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south711

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Location
France
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Other
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being a diabetic and finding restrictions.to life style. people who do not understand the problems one has. not being able to afford to come back to uk for holidays as often, quite expensive. miss some foods that the French do not do. but can live with that French drivers. who love to tail gate. and they love to drive over the white line. in rural areas they are a pain. but get use to it. does put the wind up you. But driving in the UK found that drivers want to get as close as they can. and the traffic. it took me 25 minutes to get to friends house which was less then a mile away. due to traffic.
Sorry, but I wonder if anyone else suffers with constipation. This has happened since being diagnosed, not happening all the time but. but when it does very uncomfortable.
Always been regular. so find this hard to combat. I really do not want to take anything for it.
As next day I seem to be ok, not that it always happens but. does anyone have the same problem. your remedies.!!!!
thanks Anne
 
I had it just before I was diagnosed so maybe it is something to do with high sugars or something? I do not know !
 
Coconut water, the one with no sugar ...you can buy in a carton or a can , it is all natural ......
Most supermarkets now sell it ....
 
Bluetit1802 said:
It is probably the change in diet and insufficient fibre. Drink loads of water and increase your fibre.
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I'd go along with Bluetit1802 says, dehydration and lack of fibre in the diet is a major cause of constipation.
 
Many thanks will take your advice Anne
 
I been admitted to hospital with morphine etc through really bad bowel problems. Since eating more fat and cutting out jelly baby hypo stoppers...regular as clockwork. Discharged from gastro chap at hospital and all hunky dory as previously diagnosed with slow colonic transit.. Nope, with more fat (NOT more fibre) everything works wonderfully.


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slow colonic transit. That would make a great catch phrase.
 
My gastro chap was saying that he has seen a big increase in diabetics (all types) with stomach probs. Stomach probs happen to anybody. I know a child now 11 since he was 5 that has had to have movicol to shift food in his stomach- but that has been due to bad food habits. I've always had fibre in my diet, but it wasn't until reading more on this forum that I realised that although I don't eat a lot of anything really, but I was certainly not having enough fat. As well as increasing my stomach speed and not allowing my food to stay in my stomach and effectively dry out to a solid matter, the increased fat has helped the damage to my leg muscles enormously. I'm off all tablets for the pain now.

Constipation of old people in residential homes is awful... Absolutely awful. The qty of elderly people in these homes that have to have constant laxatives is disgustingly high. This again I believe is due to inadequate fat in their diets, and also the quality and quantity of food they eat in them.

Bowels aren't talked about a lot, but it is a problem for people whether diabetic or not, and young and old.

To me unless food is grown, reared or caught or laid, then I rarely eat it, but it didn't stop me getting problems with my stomach. I still largely blame jelly babies which were my hypo stoppers as I was advised by my nurse only to have them.... But fat has solved my problems to a level of 100% working fine.

By way slow colonic transit was found by a shapes test where you swallow 60 shapes over a period of 3 days, of which when X-rayed after 5 days they should all have travelled through stomach and out. I still had I think it was 48, may have been 58 still in various parts of my stomach. If I hadn't found my own cure to my troubles, the next step would have been an appt with the top UK Gastro chap in a London hospital to look at having an electric stimulant in my stomach.






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This is so difficult... I don't know the exact words... For describing on "these best lines" only I do remember being that payment from NHS would be a battle for the electric thing and costs would have been £20k!!!

So that the main reason I am so glad that I found my own cure!!!

I write a 1/4ly newsletter for my GP Practice, I have to get all my grammar and wording corrected!! I copied a phrase from BBC news last week..."population being on cusp of diabetes' was what the BBC had written. So I copied it, only to be informed by my proof reader that cusp means the coming together of two arcs and was the wrong word to use!!, even get corrected for the BBC's grammar and wording too!


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Link?
 
LCHF sorted me out. Try it and see!
 
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