Type 2 Normal readings

[woollygal]

Hi

Firstly I’d like to apologise as I feel I was being quite snippy in my posts last week. It wasn’t personal at any of you, I was just in a major flunk and seriously annoyed at the world.


Am very happy but also curious. Last couple of days my readings have been superb.
Parents visited so when we went to shop yesterday I had a tiny piece of chocolate cake (a slither) 2 hours later sugars were 5.3 (started in the 6 or 7s)
Then went for a meal and had fish and chips and even tried tartare sauce. Didn’t finish the chips. Started 5.3 after 2 hours was 9.4. Still very happy given how many carbs as a treat.

Today had porridge for brekkie and felt slightly weak so had 2 jelly beans, went into shop then had a piece of flap jack (from 8 week sugar diet) and 3 heck chicken sausages. Unfortunately those sweets kicked off my cravings and I then had another 4/5. 2 1/2 hours later sugars st 5.3.

Ate sandwich then 2 1/2 hours later 6. Something. (Again very extraordinary),

It is my time of the month which started this morning so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it. But my levels are wonderfully low and normal.

In terms of how I feel I feel great. Not abnormal thirst, I have energy, (apart from stomach ache), my mind feel clearer and I just feel happier since about mid morning.

Is this normal? I did have the ‘oooh I wonder if my diabetes has gone’ moment, and then more sweets (dam cravings and addiction and slightly in the name of testing experiment given my levels).

On Saturday I had half a sub bap with sausages and a few chips and levels were 13 something after 2 hours which feel far more credible after a carby meal. Not the ones I’ve been getting.

 

[HSSS]

I’m assuming meds haven’t changed. Not sure how long youve been on them. Do they take a while to kick in?
You sound a little less stressed. That would help but I’d be astounded if that made that much difference.
I’d be confused too. Not noticed a change due to time of month personally

 

[woollygal]

I’m assuming meds haven’t changed. Not sure how long youve been on them. Do they take a while to kick in?
You sound a little less stressed. That would help but I’d be astounded if that made that much difference.
I’d be confused too. Not noticed a change due to time of month personally

Same meds. I guess over the weekend I was more active but today I’ve been in car working so that doesn’t make sense. Unless the extra activity (just more walking about and mooching at home) had added effect today.
I do feel a lot less stressed. I just feel more normal.
Head is clearer, I feel happier and just more energetic.
I don’t feel so low and that feeling like you feel like you are coming down with something the whole time.

I feel good. It’s really hard to explain.
It’s only a few hours ago but I feel good.

Is it possible the diabetes has gone?

 

[woollygal]

I’m assuming meds haven’t changed. Not sure how long youve been on them. Do they take a while to kick in?
You sound a little less stressed. That would help but I’d be astounded if that made that much difference.
I’d be confused too. Not noticed a change due to time of month personally

Same meds. I guess over the weekend I was more active but today I’ve been in car working so that doesn’t make sense. Unless the extra activity (just more walking about and mooching at home) had added effect today.
I do feel a lot less stressed. I just feel more normal.
Head is clearer, I feel happier and just more energetic.
I don’t feel so low and that feeling like you feel like you are coming down with something the whole time.

I feel good. It’s really hard to explain.
It’s only a few hours ago but I feel good.

Is it possible the diabetes has gone?

 

[HSSS]

Could you have had keto flu (even just going low carb could do this) or even some other bug? Whatever it is I hope for you it’s here to stay.

Did you have any luck establishing if you actually are low when you feel off ? Porridge may have caused a spike with a crash so it felt like a low but wasn’t. Make sense?

 

[HSSS]

If you could eat “normally” without meds for a protracted period of time and maintain normal bloods then maybe, just maybe you’d be cured. I don’t think many at all get to that point. Well controlled or reversed or remission (pick your favourite adjective) perhaps. Personally I still believe even for those labels to apply it needs to be without meds though.

 

[woollygal]

Could you have had keto flu (even just going low carb could do this) or even some other bug? Whatever it is I hope for you it’s here to stay.

Did you have any luck establishing if you actually are low when you feel off ? Porridge may have caused a spike with a crash so it felt like a low but wasn’t. Make sense?

It was my mood that was low!

Usually in the 5s I feel weak and hypo even though it’s not a hypo. This morning I felt like that hence the couple of sweets. After that I just felt amazing.

I’m thinking I should be going to the dr but I don’t want to feel **** again after I’ve been. My next hba1c is 16/11 so might wait. But don’t want to keep taking meds if I don’t need to. But also don’t want dr to put me in a bad mood again! Whenever I speak about levels I just get moaned at for taking them too often, even though it’s just for testing to see what foods are doing to me.

Maybe I’ll wait a couple days. Maybe it is just the time of the month playing silly beggars with everything. I did read that can cause hypos as well as raise sugars so maybe this is my version of hypos! (That isn’t a hypo just makes me feel great)

 

[HSSS]

Your dr is telling you off for testing? And putting you in a bad mood? I’d be telling him I’m achieving better results by testing and asking why exactly is it bad? There was a study that says it can stress people and I think that might be the cause of some drs being anti it. Me? I’d be far more stressed not knowing. Failing that I’d be seeing another dr.

I know I’d have no control if I started eating “just a few” sweets so darent risk it. Luckily I’ve never felt much different whatever my readings (5to 9 since low carb and testing, no idea before) so never had to adjust to a new “normal”. I guess it might just take time. Monthly hormones make far more difference to how i feel though.

Enjoy feeling better for now perhaps even if it’s confusing and discuss with a dr soon. Maybe the results will help make a decision on the way forward.

 

[Resurgam]

Although I hesitate to post about it, after almost two years low carbing I can eat carbs again - but all my adult life I have been able to put on weight so easily - if I eat carbs.
For me diabetes was simply the end of a long long road of not being able to use glucose properly. Bit like a black hole, where on low carb I can happily stay on the event horizon, rather than slide towards the singularity, but I can never escape from it completely.
At the moment I am shrinking and changing shape - even though my weight is stable - possibly converting fat to muscle. On low carb I have normal levels and tests, and I am in control - no cravings. I do so want to get my weight back in the normal range too - so although I could eat more carbs without causing spikes, I will not - I fear that it would be all too easy to slide down that long slope I managed to climb out of.

 

[xfieldok]

Glad you are feeling better. Be cautious. Eating sweets will encourage cravings. Eat to your meter. If you download the mySugr app, you can record food (everything that goes into your mouth), readings and after about a week it will give you an estimated HbA1c. I found it highly motivating. You will get ups and downs, just go with it.