What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

[Debandez]

Me too, it’s the whole ambience surrounding it. One day when this WOE becomes mainstream there might be a pretty tiered plate stand with olives and delicately cut rollitos!

We live in hope.

 

[Cumberland]

5.4 for me around 6am. I’m pretending not to notice Dennis chewing a drinks coaster he’s managed to get hold of, so I can post here. Yesterday he chewed the inner out of Mr Cs shoe - his own fault as he left them on the floor rather than in the box on the chair.
@pavlosn have a wonderful time in London, and at the concert - looks like a rain free event which is always a bonus for anything outdoors in UK
@Viv19 great that your water pipes have been sorted so quickly but oh dear, your poor lavender. I can’t believe they’d be so thoughtless. Enjoy your 4 months with your foster buddy. I’m sure you’ll both get a lot out of it, and it’s so much nicer than kennels for him.
@Krystyna23040 glad your Lab’s foot is ok today -10 months in a crate, it’s barbaric! I’m so glad he’s found a happy forever home with you.
@Cumberland - have a hug back for your tooth. Hope it gets fixed well today.

I had a text from middle daughter this morning saying her stool sample result had come back abnormal. It was a faecal calprotectin test, used to distinguish IBS ( which is what we thought she had, and IBD ( inflammatory bowel disease ie Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis) so I’m quite worried now. I’m glad I told her not to leave the GP surgery until he’d sorted a referral to a gastro team though - he dismissed her symptoms as the result of her ‘fad diets’ !! (She had tried keto and fodmap WOE to try to control the symptoms) it’s small vindication that it’s come back as abnormal.

@DJC3

Thanks for the hug

 

[Cumberland]

@Cumberland thank you for the hug. Back atcha!

You’re welcome

 

[Cumberland]

Dentists ok back in a fortnight

 

[SaskiaKC]

Dentists ok back in a fortnight

Yay!

 

[SaskiaKC]

We live in hope.

When there is I will go back to Brown's for a LCHF tea.

 

[SaskiaKC]

Lovely thunderstorm going on right now, with rain hitting the window. I'm glad it waited 'til today. At the first peal of thunder a little while ago I opened the closet door so the KittenCat could take shelter and not have to squeeze under the sofa. She's in there now.

There's no lightning so I'm tempted to go out and play in the rain but it's 10 floors down and I'm too lazy to bother.

 

[SaskiaKC]

P.S. One pleasant walk in the rain later ...

 

[DJC3]

I agree @DJC3
I was called hysterical by male GP's in the 70's and early 80's. My young children would find me collapsed and unconscious. They called GP. I was a single mother.
GP always said I was suffering from hysteria and all I need was smelling salts and pull myself together.
Finally in about 1983 I saw a female doctor, who said, and I still remember her words, 'You silly girl, your'e suffering from asthma. Didn't you know?'
How the heck was I supposed to know? I didn't know what asthma was. And it was the words 'You silly girl...' that really got me.
I ended up with 2 inhalers.
And the damage was done with my children, because these authoritative male doctors told them I was a hysterical mother who needed to get a grip of herself.

Then many years later in the mid 2000's I kept having problems with my throat constricting and severe breathing problems. My current GP then, kept saying I was having panic attacks, but I knew it wasn't that. But I had no idea what it was. I was being belittled and humiliated again. He refused to send me for further investigations.

But I was attending the dental hospital in Liverpool at the time, and I explained to my specialist there, a woman. She examined me, said she thought she knew what it was, and referred me for an endoscopy. To cut a long story short, I was diagnosed with poor throat muscles which seized up, and when that happened the breathing tube which runs alongside it, seized up also, and I passed out. The specialist told me by passing out what happens is the body relaxes, and my throat muscles and breathing tube relaxed and I could breathe again. The specialist told me not to be scared of it. I ended up with meds, sprays and strategies. Which I still have to use. And I have never passed out again.

I reported my doctor...and he became the subject of an investigation. It wasn't me, but another investigation of a much higher profile person who died because of my GP, caused my GP to lose his job...

Why are these GP's allowed to call women hysterical?
I have an older friend who was told she was having panic attacks. But her neighbour took her to the hospital. And she was diagnosed with throat cancer. She was lucky, she survived.

But these stories never stop...

