Uncontrolled..........

[Cosy]

I have been unwell for a good few weeks now. I saw my GP who did some blood tests. I have pain in my feet,hands, legs and arms which comes and goes over the day. I had heartburn,indegestion etc but this has gone now. I have lost my appetiite, I can eat a sandwich or something like that but if I sit down to a meal, half way through I feel full and bloated and seedy. I find that round about 2pm in the day I just have to go for a sleep or I will not be worth a button. My GP said that blood results came back okay but that my one for sugar levels had come back high so he therefore assumed that my feelings are due to uncontrolled diabeties. He says diabeties affects every part of your body and I will find if I control my diabeties I will find that everything else will improve etc. Does everyone think this could be true, I have been getting a bit anxious that something more sinister was going on ! I know people on here are not medical profesionals but if I thought improving my sugar levels would help everything I would make more of an effort to improve them. The only thing being that because I feel so rotten getting myself into a sensible eating pattern etc is difficult at the moment. I have just retired and want to enjoy my retirement and find I am getting a bit depressed and think that I have retired and not going to be fit enough to enjoy it. Thank you to anyone who can let me know their feelings on this.

 

[lucylocket61]

I am a type 2 diabetic.

I cannot emphasise enough what a HUGE difference controlling my blood glucose levels have made to my quality of life. I have energy, no longer need a nap in the afternoons, wake up after 8 hours of sleep refreshed instead of half-dead. And it only took 2-3 weeks of reducing my carbohydrate intake and reducing my blood glucose levels for my strength to return.

And I am only 50 years old.

Welcome and all the best. Stick around and wiser ones will come along with lots of ideas and share their experience of how to lower you blood glucose levels and what they have tried.

 

[Nikkig]

Agree with all the last post taking control makes you feel so much better physically and mentally and it's great when other people notice the changes too.
So hang in there, keep visiting the forum and ask as many questions as you like, I did and still have a way to go, but I love the way that I now control my body . Good luck!

 

[Cosy]

Thanks for answers. I will indeed get back on the straight and narrow and low carb and see if that does indeed help with my problems with my health. I have been feeling a bit better the last day or so which I am glad about as this will make me feel more able to plan my eating etc. Still not got much of an appetitie but hopefully this will improve. I just want some oooooooooomph, if only you could buy this in M & S !!! Thank you again I will keep coming onto this site and get some good advice.

 

[carty]

If your appetite is not so good it is better to eat little and often When I started on metformin I lost my appetite and because I am skinny and had already lost weight this was a bit of a disaster but I found that eating something about every 2 hours I could enjoy my food more and because I didnt have as much on my plate I wasnt overfaced. For example if I had soup at lunch time I would have a cup of the left over soup with some marmite in it instead of just a cup of tea mid afternoon .Mid morning I may have cheese on a low carb cracker Try to eat tasty things in small portions . Hope this helps
CAROL

 

[GraceK]

Thanks for answers. I will indeed get back on the straight and narrow and low carb and see if that does indeed help with my problems with my health. I have been feeling a bit better the last day or so which I am glad about as this will make me feel more able to plan my eating etc. Still not got much of an appetitie but hopefully this will improve. I just want some oooooooooomph, if only you could buy this in M & S !!! Thank you again I will keep coming onto this site and get some good advice.

Hi Cosy ... I'm a bit like yourself with the tiredness, appetite and digestion problems and I find it difficult to eat on a '3 meals a day at certain times' type of basis, nor can I eat what most people would call 'a meal'. But I started just cutting out the simple carbs and so instead of a 'dinner' with two or three items on the plate, I'd just eat a grilled lamb chop and leave it at that. Then when I felt hungry again I might have cheese with Hovis Crackers or a couple of dollops of that tuna and sweetcorn or egg mayo sandwich filler stuff that you can get on a couple of crackers and that would be my two meals. After a week or so of that I started making a little sauce with cream and mushrooms to have with the lamb chop or steak etc, and gradually I felt I could eat just a bit more. But the secret to that is cutting out the carbs in the first place.

Another thing I noticed is that sometimes I don't FEEL hungry but know I should eat so I'll just go to the kitchen anyway and I find within a couple of minutes my body starts telling me I'm actually hungry, not ravenous, but ready for a snack.

Don't worry about your appetite, it's doing it's best to tell you something and it will regulate itself - you may find yoursel eating at strange times for a while so just go with it and eventually a pattern will develop. I'm getting used to my body YELLING AT ME that it doesn't need HALF the amounts I've been used to eating when I ate carbs. I was constantly hungry then, but not now. So it's all about adjustment. Take the pressure off yourself and what you think you SHOULD be feeling where appetite is concerned and just let the appetite tell YOU what and when.

 

[MaryJ]

Totally agree with all thats been said

My hubby, who isnt a diabetic but has cut carbs along with me (not as much tho) found his chronic indegestion went,

I had aching fingers and joints all improved.

Mary x

 

[GraceK]

Totally agree with all thats been said

My hubby, who isnt a diabetic but has cut carbs along with me (not as much tho) found his chronic indegestion went,

I had aching fingers and joints all improved.

Mary x

Yup! Before diagnosis I've suffered with gastrointestinal problems, acid reflux, gastritis, hiatus hernia, IBS and have to take regular meds for them. Since diagnosis and going LCHF I've reduced my meds to absolute minimum, no gastric pain, no acid reflux, no IBS, no constipation, all back to virtual normal.

We wouldn't expect that from a high fat diet would we? We'd expect to feel sickly and yukky. First thing we're told to cut out when we have gastric probs is fat not carbs, yet I noticed that whenever I ate carbs the gastric pain would start and eating chocolate almost killed me with pain. But I can honestly say I've been pain free ever since I cut out carbs.

So glad I found this forum.

 

[Ann19]

I had very bad IBS before diagnosis, kept getting told to eat more fibre even though I said when I did eat more it was aggravating it, I was being really ill 2 or 3 times a week, so I felt as though I'd been kicked in the stomach and washed out. Since reducing carbs I haven't been ill once in 18 months. It's not all bad having diabetes!!

Ann

 

[GraceK]

I had very bad IBS before diagnosis, kept getting told to eat more fibre even though I said when I did eat more it was aggravating it, I was being really ill 2 or 3 times a week, so I felt as though I'd been kicked in the stomach and washed out. Since reducing carbs I haven't been ill once in 18 months. It's not all bad having diabetes!!

Ann

It certainly isn't Ann. In fact, as every day goes by I'm regarding it more and more as a blessing rather than a curse.

 

[Cosy]

Thanks for all the replies they have really been very helpful. I am so used to eating 'three square meals !' thing somethng like five snacks would be better at the moment. Hopefully once I drop the carbs will start to feel better. Your advice and how things have affected you have been great for my mental health !!! I was begining to get a bit depressed with the way I was feeling but if I know it could go if I change my eating habits I will certainly have a try