Hi everyone,
I'm T2, diagnosed Nov 2020, just started low carb eating again after 18 + months of doing nothing for my diabetes, I've started back on alogliptin but finding my blood sugar is not really coming down very much at all, both today and yesterday I tested after a 16 hour fast, yesterday was 9.7 and today was 10.1. I have to admit I was really fed up after that this morning and also not seeing any weight coming off despite really trying with the lower carb diet, so I made myself a roll with bacon, first thing I've had like that in over 4 weeks, tested after 2 hours and bloods had gone up to 16.1! That's the highest I've ever seen my readings and it's scared the life out of me. How high is too high? I don't have any strips to test ketone levels, should I be investing in these? DN prescribed me Dapaglifozin a few weeks ago when I saw her and I didn't take them because the side effects looked quite bad, I just stuck to the alogliptin but wondering now if I should be taking these to see if they help reduce these levels. Thanks.
Maggie
I'm T2, diagnosed Nov 2020, just started low carb eating again after 18 + months of doing nothing for my diabetes, I've started back on alogliptin but finding my blood sugar is not really coming down very much at all, both today and yesterday I tested after a 16 hour fast, yesterday was 9.7 and today was 10.1. I have to admit I was really fed up after that this morning and also not seeing any weight coming off despite really trying with the lower carb diet, so I made myself a roll with bacon, first thing I've had like that in over 4 weeks, tested after 2 hours and bloods had gone up to 16.1! That's the highest I've ever seen my readings and it's scared the life out of me. How high is too high? I don't have any strips to test ketone levels, should I be investing in these? DN prescribed me Dapaglifozin a few weeks ago when I saw her and I didn't take them because the side effects looked quite bad, I just stuck to the alogliptin but wondering now if I should be taking these to see if they help reduce these levels. Thanks.
Maggie