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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2087171" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Good morning Courtney,</p><p></p><p>How are you feeling today? If you're still a little off (tired maybe?), it could be because of the hypo. Sometimes they leave you reeling a little for a day after. So try not to worry about it, it's normal if you're not feeling 100%. As for running out of glic and not feeling too hot after that: You were probably still eating too many carbs not to feel cruddy. If your bloodsugars went high -say, because of granola for instance,- you'd feel wreched indeed. It's really one or the other: take glic and have carbs (which in the long run isn't preferable), or cut carbs drastically and stop the glic if it starts causing hypo's. If you change your diet, the chances of complications reduce dramatically. If any of that makes sense. Just don't get too far into it if you don't quite know what you're doing yet, because like with the granola, you'd get spikes you can't handle. So learn about what you can safely eat first, (read a LOT on low carb/high fat and keto. Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code for instance will help. Your meter is a good guide, but it helps to know what is *likely* to spike you.). Read first, put into practice later. Especially if you don't want to come off the gliclazide just yet, AND want to avoid hypo's.</p><p></p><p>As for a pump or continuous meter, the needles are incorporated into a plaster/patch, and they're tiny. And not quite needles either, from what I understand, but more like filaments. I never had one though, just went low carb and called it a day. The perk of being a T2: control comes relatively easy. (Well, when comparing it to my other illnesss anyway... T2 is the easy one. Rheumatism, migraines, hypothyroid etc are a little more complicated to tackle.) </p><p></p><p>Ah, the salad.... They listed honey and fruit with other salads, so I thought the tuna'd be safe. Turns out that restaurant just really, really loved their locally made honey, and dumped it in everything. Thankfully the place was located in a rather lovely park, where we went for a walk, and afterwards we went to a market elsewhere where I got a good bit of walking in as well. After a little while of low carbing, your insulin sensitivity gets better, so where first I would've had a massive spike due to this, now it was sort of okay.... Still a slight spike, but not as bad as it would have been a few years ago, and easily handled with a nice, brisk walk. Things just keep getting better, if you stick with it.</p><p></p><p>Hope all's good today! Again, good luck with the doc!</p><p>Jo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2087171, member: 401801"] Good morning Courtney, How are you feeling today? If you're still a little off (tired maybe?), it could be because of the hypo. Sometimes they leave you reeling a little for a day after. So try not to worry about it, it's normal if you're not feeling 100%. As for running out of glic and not feeling too hot after that: You were probably still eating too many carbs not to feel cruddy. If your bloodsugars went high -say, because of granola for instance,- you'd feel wreched indeed. It's really one or the other: take glic and have carbs (which in the long run isn't preferable), or cut carbs drastically and stop the glic if it starts causing hypo's. If you change your diet, the chances of complications reduce dramatically. If any of that makes sense. Just don't get too far into it if you don't quite know what you're doing yet, because like with the granola, you'd get spikes you can't handle. So learn about what you can safely eat first, (read a LOT on low carb/high fat and keto. Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code for instance will help. Your meter is a good guide, but it helps to know what is *likely* to spike you.). Read first, put into practice later. Especially if you don't want to come off the gliclazide just yet, AND want to avoid hypo's. As for a pump or continuous meter, the needles are incorporated into a plaster/patch, and they're tiny. And not quite needles either, from what I understand, but more like filaments. I never had one though, just went low carb and called it a day. The perk of being a T2: control comes relatively easy. (Well, when comparing it to my other illnesss anyway... T2 is the easy one. Rheumatism, migraines, hypothyroid etc are a little more complicated to tackle.) Ah, the salad.... They listed honey and fruit with other salads, so I thought the tuna'd be safe. Turns out that restaurant just really, really loved their locally made honey, and dumped it in everything. Thankfully the place was located in a rather lovely park, where we went for a walk, and afterwards we went to a market elsewhere where I got a good bit of walking in as well. After a little while of low carbing, your insulin sensitivity gets better, so where first I would've had a massive spike due to this, now it was sort of okay.... Still a slight spike, but not as bad as it would have been a few years ago, and easily handled with a nice, brisk walk. Things just keep getting better, if you stick with it. Hope all's good today! Again, good luck with the doc! Jo [/QUOTE]
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