Hi guys and girls
I love your forum I can't find anything quite like it in Australia so kind of hitchhiking on your UK forum thanks to all! Anyway it sounds like some of you may be able to help with some suggestions...
I was diagnosed last October with LADA as the auto-antibodies showed up in my pancreas (already in my thyroid which is why they thought to check it) although I was diagnosed 12 years ago with type 2. I got to the stage where I was barely eating carbs because my BG was just so out of control and I was trying to keep it down. Then I was started on insulin mid October 2014. Now I have put on 8kg since then! I am on a mixed insulin which I take 12 units in morning and 6 at night. also still on Metformin with breakfast and dinner although less than I was before.
I found straight away that I would hypo if I didn't eat at least 3 hourly, and it needed to be substantial. I used to have breakfast, not think about food til lunch then be really hungry after work and in the evening. Now I feel forced to eat steadily all day.
My BG are so much better, now testing as "good control" where before I was "poorly controlled". But is the weight gain worth it. It is still steadily going up on the scales and getting me so down!
I thought the insulin would solve my problems but I don't want to pack on weight, it's sitting especially around my stomach which I never had before. I am now over 25 BMI so technically overweight where I was in normal range before.
So frustrating.
I love your forum I can't find anything quite like it in Australia so kind of hitchhiking on your UK forum thanks to all! Anyway it sounds like some of you may be able to help with some suggestions...
I was diagnosed last October with LADA as the auto-antibodies showed up in my pancreas (already in my thyroid which is why they thought to check it) although I was diagnosed 12 years ago with type 2. I got to the stage where I was barely eating carbs because my BG was just so out of control and I was trying to keep it down. Then I was started on insulin mid October 2014. Now I have put on 8kg since then! I am on a mixed insulin which I take 12 units in morning and 6 at night. also still on Metformin with breakfast and dinner although less than I was before.
I found straight away that I would hypo if I didn't eat at least 3 hourly, and it needed to be substantial. I used to have breakfast, not think about food til lunch then be really hungry after work and in the evening. Now I feel forced to eat steadily all day.
My BG are so much better, now testing as "good control" where before I was "poorly controlled". But is the weight gain worth it. It is still steadily going up on the scales and getting me so down!
I thought the insulin would solve my problems but I don't want to pack on weight, it's sitting especially around my stomach which I never had before. I am now over 25 BMI so technically overweight where I was in normal range before.
So frustrating.