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debi lee

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Hi there been speaking to few peeps on here and have tried to take there advice.Im really cheesed off as i have been on my diet for four days now no sugar low carbs and my bs wont come down,Just checked it now and its 17,1 and all iv had today was scrammbled eggs for breki,will i have to go on insulin or does it take time for your body to adjust

debi xx
 
I may be wrong here (probably am) but I was under the impression that our body will react to a much reduced diet by signaling the liver to release more glucose for a ready supply of muscle power.

By the same way of thinking, a sudden very low carb diet could produce the same effect on a body used to being swamped in an excess of glucose and have the liver react by producing glucose to make for the lack of it. . . . does that make any sense?
 
I should also add that if you are still running high by the morning, go and see the Dr with some urgency and get it sortred out with whatever it takes.
 
Debi
You say you've been on the diet 4 days
Have you checked BG each day?
Is there truly NO change?
This seems odd, but I suppose your liver could be dumping. Once it's got rid of its glycogen, that will stop.
However,iagreee on makng an appointment and if that's not immediate, get some kettostix from the pharmacy.High BG is bad enough, but combined with high ketones, it constitues a medical emergency.
Have you been diagnosed T1 or T2?
It may be the diagnosis needs checking too.
Hana
 
DEbs,

I see on your profile that you are diet only and currently take no meds. I think it would be wise to book a appointment with your gp or diabetes nurse to discuss your control, as you are aware 17.1 is on the high-side and if unchanged, this can be dangerous.

Good luck!

Nigel
 
Hi Debs

Don't be too disheartened, as it's early days, as it seems that you not at the moment tacking any medication for the diabetes, then it could be that this needs to be started, so you need to speak to your GP/DSN as soon as possible, take you BG results and food diary with you, this will give them a better picture to what is happening, and the best way forward...
 
Postby debi lee » 02 Apr 2010 08:27
Hi everyone im new here so help i can get some good advice,i have had type 2 for 16 years and done nothing whats so ever about it i suffer bipolar so most of the time very deppressed,I have always done as wnt regards to food such as loads i choclate and takaways.I never went for any cheak ups or blood tests,This week decided to have blood test as they thought i had an enlarged tyroid so i done the test on weds and thursday morning the hospital called me to say my fasting was at 20.1 it scared me as im in really bad pain in my back legs all over really.The docs said i had fibromyilgia but i really think it because of the diabetes,

I now want to eat very healthy and lose weight but i feel its just too late now and might as well carry on as before,Would it make any diffrence if i started healthy eating now or is it just too late.
by the way im 44 4 metformin a day and two glilazide a day.Ialso take loads of tabs for my bipolar and pain killers for the pain as well as morphine.PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP AS IM SCARED NOW

regards debi xxx

debi lee
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According to Debi's first post she is on meds. (quoted from another thread) Profile does state 'Oral' as well.
 
sugarless sue said:
According to Debi's first post she is on meds. (quoted from another thread) Profile does state 'Oral' as well.
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Yes it does in deed, my apology. Debi, still see your gp or dsn as it is certain your meds need some adjustment.

Nigel
 
thanks for all the replys no dieting is making no differance but having said that and i know you will gasp i have 5 sweetners in my tea i know its bad but thought as is not sugar it will be ok but then today i read a thread on here saying your body doesnt no the differance? i have been eating a jacket potato for dinner and low cal colslaw lunch was weight watchers soup and breki was two scrambled eggs i thought that would be fine.I know when i lose weight my bs go down so should i stick to the diet lose weight then see what happens

debi xx
 
Hi Debi, have i read your post correctly ??? are you 44?? and had type 2 db for 16 years?? As far as i was always told and i was diagnosed when i was 22, under 40 is always type 1 and on insulin, no messing about with tablets or diet straight on the injection - i had to do my first injection in front of the dsn, i would check with your gp hun, as for the loosing weight!!!!! I too am trying - very trying, i have been told if you are diabetic you can join weight watchers for free if you speak to your gp you get vouchers, i've put over 2 stone on in 12 months ! and am on meds for depression, statins and kidney meds all due to the sugers x good luck - go and get checked again x
 
Hi never you know what i think your right as a child i couldnt stop drinking and people used to say to my mum you sure shes not diabetic,Then with my first child aged 24 they finding loads of sugar in my urine but done nothing about it and said dont worry.My son was at 34 weeks and weighted 7lb 2 so i dread to think what he would have been gone full time.

when i had my secound child i had moved from bedfordshire to hertfordshire so a different hospital they spotted it week 8 of my pregnancy and i controoled it by diet and lost 3 stone. I put that all back on then my third time round i was put on insulin and had to take loads .

how would they be able to tell now if i am t1 or t2

regads debi x
 
Debs

There are several tests that can been done one is the c-peptide and the other is called GAD, they can give a clearer pciture to type..

If you've haven taken any type of medication for a long while, if you had been T1 you would have been in serious trouble a long before now, even with Slow on set T1 it would be likely that you would have struggled and been on medication that wasn't working..

I have two friends who are T2 diabetics, and they are both under 40, one is stil in her 20's...
 
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