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going from type 2 to type 1 i think....questions i cannot answer

well like i said earlier i got up with pain in toe on my right foot plus night sweat. i have had a cup of tea with sweatener and a piece of toast my level at getting up was 8.7 one hour after the piece of toast it was 12.2. a further hour on from that it is now 15.9 and i am feeling very rough.
so litterally jumping up loads on the smallest of food ...so within 2 hours of my piece of toast i have gone from 8.7 to 15.9 ...and feel lousy.
the doc's need to pull there finger out. i am fearful it will be a 999 at some point before i get sorted the way things are going.Gary.
 
and my boss is getting uptight about me keep falling ill at work after my lunch for several hours not being able to work until the high pass's. i have taken a couple of days off due to this now and the boss is saying that it's getting stupid. he has a business to run and needs people that don't keep taking time out during the day being ill. he says he understands but he added up if i had 3 hours a day sitting at my desk doing nothing because i was suffering a hyper it was lost productive time to him.
 
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gary132 said:
well like i said earlier i got up with pain in toe on my right foot plus night sweat. i have had a cup of tea with sweatener and a piece of toast my level at getting up was 8.7 one hour after the piece of toast it was 12.2. a further hour on from that it is now 15.9 and i am feeling very rough.
so litterally jumping up loads on the smallest of food ...so within 2 hours of my piece of toast i have gone from 8.7 to 15.9 ...and feel lousy.
the doc's need to pull there finger out. i am fearful it will be a 999 at some point before i get sorted the way things are going.Gary.
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Gary - you certainly seem to have a lot going on at the moment, and not a lot of it feels good, as far as I can see.

One thing I think everyone agrees on is that some form of intervention is required.

It seems like your health professionals are taking a "steady" approach, with referrals etc., and you are being proactive in upping your testing to snapshot your bloods every few hours.

I take note you say above "... Jumping up loads on the smallest of foods......" Yes, I agree, that you describe there is hardly an excessive banquet, but it is carb heavy - indeed, almost all carb? Whether T1, 2 or anything else, the common thread here is our impaired ability to metabolise carbohydrate efficiently. T1s don't have the natural chemical key (insulin), and T2s often have plenty insulin, but other factors (too many potentials to list here) mean the chemical key can't turn the metabolic lock.

I would suggest an interim solution, to ease your way would be to cut back on the levels of carbohydrate you are eating, and certainly, I (personally) would give up toast as a "meal", as it seems almost torturous to your system in its current state. Quite clearly if you are seeing those rises, consistently, these days after eating toast, it's not helping you.

As well as pursuing all other open avenues, could you try a few days of reduced carbs, along with your diligent testing? It may not be your full answer, but it could ease some of the alarming symptoms you are experiencing, which ,at of course be contributing the a stress reaction, raising your bloods even further.

Diabetes is, in my personal view, a portfolio disease. In other words, it's a bit like "arthritis" or "asthma". Lots and lots of people have it, in different forms, and requiring different treatment regimes. But, like those other conditions, it is useful to do whatever we can, at home, on a daily basis, to trim the edges off the symptoms and medications we could be taking.

Good luck with it. Whatever intervention you decide upon, reducing your carbs could be a helpful adjunct.
 
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