Hi folks.
I was diagnosed pre in December with an A1c of 44 ...range 42-47 .it wasn't a massive surprise as I had been very unwell and immobile for the previous 2 1/2 years.plus an 8 month stint on a low dose of prednisone (a huge struggle to get off of)
I have several conditions incl ..O/A R/A hyperurecemia anemia of inflamation fibro and other bits and bobs relating to autoimmune.
I had been vegetarian ,pescetarian gluten free and finally vegan for a few years in my quest to try and heal some of the pain and illness before the mother of all flair ups happened in 20020 and a diagnosis of RA. I now believe these faddy diet changes all culminated to make me severely unwell.
I had slowly reintroduced some "normal" food again after the mother of flairs..such as non gluten free bread pasta etc..and some chicken etc and saw basically very little healing at all.
Anyways long story short as possible.
As soon as I learned of the A1C I started making more drastic changes and changes I hadn't tried before..I introduce red meat into my diet (a scary thing because of the hyperurecemia).
I chucked all sugar out (never ate loads and loads of sugary things anyway)
And started cutting carbs wherever possible.
I started educating myself watching and reading whatever I could about diabetes and low carb etc.
As the weeks have gone on I've found myself going lower and lower on the carbs and higher on fats and meat etc.
I have not had a flair up since and more than that, I have seen some significant reductions in pain levels and swelling
There are still some things I'm confused about .. so much info to take in!
I have bought a BS moniter and have been doing that for the last couple of weeks or so and still so confused about numbers and things.
I wondered if anyone would be able to answer some of my questions?
So in the last couple of weeks the highest I've seen my BS ever is about 7.8 after eating but that's only been a couple of times.
My numbers seem to fluctuate all day in the late 4s occasionaly the 5,s and early to mid 6's before food.(I'm testing alot)
My BS is usually higher in the mornings (around the 6's) untill I eat ...when they will often drop to much less.
I wonder could this be to do with IF 16-8 that I do most days?
Other times I can rise to a 7 or so and that can take longer than two hours to come back down to so called normal ranges..
But I seem to also have a delayed "peak"sometimes which makes it hard to decipher where I am,since from what I understand blood sugar should return to normal levels two hours after food.
Is this weird?or just my body doing Its thing?
Another thing is that after several weeks of IF and low carb I have seen zero weight loss.
Infact I have put on according to my lovely scales!
I had lost alot of muscle mass due to awful diet and lack of mobility so could the up-surge in protien be doing this?
What is odd is that I look much slimmer ..my face has cheekbones my shoulders and even waist look much smaller?but still no budge in Weight ?huh?
I'm always reading of people doing what I'm doing who have lost stones and stones but not me :-/
I do believe potentially my higher uric acid levels could be contributing.
It's very frustrating as when I first got very ill 3 years ago now I lost two stone purely because I was so unwell and had no appetite.
I wonder if others may have had this problem.
Also I am wondering if the average levels you get on the glucometer are worth anything ?
Or are they mostly unimportant.
What should I be looking for in my meters information in terms of getting into non diabetic ranges.?
I am extremely motivated to get rid of this pre diabetes diagnosis and would hugely appreciate any thoughts.
Thankyou
