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mikeyuk

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Hi all. Type 1 here low carbing since November. Feel great apart from my teeth seem to hurt , but only the back ones Id chew food with. Was at dentists a few days ago for routine check up and he didnt say anything and I didnt mention it.

Anyone else notice the same thing? Could I be grinding them in my sleep from lack of food or just miss the chewing sensation from my normal food?

Thanks all for the help!
 
Hi Mikey,
Most likely you have a hairline crack in a tooth, which your dentist couldn't have spotted without an xray, or possibly a loose filling, or enamel wearing thin, which he/she should have spotted.

I don't understand your point about not chewing since you started low-carbing. The high-carb foods that you need to cut out are all the starchy ones that don't need much chewing - bread, pasta, rice, potatoes. If you have replaced these with a higher proportion of proteins, you should be chewing more, not less.
 
I've only started the low-carb diet recently - since 15th Feb. After the first week or so I noticed my teeth had become unusually sensitive. It was mainly my front teeth reacting to cold drinks, however, that seems to have passed.

The unlucky thing is that I've started to get other undesirable things happening. The last several days I've felt dehydrated, my muscles weak and my head feeling even more 'cloudy' and lethargic than before I went low-carb. Even worse today, not only have all these things got worse but I've had a persistent stomach ache since this afternoon.

Even my blood sugars have started to climb. They were mainly dropping between 4 and 6.5 (in the first 2 weeks of the new diet) but these last two days they keep staying above 8.

Is this usual within the first 3 weeks?

It's weird that the first 2 weeks were great but now I'm having quite a tough time.
 
Hi Alaska,

If your blood sugar is going up then either you have picked up a virus or you are consuming a lot more carbs than you think you are. What does your low carb diet contain typically?
 
Thanks Dennis, I've been waiting for a cold or something to come on. Sure enough at about just gone midnight a solitary sneeze came. I was worried before then that my insulin might not be working properly. The knock on effect could be that maybe the low carb was causing me to feel like a zombie(?). It's looking like that's not the case now though. Getting dehydrated as a result of a virus is new to me. However, if that subsides soon enough, I won't overly worry myself.

My evening meal was no more than about 25g carbs. A good sized bowl of butternut squash soup. I usually inject 3 units for this amount of carbs but this time I injected 5 units and the sugars still climbed from 8-something to 10-something. I was quite pleased when I sneezed because it at least provided a reason for what was going on.

If it's confirmed one thing, I'm clearly having enough carbs in my day as otherwise the sugar levels wouldn't be able to rise as they have. I have been wondering whether the things said about the brain needing carbohydrates - therefore justifying a higher carb diet - might be true, but clearly the 60 carbs a day (that I'm having) is more than enough for my body to store sugar in the liver.

Thanks for taking the trouble Dennis. I didn't want to have to break my diet before my next clinic appointment (in another 3 months time). I'd like to think there's always room for one more success story and it'd be nice to be one of the ranks to show the doubters that the diet really works.
 
Hi Alaska,

One thing about diabetes that you could say is an advantage is that we often seem to get advance warning of an infection or virus that we don't even know we've got. Its only when the BS goes up for what appears to be no good reason . . . then a couple of days later whatever it was that was lurking suddenly strikes!
 
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