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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Hi All
I have long term chronic pain in many joints due to having hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and sustaining numerous injuries and dislocations over the years, I can only take paracetamol which barely works so I avoid taking it unless really necessary and I hardly sleep as I cannot get comfortable in bed.
I have a second knee replacement in June 2018 which reduced some of the pain in that knee but now my left knee which was replaced 16 years ago is starting to fail. My blood sugars shot up after the surgery last year which is to be expected, my HbA1c was 64 in August and the nurse wanted to prescribe metformin etc but I insisted on waiting and having another HbA1c as a consequence two months later it had dropped to 55.
After a short while though my daily readings stopped going down and were starting to creep back up plus my weight was not shifting. In April 2019 I reduced the size of my breakfast but after a month and half reading my were still not going down so I cut out breakfast completely and now only have the one meal a day in the evening which is often a Diet Doctor recipe or just meat and low carb vegetables. I am always hungry and sometimes it is so bad I have a chunk of cheese or a few nuts as a morning snack, I will have 3-4 coffees with cream in a day and these are usually decaffeinated, the rest of the time I drink water plus a rum and diet coke once or twice a week.
My morning readings often hit double figures and my reading before dinner, 24 hour fasting, are 7s or 8s only very occasionally in the 6s with an average rise of 1.5 after dinner.
I know my HbA1c, which is due soon, will have gone up from the 55 in October 18 though it should not as high as the 64 in August 18.
I cannot exercise though I do hoover the house twice a week and do a bit of light gardening regularly.
I understand that long term chronic pain causes physical stress which can raise blood glucose levels: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/stress-and-blood-glucose-levels.html but I am at a loss as to what else I can do to reverse this without going back on metformin. I would at the very lease like to lose some weight as I am only a few pounds from the weight I was when I first started low carbing in 2016 and it is a lot for my knees to carry.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have long term chronic pain in many joints due to having hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and sustaining numerous injuries and dislocations over the years, I can only take paracetamol which barely works so I avoid taking it unless really necessary and I hardly sleep as I cannot get comfortable in bed.
I have a second knee replacement in June 2018 which reduced some of the pain in that knee but now my left knee which was replaced 16 years ago is starting to fail. My blood sugars shot up after the surgery last year which is to be expected, my HbA1c was 64 in August and the nurse wanted to prescribe metformin etc but I insisted on waiting and having another HbA1c as a consequence two months later it had dropped to 55.
After a short while though my daily readings stopped going down and were starting to creep back up plus my weight was not shifting. In April 2019 I reduced the size of my breakfast but after a month and half reading my were still not going down so I cut out breakfast completely and now only have the one meal a day in the evening which is often a Diet Doctor recipe or just meat and low carb vegetables. I am always hungry and sometimes it is so bad I have a chunk of cheese or a few nuts as a morning snack, I will have 3-4 coffees with cream in a day and these are usually decaffeinated, the rest of the time I drink water plus a rum and diet coke once or twice a week.
My morning readings often hit double figures and my reading before dinner, 24 hour fasting, are 7s or 8s only very occasionally in the 6s with an average rise of 1.5 after dinner.
I know my HbA1c, which is due soon, will have gone up from the 55 in October 18 though it should not as high as the 64 in August 18.
I cannot exercise though I do hoover the house twice a week and do a bit of light gardening regularly.
I understand that long term chronic pain causes physical stress which can raise blood glucose levels: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/stress-and-blood-glucose-levels.html but I am at a loss as to what else I can do to reverse this without going back on metformin. I would at the very lease like to lose some weight as I am only a few pounds from the weight I was when I first started low carbing in 2016 and it is a lot for my knees to carry.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
