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Type 2 Rising BG. I don’t understand.


Thanks. Scary and it had crossed my mind
 

I have had to reduce my exercise recently due to being ill for a short while and family commitments. However BG was climbing before I did that. It is frustrating as life goes on and sometimes I just can’t exercise as much as I’d like to. I’ve had this in the past and it didn’t affect my BG then. Who knows... it is so frustrating.
 
I was misdiagnosed for years, luckily medications made me sick and I was put on insulin fairly early. It wasn't until I switched doctors that the new endo tested me and it turned out I was LADA. The honeymoon phase which is when you are still producing some insulin can last 8 years. You just slowly have all your beta cells die off. And it can vary day to to day. I always want to make sure people know the possibility is there. I know someone else has already mentioned it, unfortunately it's still too commonly done.
 

I think something is fundamentally wrong, with your effort your numbers should be low , I do think however that a very few numbers of people at Ketonic level have a liver that spikes up the converting of proteins into blood glucose, a year ago I read of an anorexic person who had this specific problem .but it is more common to see too low blood glucose (in anorectics).. it is weird but maybe a slim person could end up with that problem in a rare case.
Some need to both count their number of grams of carbs and also their number of grams of proteins and protein wise stay at the level of 0.8-gram x body weight in kg so like a person of 60 kg should only eat around 53 grams of protein daily. But you need to experiment and see if this might be your problem.

When you speed up your level of exercise you might need slightly more protein if building muscle

Another reason could be kind of an infection inside your body that you are not aware of.

Or as some mention being type 1.5
 
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Resurgam said:
I notice that you skip breakfast - when I did that my BG levels rose all morning until I ate at midday - I saw lower BG eating early and late, with about 10 gm of carb in the mornings, as insulin resistance was higher then.
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This morning I didnt have my usual eggs and had 8g of carbs and 2 hours later I’m at 10.6!! That was after a brisk walk and garlic! Worth a try but I feel I should have known better. Pleased it works for you though.
 
Flora123 said:
This morning I didnt have my usual eggs and had 8g of carbs and 2 hours later I’m at 10.6!! That was after a brisk walk and garlic! Worth a try but I feel I should have known better. Pleased it works for you though.
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I am the same, carbs in the morning has a greater effect than carbs in the evening.

You have had masses of different ideas, so I am not going to add to them, for fear of confusing the issue.
But I will remark on your comment that your exercise and activity level has reduced a bit.
So you could try a quick test.
check your bg.
run/walk up and down a flight of stairs a few times.
check your bg again.
then check it again throughout the day, and the next morning.
Sometimes exercise can drive bg up in the short term (depends how brisk it is) but then the bg drops lower for the rest of the day, creating an overall lower average.

Exercise also has a short to medium term effect on insulin resistance, although of course it varies depending on the person, and the fitness level.

Personally, I find that exercise seems to drop my background insulin resistance for a few hours (until I next eat carbs).
And we have had a member (sorry, forgotten his name) who controlled his T2 for decades with no medication, and just the simple action of climbing stairs for several minutes after every meal. Not something I (or my knees!) could contemplate, but it could be a useful experiment for you to discover the extent your reduction in exercise is contributing, or could be a control strategy, in the short or long term.

(obviously, it doesn't have to be climbing stairs! Dancing round the kitchen, or a brisk trundle round the block, or doing a few Kettlebell Swings would all have a similar effect. Heck, even waving a tin of baked beans in each arm while sitting in a wheelchair could make a difference.)
 

Thanks @Brunneria. I have a day off today to doing housework and I am running around instead of walking - well as much as you can run in a house. I am making an effort to go up and down stairs more than usual so fingers crossed that will help.

My gP is away at the moment and he is the specialist diabetes doc. If it isn’t any better by tomorrow I’ll see another doc if possible. Maybe it’s metformin time
 
So a strange update. I was unable to get an appointment with my gp or anyone else due to holidays etc. I was getting a bit worried about my readings still being so high despite my extremely low carb diet. Anyway I found some metformin left from my initial dx a year ago (I was taken off within two weeks due to low readings). Anyway. I have taken one tablet last night and one this morning. My FBG was 5.8, the lowest in months and my bg has since dropped to 4.6 and I’ve eaten my usual breakfast and lunch. I thought metformin was a mild drug that took months to work. All very odd.
 
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