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- Type of diabetes
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- Diet only
Hello everyone.
I'm hoping some of u can help reset my head lol.
I'm t2d diagnosed September with hba1c of 56 - no meds just diet controlled.
When first diagnosed I came on here and started low carb (and low fat cuz I'm not a skinny Minnie lol) and my sugar was doing well. I also found out that any kind of carb would send blood sugar up to at least 10mmol/l after 2 hours.
DESMOND course did nothing but confuse and scare me more.
I went for a meds review (citalopram) and have had it increased to 30mg. While I was there I mentioned to the diabetic nurse that I don't seem to be able to tolerate any form of carbs to which she had a go at me for testing saying that if I want to I should only test in the mornings. She said that testing 2 hours after would be high as it is when your body is processing the food. But this goes against everything I have read about expected blood levels being under 8.5mmol/l after 2 hours..
She said I should be eating a good diet the same as 'everybody' and shouldn't be cutting out any food groups making sure to get my 5 a day.
So this morning my sugar was 6.2mmol/l and after my breakfast (weetabix) it is 14.3mmol/l... so how the hell is this good for me?
I will be going back to low carb and sticking to the info on here.
I just got bombarded with info and got confused. Just writing this has helped me to see that.
Oh and I'm still stupidly tired please tell me this will disappear?
Thanks for reading my rant lol x
I'm hoping some of u can help reset my head lol.
I'm t2d diagnosed September with hba1c of 56 - no meds just diet controlled.
When first diagnosed I came on here and started low carb (and low fat cuz I'm not a skinny Minnie lol) and my sugar was doing well. I also found out that any kind of carb would send blood sugar up to at least 10mmol/l after 2 hours.
DESMOND course did nothing but confuse and scare me more.
I went for a meds review (citalopram) and have had it increased to 30mg. While I was there I mentioned to the diabetic nurse that I don't seem to be able to tolerate any form of carbs to which she had a go at me for testing saying that if I want to I should only test in the mornings. She said that testing 2 hours after would be high as it is when your body is processing the food. But this goes against everything I have read about expected blood levels being under 8.5mmol/l after 2 hours..
She said I should be eating a good diet the same as 'everybody' and shouldn't be cutting out any food groups making sure to get my 5 a day.
So this morning my sugar was 6.2mmol/l and after my breakfast (weetabix) it is 14.3mmol/l... so how the hell is this good for me?
I will be going back to low carb and sticking to the info on here.
I just got bombarded with info and got confused. Just writing this has helped me to see that.
Oh and I'm still stupidly tired please tell me this will disappear?
Thanks for reading my rant lol x