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<blockquote data-quote="Mommayorkie" data-source="post: 1667688" data-attributes="member: 37348"><p>sorry, i should have realised i apologise for my reaction .i too am feeling far from well and very worried right now. as well as having S.A.D so i soon get weepy at the mo.and mood swings.(which can also be caused by diabetes as you probably know already.) .its not good having a cold at best of times. when you are trying to cope with it affecting your other conditions its 100 times worse. the more conditions you have the more one thing impacts on another. i have been asthmatic since i was 49 then 11 years ago was told i had COPD. the year after landed up in hospital with a suspected heart attack which at my follow up appointment was then told it had only been a warning. that was 10 years ago last august. yet over the past 3 years or so, new GP's at my surgery have told me and still are telling me i DID have a heart attack going on letters in my files from the hospital. confused.com or what? things need different treatments if i HAD one to if i didn't. i was brought up on 4 meals a day. my body is used to it after 75 years. i find if i go longer than 4 hours between meals i start to feel ill, feel faint, and feel better once ive eaten. I get very very hungry even on what i listed.. and its low carb not no carbs. i tried going lower last time steroids affected me. i had 4 lots of them in as many months that time. took 6 months to get back down to 7 before breakfast. my bs this morning was 6.2 . which surprised me ill admit. last night before bed it was 16.8. and i had cut my supper meal down to half a banana(i eat that then for the potassium which i need to stop night leg cramps. it works too. not altogether but at least they no longer keep me from sleeping till around 7am/ thats usually when they start now.) plus half the amount of rice krispies. by 2am i was still awake and hungry. i cannot sleep on an empty stomach. protein does nothing to curb my hunger. i ater 2 slices seeded bread and butter.and 6 grapes. yet my bs ws still less than 7..i eat seeded bread because those seeds help to keep my bs down. and to be honest i would not want to be lower than i am usually. i would be so scared of having a hypo. my diabetic team keep telling me you cant have a hypo . from my knowledge of anatomy and physiology (trained nurse, both in orthorpaedics and general and worked in infectious diseases and burns units.) i am pretty sure that anyone. diabetic or not, if they dont eat right or at least eat too little can go hypo. anorexics are prone to them .</p><p> i have to take into account that there are certain fruits &foods i cant eat because of my acid reflux and IBS.,, the sweets as you call them (as do most people) are liquorice. a natural way to help with constipation which in my case is caused by the diabetic tablets i have to take.and funnily enough they do not seem to put my fasting bs up too much/ i tried sugar free liquorice and found they did........ sounds bizarre i know. but i do test if i try something different to see what effect it has. ..and believe me, it did get bad at first. sitting there for an hour trying to get rid of what was started is not funny and very scary, visions of ambulances/paramedics/ bowel operations going through your mind(nurses know far too much unfortunately. and what was a good thing back in my nursing days, no longer is but you cant just get rid of that knowledge from your head.once learned its there for good. well most of it is .) normally my bs is stable. but i am not pre diabetic now. but a full blown type 2... i am constantly trying to keep my levels on a level , but i am told its harder for us oldies as our organs and bodies are failing faster.. last year my kidney results were high. (went down once the stress i was under, lessened) but at the time i was told it was to be expected because of my age...... its a constant battle between all these different ailments ALL the time. not just when i have a cold. having a cold makes it so much worse as it doesn't just affect my diabetes.(i too suffer from stress incontinence all the time. When i get a chest infection i cannot leave the house. i have to sit on towels. Using incontinence pads then is just a waste of money. at least old towels can be boiled.) (my main meal is usually just chicken or fish plus veggies. almost no carbs in that. when i ate 50 carbs per meal i got ill last year. so i upped them to 60 it still worked as my last Hb1Ac had gone down from the 66 it had been while i had the stress of my daughter being so ill etc) to 54. had hoped my next one would be lower still but the steroids will make that difficult to achieve...btw. last year after i got ill i had my sis n daughter on my back telling me to stop low carbing (both diabetics but dont think they understand diabetes. my daughter thinks if i lost weight like she did by beginning of last year(9 stone she lost which meant her bs went down a lot. shes now classed as pre-diabetic plus my nurse practitioner /diabetic team leader isnt too happy at me lowering my carbs at all. all adds to the general confusion. i needed to offload yesterday. i often do. i am not allowed to talk to my daughter about my ailments. she wont have it. doesnt want to know. have more than what is mentioned here. even had cbt because of how many i was having to come to terms with, my sis had a stroke , nonpoint talking to her about them she doesnt understand anyway i have to fish to cook once ive been to the loo. hope your cold gets better and your bs stays as it was. dee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mommayorkie, post: 1667688, member: 37348"] sorry, i should have realised i apologise for my reaction .i too am feeling far from well and very worried right now. as well as having S.A.D so i soon get weepy at the mo.and mood swings.