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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2401025" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Oh boy. </p><p></p><p>Statins can raise glucose levels and actually can trigger diabetes early. Unless you've had a cardiac event or have familial high cholesterol, you might want to rethink it. <em>Tea is perfection</em>. And speaking for myself, diet soda's often contain sweeteners that are toxic to gut bacteria. It completely killed off mine and you do <em>not </em>want to know how painful and bloody things got. Years later i am still healing.. That, and for some sweeteners raise blood sugars. (If you're one of those, you produce more insulin because you taste something sweet. Then nothing actually ups you blood sugars, so to prevent you from going too low, your liver dumps glucose. Which you can't process very well, so hello, high. Doesn't happen for everyone, but... Quite a few artificial sweeteners are bad news.) How are you with the metformin? Any side effects? Main ones are gastro-intestinal issues, and it doesn't exactly do much about things you eat, just tells your liver not to dump a whole lot of glucose in the morning. Considering your change in diet so far, I doubt you'll need it in the long run. If there's no lasting side effects it's a perfectly safe drug to take with a bunch of benefits... But if you need to do without, you can, considering the steps you're taking. Just discuss it with your doc first, since we can't give out that sort of advice, exactly.... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>Just so you know... My doc doesn't know a thing about T2. Like most GP's. (Mine admitted as much though, which is a rare occurrence.). She was on board with me just experimenting with a diet though, and she'd monitor my bloodglucose as I went. The dieticians I had were not on the same page I was and kept trying to push high carbs, low fats on me, while my meter was telling me that was no good. To date I am the only one in my GP's practice to have put her numbers back squarely in the non diabetic range without medication or insulin. That's with low carb, high fat, in a bunch of variations. (I started medium low carb/high fat, then gradually went to keto, and am carnivore these days. But I would've been fine just sticking with LC/HF or keto, diabetes-wise. My other issues just demanded more sacrifices from me, alas.). All in all... It is a really steep learning curve (hence the link to the Nutritional Thingy, it's a bit of a crash course. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ), but you'll get to a point where all this is old hat and blood sugar control is an afterthought. I have a bucket load of issues and the easiest one to manage, by far, is diabetes. I never thought I'd say that, as when diagnosed I was sure I was going to die, but.... Nope. If I can get the hang of this, so can you. Just read a lot, get yourself a meter, and check with it what rings true for you. If you see advice online, get advice from your doc, etc etc... And you want to try it out, because there's a LOT of contradictory material out there.... Finger pricks'll tell you what works for you. Don't trust strangers or dubious "doctors" on the internet, or medical professionals who are hopelessly outdated. Trust your meter. It won't steer you wrong.</p><p>Hugs,</p><p>Jo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2401025, member: 401801"] Oh boy. Statins can raise glucose levels and actually can trigger diabetes early. Unless you've had a cardiac event or have familial high cholesterol, you might want to rethink it. [I]Tea is perfection[/I]. And speaking for myself, diet soda's often contain sweeteners that are toxic to gut bacteria. It completely killed off mine and you do [I]not [/I]want to know how painful and bloody things got. Years later i am still healing.. That, and for some sweeteners raise blood sugars. (If you're one of those, you produce more insulin because you taste something sweet. Then nothing actually ups you blood sugars, so to prevent you from going too low, your liver dumps glucose. Which you can't process very well, so hello, high. Doesn't happen for everyone, but... Quite a few artificial sweeteners are bad news.) How are you with the metformin? Any side effects? Main ones are gastro-intestinal issues, and it doesn't exactly do much about things you eat, just tells your liver not to dump a whole lot of glucose in the morning. Considering your change in diet so far, I doubt you'll need it in the long run. If there's no lasting side effects it's a perfectly safe drug to take with a bunch of benefits... But if you need to do without, you can, considering the steps you're taking. Just discuss it with your doc first, since we can't give out that sort of advice, exactly.... ;) Just so you know... My doc doesn't know a thing about T2. Like most GP's. (Mine admitted as much though, which is a rare occurrence.). She was on board with me just experimenting with a diet though, and she'd monitor my bloodglucose as I went. The dieticians I had were not on the same page I was and kept trying to push high carbs, low fats on me, while my meter was telling me that was no good. To date I am the only one in my GP's practice to have put her numbers back squarely in the non diabetic range without medication or insulin. That's with low carb, high fat, in a bunch of variations. (I started medium low carb/high fat, then gradually went to keto, and am carnivore these days. But I would've been fine just sticking with LC/HF or keto, diabetes-wise. My other issues just demanded more sacrifices from me, alas.). All in all... It is a really steep learning curve (hence the link to the Nutritional Thingy, it's a bit of a crash course. ;) ), but you'll get to a point where all this is old hat and blood sugar control is an afterthought. I have a bucket load of issues and the easiest one to manage, by far, is diabetes. I never thought I'd say that, as when diagnosed I was sure I was going to die, but.... Nope. If I can get the hang of this, so can you. Just read a lot, get yourself a meter, and check with it what rings true for you. If you see advice online, get advice from your doc, etc etc... And you want to try it out, because there's a LOT of contradictory material out there.... Finger pricks'll tell you what works for you. Don't trust strangers or dubious "doctors" on the internet, or medical professionals who are hopelessly outdated. Trust your meter. It won't steer you wrong. Hugs, Jo [/QUOTE]
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