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Can't get blood sugar down to normal levels

Inchindown

Inchindown

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I've been battling a bad session of binge eating for the last couple of weeks. It's resulted in my blood sugar being over 20 for a significant portion of that time.

This week I've managed to get off the binge and I've eaten almost no carbs since the weekend.

Despite that, I've not been able to get my pre meal blood sugar to fall below 7.0. Before the binge I would have expected to see my levels on low 5 range, sometimes falling below 5.

So what I'm wondering is this. Is the higher level simply a temporary effect of being on the binge and I should see my levels come back to normal eventually. Or could I have done some permanent damage while binging that is causing my levels to stay higher than normal.

I'm type 2 and not currently on any medication. I was taken off metformin last October after a minor heart attack. My last 2 hba1c tests were lower than it was when I was on metformin.
 
Seems most likely that you have have simply refilled your body with glucose and it’s once again accumulating in the blood. It should settle down again eventually so long as you stop putting more in.
 
Have you considered a change in your current diet ?
If you go to the Home page and click on type 2 diets it lists the various diets used.
Ask questions about the pros and cons and people's experiences on what type of food and diet
seems easiest to stick to and gives the best BSL results.
 
kitedoc said:
Have you considered a change in your current diet ?
If you go to the Home page and click on type 2 diets it lists the various diets used.
Ask questions about the pros and cons and people's experiences on what type of food and diet
seems easiest to stick to and gives the best BSL results.
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My diet isn't really the problem. My battle is with a binge eating disorder. When I'm not bingeing my sugar levels are normally ok.

I just wish I could find a way to stop bingeing.
 
Hello.
Cause and effect.
Cause is over eating
Effect is raised blood sugars.
I would look towards a long term solution to the over eating, their must be lots of advice out on the internet about solutions to this problem.
I guess your blood sugars will return to your normal levels given time.
Good luck.
 
@Inchindown - I seem to recall you have tried long and hard to get some decent help with your binge eating challeneges, without much success? Perhaps it's worthwhile trying again, whilst your in the midst, or hopefully climbing out of a crisis - especially as you have recent, demontrable impacts of that challenge in your blood glucose meter, and maybe food diary?

If you don't keep a food diary at the times of your crisis, it could be worthwhile doing that (although I do appreciate it could be extremely uncomfortable to do), again, so that you can demonstrate the factual aspects of what happens, the impacts, then adding in how you feel.

That constant feeling of beating your head on a brisk wall, and going around in circles must be incredibly frustrating, but please don't give up on trying to find help.

I can't remember if I have posted this on any of your threads in the past, so forgive me if I have, but I wonder if there's anything lose to you that could help, on a self-service basis, or to ask your GP for a specific referral. If he declines to refer, I'd ask him for his rationale, in writing. If that didn't satisfy, I'd speak to another Doctor about it.

On the NHS we are entitled to a second opinion, and we casn specify from whom we would like that second opinion to come. It does not need to be from within our own practise, area, or CCG. This was something my own GP explained to me when I gave her feedback on an Endo I had seen about a non-diabetes issue, where my presentation is atypical. Trust me; I'm atypical everything!

https://helpfinder.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/treatment-guide/treatment-for-binge-eating-disorder
 
Inchindown said:
My last 2 hba1c tests were lower than it was when I was on metformin.
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That can't be bad.

From my personal experience I can say that insulin resistance changes, mine has gone up, down then up and down again. So 4 times I've had it measured 2 results were higher and 2 results were the same and lower.

Also, when I experience dawn phenomenon which seems to be a lot, the thing that seems to work is reducing protein intake, but then it will take weeks rather than days to straighten things out.
 
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