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in transition

Suercc

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
After 14 years on Metformin, diabetes just got serious for me. Now on glicazide 80mg. Blood sugars are presently around 6 all the time. However I have been feeling very faint with blurry eyesight. I guess it's the adjustment period after being so high. I want to really go for serious weight loss now and train; feeling that unwell has been a real kick up the rear end.
How do I adjust to the new Meds whilst wanting to do serious low carb and exercise? Hate hypos, whilst easily reversed I feel awful for hours after. Do I ask my GP for a trial without? If I run close to the edge of being unwell it causes me problems at work. I don't want my life to be about making glicazide work, I just see higher and higher doses down that road?
Any advice? I have always stuck to orthodox diabetes nutritional advice but I now want to change to much much lower carbs
Anybody else made the jump?
 
Hi. You must keep the carbs down but if your blood sugar goes below 5'ish quite often than it implies your Gliclazide dosage is too high. If this does happen do discuss with the GP. I'm interested in what you mean by 'orthodox diabetes nutritional advice'? Do you mean the harmful NHS advice to have starchy carbs with every meal?
 
 
Yes. Basing each meals on carbs WAS what I was doing
Granary bread, jacket potatoes, brown basmati rice etc
Why wouldn't i? That's what the leaflets say. But now I feel I have to wrestle some control back and fight against the inevitable decline
 
Carbs at each meal arent needed , what inevitable decline?
 
Suercc said:
Yes. Basing each meals on carbs WAS what I was doing
Granary bread, jacket potatoes, brown basmati rice etc
Why wouldn't i? That's what the leaflets say. But now I feel I have to wrestle some control back and fight against the inevitable decline
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most of us do the opposite to that, I cat all grain, grain product [bread pasta etc] starch veg [potato, corn] sugars fruit/juice
MY BG is back to normal and I've lost 13 kg, your mileage may vary

it’s a long page and a few good video’s
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf
For me, the more carbs we eat the more carbs we want. they don’t give up easy
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarb101/a/firstweek.htm
 
Jack 412 you are my role modell! This is definitely the way I want to go. All the literature suggests due to the progressive nature of the illness one starts on metformin and diet then Sulphonylureas and then insulin, they describe this as inevitable.
I now have done more reading and want to go low carb. Why is the official advice so differed to what most people are experiencing?
 
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