Type 2 Heat, High Glucose and the Runs:(

Good afternoon. I have had the runs today [sorry about this], I think it may have been the tomatoes and mushrooms at breakfast, I used to have a cast iron stomach, but since having type 2 I've been more susceptible to changes. I have always found the extreme heat hard to deal with and am grateful I don't have to go to work. I am not dehydrated. My glucose reading before breakfast was 8, it can be higher in the morning and am considering whether to take metformin morning and evening. I didn't feel like eating at lunch so had some muesli and a banana, which doesn't usually spike my glucose. I've just taken it and it's 11!!! Is it the heat that's messing it up? Sorry to go on. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thankfully it should be cooler tomorrow.

bulkbiker said:

Metformin really messed with my stomach..

Would send mine through the roof as it seems to you...

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Hi Bulkbiker. Thanks for your reply. Muesli and banana doesn't usually spike it. I have been trying to follow the low carb/ high fat diet, despite loving carbs, although fell off the wagon a bit after I retired in April. I was looking at the recipes on diet doctor today funnily enough. This was probably completely the wrong thing to do, but was feeling decidedly odd after I posted my question and had a slice of Cranks wholemeal bread [very high fibre] with crunchy peanut butter. Within ten minutes I was feeling so much better. I am also a carnivore much to the disgust of my vegan and vegetarian friends, although I am trying to eat more pulses and lentils [love them too]. Tonight I'm cooking chicken with bacon and two cheeses, braised cabbage and a little mashed potato, my portion mixed with celeriac [hubby hates celeriac]. Well done you for coming off all meds and controlling through fasting and diet. Metformin messed my stomach up for about a week and is OK now.

enzina said:

Mine would be in the 20s.

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it's weird as it's usually OK, I have a feeling something else was going on. After I posted, I had a slice of Cranks bread [very high fibre] and crunchy peanut butter, I felt so much better afterwards. Low carb high fat dinner tonight.

bulkbiker said:

Doubt that will help with the upset tum..the pulses and lentils I mean.

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No they're fine. The tum seems to be responding badly to tomatoes and mushrooms, which rarely happens. I wonder what effect the heat is having on me, I never take well to it and wondered if anyone else responded badly to it.

Grant_Vicat said:

The body effectively has four ways of trying to get rid of poisons as quickly as possible, All of them via a liquid route - sneezing,
vomiting, urinating and diarrhoea. Even the blood system via the kidneys and via spots gets rid of poisons in its liquid way. I noticed as a Type 1 that sudden sharp rises in blood sugar would cause diarrhoea and a runny nose. Until I acquired a blood testing meter in 1979, I used to think it was usually a summer cold. When I was able to monitor reactions properly, I soon realised that blood sugar was the problem. Add the fact that many Type 2s say Metformin can have the same effect, you could put it down to just one or two of these options. If the weather is cooler tomorrow and nothing has changed, it would be worth investigating. Good luck!

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Many thanks. I will monitor it with the temperature tomorrow. A reading of 8 in the morning, pre breakfast, is not that unusual for me. I've been on Metformin for over two years so it's not that. I will definitely investigate.

Thanks to you all for your replies. Two hours after my peanut butter on Cranks bread, my glucose was 8.2, not great but a lot better than 11!! Within a short while of eating it I felt back to normal. Someone once told me temperature can throw your glucose out, but from what I'd read on Google today the info was it dropped. Always the exception if that's what it was, hopefully I'm not developing IBS. Wishing you all a good night.

Well, it's definitely heat related. I just don't do well in heat. At least I know now.