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Chappuchino

Chappuchino

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Location
Milton Keynes, UK
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I’m newly diagnosed (just under two weeks) and very motivated to gain control. I’ve started taking Metformin as part of this and so far kept it to the minimum (1x500mg twice a day with meals). For a year or so, I’ve been having knee discomfort, lower back twinges and, a shoulder impingement and what I think was radial nerve impingement s in both forearms. I though it was all down to me overdoing the weight training last year, but literally overnight all this pain has disappeared. I feel like if got new knees today! I’m up and down the stairs today like a Labrador puppy! . So I’m deducing my diabetes may have caused these symptoms (all inflammation derived) and that the Metformin is helping. Anybody else experienced similar?
 
Chappuchino said:
I’m newly diagnosed (just under two weeks) and very motivated to gain control. I’ve started taking Metformin as part of this and so far kept it to the minimum (1x500mg twice a day with meals). For a year or so, I’ve been having knee discomfort, lower back twinges and, a shoulder impingement and what I think was radial nerve impingement s in both forearms. I though it was all down to me overdoing the weight training last year, but literally overnight all this pain has disappeared. I feel like if got new knees today! I’m up and down the stairs today like a Labrador puppy! . So I’m deducing my diabetes may have caused these symptoms (all inflammation derived) and that the Metformin is helping. Anybody else experienced similar?
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Whether it is or not that sounds amazing!
 
Chappuchino said:
I’m newly diagnosed (just under two weeks) and very motivated to gain control. I’ve started taking Metformin as part of this and so far kept it to the minimum (1x500mg twice a day with meals). For a year or so, I’ve been having knee discomfort, lower back twinges and, a shoulder impingement and what I think was radial nerve impingement s in both forearms. I though it was all down to me overdoing the weight training last year, but literally overnight all this pain has disappeared. I feel like if got new knees today! I’m up and down the stairs today like a Labrador puppy! . So I’m deducing my diabetes may have caused these symptoms (all inflammation derived) and that the Metformin is helping. Anybody else experienced similar?
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The more research is done, the more inflammation is presenting itself to be one of the many causes of T2. And in the viscous circle of inflammation, insulin resistance, too much circulating insulin, too many spikes, hyperglycaemia and of course T2. Because the advice of eating the eat well plate, which for a diabetic is far too many carbs, the carbs will cause inflammation and more hyperglycaemia.

My moment of enlightenment came in hospital, after fasting for three days, it was simply my conscious woke up, a moment of clarity, it had been in a fugue for a few years, I became clear minded and my symptoms eased.


Stay safe
 
Chappuchino said:
I’m newly diagnosed (just under two weeks) and very motivated to gain control. I’ve started taking Metformin as part of this and so far kept it to the minimum (1x500mg twice a day with meals). For a year or so, I’ve been having knee discomfort, lower back twinges and, a shoulder impingement and what I think was radial nerve impingement s in both forearms. I though it was all down to me overdoing the weight training last year, but literally overnight all this pain has disappeared. I feel like if got new knees today! I’m up and down the stairs today like a Labrador puppy! . So I’m deducing my diabetes may have caused these symptoms (all inflammation derived) and that the Metformin is helping. Anybody else experienced similar?
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Have you changed what you eat at all?

Inflammation can be caused by dietary intolerances too.
 
bulkbiker said:
Have you changed what you eat at all?

Inflammation can be caused by dietary intolerances too.
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Yes. I’ve dumped all pure sugars (though I didn’t eat much) and decimated my carbs (prob reduced by 80%), upped my veggies and proteins and more or less adopting an 8/16 intermittent fasting regime.
 
Well @Chappuchino

Anecdotal, but I seemed to suffer endless joint pains through 50's

If it wasn't an ankle it was a knee or a shoulder/elbow.
Tendonitis of the wrist was a regular visitor

I became very knowledgeable in all sorts of braces grips for joints.

I just figured it was the pay off for earlier sports/ activities damage or just plain getting older.*

The DX for T2D very late 50's put a lot of other health issues on the back burner.

It took a while for me to realise I wasn't having the seemingly one joint a month issues.

Been clear of such since Oct 2018, when I first went LCHF.

Was that the cure. ?

Who knows, but it has made me listen harder to the ' we are what we eat' philosophy.

I'm still not a saint, but it's a heck of a lot more 'Real Foods' .. food that looks like good without the addition of more then a few ingredients

I see the back of some items and it's more chemicals then food.

I recently broke both legs ( dumb accident,)

Relocated to nephew's to convalesce, which meant eating what they ate for a month or so, and grateful for it , but it was much more carby then I'd normally eat.

Didn't notice at time, (leg pain filled everything else ) but I do seem to have more joint aches of late,
I am in the process of trying to regain a decent fbg after returning to LCHF, so it does seem to be food plays a big part, imho ,

So congrats for the reduced pain
The diet gets my vote.

So keep on doing what your doing, I say :)

* Looking back over blood tests.
It does look like I may have been if not diabetic certainly well on the way with very unhealthy blood results from 2011.
Would explain a lot
 
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jjraak said:
Well @Chappuchino

Anecdotal, but I seemed to suffer endless joint pains through 50's

If it wasn't an ankle it was a knee or a shoulder/elbow.
Tendonitis of the wrist was a regular visitor

I became very knowledgeable in all sorts of braces grips for joints.

I just figured it was the pay off for earlier sports/ activities damage or just plain getting older.*

The DX for T2D very late 50's put a lot of other health issues on the back burner.

It took a while for me to realise I wasn't having the seemingly one joint a month issues.

Been clear of such since Oct 2018, when I first went LCHF.

Was that the cure. ?

Who knows, but it has made me listen harder to the ' we are what we eat' philosophy.

I'm still not a saint, but it's a heck of a lot more 'Real Foods' .. food that looks like good without the addition of more then a few ingredients

I see the back of some items and it's more chemicals then food.

I recently broke both legs ( dumb accident,)

Relocated to nephew's to convalesce, which meant eating what they ate for a month or so, and grateful for it , but it was much more carby then I'd normally eat.

Didn't notice at time, (leg pain filled everything else ) but I do seem to have more joint aches of late,
I am in the process of trying to regain a decent fbg after returning to LCHF, so it does seem to be food plays a big part, imho ,

So congrats for the reduced pain
The diet gets my vote.

So keep on doing what your doing, I say :)

* Looking back over blood tests.
It does look like I may have been if not diabetic certainly well on the way with very unhealthy blood results from 2011.
Would explain a lot
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Thanks! Really great response. Looks like you had a similar experience.
 
I used get endless cramps down my legs & across my chest before lowering my carbs.
Had to get an ECG done to make sure it wasn't the ticker & just chest muscles.
Completely dissapeared once I achieved remission.
Was also a chromic migraine sufferer, now haven't had one in over a year.

****** carbs [shakes angry fist]

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I used to suffer badly from asthma- LHF gone- completely. Took me a while to realise but the fires last year in Australia made me realise I hadn't had an attack for ages.

Well done on your results.
 
I’ve noticed one other change too - I’ve had persistent mild tinnitus for YEARS! And it has marginally improved during the last week! May be unrelated, but could it be that hovering around that 6.5% HbA1c level for years has been causing so many other problems?
 
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