Still Worried & Symptoms

[ickihun]

What else to do, I guess. I keep eating this diet, that I personally really like these days. However, my BGs should not be going to 6.x if I am eating few carbs. They not only go there but stay for an hour at least.

So if your Dr is telling you it's insulin resistance do you know what that is?
Can your Dr prescribe metformin for you to help with IR?
Can you exercise?

 

[Triceraptors]

So if your Dr is telling you it's insulin resistance do you know what that is?
Can your Dr prescribe metformin for you to help with IR?
Can you exercise?

I did come to my GP and told him I started meditation and walking to try to relax. He strongly suggested me therapy and I shall do that. Interestingly, I went for a walk right now and my BG dropped to 5.2 from 6.7 in 15 mins. I need to do more walking after meals, maybe it helps.

 

[Freema]

I posted before about my stumbling into low carb and starvation diet and failing OGTT. For the past week, I was eating more, my food consists of chicken, vegetables such as cabbage, radish, brocolli, I cooked salmon yesterday with lots of mushrooms and also use some coconut milk.

Diet is still lowish carb, but I am eating more. However, it is the same story: I eat my meal and will go to 6.5-7.0 after 1.5 hour or so, as for example, now, 6.1. The meal was: chicken (around 40g of protein), 1 tablespoon of coconut milk, brocolli, radish, mushrooms, etc.

Around 45 mins after meal, I start feeling drowsy and get slight headache, and a bit anxious. Measure my BG and it is above 6, this usually where I feel very off. Then it lasts for 2-3 hours after meal to come down 5.x something.

I have gone to an endo who specialises in type 1 DB and he seems to have ruled it out. He sends me to dietician in 2 days to figure out a meal plan. I am honestly afraid of eating carbs because if protein sends me that high, what will happen with carbs? He thinks I do not have diabetes but some insulin resistance and yet my blood glucose makes me tired after meals for 1.5 months already. It is possible this is physiological insulin resistance but then, I am not eating much carbs and people on keto diets do not have spikes to 6.x or even 7. And don't feel horrible.

With a suggestion of another doctor, she said to tread carefully and not eat **** carbs ever again such as grains, pancakes or crisps. Even fruit. It is not quite clear what it is I have. I trust my endo and told him about going to 7.0 after low carb meals but he thinks all is fine.

What are the other avenues to explore this for certain? I am troubled that low carb meals send me that high and make me feel ******.

There is nothing wrong with a blood glucose of 6 mmol after a meal , This is in a perfectly Healthy and normal level

 

[Freema]

I did come to my GP and told him I started meditation and walking to try to relax. He strongly suggested me therapy and I shall do that. Interestingly, I went for a walk right now and my BG dropped to 5.2 from 6.7 in 15 mins. I need to do more walking after meals, maybe it helps.

Try to relax a bit What you are eating is perfect , just keep on like that And get your focus back on all the other great aspects of life

 

[Freema]

I did come to my GP and told him I started meditation and walking to try to relax. He strongly suggested me therapy and I shall do that. Interestingly, I went for a walk right now and my BG dropped to 5.2 from 6.7 in 15 mins. I need to do more walking after meals, maybe it helps.

You could also start building more muscle mass that also help lowering insuline resistance

 

[L1ncslass]

What else to do, I guess. I keep eating this diet, that I personally really like these days. However, my BGs should not be going to 6.x if I am eating few carbs. They not only go there but stay for an hour at least.

When you eat LC you need to eat High Fat, you need to add in double cream, mayo [make your own] nuts, cheese, butter, coconut OIL, look up bullet proof coffee, fat bombs, oily fish. When you have the Salmon make hollandaise sauce, Béarnaise sauce with your steak.

You burn the fat instead of glucose [obtained from the carbs] BUT a reading of 6 after eating is fine.

I made a simple chicken soup, divided it into equal portions, ate one as is and noted my BG rise, next time I ate the other half and added in a large dollop of cream my BG fell.

 

[Emile_the_rat]

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What else to do, I guess. I keep eating this diet, that I personally really like these days. However, my BGs should not be going to 6.x if I am eating few carbs. They not only go there but stay for an hour at least.

Wrong, even on low carb 6.x mmol are perfectly fine for non diabetics. Your body breaks down fat to glucose when you’re low on carbs, because your cells need glucose to live.

If you think 6-7 mmol are high, you should ask people who get 15-20 mmol frequently, thats high. Not wanting to be rude, but I think it is a little bit offensive towards the people that really stuggle with their blood sugar when people freak out or get scared by normal and non diabetic readings in the 4-8 mmol range.

If you had several occations of reading above 11.2 mmol I would have more understand your concern. But your reading are even way below pre-diabetic ranges, which are 7.9 mmol or more after 2 hours. Your numbers clearly show your not even in the danger of getting diabetes in the first place. If you feel nauseous or bad after eating it’s something else, not your blood sugar. If the blood sugar were to blame for your discomfort it would have been way way higher.

I think you should try to find out if there is something else that causes your problems, maybe you’re getting something that your body are intolerant to, take care