the doctor, then spent an evening stuffing myself full of pizza, chocolate, biscuits etc (GP frustration) and had a reading next morning of 5.7.
Sorry for the long ramble, but can anyone help explain the inconsistency. By the way, I am also visiting the toilet frequently, night and day with great urgency and often wake up in the morning feeling very hot (I thought for a while I was getting hot flushes again – left them behind about 3yrs ago). Any help greatly appreciated, as I would like to be armed before I revisit my GP, as his favourite comment is always “so I don’t understand, what are you trying to tell me”
Thanks
Bea