Hello everyone! Trying to understand what exactly happened to me. So here's my story (problem started ~7days ago):
I am quite lean, just 70kg for 183cm. I am 25yo. Male. Caucasian. I was eating almost a vegan diet (with just a little dairy and fish really rarely) but ate lots of chocolate and other sweets (~200g milk chocolate daily was the minimum) and didn't do much sports. Tried to compensate by sometimes eating raw broccoli or spinach. Ate lots of vegetable stews, beans, rice.
So anyway, I started going to a swimming pool to get back into sports.
Then one day, I was at a poetry evening and I was squatting most of the time (I don't like standing long as I'm flat footed) and when I got up, my left foot started to hurt really bad when I moved it in one direction, although it was a very weird feeling. It was not numb or anything, either. I then remembered I had similar pain in my RIGHT foot the day before. It was really painful to walk, but the pain went away soonish. However, with the left foot, things were different. The extreme pain DID go away, but some kind of lingering pain remained every day. Nothing bad, but just like something's wrong in the foot. So since I ate so many sweets and couldn't find the reason of that pain, I got two hypotheses:
1. It could be diabetic neuropathy
or
2. I could have somehow sprained my tendons in the foot in the swimming pool (I use my feet when swimming very fast) and could also have been triggered by a tendon trauma in that foot that I had many years ago. (tendon was cut) so perhaps the constant movement returned the tendon problem.
So as I don't think Nr2 reason wouldn't be much of a trouble, I decided to check if it's not Nr.1
I bought a glucose meter called "Glucocard X-mini plus" with 60 test strips.
So I started testing myself with it. To average things up:
My fasting glucose (first thing in the morning): 4.2 to 6.1, I think (could be 4.4 to 5.5).
Which is not THAT bad and sounds like mild prediabetes?
However, after eating a full dish, I get high glucose of up to 9.6 (ussually 8.1 - 9.2) after an hour. Then it gradually lowers. The problem is, it's not that I'm eating something bad. In fact, these measures are after I ate hard-to-digest carbohydrates with lots of fiber. Example:
Today I got 9.4(!) after eating this:
A soup of carrots + tomatoes + chickpeas + himalayan salt + curcuma + asafatida + curry
I was eating raw sunflower sprouts and raw "sunchoke" with the soup. So as you can see, really very little carbs and lots of fiber. Still, 9.4. I also got 9.4 the first day I tested the meter by eating some soup with wheat bread, which I guess was normal, considering wheat increases blood sugar.
So my question is, why the crazy spikes even after such healthy foods? Luckily, they get lower in two hours (after starting to eat)
Otherwise, for anyone interested, my diet (for the past 5 days):
100% vegan (~50% raw)
Almost no fats (by suggestions from Dr Neal Barnard
) (I only get them from cashews I eat every day ~70g), perhaps a little in chickpeas (in said soups)or flax seeds (in oatmeal)
I don't eat no starchy foods, no wheat, no rice, no bananas, no potatoes.
I eat fruits semi-liberaly - I eat kiwis, apples, strawberries. Lemon-grapefruit juice with warm water. Barley and wheat grasses (powdered) with water and cinnamon.
Supplements, daily:
2 x 500mg slow absorbing vitamin C
1x 100mg vit C + selenium + zinc + 250mg echinacea + 100% RDA vitamin E + 100% RDA vitamin A.
1x 1000mg Cassia cinammon + 200mg ALA + 60ug Chrome
1x ~1000% RDA of every vitamin B + magnesium
1x ~30mg Noopept
I also make strong astragalus + gynnostema + fennugreek + blackseed teas every day. I drink it liberally.
I go to the swimming pool/sauna every second day. Almost daily I do some minor sports after I see my high blood glucose after eating...
Another interesting note here: I work from home and I get up at ~6PM and go to sleep at ~7AM give or take a few hours. I read this could affect diabetic affairs negatively... Something to do with melaning imbalances, I think.
Current situation:
* An ulcer appeared in dorsal knee, popliteal fossa. Apparently for no reason. Note: it happened before, because I have eczema that likes to migrate through the body. However, this time, timing is bad, so I don't want to underwrite it as eczema. I'm not sure. I read it's a usual place for diabetic ulcers to appear.
* Pain in my foot subsided. After the changes in my diet (no more easy carbs, lots of fiber, fruits, veggies, supplements) the foot pain only got better. Today, the pain is almost not there. But there's still something there. Not numb at all.
* Three nights ago, in the middle of the night I felt my RIGHT foots sole (the very base of the foot only) being slightly numb. That was very weird but went away in several minutes. Could be just bad pose of sleep or something? Otherwise, no numbness anywhere in the body.
* I don't really feel tired.
* I'm not feeling thirsty.
* My urine doesn't taste sweet, even when it's darker yellow (don't ask)
* I'm otherwise healthy, however, when my foot first started to hurt, I was sick with bad cough and running nose. However, that day I only ate two bananas and went to swimming pool before that poetry evening. Weird circumstances to get a neuropathy?
So my question is:
What is happening with me? Is this just normal prediabetes? Should I do anything differently? Why the blood sugar spikes only after eating a little more (doesn't matter what) and are my feet/ulcer problems from diabetes/sugar?
