Hi
@Andydragon and
@JoKalsbeek
I am Type 2.
Control has been all over the place and fluctuates between 45 and 80mmol/mol.
Last year my governance on tablets has not been great (I remember the morning doses but the evening doses are hit and miss).
I am on:
Metformin 1g twice a day
Sitagliptin once a day
and Invokana once a day
I know if I introduce a low carb diet and take my tabs I could control this better but concerned the docs/nurse may not agree with me.
Do not want to go down the needle route!
My endo, two dieticians and one of the two nurses I saw didn't agree with my diet route. My GP? She saw the results my diet was having and told me she'd test me to monitor whether I was doing okay (blood sugars, nutrient deficiencies etc). To date I'm the only one in her practice to have had normal blood sugars after a T2 diagnosis, as everyone else is still seeing the people who are convinced T2 is progressive and bottom line, hopeless.
Use a meter, and see what it tells you. There will always be naysayers, but I haven't "needed" the services of mine because I've been doing rather well. My HbA1c is normal, I'm medication-free... And I eat a low carb, almost no-carb, diet. It works for me. The only diabetes complication I have is due to the years I walked around with high blood sugars before my diagnosis. Nothing new cropped up, and things that were wrong have been fixed, all but one. Keep in mind who you're doing this for eh... It's your body, you have to live in it, and if at all possible, a good quality life that lasts a good while longer. They don't have to wake up and go to bed in it, you do.
Mind you, you can go low carb, but do NOT do it without a meter and plenty of strips at hand. The Invokana you're on can cause hypo's and you don't want to deal with those. I was on gliclazide when I lowered my carbs and the endo swore it wasn't possible to hypo. The leaflet, and my meter, told a very different story. Hypo's are serious and not fun, so... Do be careful if you start lowering your carb intake, do ir gradually and not all at once, and adjust medication accordingly.