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<blockquote data-quote="Catsymoo" data-source="post: 1772007" data-attributes="member: 45466"><p>At this current moment, my bolus is absorbing at all different rates so I'm not eating as many carbs as I usually do. That pasta was probably the first carb meal I've eaten in days. Few months ago we were eating pasta quite a lot, and I need about 8 units for a plate. It's surprisingly low GI and I was happy to discover my sugars were tolerating it beautifully, because I've always avoided it in the past as I thought it was really high GI.</p><p></p><p>I've just got back from a 2 hour walk after taking 1 more unit of Novorapid and my sugars are the same as when I left. In the last 5 years of diabetes, walking was always a reliable way to get my sugars down. The only thing I've changed recently is I've stopped Metformin and I'm exercising more but nothing extreme. My DSN said I may have to increase my insulin to make up for the Metformin, but when I increased my basal the other day it sent me hypo. If I'm completely honest, I was supposed to take 2 Metformin a day but I was only taking one because I would always forget my morning dose.. I can't see how Metformin would make a huge difference. There were times where I would come home from work and fall asleep and miss my doses for days at a time and nothing changed...</p><p></p><p>I can't seem to find out why. I'm still sitting at 12. I'm starving and weak and don't even know what to eat right now as everything is sending me high and my stomach feels rubbish when I do eat. It burns and I get reflux. My day got ruined today, my friend gave me a ticket to a comic con and I walked in, started feeling really ill and just came home. I keep getting dizzy and nauseous, and just this pit in my stomach like I'm very poorly and then panic sets in and I need air or to go home.</p><p></p><p>Digestives don't usually send me high, which is why I ate them an hour before bed. They're only 7g per biscuit and in the past my Lantus has always been able to cope with a bedtime snack like that, especially 10 hours later it should be dropping the sugars, not raising them. I'm completely baffled here as I'm not seeing any patterns or anything, and this is completely out of nowhere after having pretty well controlled type 1 for 6 years now. Something is causing my sugars to slowly rise, and the only thing I can think of is the stomach issues and/or my liver. Maybe my food is digesting really slowly at different rates.. but then that would more likely send me hypo right after bolusing which isn't happening.</p><p></p><p>I should probably go for a full MOT at the doctors soon just to rule out anything else, but blood tests give me panic attacks. I'm such a handful recently. I feel like if none of these problems were happening, I would feel FANTASTIC, because I can feel my body getting fitter and stronger from exercising and eating better. It just feels like the stomach/blood sugar problems are blocking me from feeling the most energetic I have in years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catsymoo, post: 1772007, member: 45466"] At this current moment, my bolus is absorbing at all different rates so I'm not eating as many carbs as I usually do. That pasta was probably the first carb meal I've eaten in days. Few months ago we were eating pasta quite a lot, and I need about 8 units for a plate. It's surprisingly low GI and I was happy to discover my sugars were tolerating it beautifully, because I've always avoided it in the past as I thought it was really high GI. I've just got back from a 2 hour walk after taking 1 more unit of Novorapid and my sugars are the same as when I left. In the last 5 years of diabetes, walking was always a reliable way to get my sugars down. The only thing I've changed recently is I've stopped Metformin and I'm exercising more but nothing extreme. My DSN said I may have to increase my insulin to make up for the Metformin, but when I increased my basal the other day it sent me hypo. If I'm completely honest, I was supposed to take 2 Metformin a day but I was only taking one because I would always forget my morning dose.. I can't see how Metformin would make a huge difference. There were times where I would come home from work and fall asleep and miss my doses for days at a time and nothing changed... I can't seem to find out why. I'm still sitting at 12. I'm starving and weak and don't even know what to eat right now as everything is sending me high and my stomach feels rubbish when I do eat. It burns and I get reflux. My day got ruined today, my friend gave me a ticket to a comic con and I walked in, started feeling really ill and just came home. I keep getting dizzy and nauseous, and just this pit in my stomach like I'm very poorly and then panic sets in and I need air or to go home. Digestives don't usually send me high, which is why I ate them an hour before bed. They're only 7g per biscuit and in the past my Lantus has always been able to cope with a bedtime snack like that, especially 10 hours later it should be dropping the sugars, not raising them. I'm completely baffled here as I'm not seeing any patterns or anything, and this is completely out of nowhere after having pretty well controlled type 1 for 6 years now. Something is causing my sugars to slowly rise, and the only thing I can think of is the stomach issues and/or my liver. Maybe my food is digesting really slowly at different rates.. but then that would more likely send me hypo right after bolusing which isn't happening. I should probably go for a full MOT at the doctors soon just to rule out anything else, but blood tests give me panic attacks. I'm such a handful recently. I feel like if none of these problems were happening, I would feel FANTASTIC, because I can feel my body getting fitter and stronger from exercising and eating better. It just feels like the stomach/blood sugar problems are blocking me from feeling the most energetic I have in years. [/QUOTE]
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