Thank you all for reading this long introduction/question!
I am quite lean, just 70kg for 183cm. I am 25yo. Male. Caucasian. I was eating almost a vegan diet (with just a little dairy and fish really rarely) but ate lots of chocolate and other sweets (~200g milk chocolate daily was the minimum) and didn't do much sports. Tried to compensate by sometimes eating raw broccoli or spinach. Ate lots of vegetable stews, beans, rice.
So anyway, I started going to a swimming pool to get back into sports.
Then one day, I was at a poetry evening and I was squatting most of the time (I don't like standing long as I'm flat footed) and when I got up, my left foot started to hurt really bad when I moved it in one direction, although it was a very weird feeling. It was not numb or anything, either. I then remembered I had similar pain in my RIGHT foot the day before. It was really painful to walk, but the pain went away soonish. However, with the left foot, things were different. The extreme pain DID go away, but some kind of lingering pain remained every day. Nothing bad, but just like something's wrong in the foot. So since I ate so many sweets and couldn't find the reason of that pain, I got two hypotheses:
1. It could be diabetic neuropathy
or
2. I could have somehow sprained my tendons in the foot in the swimming pool (I use my feet when swimming very fast) and could also have been triggered by a tendon trauma in that foot that I had many years ago. (tendon was cut) so perhaps the constant movement returned the tendon problem.
So as I don't think Nr2 reason wouldn't be much of a trouble, I decided to check if it's not Nr.1
I bought a glucose meter called "Glucocard X-mini plus" with 60 test strips.
So I started testing myself with it. To average things up:
My fasting glucose (first thing in the morning): 4.2 to 6.1, I think (could be 4.4 to 5.5).
Which is not THAT bad and sounds like mild prediabetes?
However, after eating a full dish, I get high glucose of up to 9.6 (ussually 8.1 - 9.2) after an hour. Then it gradually lowers. The problem is, it's not that I'm eating something bad. In fact, these measures are after I ate hard-to-digest carbohydrates with lots of fiber. Example:
Today I got 9.4(!) after eating this:
A soup of carrots + tomatoes + chickpeas + himalayan salt + curcuma + asafatida + curry
I was eating raw sunflower sprouts and raw "sunchoke" with the soup. So as you can see, really very little carbs and lots of fiber. Still, 9.4. I also got 9.4 the first day I tested the meter by eating some soup with wheat bread, which I guess was normal, considering wheat increases blood sugar.
So my question is, why the crazy spikes even after such healthy foods? Luckily, they get lower in two hours (after starting to eat)
Otherwise, for anyone interested, my diet (for the past 5 days):
100% vegan (~50% raw)
Almost no fats (by suggestions from Dr Neal Barnard
I don't eat no starchy foods, no wheat, no rice, no bananas, no potatoes.
I eat fruits semi-liberaly - I eat kiwis, apples, strawberries. Lemon-grapefruit juice with warm water. Barley and wheat grasses (powdered) with water and cinnamon.
Supplements, daily:
2 x 500mg slow absorbing vitamin C
1x 100mg vit C + selenium + zinc + 250mg echinacea + 100% RDA vitamin E + 100% RDA vitamin A.
1x 1000mg Cassia cinammon + 200mg ALA + 60ug Chrome
1x ~1000% RDA of every vitamin B + magnesium
1x ~30mg Noopept
I also make strong astragalus + gynnostema + fennugreek + blackseed teas every day. I drink it liberally.
I go to the swimming pool/sauna every second day. Almost daily I do some minor sports after I see my high blood glucose after eating...
Another interesting note here: I work from home and I get up at ~6PM and go to sleep at ~7AM give or take a few hours. I read this could affect diabetic affairs negatively... Something to do with melaning imbalances, I think.
Current situation:
* An ulcer appeared in dorsal knee, popliteal fossa. Apparently for no reason. Note: it happened before, because I have eczema that likes to migrate through the body. However, this time, timing is bad, so I don't want to underwrite it as eczema. I'm not sure. I read it's a usual place for diabetic ulcers to appear.
* Pain in my foot subsided. After the changes in my diet (no more easy carbs, lots of fiber, fruits, veggies, supplements) the foot pain only got better. Today, the pain is almost not there. But there's still something there. Not numb at all.
* Three nights ago, in the middle of the night I felt my RIGHT foots sole (the very base of the foot only) being slightly numb. That was very weird but went away in several minutes. Could be just bad pose of sleep or something? Otherwise, no numbness anywhere in the body.
* I don't really feel tired.
* I'm not feeling thirsty.
* My urine doesn't taste sweet, even when it's darker yellow (don't ask)
* I'm otherwise healthy, however, when my foot first started to hurt, I was sick with bad cough and running nose. However, that day I only ate two bananas and went to swimming pool before that poetry evening. Weird circumstances to get a neuropathy?
So my question is:
What is happening with me? Is this just normal prediabetes? Should I do anything differently? Why the blood sugar spikes only after eating a little more (doesn't matter what) and are my feet/ulcer problems from diabetes/sugar?
Thank you all for reading this long introduction/question!
