ChrisSamsDad
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 446
- Location
- Eccles, Lancashire
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- UKIP, royalty, football, gin, goat's cheese.
So, I got my meter last week and BG has been between 5.2 and 7.7 every day since then. I've lost about 8kg recently on the blood sugar diet (I'm now just on LCHF) and I'm a couple of kilos short of a normal BMI now and dropping weight more gradually. I've been doing weights and exercise too. My blood pressure is right down (110/72) and I've tested stopping my BP meds and though it was a bit too high, I might give it another go after a few more kilos.
I can't quite believe what this is telling me - that I have a good chance of not getting worse, dying much earlier, with organ failure, neuropathy, blindness and all the rest are things I can avoid. I know I shouldn't count my chickens, it's very early obviously. I didn't think I was that depressed about it before, but I've been in a weird mood the last couple of days: grinning almost to the point of tears when I look at my wife, needing to be up and moving - I danced to the radio on my own in the kitchen for half an hour yesterday, running up and down stairs - actually doing housework without being guilt-tripped and just feeling giddy and well, a bit manic.
Is this a known physical thing, hormones or something? I'm not complaining, but if someone I knew was suddenly behaving like this, I'd want them to see a shrink.
I can't quite believe what this is telling me - that I have a good chance of not getting worse, dying much earlier, with organ failure, neuropathy, blindness and all the rest are things I can avoid. I know I shouldn't count my chickens, it's very early obviously. I didn't think I was that depressed about it before, but I've been in a weird mood the last couple of days: grinning almost to the point of tears when I look at my wife, needing to be up and moving - I danced to the radio on my own in the kitchen for half an hour yesterday, running up and down stairs - actually doing housework without being guilt-tripped and just feeling giddy and well, a bit manic.
Is this a known physical thing, hormones or something? I'm not complaining, but if someone I knew was suddenly behaving like this, I'd want them to see a shrink.
