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dawnmc

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Location
Sheffield
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Non-insulin injectable medication (incretin mimetics)
Right, been fairly religious about low carbing. Today I had scrambled egg and a trout fillet. BG after this was not too bad at 7.6.
2 hours after tonights tea of salmon cake - 1.9 carbs, cauli and broccoli, green beans and turnip my BS was 9.6. I give up, its never under 7.
Any ideas what else I can do?
 
Really, you're joking me, for gods sake really. Can it be that, don't know if you are joking. Actually it was swede not turnip so lower in carbs.
But actually my BS is never below 7 no matter what I eat. Can that harm me for the future?
 
Perhaps the salmon cake had quite a lot of potato amongst the ingredients?.
 
I don't know dawn - maybe that's the best that your banged up pancreas can do. If low-carbing won't do it, then perhaps you need to get some more medication if you want to get it lower. The trouble that you'll have with that is that most GPs will see 7s and the occaisional 9 as really good control, and probably won't prescribe you much.

When did you get the 9mmol/l? Are we talking about 2 hours after you ate, or are you measuring your BG sooner than that. If so, you shouldn't.
 
anyone know a diebetic dietician in London?

Hi all - fully web lierate, but simply cannot see how to start a new thread on these forums! So sorry for having to post here in someone elses thread...

Was trying to find if anyone knew of a good diebetic dietician in London, ideally East London? I'm recently diagnosed and getting nowhere with the NHS! Doctor refuses to refer me and just points me here! And finally when I found the local NHS diebetic dietician, it's a 4 month wait for an appointment!!

Any help greatfully appreciated! )

Cheers
Graham
 
Re: anyone know a diebetic dietician in London?


Hi Graham if you go to the board index (red bar above) click on Introduction - you can start a new thread by clicking on new topic (top left) its far better if you re-post there, you'll get Daisy's intro and more than likely someone will see and answer your questions from there

Gilly

p.s sorry I can't help in relation to a dietician - I'm south coast not London
 
Hi fergie, yes it was 2 hours after, think you are right tho' about the docs. I don't really want to go on meds, so will have to put up with the 7's 8's and 9's and the occasional 11's too it would seem.
Fedup tho as I'm about 1 and a 1/2 stone overweight and any weight I lost initially has gone back on even tho I'm doing nothing differently.
 
Swede could be the problem - general rule is nothing that grows under the ground, like carrots, swede, parsnips, spuds.

If possible you might up your exercise a bit - this can help to reduce BG.

Cheers

LGC
 
My attention went straight to the salmon cake.

I did some private research when something similar was happening to me. I my case I got high readings when I ate bought kievs which didn't seem right. After all, what's wrong with chicken.

I made my own with chicken breast (ok). I smothered them in garlic butter (ok). I proved beyond a shadow of doubt that it was the chicken in the kiev causing the trouble. Ergo the chicken part was not, in fact chicken.

Further research resulted in me discovering that it is mechanically recovered (possibly chicken) mixed with flour and made into a cake. Now it became clear how they were always the same shape and how they got the garlic butter inside without leaving a scar.

Other mysteriously shaped chicken products also came to my attention. For example, goujon (x2) can send my numbers into the atmosphere. These days I try to eat only genuine animal parts when I buy meat.
 
No potato in the salmon, just chopped salmon a few herbs etc. Ah well, resigned to the scrap heap of nowt working.
 
Well you can always just have half a salmon cake next time. If the figures stay the same it wasn't the salmon cake. However something pushed the numbers up.
 

You do not say what your level was prior to tea. How did you spend the afternoon? Did you exercise for a part of it, have a
stressful time at work or at home ? Did you do a shopping trip? These can be stressful if there are queues, can't find what you want etc.. Driving can also be stressful with some drivers around us not recognising that they are not the only car on the road.
 
Thanks for all your suggestions. BS was 7.4 before eating, in fact the only time I have got it under 7 is when I starve lol can't really do that.
But thanks anyway, just resigned to never being in the under 6 club again.
 
Dawn, please don't take this as a criticism, but given that this is a public forum that many diabetics turn to for advice, could you please explain why you won't take medication even if this is at the price of having unhealthily high blood sugars?
 
Hi desidia, well the doc said I don't need them. they don't prescribe for 7mmol. The reason for me not wanting meds is because the first thing and only thing they wanted to prescribe was statins, and I absolutely refused that. I'm on a low to no income and I would have to pay for it (statins that is) and from my research and personal experience I wasn't prepared to go down that route.
H1b1 thing when I get tested is about 7 ish, and as I'm not supposed to test they take no notice when I take in my meter and show them the results. It's only 8 mths since diagnosis, I did expect more support from them but heyho like most of us we have to go it alone.
 
Just curious, what is it about medication that makes you not want it?

And an observation: in my experience BG is affected not only by food and exercise - stress, other physical illness(es), hormones, are all part of the mix.

Are you getting good quality sleep, or do you wake up feeling tired?
 
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