Hi,
Carandel recently wrote on a post that "My nurse reckons type 2s can often have erratic insulin production which means the same amount of carbs can have different effects on your body depending what your pancreas is up to that day."
This rang a bell with me - a very loud one! :lol:
I've been wondering whether all this testing is actually worth it for me as there doesn't seem to be any correlation between what I eat and what the meter says. For instance, yesterday. I was very naughty
and had a jam doughnut (it was a birthday in work and I was in a meeting - I couldn't sit there and watch everyone else eating doughnuts :roll: ). Anyway 3 hours later I tested and got a 6.0 (that's good for me). I was surprised - and pleased. At lunch I had a round of tuna and cucumber sandwiches on brown bread (lunch was provided in the meeting) and a mug of green tea. 2 hours later my BG was 11.5! :***: This is not a one-off happening. There seems to be no correlation between what I eat and BG levels.
So if Carandel's nurse is correct, that would help to explain it. It also made me wonder whether my pancreas has been playing up most (if not all) my life. As a child I would have the symptoms of a hypo - I was famous for collapsing in assemblies in school (and, no, it wasn't just to get out of assembly! :lol: ) and at other times of the day too. I never put on an ounce of weight - I was 5' 9" and 7st 8lb until my early 20s - underweight - and ate what I liked. They never worked out why. I was given B12 injections, iron, etc. but none of it worked. In my early - mid 20s I started putting on weight even though there was no change to my diet. I wonder if I was under-producing insulin until early 20s and then my pancreas suddenly kicked in and over-produced resulting in weight gain. Now, it's just playing silly b****ers and messing me around! :***: :crazy:
Has anyone else had similar experiences?
What do other people think about my line of thinking?
Carandel recently wrote on a post that "My nurse reckons type 2s can often have erratic insulin production which means the same amount of carbs can have different effects on your body depending what your pancreas is up to that day."
This rang a bell with me - a very loud one! :lol:
I've been wondering whether all this testing is actually worth it for me as there doesn't seem to be any correlation between what I eat and what the meter says. For instance, yesterday. I was very naughty
and had a jam doughnut (it was a birthday in work and I was in a meeting - I couldn't sit there and watch everyone else eating doughnuts :roll: ). Anyway 3 hours later I tested and got a 6.0 (that's good for me). I was surprised - and pleased. At lunch I had a round of tuna and cucumber sandwiches on brown bread (lunch was provided in the meeting) and a mug of green tea. 2 hours later my BG was 11.5! :***: This is not a one-off happening. There seems to be no correlation between what I eat and BG levels.So if Carandel's nurse is correct, that would help to explain it. It also made me wonder whether my pancreas has been playing up most (if not all) my life. As a child I would have the symptoms of a hypo - I was famous for collapsing in assemblies in school (and, no, it wasn't just to get out of assembly! :lol: ) and at other times of the day too. I never put on an ounce of weight - I was 5' 9" and 7st 8lb until my early 20s - underweight - and ate what I liked. They never worked out why. I was given B12 injections, iron, etc. but none of it worked. In my early - mid 20s I started putting on weight even though there was no change to my diet. I wonder if I was under-producing insulin until early 20s and then my pancreas suddenly kicked in and over-produced resulting in weight gain. Now, it's just playing silly b****ers and messing me around! :***: :crazy:
Has anyone else had similar experiences?
What do other people think about my line of thinking?