>^..^<

Gennepher that’s terrible, you should never have had to endure that for all those years. Your experiences perfectly illustrate those old fashioned ideas though. I’ve become far more pushy in my old age and less worried about being seen as ‘difficult’ or causing a scene. I’m just glad my daughter stuck to her guns and refused to be fobbed off this time. At least she can be referred to a specialist now.

 

[Debandez]

Not posted fbs for over a week so here goes:

5 5
5.3
5.5
5.5
6.0
5.6
5.7
6.1
5.6

I'm very happy as the small change I implemented has taken me out of the early 6s into the 5s (mainly). So the culprit seems to be more than one glass of red and too many mixed nuts. Nice while it lasted!

I'm up to date on the thread now. Really enjoy the chit chat and banter on here.

What's happening in my life. My BIL (special needs) has been a great cause for concern especially since his t2d diagnosis just over 6 months ago. Getting his meds right has been a nightmare. Still a work in progress. I make him a low carb meal and deliver more or less daily. His finger prick tests have slowly come down over the months as has his hba1c. Another work in progress. He has a sweet tooth unfortunately. He is very reluctant to change his eating habits too sadly. All part of his condition.

Some wonderful news. My daughter announced we are to be grandparents to our 2nd grandchild. Over the moon. She is being checked for gestational and results will be in soon. She was gestational with her first so I think she probably will be again although I'm hoping this won't be the case. I'm not worried as she managed the first gestational really well avoiding meds/insulin. Low carb. This was before I was diagnosed so I didn't have a clue, she researched it herself. She is 14 weeks now. She is a teacher. Yesterday she received 'OUTSTANDING ' feedback from Ofsted. I'm going to send her flowers today. She has put her heart and soul into this. I dont really do flowers but I'm thinking they are a far better alternative to chocolates and wine under the circumstances!

My son has had a promotion at work. He has been doing lots of extra hours training as a result. Lots to take in but he is getting there. He is 27 and still lives at home. Happily. We all get along well thankfully. Tonight he is on a works night out. Celebration of 25 years of the business. I'm never happy til he is in. Hence I'm lying here awake! 4.15am! Its enabled me to catch up on thread though so I'm not complaining. Although that will change as soon as he opens the front door and tries to not wake me up. Rattling pots n pans in the kitchen making some concoction. A couple of pickles are enough for me when I've had a few! Stepping lightly on each step coming upstairs whilst whispering 'shhhhhhhh' to the creaky ones. Throwing open his bedroom door and collapsing on his bed enables me to go back to sleep with a smile on my face.

I'm working with my surgery on the diabetes front. Currently trying to do a leaflet for the DNs to hand out to its. Controlling bs the low carb way incorporating weight loss info. Once its finished I am to send it to them. They will put it together in a professional looking 4 page a4 leaflet. I'm not finding it easy. Getting the right wording to avoid stepping on toes. Nigh on impossible. Anyway once I finish it I will send it to them for apro and see what they say. I haven't been able to do so much spreading the word lately as so much on. Me n hubby have been renovating a house. Just finished so happy with that. And as things get easier with BIL should get more free time. I love to share info. Constantly doing just that on my social media platforms still. I dont know what everyone else thinks but I do feel things are filtering through. Slowly. That LCHF can be and often is beneficial in the battle to control bs. I think it's totally incredible that diabetes.org.uk still encourages @45g carbs PER MEAL on their website. And this is where our HCPs direct new pts and not so new. The 1936 guidelines for diabetics were LCHF! Then it went the shape of a pear. Pretty much the same shape as me pre dx!

Anyway I think I've gone on enough now. I will finish my post by wishing all you lovely people a good weekend. Weather has been fab hasn't it. What I love mist about it is knowing exactly what to 0it on in the morning aka a nice summer dress and sandals.

Oh yes, just before I go one of my fellow diabetics from the monthly meetup at Tesco has been told if she keeps this up (new way of eating has caused significant drop in weight and hba1c) she will be off meds by October. She has been on meds for 17 years!!! Music to my ears.

 

[gennepher]

Gennepher that’s terrible, you should never have had to endure that for all those years. Your experiences perfectly illustrate those old fashioned ideas though. I’ve become far more pushy in my old age and less worried about being seen as ‘difficult’ or causing a scene. I’m just glad my daughter stuck to her guns and refused to be fobbed off this time. At least she can be referred to a specialist now.

