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Just over 2 weeks diabetes diagnosis

Montyd

Montyd

Newbie
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Location
Sydney, Australia
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
After a bit of a shock, but probably no surprise, things seem to be going well with my new diabetes diagnosis. Over the past few years my GP has been saying I had prediabetes, and although my brother has been using insulin for nearly 10 years for his adult onset autoimmune diabetes, I chose to ignore it and just go for annual checks. That changed with a recent random BSL of 14mmol/L and a Hba1c of 8.2%. So while my GP started me on Metformin XR, my brother told me to start on a low carb diet, which I did immediately. Wow - what a difference that makes! I didn't really expect my quick 2-3 kg weight loss with this diet. Lucky, too, that my brother was using a Freestyle libre and that was very easy to order and use here in Australia. So I have had a crash course in diabetes education: my brother and this website have been invaluable. My metformin is now up to 2000mg/day and I think the only side-effect is a bloated feeling - although could that be due to the diet change? My BSL levels have been falling from fasting of 9mmol/L last week to (first time today) 5.4 this morning. So very happy today. I still don't enjoy my sugar free/milk free coffee - but I am getting used to it. I'll see how things go from here.
 
Montyd said:
After a bit of a shock, but probably no surprise, things seem to be going well with my new diabetes diagnosis. Over the past few years my GP has been saying I had prediabetes, and although my brother has been using insulin for nearly 10 years for his adult onset autoimmune diabetes, I chose to ignore it and just go for annual checks. That changed with a recent random BSL of 14mmol/L and a Hba1c of 8.2%. So while my GP started me on Metformin XR, my brother told me to start on a low carb diet, which I did immediately. Wow - what a difference that makes! Lucky, too, that my brother was using a Freestyle libre and that was very easy to order and use here in Australia. So I have had a crash course in diabetes education: my brother and this website have been invaluable. My metformin is now up to 2000mg/day and I think the only side-effect is a bloated feeling - although could that be due to the diet change? My BSL levels have been falling from fasting of 9mmol/L last week to (first time today) 5.4 this morning. So very happy today. I still don't enjoy my sugar free/milk free coffee - but I am getting used to it. I'll see how things go from here.
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Well done @Montyd. I must admit to adding a dash of Vanilla extract to my coffee for flavour !!
 
Well done on grabbing the bull by the horns and getting on top of taking control.
May I suggest double cream in your coffee :)
 
Montyd said:
After a bit of a shock, but probably no surprise, things seem to be going well with my new diabetes diagnosis. Over the past few years my GP has been saying I had prediabetes, and although my brother has been using insulin for nearly 10 years for his adult onset autoimmune diabetes, I chose to ignore it and just go for annual checks. That changed with a recent random BSL of 14mmol/L and a Hba1c of 8.2%. So while my GP started me on Metformin XR, my brother told me to start on a low carb diet, which I did immediately. Wow - what a difference that makes! I didn't really expect my quick 2-3 kg weight loss with this diet. Lucky, too, that my brother was using a Freestyle libre and that was very easy to order and use here in Australia. So I have had a crash course in diabetes education: my brother and this website have been invaluable. My metformin is now up to 2000mg/day and I think the only side-effect is a bloated feeling - although could that be due to the diet change? My BSL levels have been falling from fasting of 9mmol/L last week to (first time today) 5.4 this morning. So very happy today. I still don't enjoy my sugar free/milk free coffee - but I am getting used to it. I'll see how things go from here.
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Well done, and welcome!
 
Welcome you’re doing great but agree with @Rachox why not have some cream in your coffee? It will improve the taste and very few carbs either. I water down double cream and then froth it up so can make a cappuccino.
Good luck keep going.
 
Contralto said:
We don't have double cream in America. Do Australians have it?
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Remind me never to move to America! ...... Oh actually isn’t it called ‘heavy cream’ in the USA?
 
