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Feel like screaming!!

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Jessica120714

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi,
Been following low carb for a while now and feel great- bloods always around 5 or 6.

I've got to go into hospital next month for two different procedures.. They are two days apart. I have to fast for both and take laxatives in between.

Rang the hospital and explained I will feel terrible and I have university in between and could I change the dates.. The nursing teams answer- have a carby meal at the start of each day and drink lucozade all day!!!

I feel like crying- anyway I've got the ward manager to ring me back to try and change the appointments. I don't mind fasting for the day but not three days on the trot whilst taking laxatives.. Also to leave the hospital in between I have to eat either toast or weetabix.

Sorry for the rant!!!
 
That sounds like the procedure my husband had last week. Is it the laxative drinks that come in a 'what to do' pack from the hospital that you take four hours apart? If it is then you really won't want to move more than 3 metres from a toilet.

My husband refused the weetabix or toast and was told they couldn't let him go home so he gave in and ate half a slice of toast.

Fasting is okay as far as your diabetes goes. Google Jason Fung - he's a kidney specialist in Canada who recommends fasting as the best way to control or reverse diabetes. I don't know about the reversing of it but using his guidelines I have often fasted and it has lowered my BG. More importantly, it hasn't made me ill, just hungry.
 
Hi,

I don't mind fasting, but it works out nearly three days because of the times of appointments and what I'm having done etc and I know I'll feel rubbish. Why they can't just move the appointment I don't know x
 
Maybe the person performing the procedure works elsewhere on other days. It's what happens here in this corner of Yorkshire. My husband's consultant works different days in four different hospitals.
 
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