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Just gone on insulin and my sugars are worse than ever
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<blockquote data-quote="finzi1966" data-source="post: 2462363" data-attributes="member: 548675"><p>Our sugars do funny things. Sugar in your blood doesn’t only come from what you eat - your liver also manufactures it, and it particularly does so when it perceives there is a need, eg at dawn when you haven’t eaten all night, or if you’re fasting. Again, normally this is a good thing, because it’s no good for people to go hypo just because they missed lunch. But because you are diabetic, the system again doesn’t work quite how it should - the liver is stuffed full of excess glucose, it overshoots, and as a type 2 you are probably insulin resistant so instead of the body’s insulin bringing the sugar back to normal levels after a liver dump, it remains high. </p><p></p><p>If you stick to a low carb diet (and that menu you posted above sounds fabulous!) gradually the liver will get rid of its excess and you will hopefully also become less insulin resistant. </p><p></p><p>My fasting sugars were 8-9 a few months ago, now they’re 5-6. Mostly this has been down to a low carb diet (I do take meds too although not insulin).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="finzi1966, post: 2462363, member: 548675"] Our sugars do funny things. Sugar in your blood doesn’t only come from what you eat - your liver also manufactures it, and it particularly does so when it perceives there is a need, eg at dawn when you haven’t eaten all night, or if you’re fasting. Again, normally this is a good thing, because it’s no good for people to go hypo just because they missed lunch. But because you are diabetic, the system again doesn’t work quite how it should - the liver is stuffed full of excess glucose, it overshoots, and as a type 2 you are probably insulin resistant so instead of the body’s insulin bringing the sugar back to normal levels after a liver dump, it remains high. If you stick to a low carb diet (and that menu you posted above sounds fabulous!) gradually the liver will get rid of its excess and you will hopefully also become less insulin resistant. My fasting sugars were 8-9 a few months ago, now they’re 5-6. Mostly this has been down to a low carb diet (I do take meds too although not insulin). [/QUOTE]
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