(which can also be caused by diabetes as you probably know already.) .its not good having a cold at best of times. when you are trying to cope with it affecting your other conditions its 100 times worse. the more conditions you have the more one thing impacts on another. i have been asthmatic since i was 49 then 11 years ago was told i had COPD. the year after landed up in hospital with a suspected heart attack which at my follow up appointment was then told it had only been a warning. that was 10 years ago last august. yet over the past 3 years or so, new GP's at my surgery have told me and still are telling me i DID have a heart attack going on letters in my files from the hospital. confused.com or what? things need different treatments if i HAD one to if i didn't. i was brought up on 4 meals a day. my body is used to it after 75 years. i find if i go longer than 4 hours between meals i start to feel ill, feel faint, and feel better once ive eaten. I get very very hungry even on what i listed.. and its low carb not no carbs. i tried going lower last time steroids affected me. i had 4 lots of them in as many months that time. took 6 months to get back down to 7 before breakfast. my bs this morning was 6.2 . which surprised me ill admit. last night before bed it was 16.8. and i had cut my supper meal down to half a banana(i eat that then for the potassium which i need to stop night leg cramps. it works too. not altogether but at least they no longer keep me from sleeping till around 7am/ thats usually when they start now.) plus half the amount of rice krispies. by 2am i was still awake and hungry. i cannot sleep on an empty stomach. protein does nothing to curb my hunger. i ater 2 slices seeded bread and butter.and 6 grapes. yet my bs ws still less than 7..i eat seeded bread because those seeds help to keep my bs down. and to be honest i would not want to be lower than i am usually. i would be so scared of having a hypo. my diabetic team keep telling me you cant have a hypo . from my knowledge of anatomy and physiology (trained nurse, both in orthorpaedics and general and worked in infectious diseases and burns units.) i am pretty sure that anyone. diabetic or not, if they dont eat right or at least eat too little can go hypo. anorexics are prone to them . i have to take into account that there are certain fruits &foods i cant eat because of my acid reflux and IBS.,, the sweets as you call them (as do most people) are liquorice. a natural way to help with constipation which in my case is caused by the diabetic tablets i have to take.and funnily enough they do not seem to put my fasting bs up too much/ i tried sugar free liquorice and found they did........ sounds bizarre i know. but i do test if i try something different to see what effect it has. ..and believe me, it did get bad at first. sitting there for an hour trying to get rid of what was started is not funny and very scary, visions of ambulances/paramedics/ bowel operations going through your mind(nurses know far too much unfortunately. and what was a good thing back in my nursing days, no longer is but you cant just get rid of that knowledge from your head.once learned its there for good. well most of it is .) normally my bs is stable. but i am not pre diabetic now. but a full blown type 2... i am constantly trying to keep my levels on a level , but i am told its harder for us oldies as our organs and bodies are failing faster.. last year my kidney results were high. (went down once the stress i was under, lessened) but at the time i was told it was to be expected because of my age...... its a constant battle between all these different ailments ALL the time. not just when i have a cold. having a cold makes it so much worse as it doesn't just affect my diabetes.(i too suffer from stress incontinence all the time. When i get a chest infection i cannot leave the house. i have to sit on towels. Using incontinence pads then is just a waste of money. at least old towels can be boiled.) (my main meal is usually just chicken or fish plus veggies. almost no carbs in that. when i ate 50 carbs per meal i got ill last year. so i upped them to 60 it still worked as my last Hb1Ac had gone down from the 66 it had been while i had the stress of my daughter being so ill etc) to 54. had hoped my next one would be lower still but the steroids will make that difficult to achieve...btw. last year after i got ill i had my sis n daughter on my back telling me to stop low carbing (both diabetics but dont think they understand diabetes. my daughter thinks if i lost weight like she did by beginning of last year(9 stone she lost which meant her bs went down a lot. shes now classed as pre-diabetic plus my nurse practitioner /diabetic team leader isnt too happy at me lowering my carbs at all. all adds to the general confusion. i needed to offload yesterday. i often do. i am not allowed to talk to my daughter about my ailments. she wont have it. doesnt want to know. have more than what is mentioned here. even had cbt because of how many i was having to come to terms with, my sis had a stroke , nonpoint talking to her about them she doesnt understand anyway i have to fish to cook once ive been to the loo. hope your cold gets better and your bs stays as it was. dee [/QUOTE]
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