This is an awesome forum I have been following awhile- its 50 years ahead of diabetes education in Australia! I'm 'diet controlled type 2', in fact my numbers often show I'm 'not diabetic' but the symptoms are still there, I have hypos (two nearly killed me as they are not widely recognised in hospitals here-seriously!!). I eat organic low carb and have done for years. I am reasonable fit and active. However I have adrenal fatigue (and yes only one medic in WA deals with this-but adrenaline is a key part of the sugar response). Question to you wonderful people, I have recently been diagnosed with stage 1 heart disease-obviously related to the diabetes. The gp response and the hospital/specialist response 'go away and come back when its stage 2' (stage 3 is very severe), I am now terrified to exercise, I have no idea how to reverse this or where the key sources of information are. My normal exercise is sailing, kite surfing, HIIT, an evening's dancing, 5km fast beach walks and long distance hiking, but while the diabetes didn't worry me, the heart disease does. The GP response 'don't take any strenuous exercise' . This feels like when I was pre-diabetic a mum of young kids with no time to research it, and the medics said 'go away do'nt worry' (oh I wish I knew then,.....). HELP!!! What do I do re the heart disease and who are the experts/best forums/ etc. Thanks so much!!!
(NB state diabetes education here is still high carb high grain argghhh).
added note 1 my cholesterol, triglycerides etc all 'normal'
added note 2 Until Nov 17 my blood pressure very good at 120/80 BUT since then many super low blood pressure episodes eg 90/60, 80/57 ( I kid you not) which the medics are clueless about
added note 3 during a 4 day hospital episode last march (coma, wild pb and heartbeat swings) probably a hypo, I had large (around 3 inches in diameter) brown patches appear on the front and side of my throat, that took 6 weeks to fade, again the medics were clueless-claiming that the whole episode including the brown patches were 'all in my head' any ideas as to the actual cause?
(NB state diabetes education here is still high carb high grain argghhh).
added note 1 my cholesterol, triglycerides etc all 'normal'
added note 2 Until Nov 17 my blood pressure very good at 120/80 BUT since then many super low blood pressure episodes eg 90/60, 80/57 ( I kid you not) which the medics are clueless about
added note 3 during a 4 day hospital episode last march (coma, wild pb and heartbeat swings) probably a hypo, I had large (around 3 inches in diameter) brown patches appear on the front and side of my throat, that took 6 weeks to fade, again the medics were clueless-claiming that the whole episode including the brown patches were 'all in my head' any ideas as to the actual cause?
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