thanks for the response Lamont, after reading more and more of your posts, and Brunneria's and feelin the way I do I can understand what you have been through and I've only been at it for a few weeks. I'm in a bad place now, where I don't know what the issue is, I have been referred to an endocrinologist, but as you may know, the NHS is swamped at this particular time so I guess will be a long while before I get to see someone. But the anxiety of not knowing what it is, is it a tumor? is it diabetes? insuline resistance? kills me on the inside.
I have found a pattern to my hypos, and they all have smth to do with the first meal of the day. Although I did have a couple during the night where the freestyle libre would beep an alarm, those resolved themselves without having to eat anything (so could be down to lying on the sensor or going into REM sleep). But the morning/ just before lunch ones, are just horrible. This morning I had yoghurt with blueberries a banana and a handful of walnuts (not sure if it's the banana or not), after just 1 hour, as I`m coming back home from a short walk to take littlun to nursery, in about 7 minutes I dropped from 5.1 mmol/L to 3.8 mmol/L. Wasn't even a big spike from pre-meal, the highest reading was around 6.6 mmol/L with finger prick test and 7.9 mmol/L with the freestyle libre CGM. I should add that I start feeling hypo symptoms at around 4.5ish. I had some fruit, banana, apple, small tangerine and a pear to correct it, and i felt it coming right back down after that correction, dreadful experience. had cup of milk, then ate 2 fried eggs with sausage, some fried mushrooms and 2 small sourdough slices of bread and after as much as an hour my blood sugars are back up around 7mmol/L and I feel a bit better, but I dread the next day. What I hate the most is how quickly and sharp it drops with no warning.
I am now at the point of thinking that all this healthy eating ******** has destroyed my metabolism, had water porridge with blueberries and banana for the last few years every morning, had almost no more than 1-2 eggs a month, no milk, v little amounts of saturated fats and limited meat intake quite a lot despite being active. Got to the point where I felt v tired especially after footy and blamed it all on my thyroid.
I am just hoping that I can sort my metabolism back if it's out of whack from all the spikes I had eating naked carbs every morning and lunch and dinner. If there is a thread on what u guys eat I'd appreciate if you could give me the link. Many thanks and I feel for you all...
I have found a pattern to my hypos, and they all have smth to do with the first meal of the day. Although I did have a couple during the night where the freestyle libre would beep an alarm, those resolved themselves without having to eat anything (so could be down to lying on the sensor or going into REM sleep). But the morning/ just before lunch ones, are just horrible. This morning I had yoghurt with blueberries a banana and a handful of walnuts (not sure if it's the banana or not), after just 1 hour, as I`m coming back home from a short walk to take littlun to nursery, in about 7 minutes I dropped from 5.1 mmol/L to 3.8 mmol/L. Wasn't even a big spike from pre-meal, the highest reading was around 6.6 mmol/L with finger prick test and 7.9 mmol/L with the freestyle libre CGM. I should add that I start feeling hypo symptoms at around 4.5ish. I had some fruit, banana, apple, small tangerine and a pear to correct it, and i felt it coming right back down after that correction, dreadful experience. had cup of milk, then ate 2 fried eggs with sausage, some fried mushrooms and 2 small sourdough slices of bread and after as much as an hour my blood sugars are back up around 7mmol/L and I feel a bit better, but I dread the next day. What I hate the most is how quickly and sharp it drops with no warning.
I am now at the point of thinking that all this healthy eating ******** has destroyed my metabolism, had water porridge with blueberries and banana for the last few years every morning, had almost no more than 1-2 eggs a month, no milk, v little amounts of saturated fats and limited meat intake quite a lot despite being active. Got to the point where I felt v tired especially after footy and blamed it all on my thyroid.
I am just hoping that I can sort my metabolism back if it's out of whack from all the spikes I had eating naked carbs every morning and lunch and dinner. If there is a thread on what u guys eat I'd appreciate if you could give me the link. Many thanks and I feel for you all...
