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I need some help with my blood tests

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123Jo123

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Hi Guys

My results for c peptide have come back as 622 and insulin at 7.6 range 3.0 - 17.0

Im still loosing weight and my endo thinks its because I cant eat enough and i should go on insulin.

Im feeling v tired but I thought that if i was making insulin I didnt need it. HELP ME PLEASE - so confused
 
123Jo123 Wrote
My results for c peptide have come back as 622 and insulin at 7.6 range 3.0 - 17.0

Im still loosing weight and my endo thinks its because I cant eat enough and i should go on insulin.

Im feeling v tired but I thought that if i was making insulin I didnt need it. HELP ME PLEASE - so confused
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I'm confused too. Hopefully someone who knows more about these figures will be along.

What are you being told your results actually mean ? I can't find (via Google) normal range of c-peptide. Is this high or low ?
What comments have they made about your insulin levels ?
Why does your endo think you can't eat enough ?
What diet are you following now ?

Sorry for all the questions, but more info is always better than less.

Geoff
 
I was told that my c-peptide is normal as are my insulin levels. I am eating about 120 carbs aday - prob about 2000 cals but still loosing weight. My endo says that i need to eat more but cant as it is raising my levels? She says therefore I need insulin so I can eat more. I have lost so much weight and Im frightened.

Any advice gratefully received
 
What diet are you following now ?
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this may be totally unrelated to your weight loss. This seems to be the only thing your endo is trying to do though - use insulin to 'cover' carbs, and control your blood sugar levels, whilst you eat more. A kind of 'medicated' force-feeding.
There may still be some underlying health problem they haven't discovered. I hope there isn't.

If it's diet-related, I wouldn't recommend raising carb intake. It may be NHS advice, but is increasingly under question as actually bad advice for diabetics.

As far as I understand, low carb diets are stabilising. Many follow them in order to lose weight, but I've read that they can also help underweight people put on weight. I believe it was Dr Wolfgang Lutz in his book Life Without Bread who says this.
It may be a case of upping your saturated fat intake. Again not NHS advice, but where has NHS advice got the state of our nation's health to ?

So I repeat

What diet are you following now ?
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Geoff (not a health professional, just passionate about health)
 
Hi. I think your endo needs to try to diagnose the type of diabetes you have. If you are quite young then it's quite possible you are a late onset T1 (LADA) and, yes, insulin is the right answer. A GAD test will help confirm this; I'm surprised he hasn't done this as well a c-peptide? How old are you and were you overweight before your diabetes was discovered? Have you been on any diabetes tablets up to now? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with c-peptide levels.
 
im just trying to eat healthy and trying to keep weight on. Ive been having bacon and eggs for breakfast, mid morning snack about 10 or so carbs, sandwich for lunch, snack in afternoon, chicken, veg and about 40g of carb and snack mid evening. about 100 or so carbs a day. I have only been diagnoised since June

I have had antibody GAD and ICA or ISA cant remember but both were negative so i have not got antibodies so they are saying not type 1. Before diagnoised bmi of about 24. Just normal and fit and healthy. Im 44 and i was on 1500 metformin 1000 in the morning and 500 at night. V insulin resistant in the morning - any carbs send me to double figures. Levels between 6 - 8 for about 6 weeks but then they started to creep up to 7 - 9 with a few hitting double figures. Saw specialist endo as my endo was scratching his head about my diagnoisis as he thought i would be type 1 but not antibodies so he said that i cant be. specialist endo lowered my metforin and introduced 100 sitagliptin. This made my numbers worse - 12s and 13s. That must tell me something - lowered my med that made me more sensitive to insulin and increased med to make me produce more insulin = higher numbers. Does that mean insulin resistance so type 2. Are these tabs making me produce insulin but my body cant use it ??? When i saw specialist endo she said that there was loads of different tabs i could go on and she didnt think that i would be on insulin for years if ever. Then once she found out my numbers after the first week she said thats not working we will put you on insulin.

Think that my chin must of hit the floor - dont get me wrong if insulin is what i need then i will go on but i thought that you only went on insulin when your own wears out???? What happened to different tabs and years to get to needing insulin. Does these tabs not working mean something about needing insulin.

Also if im insulin resistant what happens if i inject insulin ???? She said will only need 2units a meal but i though type 2 need to inject loads as insulin resistant. Sorry to ramble on.

I must say that I feel rubbish. I have lost about 15 lb and im still loosing and i have no energy. So maybe insulin is what I need - I dont know and I feel like im being told such conflincting information. I feel like im trapped in a nightmare at the moment.

Thanks for any advice you can give me Im very grateful.
 
Simplistically, if there's no underlying medical problem, you need to eat more food that doesn't raise your BGs. I had the same problem of starting to lose too much weight, and started snacking on loads of nuts - mainly good nuts like walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds etc. Didn't affect my BGs but arrested my weight loss. Also started eating more eggs, and things like avocados. Or, as Geoff said, you could up the fats. Worth experimenting rather than just saying up the carbs and take the meds. NUTS to that! :lol:
 
I'm deafened by the lack of response to your initial post.

Any T2s who've used insulin in this way and then felt better ?
Any sitaglyptin (Januvia) takers out there ?
It could be making you feel 'rubbish' :

http://diabetes.emedtv.com/januvia/janu ... fects.html

I feel for you in your limbo state, where you don't know what's going on.
Have you only been feeling rubbish more recently ?

Hoping you get some answers

Geoff
 
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