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<blockquote data-quote="bob1965" data-source="post: 956159" data-attributes="member: 205398"><p>Hi guys thank again for the replies and the support, I do feel that the heart thumping episodes I get are directly related to eating carbs, I first noticed it happening in the period when I had cut out sugars (didn’t realise carbohydrate and sugars were the same until started reading posts on this forum 4 weeks ago) originally put it down the drugs I was taking for the heart disease but then It got to a point about 6 weeks ago when I could predict it would happen especially approx 3 hours after eating pasta, at the time I felt rough all the time and didn’t really to think much of it, my body has always been a bit weird lol</p><p></p><p>Thank you Bluetit for the info and explanation of the last meal effect, it makes perfect sense most of the meals I now have are carb free, especially breakfast and lunch, on one of the occasions I knew I was having approx 25g but thought it would be ok, the thumping heart I can live with it’s the 4 days of blurred vision and acting and feeling like a zombie I don’t like, the other 2 occasions were accidental and resulted in spending the next morning working out what I had eaten and the carb content, I am much more careful now.</p><p></p><p>I didn’t test at the time and this will sound pathetic but the effort of getting out of bed washing hands and testing was just too much, I did test on one of the earlier occasions after pasta and was 14.8.</p><p></p><p>I think I am noticing this more now as I am feeling really good most of the time, I did notice mild symptoms of it coming on last night after our evening meal that contained only about 4g of carb, I tested 4.7 before the meal and 1.5 hours later tested at 6.8. Fortunately today I am me and not my zombie lookalike so it wasn’t enough of a rise to set anything off</p><p></p><p></p><p>Got a bit of a problem with the Dr though, think I have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire lol.</p><p></p><p>Decided 4 weeks ago to change to another practice and see a different Dr</p><p></p><p>So went along to my first appointment last week with a diary of my diet and pre and post eating meter readings along with a nice little graph showing all my morning fasting levels, explained all my symptoms to him.</p><p></p><p>He was not impressed, told me to throw away the test meter, I should not be testing my blood the meters are inaccurate, the symptoms I had and the fact they improved with a change of diet was psycho symatic, he could see from my notes I had been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome my HbA1C was 42 this is far from being diabetic, I should eat a proper diet, he was not impressed with my diary and chart and said it indicated to him that I had an unhealthy obsession with wanting to be a diabetic and that I would benefit from taking antidepressants.</p><p></p><p></p><p>He has told me to have all the blood tests again that I have had before.</p><p></p><p></p><p>On the plus side I have to attend a health check at the surgery tomorrow as I am a new patient, hopefully the nurse that carries this out will have read the NICE guideline on preventing diabetes, that says anyone with HbA1c of 42 or over and a <u>risk</u> of Cardiovascular disease is at a very high risk of developing diabetes and steps should be taken to help them improve there diet and lifestyle.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Didn’t find that out till after the Drs Appointment, but thanks to a link on this forum I now know, should be interesting day tomorrow……</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bob1965, post: 956159, member: 205398"] Hi guys thank again for the replies and the support, I do feel that the heart thumping episodes I get are directly related to eating carbs, I first noticed it happening in the period when I had cut out sugars (didn’t realise carbohydrate and sugars were the same until started reading posts on this forum 4 weeks ago) originally put it down the drugs I was taking for the heart disease but then It got to a point about 6 weeks ago when I could predict it would happen especially approx 3 hours after eating pasta, at the time I felt rough all the time and didn’t really to think much of it, my body has always been a bit weird lol Thank you Bluetit for the info and explanation of the last meal effect, it makes perfect sense most of the meals I now have are carb free, especially breakfast and lunch, on one of the occasions I knew I was having approx 25g but thought it would be ok, the thumping heart I can live with it’s the 4 days of blurred vision and acting and feeling like a zombie I don’t like, the other 2 occasions were accidental and resulted in spending the next morning working out what I had eaten and the carb content, I am much more careful now. I didn’t test at the time and this will sound pathetic but the effort of getting out of bed washing hands and testing was just too much, I did test on one of the earlier occasions after pasta and was 14.8. I think I am noticing this more now as I am feeling really good most of the time, I did notice mild symptoms of it coming on last night after our evening meal that contained only about 4g of carb, I tested 4.7 before the meal and 1.5 hours later tested at 6.8. Fortunately today I am me and not my zombie lookalike so it wasn’t enough of a rise to set anything off Got a bit of a problem with the Dr though, think I have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire lol. Decided 4 weeks ago to change to another practice and see a different Dr So went along to my first appointment last week with a diary of my diet and pre and post eating meter readings along with a nice little graph showing all my morning fasting levels, explained all my symptoms to him. He was not impressed, told me to throw away the test meter, I should not be testing my blood the meters are inaccurate, the symptoms I had and the fact they improved with a change of diet was psycho symatic, he could see from my notes I had been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome my HbA1C was 42 this is far from being diabetic, I should eat a proper diet, he was not impressed with my diary and chart and said it indicated to him that I had an unhealthy obsession with wanting to be a diabetic and that I would benefit from taking antidepressants. He has told me to have all the blood tests again that I have had before. On the plus side I have to attend a health check at the surgery tomorrow as I am a new patient, hopefully the nurse that carries this out will have read the NICE guideline on preventing diabetes, that says anyone with HbA1c of 42 or over and a [U]risk[/U] of Cardiovascular disease is at a very high risk of developing diabetes and steps should be taken to help them improve there diet and lifestyle. Didn’t find that out till after the Drs Appointment, but thanks to a link on this forum I now know, should be interesting day tomorrow…… [/QUOTE]
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