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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2028350" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>Well, happy to give you your first hug. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Given you were diagnosed T2, this probably just means that your body can't cope with the carbs in a bowl of pasta. (Many of the T2s on here, certainly the low carbing ones, avoid pasta, rice, bread and potatoes like the plague.) I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that your lovely blood sugars were happening while you were low carbing?</p><p></p><p>a1c's are an average over 3 months, so one reading of 14 won't make any difference if you've been successfully low carbing apart from that. And if you a1c has gone up, it's not the end of the world (speaking as a T1 for 49 years who has survived some true roller coasters of glycaemic control), as you're T2 you can hopefully get things back under control by low carbing again.</p><p></p><p></p><p>OK, some folk do successfully go completely keto, so this isn't necessarily a bad thing at all, though depression definitely is a bad thing.</p><p>However, has your weight gone down a lot? It's very very easy for diabetics to acquire eating disorders (restrictive diets make people particularly susceptible) so if this is caused by low weight then you need to work on trying to regain weight. Personally, I skipped periods from 15 to 18 and in the end the only thing that seemed to make a difference was to gain just a little weight. Having said that, I know that missing periods can be a symptom of PCOS so I realise that weight may be completely irrelevant here.</p><p></p><p>So, try not to worry, even if your a1c has gone up you'll be able to get it down again. Talk to your doctor about all your issues (missing periods, blood sugars, depression).</p><p></p><p>And welcome to the diabetic forums, where hugs are always free. I'm tagging in [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER] to give you the intro to diabetes talk, though I suspect you already know it all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2028350, member: 372717"] Well, happy to give you your first hug. :) Given you were diagnosed T2, this probably just means that your body can't cope with the carbs in a bowl of pasta. (Many of the T2s on here, certainly the low carbing ones, avoid pasta, rice, bread and potatoes like the plague.) I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that your lovely blood sugars were happening while you were low carbing? a1c's are an average over 3 months, so one reading of 14 won't make any difference if you've been successfully low carbing apart from that. And if you a1c has gone up, it's not the end of the world (speaking as a T1 for 49 years who has survived some true roller coasters of glycaemic control), as you're T2 you can hopefully get things back under control by low carbing again. OK, some folk do successfully go completely keto, so this isn't necessarily a bad thing at all, though depression definitely is a bad thing. However, has your weight gone down a lot? It's very very easy for diabetics to acquire eating disorders (restrictive diets make people particularly susceptible) so if this is caused by low weight then you need to work on trying to regain weight. Personally, I skipped periods from 15 to 18 and in the end the only thing that seemed to make a difference was to gain just a little weight. Having said that, I know that missing periods can be a symptom of PCOS so I realise that weight may be completely irrelevant here. So, try not to worry, even if your a1c has gone up you'll be able to get it down again. Talk to your doctor about all your issues (missing periods, blood sugars, depression). And welcome to the diabetic forums, where hugs are always free. I'm tagging in [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER] to give you the intro to diabetes talk, though I suspect you already know it all. [/QUOTE]
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