PCOS and IBS can both be helped with low carb. Most newly diagnosed diabetics are overweight. However, once they have reached their target, they need to adjust fats and proteins to maintain it.
I would definitely keep an eye on your numbers. If they start to get very high, you may need medical advice.
I wondered if someone can help, or has been/is in the same position as me.
I went to the GP back in October 2019 with some general symptoms and they ran a Hba1c test which came back at 48. They did another a few months later and it came back at 47. Despite healthy eating, exercise and being very slim, even before the first test.
I purchased a blood glucose monitor shortly after to see what foods were causing the spikes. Regularly getting figures upwards of 9, 10, and sometimes as high as 12.
GP tried to refer me to the consultant for a glucose tolerance test back in January 2020. Finally, we have a response from the consultant saying that they will not take on my case and my blood sugar is ‘normal’. My GP states that below 11 is normal. Despite all of the research I have done, this contradicts it all.
Quite clearly my blood sugars are not normal. Not sure where to turn, I’m gutted I waited 6 months to be told that. I said to the GP that I would save up to go private and she said they’d just say the same. I don’t know where to turn.
I have, I believe, some female hormone issues which they agreed to look into for me. The GP said oh we can put you on metaformin if it turns out you have PCOS and it will help with tour blood sugar too, win win. Well I don’t want to go onto metaformin until I know exactly what I am dealing with here. I also have severe IBS and I’ve read this drug causes a whole host of stomach problems. I have all of the classic diabetes symptoms, and the blood sugar monitor results say it all, yet because I am borderline at 47/48, they won’t do anything for me. I am gutted. I just want to know what exactly is going on with my body before I take drugs for the rest of my life.
Anyone else dealing with similar, or has dealt with similar?
Unfortunately the Keto diet doesn’t work for me. My bloods didn’t improve very much on it either. I am already very slim and I got very underweight on this diet. Before anyone says I wasn’t doing it properly, yes I was.
I think you need to find another doctor. Continue low carb and test regularly until you find one.I wondered if someone can help, or has been/is in the same position as me.
I went to the GP back in October 2019 with some general symptoms and they ran a Hba1c test which came back at 48. They did another a few months later and it came back at 47. Despite healthy eating, exercise and being very slim, even before the first test.
I purchased a blood glucose monitor shortly after to see what foods were causing the spikes. Regularly getting figures upwards of 9, 10, and sometimes as high as 12.
GP tried to refer me to the consultant for a glucose tolerance test back in January 2020. Finally, we have a response from the consultant saying that they will not take on my case and my blood sugar is ‘normal’. My GP states that below 11 is normal. Despite all of the research I have done, this contradicts it all.
Quite clearly my blood sugars are not normal. Not sure where to turn, I’m gutted I waited 6 months to be told that. I said to the GP that I would save up to go private and she said they’d just say the same. I don’t know where to turn.
I have, I believe, some female hormone issues which they agreed to look into for me. The GP said oh we can put you on metaformin if it turns out you have PCOS and it will help with tour blood sugar too, win win. Well I don’t want to go onto metaformin until I know exactly what I am dealing with here. I also have severe IBS and I’ve read this drug causes a whole host of stomach problems. I have all of the classic diabetes symptoms, and the blood sugar monitor results say it all, yet because I am borderline at 47/48, they won’t do anything for me. I am gutted. I just want to know what exactly is going on with my body before I take drugs for the rest of my life.
Anyone else dealing with similar, or has dealt with similar?
Unfortunately the Keto diet doesn’t work for me. My bloods didn’t improve very much on it either. I am already very slim and I got very underweight on this diet. Before anyone says I wasn’t doing it properly, yes I was.
I already eat low carb and as explained in my post I am not overweight so this does not apply to me. To put in context, I am 7 and a half stone and 5 ft 5 in height.
You might've been doing keto properly, but were you doing it properly for someone of your size and weight? Most people start it to shed a few stone, diabetic or not, while you certainly can't miss more weight. Difference being, most people on keto mingle it with intermittent fasting, (one or two meals a day, no snacks, or going entire days without food). And you'd still need to eat at least 6 times a day (Three proper meals, three snacks), while getting enough fats and protein to stop you from losing weight. Have you tried just going moderately low carb rather than keto? How did that do for your blood sugars? Also, trust your gut. Your blood sugars are not normal, they're borderline diabetic/diabetic, so you need to tackle that somehow. I would try changing doctors...Because with your particular combination of numbers and weight, you don't want someone to shrug anything off. It's your life and quality of life we're talking about, and while that might mean little to your GP, this is your daily reality.I wondered if someone can help, or has been/is in the same position as me.
