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Mason6

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I was diagnosed T2 earlier this year and although I manage to mostly keep it in check I am a shift-worker and it can be quite difficult trying to regulate medication, meals and whatever.
Is anyone else in the same boat, night-shifts are the worst period of course, and how do you manage?
 
Hi I work 5.30 to 5.30 and change between days and nights sometimes 2x per week . I afraid its down to being willfull and determined. I stick to a very low carb diet 10/15 grams per day sometimes under that. I have gone from fasting levels of 14.5 and highs of atleast 24.9 (24.9only my second testing I cut everything out after that) to now being mainly in the 6s occasionally 7s and somtimes 5s its hard work and I often feel ravenous even when I have eaten infact especially after I have eaten. But I have to put up with it for the sake of low bgs . 2 months ago I was so ill and had been for such a long tiime I had forgotten what it was like to feel normal. I still dont realy feel 100% but I do feel far far better than I did . Perhaps that is why I have managed to go so extreme . Not because of some amazing will power but through fear or going back to how I was .
 

Yep I sympathise with you, I haven't felt 100% since 1997 but you gotta keep on truckin :thumbup:
 
Sorry for the personal questions, but

What's your weight like, are you trying to lose, or keep stable.
If you're on a low carb diet, are you on high fat?
Is it metformin, or metforim SR, and any other tablets in the mix?

I work odd hours occasionally and seem to be ok now.
 
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