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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2117225" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>A low and a high (called a hyper) can feel very similar. Rubbery legs, fatigue, brain-fog, hair standing on end, heart palpatations... So yes, if you feel badly, your numbers could well be high. </p><p></p><p>The thing is, if you cut carbs, your bloodsugars will naturally go down. And the NovoNorm will still be forcing your pancreas to make insulin, which you don't actually need. And <em>that's</em> when you hypo. You haven't had that happen yet, but if you mix low carb with NovoNorm, you will. Really, the difference a low carb diet can make is next to unbelievable. So if you drastically cut the carbs, you'd be over-medicating. I've had hypo's and they are scary stuff. (Usually I could help myself. <em>Once</em> I couldn't. And it is no picnic laying on the ground with legs that won't work, at an event with 30.000 people, with the Red Cross trying to get water and sweets into you while the lookieloos crowd you. Dropping my poor camera on the pavement and landing on it wasn't fun either. Ow.). None of us want you to go through that. Hence the warnings and the test-your-heart-out. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2117225, member: 401801"] A low and a high (called a hyper) can feel very similar. Rubbery legs, fatigue, brain-fog, hair standing on end, heart palpatations... So yes, if you feel badly, your numbers could well be high. The thing is, if you cut carbs, your bloodsugars will naturally go down. And the NovoNorm will still be forcing your pancreas to make insulin, which you don't actually need. And [I]that's[/I] when you hypo. You haven't had that happen yet, but if you mix low carb with NovoNorm, you will. Really, the difference a low carb diet can make is next to unbelievable. So if you drastically cut the carbs, you'd be over-medicating. I've had hypo's and they are scary stuff. (Usually I could help myself. [I]Once[/I] I couldn't. And it is no picnic laying on the ground with legs that won't work, at an event with 30.000 people, with the Red Cross trying to get water and sweets into you while the lookieloos crowd you. Dropping my poor camera on the pavement and landing on it wasn't fun either. Ow.). None of us want you to go through that. Hence the warnings and the test-your-heart-out. ;) [/QUOTE]
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