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Hello everyone,
I've been on and off the forums reading what I can and thought I would join up today.
Unfortunately I think I may have T2 diabetes.
I've been monitoring my blood sugar in the last few months and my fasting levels are 19-20mmol/l.
I decided to try and fix it myself before seeing the doctors, not sure if that was a good idea, but I did a low carb diet that I was finding okay, and also upped my exercise to include a long weekend bike ride in the forest, and an exercise bike ride after work for 30 mins.
Everything was going fine for the fist week and then I started to feel ill, tired, jittery and like I was going to faint when standing.
I stopped the low carb and went back to eating regular meals, and things seemed to improve and at the weekend I did another good mountain bike ride and some heavy duty gardening and felt fine.
Come Monday and I feel rubbish again. I tested my fasting bloods this morning and was surprised it was 16mmol/l, lower than expected, but I feel really terrible and ill, especially after eating lunch and evening meal I've noticed I get sleepy and headachey.
Can anyone offer any insight into what is happening and what is the best way forward. Low carb seems to have set off this chain of events, I was okay before I did that, so I'm not sure what to do as going back to it might continue this feeling.
I even used a SuperSapien device (Abbots) on my arm for 2 weeks and at the beginning it was off the chart (over 200mg/dL), then it was coming down due to low carb and the exercise really showed it coming down, but then would rise after, but still it was showing some good results. When I started feeling ill and went back to my normal eating, albeit healthier, it never came under 200mg/dL for the last 4 days now, even when I did a 1.5hr bike ride.
I've been on and off the forums reading what I can and thought I would join up today.
Unfortunately I think I may have T2 diabetes.
I've been monitoring my blood sugar in the last few months and my fasting levels are 19-20mmol/l.
I decided to try and fix it myself before seeing the doctors, not sure if that was a good idea, but I did a low carb diet that I was finding okay, and also upped my exercise to include a long weekend bike ride in the forest, and an exercise bike ride after work for 30 mins.
Everything was going fine for the fist week and then I started to feel ill, tired, jittery and like I was going to faint when standing.
I stopped the low carb and went back to eating regular meals, and things seemed to improve and at the weekend I did another good mountain bike ride and some heavy duty gardening and felt fine.
Come Monday and I feel rubbish again. I tested my fasting bloods this morning and was surprised it was 16mmol/l, lower than expected, but I feel really terrible and ill, especially after eating lunch and evening meal I've noticed I get sleepy and headachey.
Can anyone offer any insight into what is happening and what is the best way forward. Low carb seems to have set off this chain of events, I was okay before I did that, so I'm not sure what to do as going back to it might continue this feeling.
I even used a SuperSapien device (Abbots) on my arm for 2 weeks and at the beginning it was off the chart (over 200mg/dL), then it was coming down due to low carb and the exercise really showed it coming down, but then would rise after, but still it was showing some good results. When I started feeling ill and went back to my normal eating, albeit healthier, it never came under 200mg/dL for the last 4 days now, even when I did a 1.5hr bike ride.