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<blockquote data-quote="Em16" data-source="post: 2249562" data-attributes="member: 517867"><p>Hi, Bulkbiker I will read those through - thank you very much for that link.</p><p></p><p>Daibell, thank you: that is interesting. Previous to any problem I ate like a horse, anything I liked ( mostly what I considered as healthy) and never put on weight - I assumed because I'm very active - although I do wonder now if other things were going on. If I do the HFLC diet then I can keep my sugars in range of completely normal eg 4 - 7 mmol (regular before food/2 hours after food checks with meter). I can tolerate a little bit of carb eg. one small new potato raises glucose no more that 2 mmol so long as eaten with no other carb. When I began this journey, I was seeing glucose raises with (not large) amounts of carbs going into double figures each time for example, one 30g spoonful of brown rice with no other carb took reading from 4.2 to 13.4 x2 hours later. I dread to think what was happening with normal sized portions....I'm glad I will never know, as I wouldn't dare risk checking to see.</p><p></p><p>I have also had a collapse/spells of confusion and shakiness coinciding with readings below 4mmol. I was admitted to hospital due to high ketones when unwell with a virus in Feb, discovered incidently when the GP took ketones 'just to see' as, ironically, I was picking up a meter from her and I was beginning to feel unwell and was incredibly thirsty - although notably I did not have raised blood sugars at the same time, and I did question if ketones were due to diet, to which there wasn't really a confirmed answer. I certainly hadn't starved that day, which is how my condition was described to me ...I had had a lovely lunch! </p><p></p><p>DN has said that I have been lucky that it's all been caught so early as usually this type of diabetes rumbles on in the background for much longer before being discovered (I had a reading of Hb1ac which was at 43 mmol in November....it was only when I started testing glucose I realised that this measure, as an 'average' was missing deep fluctuations not consistent with 'prediabetic' and pressed for further testing etc.) DN was advocating some form of medication prior to beginning insulin, but was happy for me to continue to HFLC diet and monitor carefully until consultation in May.</p><p></p><p>Thank you again for your time in helping me to sort this out and fathom what is going on. I know people have immense amounts of knowledge of what is clearly a very complex range of related conditions and it is extremely helpful to have knowledge behind me before I discuss with consultant. So far, I have only discussed with DN who has said it's type 1.5 - maybe the consultant will come to a different conclusion?! I really appreciate your reading of this long and detailed message!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Em16, post: 2249562, member: 517867"] Hi, Bulkbiker I will read those through - thank you very much for that link. Daibell, thank you: that is interesting. Previous to any problem I ate like a horse, anything I liked ( mostly what I considered as healthy) and never put on weight - I assumed because I'm very active - although I do wonder now if other things were going on. If I do the HFLC diet then I can keep my sugars in range of completely normal eg 4 - 7 mmol (regular before food/2 hours after food checks with meter). I can tolerate a little bit of carb eg. one small new potato raises glucose no more that 2 mmol so long as eaten with no other carb. When I began this journey, I was seeing glucose raises with (not large) amounts of carbs going into double figures each time for example, one 30g spoonful of brown rice with no other carb took reading from 4.2 to 13.4 x2 hours later. I dread to think what was happening with normal sized portions....I'm glad I will never know, as I wouldn't dare risk checking to see. I have also had a collapse/spells of confusion and shakiness coinciding with readings below 4mmol. I was admitted to hospital due to high ketones when unwell with a virus in Feb, discovered incidently when the GP took ketones 'just to see' as, ironically, I was picking up a meter from her and I was beginning to feel unwell and was incredibly thirsty - although notably I did not have raised blood sugars at the same time, and I did question if ketones were due to diet, to which there wasn't really a confirmed answer. I certainly hadn't starved that day, which is how my condition was described to me ...I had had a lovely lunch! DN has said that I have been lucky that it's all been caught so early as usually this type of diabetes rumbles on in the background for much longer before being discovered (I had a reading of Hb1ac which was at 43 mmol in November....it was only when I started testing glucose I realised that this measure, as an 'average' was missing deep fluctuations not consistent with 'prediabetic' and pressed for further testing etc.) DN was advocating some form of medication prior to beginning insulin, but was happy for me to continue to HFLC diet and monitor carefully until consultation in May. Thank you again for your time in helping me to sort this out and fathom what is going on. I know people have immense amounts of knowledge of what is clearly a very complex range of related conditions and it is extremely helpful to have knowledge behind me before I discuss with consultant. So far, I have only discussed with DN who has said it's type 1.5 - maybe the consultant will come to a different conclusion?! I really appreciate your reading of this long and detailed message! [/QUOTE]
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