hi everyone,
i was diagnosed with diabetes in 2004 i was severe DKA, at first doctors thought i was a type 2 (bit over weight) then they said type 1 and now they tell me type 1.5, my control over the years has not been very good, i go up and down big time, for example, a single piece of bread (doesnt matter which type) can send me up to 25 and i get hypos down to 1.6, after that the meter reads LO.
after watching some lectures from Dr Jason Fung i tought i would try this diet to see if it can help me, at first it didnt do anything but now after a few weeks it seems my blood sugars are more stable, ie: no hypos in weeks and no "real" hypers, but my blood sugar on average is still between 9.5 and 14 (good for me though).
is it supposed to be like this? will i ever get normal blood sugars or A1c? my A1c last year was 13.4 and my latest a few months ago was 11.4.
do the sugars come down gradually over months? or am i just too wrecked?
im not over weight, i am 5'11 80kg bmi i think is 24
i am mainly eating salads, butter, bacon, eggs and meat, also after i excersize my sugar goes flying high.
thanks
Hi evopilot,
Your diagnosis sounds much the same as mine, only mine is much more recent. Diagnosed T2 sept 2013, BS levels 20+ high DKA, rushed to hospital where they stabilised me overnight. Diagnosed LADA dec 2013 and have been lowering my carb intake ever since. Now down to around 40g carbs per day, and have found over the last month or so that protein also needs to be watched, and that 10g protein is equal to about 5g carbs, but absorbed very slowly, sometime I feel it takes me 3 days to get over high protein intake. My protein intake is around 100g per day. My pre breakfast BS reading are averaging just under 6. Latest Hba1c 5.7%. If I have a very high protein level day my BS readings can be up for upto 3 days. Double cream and butter are high fat, very low protein. I get through a pot of double cream per day and a pack of butter every 4 days.... Cream made me feel sick at 1st, but got used to it after a few weeks, now love it.
I am not on insulin or medication, but I know that gradually my beta cells are destructing, but I feel (hope) that I can delay this by keeping on a LcHf diet. Dr Bernstein's books are well worth a read, dr Bernstein is now over 80 and has been on insulin some 65 years, with very little if any complications, all down he says to keeping 'normal' blood sugar levels.... Indeed he says he owes his good health because of his diabetes.... In that it has forced him to look after himself (LcHf diet and exercise).
Whether you can get off insulin (being a LADA) will I, would think, depend on how many of your beta cells you have remaining. Many studies have indicated that beta cells destruct with blood sugar levels over 7.8. If you have had high BS levels over the last few years, then maybe you have very few beta cells left. Most trials seem to indicate that beta cells can not regenerate once dead, but one or two seem to think they can. You can preview some pages of dr Bernstein's book free on amazon. I purchased it on iBooks for £5.00.... Below is an extract from his book.....
Dr Bernstein's
Diabetes Solution, page 96) THE Honeymoon period
There are several hypotheses as to why conventional treatment won’t let the honeymoon go on forever, but my experience with patients indicates that with proper treatment it can. Essential to this is a low-carbohydrate diet and normal blood sugars. This will help preserve whatever insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells you may have. (The same is true for type 2 diabetics. Beta cell burnout the destruction of beta cells caused by excessive demands on the pancreas and by the toxic effect of high blood sugars upon beta cells — can be avoided, halted, and in some cases reversed if you get on the Diabetes Solution program and get your blood sugars normalized.)
Good luck... In my opinion, you getting off insulin is very unlikely, but only with a LcHf diet have you any chance of succeeding.
In my opinion, low BS levels are the key to good health and associated complication avoidance, if my BS level readings start averaging 10+ I will be pleading for insulin.
Diagnosed T2 in sept 2013, BS levels 20+. BMI 22, age 58. Requested a GAD test in November, came back very high 2,000+, doc said I would be T1 very soon, but presently LADA, and managing to keep 99% of my BS readings one hour after meals under 7.8 without insulin or any medication.
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