Beebeelady
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Thank you for taking the time to reply and for offering to tag in others to help. I do appreciate it.Hi @Beebeelady ,
Welcome to the forum.
Prolonged high blood sugars is a primary symptom of diabetes. (Of any type.)
So dropping to "3.1" in any case would be worthy of a couple of jelly babies & a test 20 minutes later to bring the level back in safe range. Sounds like you have a meter which is great news.
I'm insulin dependant, so the chances of hypoglycemia is always a risk on my meds.
I'll tag in @daisy1 & @AM1874 for some info.
I'll also tag in @Brunneria @Lamont D along with @Bluetit1802 who might help regarding your specific question..
Good luck!
Thank you for taking the time to reply and for offering to tag in others to help. I do appreciate it.
That's good adviceHi Beebeelady, try to assimilate what you read and are told gradually. Give yourself time to think. Your symptoms sound similar to some of us who have Reactive Hypogyceamia but I'm no medic. You could try looking at the RH section of this site. best wishes Derek
Thank you again for the reply and the tagsNo problem. Give the gang a little time & they will be along.
I'm no doctor. But for what it's worth, sounds like you're doing pretty well from what I see.?!
Tagging in the attention of @JohnEGreen also..
thank you that is good advice.Hi Beebeelady, try to assimilate what you read and are told gradually. Give yourself time to think. Your symptoms sound similar to some of us who have Reactive Hypogyceamia but I'm no medic. You could try looking at the RH section of this site. best wishes Derek
Thank you blue tit.Hi @Beebeelady and welcome,
Your 3.1 was very low and that is why you felt rotten. The advice to eat a Marsbar was to bring your blood sugars up to a safer level. As @Jaylee said, a few Jelly Babies or similar might have done the trick and then test again a little bit later to see if you are rising to a safer level. Under 4 is considered a hypo.
There are lots of different types of blood sugar conditions, not just diabetes Type 2 or Type 1. You could well have one of the other types. I would agree you should have a look at the Reactive Hypoglycemia forum and see if anything rings any bells. Then hang on for some of the tagged experts in this field to add their advice.
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/reactive-hypoglycemia.70/
Thank you for the encouragement and adviceHi @Beebeelady .. and welcome
You have certainly made a good move coming here .. whether or not you have been diagnosed. It sounds as though you may be borderline. Your low readings will probably have been brought about by your low-carb and since you are not on any meds, the sugar-boost that has been recommended should sort this out. For your info, I was diagnosed T2 in early Feb and, like yourself and many others, I was somewhat shocked with no information and no real idea of what was happening to me. Since joining this forum, though, the folks here have given me so much info, advice and support that I am now much more confident about the journey ahead. So ask your questions and be assured that you will receive the answers that you need. It's still early for me but, in my experience, it gets easier .. very quickly.
You seem to have already taken on board the strategy that managing and controlling your diabetes through exercise, diet and testing your Blood Glucose seems to be the best way forward for many people. For me, committing to an LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) lifestyle and testing 3-5 times a day seems to be working and you'll find that there is a wealth of info, relevant advice and positive support about LCHF on the forum ..
I see that @Jaylee has already tagged @ daisy1 for you and I suggest that you read up on the Low Carb Program in the information that she will soon be sending you. You might also find the discussion on the Low Carb Diet forum helpful .. and the following Diet Doctor websites ...
Low Carb Intro and Information
Low Carbs in 60 Seconds
It sounds as though you already have a meter and that you are testing your BG levels .. but, if not, it is a top priority that you get your own test meter and, for this, the following websites might help:
https://homehealth-uk.com/product-category/blood-glucose/
for the SD Codefree meter, which costs £12.98 (you don't pay VAT) or:
http://spirit-healthcare.co.uk/product/tee2-blood-glucose-meter/
who distribute the TEE 2 meter, which is free.
I have both for comparative purposes and I have never found any significant difference between them. Unless you are prescribed test strips by your doctor (unlikely), the costs of testing comes down to the ongoing charges for test strips and lancets. I'm testing 3-5 times a day which works out at around £10 to £12 per month for either of the two packages above but, more importantly, I now know what my BG levels are .. and I can now manage them
Hope this helps
ok, thank you, that's good advice. I really would prefer to avoid sugar as it triggers my desire for more! Grapes I will try!I used to get similar feelings at similar times in my teens and twenties, and suspect I had some sort of RH back then, just never diagnosed. I did Atkins and all was well for a long time.