Thank you.
I’ve become pushy too in my old age. I don’t back down. If I can’t come up with a strategy that day immediately now, I come home, sleep on it, and come up with a fighting strategy when I wake up.
I am glad your daughter had that fight in her and so didn’t back down.
Good luck for her.
And hugs x

>^..^<

 

[gennepher]

fbg 8.6 at 5 am
It’s going down again!

Black coffee now.

Then tidying....

>^..^<

 

[Viv19]

Agree. Women especially seem to be given the brush off a lot. I worked with a young girl who was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s after years of being told it was just something she’d eaten, or might be lactose intolerance. By 26 yes old she’d had half her bowel removed and a colostomy bag and was on lifelong steroids. Another young woman, daughter of a friend was told to get some relaxation tapes by her GP - she had MS and kept falling over, she died before she was 30. Makes me so cross that medical opinion seems stuck in the Victorian era when women were called hysterical

Mum went to her GP because she felt a lump in her breast - in her late 60s, so about 25 years ago. He said ‘nothing to worry about.’ She never went to the doctor and almost needed wild horses to drag her there, so it wasn’t that she was a regular hypochondriac at the doctor’s on a regular basis. Anyway, months later she went back, this time she had a biopsy just before Christmas, and had the results after Christmas. Then she had the mastectomy.

 

[Viv19]

I agree @DJC3
I was called hysterical by male GP's in the 70's and early 80's. My young children would find me collapsed and unconscious. They called GP. I was a single mother.
GP always said I was suffering from hysteria and all I need was smelling salts and pull myself together.
Finally in about 1983 I saw a female doctor, who said, and I still remember her words, 'You silly girl, your'e suffering from asthma. Didn't you know?'
How the heck was I supposed to know? I didn't know what asthma was. And it was the words 'You silly girl...' that really got me.
I ended up with 2 inhalers.
And the damage was done with my children, because these authoritative male doctors told them I was a hysterical mother who needed to get a grip of herself.

Then many years later in the mid 2000's I kept having problems with my throat constricting and severe breathing problems. My current GP then, kept saying I was having panic attacks, but I knew it wasn't that. But I had no idea what it was. I was being belittled and humiliated again. He refused to send me for further investigations.

But I was attending the dental hospital in Liverpool at the time, and I explained to my specialist there, a woman. She examined me, said she thought she knew what it was, and referred me for an endoscopy. To cut a long story short, I was diagnosed with poor throat muscles which seized up, and when that happened the breathing tube which runs alongside it, seized up also, and I passed out. The specialist told me by passing out what happens is the body relaxes, and my throat muscles and breathing tube relaxed and I could breathe again. The specialist told me not to be scared of it. I ended up with meds, sprays and strategies. Which I still have to use. And I have never passed out again.

I reported my doctor...and he became the subject of an investigation. It wasn't me, but another investigation of a much higher profile person who died because of my GP, caused my GP to lose his job...

Why are these GP's allowed to call women hysterical?
I have an older friend who was told she was having panic attacks. But her neighbour took her to the hospital. And she was diagnosed with throat cancer. She was lucky, she survived.

But these stories never stop...

>^..^<

Unbelievable.

 

[Viv19]

Not posted fbs for over a week so here goes:

5 5
5.3
5.5
5.5
6.0
5.6
5.7
6.1
5.6

I'm very happy as the small change I implemented has taken me out of the early 6s into the 5s (mainly). So the culprit seems to be more than one glass of red and too many mixed nuts. Nice while it lasted!

I'm up to date on the thread now. Really enjoy the chit chat and banter on here.

What's happening in my life. My BIL (special needs) has been a great cause for concern especially since his t2d diagnosis just over 6 months ago. Getting his meds right has been a nightmare. Still a work in progress. I make him a low carb meal and deliver more or less daily. His finger prick tests have slowly come down over the months as has his hba1c. Another work in progress. He has a sweet tooth unfortunately. He is very reluctant to change his eating habits too sadly. All part of his condition.

Some wonderful news. My daughter announced we are to be grandparents to our 2nd grandchild. Over the moon. She is being checked for gestational and results will be in soon. She was gestational with her first so I think she probably will be again although I'm hoping this won't be the case. I'm not worried as she managed the first gestational really well avoiding meds/insulin. Low carb. This was before I was diagnosed so I didn't have a clue, she researched it herself. She is 14 weeks now. She is a teacher. Yesterday she received 'OUTSTANDING ' feedback from Ofsted. I'm going to send her flowers today. She has put her heart and soul into this. I dont really do flowers but I'm thinking they are a far better alternative to chocolates and wine under the circumstances!

