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<blockquote data-quote="stevew242" data-source="post: 2133089" data-attributes="member: 514165"><p>Sorry it has taken a while to reply. Your experience is interesting to me as it is similar to mine - have you given up on extremely low carb and exercise?</p><p></p><p>I don't have the freestyle libre but may get hold of one. Because I'm now self-employed and currently taking time out to sort myself out, I feel reluctant to spend the money but I'm curious about what is happening over night because I'm frightened of hypos although have been nowhere near I suspect given stubbornly high readings. The strange thing to me is that I have been losing weight but am fairly sure I'm insulin resistant as well. </p><p></p><p>The one meal a day thing started because I had been in the habit of skipping breakfast for a while and then I noticed I was getting the morning high back then of around 9 so I thought I may as well leave it to come down and just got used to it. It's made easier by having coffee with cream, not sure how well I'd do without that.</p><p></p><p>The challenge is now going to be dropping more weight but in a controlled way that doesn't worry the medics as I'm convinced this will help with resistance, regardless of any deficiency I may now have in producing insulin. My ideal is to take a minimal background dose and not bother with the rapid stuff. At the moment, the nurses seem more worried about stablity which I understand but can't help worry that going back on insulin is the path to weight gain and more resistance.</p><p></p><p>One of the hardest things I'm finding right now is that everytime my BG gets down below 10 mmol/l I feel like I'm having a hypo and get shakey and anxious. Fighting the temptation to eat some carbs to feel normal is really difficult.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stevew242, post: 2133089, member: 514165"] Sorry it has taken a while to reply. Your experience is interesting to me as it is similar to mine - have you given up on extremely low carb and exercise? I don't have the freestyle libre but may get hold of one. Because I'm now self-employed and currently taking time out to sort myself out, I feel reluctant to spend the money but I'm curious about what is happening over night because I'm frightened of hypos although have been nowhere near I suspect given stubbornly high readings. The strange thing to me is that I have been losing weight but am fairly sure I'm insulin resistant as well. The one meal a day thing started because I had been in the habit of skipping breakfast for a while and then I noticed I was getting the morning high back then of around 9 so I thought I may as well leave it to come down and just got used to it. It's made easier by having coffee with cream, not sure how well I'd do without that. The challenge is now going to be dropping more weight but in a controlled way that doesn't worry the medics as I'm convinced this will help with resistance, regardless of any deficiency I may now have in producing insulin. My ideal is to take a minimal background dose and not bother with the rapid stuff. At the moment, the nurses seem more worried about stablity which I understand but can't help worry that going back on insulin is the path to weight gain and more resistance. One of the hardest things I'm finding right now is that everytime my BG gets down below 10 mmol/l I feel like I'm having a hypo and get shakey and anxious. Fighting the temptation to eat some carbs to feel normal is really difficult. [/QUOTE]
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