Recently the same symptoms reappeared, as I was regressing down to normal readings of Hba1c.
I find that I need to eat mid morning rather than later in the day, and have about 5gm of carb, not much more but not much less, and that sorts it. If you can sort out the trigger for the over reaction you get then it should hopefully settle down quickly as long as you can keep to the routine.
I found that a few grapes sorted out the slumps better than anything with sucrose or glucose. I come round a lot faster, and with a lot less sugar. Why fructose should do the trick I do not know.
Do try out various strategies and remedies to see if you can find one to suit you.
Sadly @Beebeelady .. that's exactly the sort of nonsense that many folks on here have experienced from their HCPs .. you might be interested in two of my earlier posts ..WELL- I saw a GP this morning. I came out of the surgery feeling very small, but am now a bit angry. In summary she told me that I should NOT be testing my BS, but should rely on an anuual HBa1c. When I asked for dietry advice she told me to carry on doing what I have been doing, without even asking me what that was. When I asked her how would I otherwise know whether what I was doing was working she just reitterated the HBa1c mantra. She told me BS of 7.7 was normal until I pressed the point that it was a fasting BS, but still she dismissed it as nothing important. She completely dismissed the 3.1 reading as irrelevant despite the fact I felt unwell with it. She considered the feeling unwell to be coincidental. She repeated that "you are NOT diabetic" 3 times, and I said "I hope I'm not and that is why I am here, to do whatever I can to NOT become diabetic".
It is depressing how she talked to me, how it made me feel and her complete disregard of my efforts to prevent myself becoming diabetic, i.e. if i am not already diabetic. Is this a common response? I am having blood tests next Tuesday after which I will decide whether to change Drs. (not so easy in a rural area). Any comments would be welcomed. Thank you for reading my rant!
Thank you bluetit. I do keep a food diary of sorts but I will make it accurate from now on! I will also try the testing half hourly as i have not done it that often before (only after 1 hour then 2 hours) and see if I can notice any patterns. Good idea!Your doctor is poor. If nothing else she should have discussed the low you had.
You need to keep a food diary including everything that passes your lips. Test before you eat and again at half hourly intervals after the meal for at least 3 hours. Record these levels alongside the food. You may notice some patterns, and especially look at the food if you go so low again. This may seem a lot of testing, but you can do it just after a main meal or one with carbs in it. If you are short of strips I suggest you abandon the morning fasting reading as that is the least important at the moment and can be affected by so many variables outside your control. You can then take these to your next appointment as evidence.
Right! Not just me then! I will read the 2 posts. Thank you.Sadly @Beebeelady .. that's exactly the sort of nonsense that many folks on here have experienced from their HCPs .. you might be interested in two of my earlier posts ..
# Taking the Driving Seat
# Taking the Driving Seat and now going Full Throttle
Hope this helps
WELL- I saw a GP this morning. I came out of the surgery feeling very small, but am now a bit angry. In summary she told me that I should NOT be testing my BS, but should rely on an anuual HBa1c. When I asked for dietry advice she told me to carry on doing what I have been doing, without even asking me what that was. When I asked her how would I otherwise know whether what I was doing was working she just reitterated the HBa1c mantra. She told me BS of 7.7 was normal until I pressed the point that it was a fasting BS, but still she dismissed it as nothing important. She completely dismissed the 3.1 reading as irrelevant despite the fact I felt unwell with it. She considered the feeling unwell to be coincidental. She repeated that "you are NOT diabetic" 3 times, and I said "I hope I'm not and that is why I am here, to do whatever I can to NOT become diabetic".
It is depressing how she talked to me, how it made me feel and her complete disregard of my efforts to prevent myself becoming diabetic, i.e. if i am not already diabetic. Is this a common response? I am having blood tests next Tuesday after which I will decide whether to change Drs. (not so easy in a rural area). Any comments would be welcomed. Thank you for reading my rant!
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