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To eat or not to eat...but what exactly?

Ellit

Ellit

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Suffolk
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Insulin
I'm diabetic with recently diagnosed Gastroparesis and Diverticular disease. I finally have an appointment with a dietician but not for another 6 weeks and am struggling to find any food which is suitable for all 3 conditions.My blood sugar is raised at my last check and going up, I struggle to eat more than 2 small meals a day and the diverticular disease never seems to settle completely.Does anyone have any suggestions for me to get me through the next 6 weeks please?
Many thanks in advance for even trying to think of something. :crazy:
 
I presume you have already tried Ispaghula Husk (Fybogel) in water after each meal; if not it might be worth a short trial.
 
Hello Ellit.
With the diverticular disease - I have this - there 'can' be certain foods that will cause a 'flare up'
For me they are quite a range onions, ANY type of bread/pasta, spices, oil based dressings, meats
Wheat and gluten is a definete trigger too...
So I edit these out and will eat only what is tolleratable :thumbup:

For the pain spasms I use combination of co-codamol/mebeverine/colofac.
[this suits me well and within half hour it kicks in]

When eating foods litttle snack size portions are better to digest for myself.
If I cant manage a snack size portion then I will just eat less . . .
Veg,cucumber,tomatoes,lettuce in small quantities and fresh [organic] more tastier and better to digest too.
Can tollerate eggs well - so use many variable ways with these.
Scrambled,poached,omlette,even bake these etc...
Make all my own soups, casseroles too .
This is safer and easiest given the disease!

Unfortunately the BG levels "do" get pushed/raised up when either having a flare up or infection of this disease.
So have to use the diabetes sick day rules at these times.

It really is a lot of trial in finding out the trigger foods for yourself.
Once you can 'identify' these - the rest gets a whole lot easier.
Then you can buy in just your safe foods and discover great recipes to implement your safe foods in them . :thumbup:
I made myself a recipe folder with all suitable and easy recipes to make with my safe foods.
It does take a while to identify the trigger foods and find the safe foods [think it has taken me 2 years]
to get to where I am now .
I am controlling 'it' now rather than it controlling me ...
It isnt easy to find a quicker route to control it - but given time it is worth the extra effort for the 'comfort' factor :D

Hope this can help you ?
Any other questions please do just ask or PM me.
Anna.
 
Many thanks for suggestions which I will save and try. I'll start a food diary I think, any ideas which food I should start with ?

My main problem is that I need fibre for the diverticular disease but need to avoid it for the gastroparesis.As my food hits my stomach first then I can't find a way to get fibre through my stomach without it affecting the gastroparesis.
I made a big mistake of trying bran tablets forgetting they would swell in my stomach first.Fybogel/laxido etc I now only take when absolutely necessary and tend to take maximum doses at once so I get it over with, with one drink as the effects are so uncomfortable.
I agree that the painkillers and Colofac do help keep on top of the pain from the diverticulitis though.
The worst thing is that I have found I could quite easily exist on one chocolate every hour as it doesn't upset my stomach but doesn't do me any good otherwise!
Add in that I have an underactive thyroid as well that also slows down my digestive system then I think I'm ready for tube feeding to avoid my stomach altogether!!!LOL!!! Perhaps I could just have flavoured sprays to use in my mouth at the same time just to make my mouth think it's got food in it!

:thumbup:
 
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