Hi all
Didn't mean to just disappear for so long! Trying to get head round a life without my car has been hard. But am now proud owner of a mobility scooter which means I can get a pint of milk if needed and get to doctor, chemist etc. Have been juggling my pain medication so am currently working with a mush slightly looney brain as well as nodding off all the time!!
I saw my consultant who would support an appeal to get licence but then said that for me BS would have to be 7 before getting in car. That effectively bans me anyway as trying to keep above 5 was enough of an effort. Prob will reapply when I can and keep driving for a dire emergency. Getting used to the buses with all the olds and the single mums!!
I am now having to get out of the pool half way through swim to test BS and have jelly babies as required which is most days. Worst BS was 2.5 in last month so not too bad. Trying to keep the carbs down as much as possible without annoying the docs.
Did anyone else hear the repost of Nat Obesity forum saying that current diet guidelines of carbs and low fat don't work and cutting out carbs was way to go hmmmm
Yeah, all over the media for the past two days.
It's shocking all the naysayers going on about how the report is misleading and proof.
When it's definitely the other ways around!
There are a couple of threads on the subject on the site.
It's awful about the car, but you do have a way of getting you around now.
If you can get normal blood glucose levels, there is no reason why you can't drive again. My specialist endocrinologist said I shouldn't drive until I had this thing really controlled.
I do think by your post that you are still maybe eating too many carbs. I'm reading between the lines but maybe your consultant still thinks old school and recommends carbs every meal. When by my experience, that can't be right.
Think of it this way.
You eat carbs, you use up your glucose, you have excessive insulin.
Your brain is starved of the glucose it needs to be cognitive, because you have nothing left. Low blood sugars, hypo. Your body is screaming for carbs, hence the really bad symptoms. All the symptoms you show are because of a lack of glucose in your blood.
So, if you don't trigger the insulin initially, you don't get the excessive insulin because your body is cruising along on what your liver gives you. Glucose is there in your blood and your brain is ok.
Probably at the moment you still have insulin resistance and the ever increasing need for insulin after eating too many carbs is probably flooding your blood, again affecting your glucose your brain needs, again, the bad symptoms.
This is why low carb works for us!
Once you get your insulin resistance down by losing visceral fat and by eating low carb, your Hba1c glucose levels come down to normal levels.
You stop over producing insulin and you have your normal levels of glucose needed for your brain.
It sounds weird, but that is how I have come t understand it.
No spikes from carbs, no trigger for insulin, no overshoot of insulin, no excessive insulin, no bad symptoms, no hypos!
Hope you can understand it.
I haven't had a hypo in well over a year, and that was during a OGTT test.
So it works for me, it should help you.
Best wishes,
Nosher.
Don't get caught speeding on your scooter. Can it do the lawn as well?