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<blockquote data-quote="Annb" data-source="post: 2109181" data-attributes="member: 25851"><p>I didn't laugh but I did query the diet sheet I was given. It was supposed to help me lose weight as well as control my diabetes. The amount of carbs was crazy and the total calorie content much higher than I have eaten for many years. My diet is similar to yours although I do add the occasional carrot to stews and I don't make cauli rice because my stomach can't cope with it. I don't actually know how much I should eat but the amount I take is much less than it has been in my younger days, when I was able to be active. I was also told that I "probably had gestational diabetes" because both my sons were large babies - but the youngest is 50 this year, so that's an awful long time to have GD. </p><p></p><p>I was only diagnosed about 12 or so years ago when I finally went and asked a doctor if I had diabetes since no health professionals were picking up on my symptoms. I was put onto Metformin and only put onto insulin when I had to have a 2 day stay in hospital about 10 years ago. It was all under control until then. I never got off insulin after that! Health professionals don't have all the answers and should be challenged when they are clearly not achieving their aim which, after all, is a healthy patient.</p><p></p><p>My current diet doesn't make me lose weight and fairly large doses of insulin does no more than keep my BG higher than it ought to be but within striking distance of the right range. But it is the best I can do. My BG does drop occasionally but that is only when I have eaten nothing for many hours and also taken no insulin, of course. I hadn't, though, thought that insulin was putting my BG up but even after overnight fasting, with a pretty high dose of Lantus Solostar before bed, my BG is high in the morning.</p><p></p><p>As others have suggested, perhaps you should check that you are on the right insulin (perhaps I should as well) and that it has been stored correctly. If you are in the UK and you drive you must inform the DVLA that you are insulin dependent and have the ability to check that your BG is high enough before you get into the car - otherwise you are driving illegally and could be prosecuted - and I believe that it would invalidate your insurance - perhaps that would persuade your team that you should be allowed to monitor yourself.</p><p></p><p>I know it is a struggle to get health professionals to take you seriously and to get them to change their attitudes - I'm finding that myself - but it's worth keeping going and trying to persuade them - there's much more information out there these days to support low carb diets. I'm due an appointment with my hospital soon and will be having another go at them. Unfortunately, the only fact I can show them is that I am relatively stable with almost zero carbs and totally unstable if I have any overt carbs at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Annb, post: 2109181, member: 25851"] I didn't laugh but I did query the diet sheet I was given. It was supposed to help me lose weight as well as control my diabetes. The amount of carbs was crazy and the total calorie content much higher than I have eaten for many years. My diet is similar to yours although I do add the occasional carrot to stews and I don't make cauli rice because my stomach can't cope with it. I don't actually know how much I should eat but the amount I take is much less than it has been in my younger days, when I was able to be active. I was also told that I "probably had gestational diabetes" because both my sons were large babies - but the youngest is 50 this year, so that's an awful long time to have GD. I was only diagnosed about 12 or so years ago when I finally went and asked a doctor if I had diabetes since no health professionals were picking up on my symptoms. I was put onto Metformin and only put onto insulin when I had to have a 2 day stay in hospital about 10 years ago. It was all under control until then. I never got off insulin after that! Health professionals don't have all the answers and should be challenged when they are clearly not achieving their aim which, after all, is a healthy patient. My current diet doesn't make me lose weight and fairly large doses of insulin does no more than keep my BG higher than it ought to be but within striking distance of the right range. But it is the best I can do. My BG does drop occasionally but that is only when I have eaten nothing for many hours and also taken no insulin, of course. I hadn't, though, thought that insulin was putting my BG up but even after overnight fasting, with a pretty high dose of Lantus Solostar before bed, my BG is high in the morning. As others have suggested, perhaps you should check that you are on the right insulin (perhaps I should as well) and that it has been stored correctly. If you are in the UK and you drive you must inform the DVLA that you are insulin dependent and have the ability to check that your BG is high enough before you get into the car - otherwise you are driving illegally and could be prosecuted - and I believe that it would invalidate your insurance - perhaps that would persuade your team that you should be allowed to monitor yourself. I know it is a struggle to get health professionals to take you seriously and to get them to change their attitudes - I'm finding that myself - but it's worth keeping going and trying to persuade them - there's much more information out there these days to support low carb diets. I'm due an appointment with my hospital soon and will be having another go at them. Unfortunately, the only fact I can show them is that I am relatively stable with almost zero carbs and totally unstable if I have any overt carbs at all. [/QUOTE]
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