I went to the GP back in October 2019 with some general symptoms and they ran a Hba1c test which came back at 48. They did another a few months later and it came back at 47. Despite healthy eating, exercise and being very slim, even before the first test.
I purchased a blood glucose monitor shortly after to see what foods were causing the spikes. Regularly getting figures upwards of 9, 10, and sometimes as high as 12.
GP tried to refer me to the consultant for a glucose tolerance test back in January 2020. Finally, we have a response from the consultant saying that they will not take on my case and my blood sugar is ‘normal’. My GP states that below 11 is normal. Despite all of the research I have done, this contradicts it all.
Quite clearly my blood sugars are not normal. Not sure where to turn, I’m gutted I waited 6 months to be told that. I said to the GP that I would save up to go private and she said they’d just say the same. I don’t know where to turn.
I have, I believe, some female hormone issues which they agreed to look into for me. The GP said oh we can put you on metaformin if it turns out you have PCOS and it will help with tour blood sugar too, win win. Well I don’t want to go onto metaformin until I know exactly what I am dealing with here. I also have severe IBS and I’ve read this drug causes a whole host of stomach problems. I have all of the classic diabetes symptoms, and the blood sugar monitor results say it all, yet because I am borderline at 47/48, they won’t do anything for me. I am gutted. I just want to know what exactly is going on with my body before I take drugs for the rest of my life.
Anyone else dealing with similar, or has dealt with similar?
Unfortunately the Keto diet doesn’t work for me. My bloods didn’t improve very much on it either. I am already very slim and I got very underweight on this diet. Before anyone says I wasn’t doing it properly, yes I was.
Also, if you have no weight to lose (fat to oxidise) and you're not eating enough of it in your diet, your liver will be rampantly manufacturing glucose. This would go some way to explaining the lacklustre results in lowering sugar levels, as well as the further weight loss as your body is slowly deconstructed and turned into sugar for fuel.
You may think you were doing it 'properly' but, from my own experience, very slim people eating a ketogenic diet need to chug back a lot of dietary fat. And not in the form of vegetable/seed oils.
Just out of interest, have you tried testing your blood sugar when you aren't eating low carb? Your doctor sounds like a dinosaur who probably does not realise that diabetics can maintain lower blood sugars by reducing their carb intake. She might be more impressed by the levels you get if you eat "normally".
Honestly, at your age and weight I think T1 is more likely than T2 (though I am probably biased because I am T1). And there are other much rarer forms of diabetes (MODY anyone?) which you'd need an endocrinologist to diagnose. (And Mody is really weird and does not necessarily need insulin to treat).
It might be worth your while to invest in some urine testing strips for ketones. If your blood sugar levels go high (teens) plus high levels of ketones then you become at risk of diabetic ketoacidosis, at which point you need to ring for an ambulance. (And just to confuse matters, you safely get ketones when you are on a very low carb diet in dietary ketosis, but ketones plus high blood sugars are the danger.)
Good luck.
I'd look at getting your insulin production tested (c-peptide test).... if you are ketoing and still running high levels, it would be worth while knowing what your pancreas is producing. .
Log your glucose results before and after meals, 90mins to 2hrs after is standard advice. And log what your meals are. Data collecting is very useful in figuring things out.
Weirdly, since I have increased my carb intake over the last few months, I have been able to keep my bloods below 9 (which is a good figure for me) and I am back to a healthy weight. So that seems to work a bit better for me.
I also do intermittent fasting and will eat between 12-7pm only. I find this really easy to follow as I’m not hungry in the mornings anymore.
I think this is the route my GP was going down, with the T1 late onset, given my weight. However has been shot down by the consultant. It’s just so odd, considering the consultant sat on the referral for 5 months (pre Covid).
I feel I have nowhere to turn as the GP won’t help me and they said even if I went private I’d be told the same thing. I personally don’t agree. I just can’t afford to go private!
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