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Moral

Rog

Well-Known Member
Messages
256
Location
London
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Other
Can any of the old timers here tell me how long it takes to get your head round being diagnosed with T2 . It's coming up to 4 months .
I've been through the blurred vision stage , I've had the burning and various hopefully acute neuropathy in my feet on and off since my sugars levelled out , last hab1c 42. I'm on the LCHF diet and have lost 2 stone , one more until normal weight achieved .
What I could do with some help is when every time theirs a twitch in the feet or something doesn't feel right have such an effect , maybe I need to have more communication with other diabetics I don't know ? Then sometimes I feel being on this board all the time makes me feel worse as I read things that make me feel worse , hope I have made some sense.
 
Well for me they haven't stopped, almost 2 years on! I still get needle pains in my toes when BG are normal levels (almost constant) and would have hoped that they would have reduced slowly but I think I am just used to them so ignore it. I still get cold hands and feet depending on BG levels. A new one I get (may be last 2 months) is a tingling/stinging in palms and soles of feet followed by (after about 5 mns) a heat rush through my body. Have done tests and they seem to be me hitting around mid 3s and then the heat rush is my body sorting it out (back up to 5). I am unsure why this has started in the last couple of months except I have raised my carb levels. BTW this only happens when I am sat, when I am active I do not think my body gets the chance to go so low.

So as you can see you are probably now aware of things that you would most likely just ignored previously when your body does things. I wouldn't worry about it and just look upon it as a reminder that you are still alive.
 
Thanks for that Andrew. I have heard quite a few posters and commentators say that once things have settled down after diagnosis the tingling feet etc is a sign of the nerve ends healing themselves and this can go on for some time , can I ask if these symptoms like me came on shortly after diagnosis and have you achieved a normal weight through the LCHF diet? Regards the BG levels I stay in a fairly repetetive food pattern and seem to stay in the late 4s early 5s for fasting and never really go beyond 6.5 two hours after meals.
 
I did a low calorie diet and got my BG levels to normal within about a month. Lost lots of weight. Don't LCHF really as I do a "what I want" diet with cycles of low carb and low calorie. Mine isn't tingling unfortunately.

I became very aware of the cold hands as soon as I started to control my BG levels. In fact I can predict my BG levels below 5.6 fairly accurately by how far the cold has crept up my fingers towards the wrist.

At the moment I seem to be sitting in the low 4s to 5 with my feet really not liking the very low 4s. If I raised my BG levels up to around the 5.6 then I have none of the stabbing/stinging sensations or cold fingers.
 
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