What should and shouldn’t I eat?

[Discovery22]

Help, I’m really confused. When being diagnosed with RH the specialist told me to eat brown pasta, brown seedy bread and to snack on nuts and banana. Thing is I also have diverticular disease which clearly means I shouldn’t eat that stuff. If I’m honest I’ve not noticed hypos after pasta and potatoes. In fact if I have a hypo it will come again and again through until I eat carbs for the long term energy. But I also have never kept a close eye on my bg and normally only check it if I’m feeling dodgy...hypo

 

[Lamont D]

Help, I’m really confused. When being diagnosed with RH the specialist told me to eat brown pasta, brown seedy bread and to snack on nuts and banana. Thing is I also have diverticular disease which clearly means I shouldn’t eat that stuff. If I’m honest I’ve not noticed hypos after pasta and potatoes. In fact if I have a hypo it will come again and again through until I eat carbs for the long term energy. But I also have never kept a close eye on my bg and normally only check it if I’m feeling dodgy...hypo

If you have read any threads on the forum especially about the dietary advice on control of RH, I can only tell you what I can't eat, because Hypoglycaemia in its many types can be different for everyone and that means no one is has the same tolerance to certain foods particularly carbs and sugars.
If you have RH, you will be carb intolerant, that means that eating above a small percentage of carbs will cause all the symptoms because of the fluctuating blood sugar levels, being intolerant, you have to avoid them because these carbs will make you ill, with the hypers and hypos.
Your dietary advice from your specialist has carbs by the truckload, he/she is obviously following a textbook treatment that just doesn't understand what happens to your blood sugar levels after eating.
My intolerance includes potatoes, any type of rice, wheat, all grains, any type of pasta, bread, and of course lactose. I would group all the foods ending in ose, glucose, lactose, sucrose, you get where I'm going.

I would insist on a new glucometer, tell your specialist that doing a food diary will help you understand why you have hypos! It is a wonder that your specialist hasn't recommended one already. Mine did. He is a specialist endocrinologist and teaches endocrinology in a university. He did studies on my condition and another woman. I had to when first testing and experimentation, using my food diary religiously, to get my head around what I could eat, be positive about the good things that can make you healthy. I knew that certain foods were by choice, taste and a natural aversion to some foods and despite the constant insistence on eating horrible tasting food and foods that made me vomit or want to vomit, I already knew my dairy intolerance was not the usual intolerance to dairy, it was the amount of lactose (which are sugars/carbs) that made me ill.
So something like full fat yoghurt, has very little carbs, I can tolerate a few spoonfuls. But any milk, butter, cream either tastes awful or makes me really ill.
I can eat small amounts of fruit, you may not be able to.
I enjoy all meats, salad vegetables, eggs cooked in lots of ways. I enjoy fish, protein is my main food source, it is what you are happy with.
It is also having smaller meals, a plate size reduction, so you can eat a few bites throughout the day, you don't have to eat meals at meal times, I learned that fasting will help with a lot of food issues. Such as eating too much, eating too often, eating the same food, helping with symptoms and gaining good control.

Hope that helps.

Best wishes