Montyd said:
After a bit of a shock, but probably no surprise, things seem to be going well with my new diabetes diagnosis. Over the past few years my GP has been saying I had prediabetes, and although my brother has been using insulin for nearly 10 years for his adult onset autoimmune diabetes, I chose to ignore it and just go for annual checks. That changed with a recent random BSL of 14mmol/L and a Hba1c of 8.2%. So while my GP started me on Metformin XR, my brother told me to start on a low carb diet, which I did immediately. Wow - what a difference that makes! I didn't really expect my quick 2-3 kg weight loss with this diet. Lucky, too, that my brother was using a Freestyle libre and that was very easy to order and use here in Australia. So I have had a crash course in diabetes education: my brother and this website have been invaluable. My metformin is now up to 2000mg/day and I think the only side-effect is a bloated feeling - although could that be due to the diet change? My BSL levels have been falling from fasting of 9mmol/L last week to (first time today) 5.4 this morning. So very happy today. I still don't enjoy my sugar free/milk free coffee - but I am getting used to it. I'll see how things go from here.
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Low carb got rid of my bloated feelings so in my experience of n=1 then I’d say it’s the metformin causing the digestive distress. (It’s fairly common).
 
Montyd said:
After a bit of a shock, but probably no surprise, things seem to be going well with my new diabetes diagnosis. Over the past few years my GP has been saying I had prediabetes, and although my brother has been using insulin for nearly 10 years for his adult onset autoimmune diabetes, I chose to ignore it and just go for annual checks. That changed with a recent random BSL of 14mmol/L and a Hba1c of 8.2%. So while my GP started me on Metformin XR, my brother told me to start on a low carb diet, which I did immediately. Wow - what a difference that makes! I didn't really expect my quick 2-3 kg weight loss with this diet. Lucky, too, that my brother was using a Freestyle libre and that was very easy to order and use here in Australia. So I have had a crash course in diabetes education: my brother and this website have been invaluable. My metformin is now up to 2000mg/day and I think the only side-effect is a bloated feeling - although could that be due to the diet change? My BSL levels have been falling from fasting of 9mmol/L last week to (first time today) 5.4 this morning. So very happy today. I still don't enjoy my sugar free/milk free coffee - but I am getting used to it. I'll see how things go from here.
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Well done, what a fantastic start! You will find lots of info on here re ideas on nice things to drink. And eat for that matter! I like many others on here enjoy coffee with cream. I don't use sweeteners as I don't feel I need to but there are lots of threads on this subject. Stevia seems to be very popular. Little or no impact on BS.

Great news on your weight loss too. I found the same happened to me. Started LCHF woe to control BS and lost weight too, lots of it! Win win.
 
shelley262 said:
Welcome you’re doing great but agree with @Rachox why not have some cream in your coffee? It will improve the taste and very few carbs either. I water down double cream and then froth it up so can make a cappuccino.
Good luck keep going.
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That sounds a really good idea. How do you froth it up? Before low carb I used to absolutely love my cappuccinos so it would be lovely to have a low carb version.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
That sounds a really good idea. How do you froth it up? Before low carb I used to absolutely love my cappuccinos so it would be lovely to have a low carb version.
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I use a milk frother machine I had already got but you can buy little hand held frothers that I think are not too expensive. All our family love frothy coffee and frothy hot chocolate - so was worth expense of a proper milk heater and frother which does it in a few mins and gets used several times a day. You can also dilute cream for hot choc - just use the low carb Lidl cocoa or a few squares of a very high percentage choc bar melted into it. You can also use a bit of granulated erythritol if you like it a bit sweeter.
 
shelley262 said:
I use a milk frother machine I had already got but you can buy little hand held frothers that I think are not too expensive. All our family love frothy coffee and frothy hot chocolate - so was worth expense of a proper milk heater and frother which does it in a few mins and gets used several times a day. You can also dilute cream for hot choc - just use the low carb Lidl cocoa or a few squares of a very high percentage choc bar melted into it. You can also use a bit of granulated erythritol if you like it a bit sweeter.
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Thank you. I do have a milk frother with my Nespresso machine but it never occurred to me that I could water down the cream and froth it. What a brilliant idea.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Thank you. I do have a milk frother with my Nespresso machine but it never occurred to me that I could water down the cream and froth it. What a brilliant idea.
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Hi Krystyna, I too have a Nespresso machine with an attached milk frother….try putting the cream in, it froths it beautifully and tastes fab. x
 
I too have a nespresso with milk frother. Im dairy intolerant so have to avoid /severly limit milk and cream intake.
I have tried frothing various non dairy milk altenatives - some are abject failures, however waitrose unsweetend soya milk and Plenish unsweetend almond milk both produce a good froth and for less carbs than dairy milk or cream
 
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