My son has had a promotion at work. He has been doing lots of extra hours training as a result. Lots to take in but he is getting there. He is 27 and still lives at home. Happily. We all get along well thankfully. Tonight he is on a works night out. Celebration of 25 years of the business. I'm never happy til he is in. Hence I'm lying here awake! 4.15am! Its enabled me to catch up on thread though so I'm not complaining. Although that will change as soon as he opens the front door and tries to not wake me up. Rattling pots n pans in the kitchen making some concoction. A couple of pickles are enough for me when I've had a few! Stepping lightly on each step coming upstairs whilst whispering 'shhhhhhhh' to the creaky ones. Throwing open his bedroom door and collapsing on his bed enables me to go back to sleep with a smile on my face.

I'm working with my surgery on the diabetes front. Currently trying to do a leaflet for the DNs to hand out to its. Controlling bs the low carb way incorporating weight loss info. Once its finished I am to send it to them. They will put it together in a professional looking 4 page a4 leaflet. I'm not finding it easy. Getting the right wording to avoid stepping on toes. Nigh on impossible. Anyway once I finish it I will send it to them for apro and see what they say. I haven't been able to do so much spreading the word lately as so much on. Me n hubby have been renovating a house. Just finished so happy with that. And as things get easier with BIL should get more free time. I love to share info. Constantly doing just that on my social media platforms still. I dont know what everyone else thinks but I do feel things are filtering through. Slowly. That LCHF can be and often is beneficial in the battle to control bs. I think it's totally incredible that diabetes.org.uk still encourages @45g carbs PER MEAL on their website. And this is where our HCPs direct new pts and not so new. The 1936 guidelines for diabetics were LCHF! Then it went the shape of a pear. Pretty much the same shape as me pre dx!

Anyway I think I've gone on enough now. I will finish my post by wishing all you lovely people a good weekend. Weather has been fab hasn't it. What I love mist about it is knowing exactly what to 0it on in the morning aka a nice summer dress and sandals.

Oh yes, just before I go one of my fellow diabetics from the monthly meetup at Tesco has been told if she keeps this up (new way of eating has caused significant drop in weight and hba1c) she will be off meds by October. She has been on meds for 17 years!!! Music to my ears.

What great news and happenings! Good news all the way around.

Last night bg was 5.8 - I was very happy, thought maybe it’s the ‘dog effect’ already.
This morning I heard some noise downstairs (5.30) and went to look.We’d put her bed in the living room (after long debate-our kitchen is not large). The tv was on and I was a bit confused, then realised that OH had left the tv control on the sofa, and the dog must have jumped onto the sofa .......
Anyway we walked around the garden and talked for a while. I sipped my tea (it was really too early), then did my bg. 7.2!!!! What? I think that might have been the ‘dog effect’ too.

 

[gennepher]

What great news and happenings! Good news all the way around.

Last night bg was 5.8 - I was very happy, thought maybe it’s the ‘dog effect’ already.
This morning I heard some noise downstairs (5.30) and went to look.We’d put her bed in the living room (after long debate-our kitchen is not large). The tv was on and I was a bit confused, then realised that OH had left the tv control on the sofa, and the dog must have jumped onto the sofa .......
Anyway we walked around the garden and talked for a while. I sipped my tea (it was really too early), then did my bg. 7.2!!!! What? I think that might have been the ‘dog effect’ too.

Clever dog

>^..^<

 

[UserABC2021]

5.5 this morning and the time I fear is coming to pass.

I built two bar-b-q areas for her ladyship and pointed out that she should never ask me to operate them as I've never used one. There are now two days of social functions as a new baby has arrived and I have to man the **** things. Up early as the lawns need trimming, then I guess I'll be Googling 'how to bar-b'

 

[trick60]

Good morning folks, a sunny 5.4 on the dice this morning, surprised the OH with a short break to Newquay, weather forecast looks promising I've often wondered what Cornwall looks like in the sun.
Have a lovely weekend everyone, and good luck with the bbq @HarrisonK .

 

[HarryBeau]

I'll be Googling 'how to bar-b'

Will be waiting anxiously for an update Harrison...good luck

 

[karen8967]

7.2 for me have a great weekend everyone