High blood sugars

[jane12]

You have to take control or you will seriously damage your health. Learn to carb count, its really easy, and will help you to understand and manage your condition. I had a colleague who didn't look after her type 2 diabetes eating anything she wanted to and now she has lost her sight, this is not scaremongering, but a consequence of ignoring diabetes. Don't let this happen to you.

 

[amzie]

I can't do it, I can't cut all carbs out. I can cut out all the sugary carb foods right now! But I cannot give up the starchy carbs. I am now in hospital being told to eat carbs to maintain my blood sugars as I was unconscious this morning and got told my blood sugar was 1.5 after waking up in the afternoon. The doctors at the hospital have referred me to see a diabetes specialist, dietitian, haematologist, endocrinologist and a opthalmologist as I've heard that they are testing me for rabson mendenhall syndrome and cushing's. This has seriously messed up my life. I don't know how I'm going to cope or gain control of this disease, it's just too frustrating

Hey bud it sounds like you are going through a lot
But after you get tested given medication etc

Go buy a health cook book
Look at ingredients I.e different meat fish and veg etc
Then go home and try cooking it

Forget nuts and stuff might make u throw up try basic yummy foods

As for your eating habits try to ease of slowly so one week no take outs I.e subway
Then following week no cakes biscuits etc
And then once u start cutting these things out then you will enjoy the foods you bought and if you want a tip on Facebook and Instagram follow this guy called thebodycoach
Guy is excellent and just explains it in the most simplest way

I was same as you with different health problems but eventually it all helps
I got a long way to go myself but after couple of weeks taking control and cutting out a few things my levels have dropped

All the best to your health and seriously I think u will get better it's just when your diagnosed it's horrible and depressing
And plus I think with the bad eating and insulin shots resulted in your very lows in blood sugar

Good luck buddy
Xx

 

[ladybird64]

Then that is your choice to continue to eat the starchy carbs and possibly suffer the consequences of that choice.

If you are now in hospital, and due to see all the specialists you have mentioned (they organised all this in one day?), then you are getting proper care at last.

I wish you well.

EDIT - Apparently Rabson-Mendehall only affects children, with a life expectancy of only a couple of years. Aren't you 24?

 

[Marvel_champ]

EDIT - Apparently Rabson-Mendehall only affects children, with a life expectancy of only a couple of years. Aren't you 24?

My mistake its not Rabson-Mendehall. Its Wolfram syndrome or DIDMOAD. I asked the doctor about it after the nurse gave him the wrong chart. The doctor has said that I've got a enlarged spleen, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and possibly immune thrombocytopenia. I also confessed and told the doctor and my family that I regularly forget to inject my insulin and take the metformin.

Hey bud it sounds like you are going through a lot
But after you get tested given medication etc

Go buy a health cook book
Look at ingredients I.e different meat fish and veg etc
Then go home and try cooking it

Forget nuts and stuff might make u throw up try basic yummy foods

As for your eating habits try to ease of slowly so one week no take outs I.e subway
Then following week no cakes biscuits etc
And then once u start cutting these things out then you will enjoy the foods you bought and if you want a tip on Facebook and Instagram follow this guy called thebodycoach
Guy is excellent and just explains it in the most simplest way

I was same as you with different health problems but eventually it all helps
I got a long way to go myself but after couple of weeks taking control and cutting out a few things my levels have dropped

All the best to your health and seriously I think u will get better it's just when your diagnosed it's horrible and depressing
And plus I think with the bad eating and insulin shots resulted in your very lows in blood sugar

Good luck buddy
Xx

@amzie I've took your advice and have got 'The Paleo diet' by Daniel Green.

I returned home last night with my mum making me a chicken stir fry when I got back, I even bought the chicken and the stir fry veg myself. She cooked it and added in a jar of sharwoods sweet chilli and red pepper cooking sauce with noodles that was already in. It was very nice but had just had under 100g of carbs. I didn't dare test my blood sugars fearing that they would be high, even if before I had the stir fry that they were bordering hypo levels.

 

[ladybird64]

So what treatments have you started? Strangely enough, I know quite a lot about one of the conditions you've mentioned, well two actually, although I'm not as knowledgeable in the second. Very interested how they will manage all this for you?

 

[Marvel_champ]

So what treatments have you started? Strangely enough, I know quite a lot about one of the conditions you've mentioned, well two actually, although I'm not as knowledgeable in the second. Very interested how they will manage all this for you?

I'm still on the same treatments as before, with new medication testogel and I've got to take a vitamin d supplement. I've also been told to not cut out carbs completely, instead I've been told that carb cycling maybe helpful.

I've also started to have lemon/lime water everyday and trying my best not to snack as much as I now know that my hunger pains, does not mean that I'm hungry after having no fluids or food for almost a day and I felt fine. I just automatically assume that I'm hungry and give in to temptation or boredom.

Can low carbing be done on a budget as I don't have much cash spare from my job seekers allowance after paying off rent and direct debits. Also what do the lidl low carb bread rolls look like as I've been to my nearest store and was looking in the bread section with no luck finding them.

 

[TooManyCrisps]

I'm still on the same treatments as before, with new medication testogel and I've got to take a vitamin d supplement. I've also been told to not cut out carbs completely, instead I've been told that carb cycling maybe helpful.

I've also started to have lemon/lime water everyday and trying my best not to snack as much as I now know that my hunger pains, does not mean that I'm hungry after having no fluids or food for almost a day and I felt fine. I just automatically assume that I'm hungry and give in to temptation or boredom.

Can low carbing be done on a budget as I don't have much cash spare from my job seekers allowance after paying off rent and direct debits. Also what do the lidl low carb bread rolls look like as I've been to my nearest store and was looking in the bread section with no luck finding them.

The Lidl rolls are called "protein rolls". They are a dark brown triangle with seeds. I really like them, and have half a roll for lunch sometimes. We don't have a Lidl where I live so I stock up if I'm near one and put them in the freezer, they defrost quite well. I think they bake them in store, they last quite a few days and are good toasted.
I think low carbing can be done on a budget, although it depends what you buy. I eat quire a lot of eggs and cheese, ypu could use "Value" type cheese from supermarkets. If you've got a Lidl then the veg is usually quite cheap. So a dinner for me might be a 2-egg cheese omelette with some veg or salad. I also buy cheap cuts of meat and slow cook them. Do you have freezer space? You can make a big batch of stuff and freeze in individual portion sizes.

There are some really good meal suggestions in the low carb section of the forum, so do look there for inspiration. Good luck!

 

[muzza3]

I'm still on the same treatments as before, with new medication testogel and I've got to take a vitamin d supplement. I've also been told to not cut out carbs completely, instead I've been told that carb cycling maybe helpful.

I've also started to have lemon/lime water everyday and trying my best not to snack as much as I now know that my hunger pains, does not mean that I'm hungry after having no fluids or food for almost a day and I felt fine. I just automatically assume that I'm hungry and give in to temptation or boredom.

Can low carbing be done on a budget as I don't have much cash spare from my job seekers allowance after paying off rent and direct debits. Also what do the lidl low carb bread rolls look like as I've been to my nearest store and was looking in the bread section with no luck finding them.

Hi Marvel
Here is a link to a forum on here low carbing on a tight budget
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/low-carb-on-a-tight-budget.98749/
I hope it helps
Cheers