'The symptoms you feel during a false hypo may include a pounding pulse'
Very useful. The only hypo symptom I get and didn't know until now that is was related.
@Winnie53Lotties do you have reactive hypoglycemia? I did in my 20's and hypos were just the worst. There is a reactive hypoglycemica sub forum here. If you haven't already, you might want to check it out.![]()
So eating carbs makes you hyper literally and blood glucose wise. Not surprising really. Whether you are on medication or not this will happen. The difference is medication was helping control the effects, whereas now you are using diet ie not having the carbs in the first place. Are you seeing an trend of generally lower numbers since the initial high ones when you first stopped the medication? Are they improving again yet?@HSSS
Well, if i had carbs (i.s. bread or porridge) even on the empagliflozin within an hour or so i would start to feel hyper as if i was on drugs, talking fast and off the wall, after a little while longer i would have to go to bed else i would literally just pass out, i go into a deep sleep and sometime sit may be for only an hour and i wake up in a grouch with a bad head and can be quite abrupt. After then and a cup of tea and a few glasses of water i'm starting to feel normal again whatever that is.
Today, I was 10mmol when i got up, it started going down and i was 8.2 before i had breakfast which was egg and bacon plus a cuppa, i went out shopping, when i came back i was @ 10 which is odd, even in the shop i was feeling faint or just rough i guess, i got back home and snacked on some cheese and had another cuppa and had to go to bed, when i'm laying there i feel like you do when you are drunk, spinning fast and it is a horrid feeling, jumping up because i'm worried that i'm going too fast.. i hope you can understand that.
Re the runs and constipation, i'm not sure whether it was a one day tummy bug or something to do with going keto but i was ok the day after albeit a little constipated and i really should not be because i do eat a lot of greens and what have you and also @Winnie53 i always used Himalayan pink salt on food and definitely a spoonful a day but I can't overdo it due to high blood pressure.
Potassium, i don't think many would eat as much spinach and other greens as i do. I also eat Pak Choi and mushrooms due to having stir fries weekly, especially since doing the keto thing. (i do eat an awful lot of mushrooms) Most of the symptoms above for deficiency I got long before doing the keto and i also take multivits and a manner of other nutrients daily and without fail, not so much the cramps, i was like this since having radiotherapy a year ago where they zapped my head and i don't think i have been the same since. Everything has been a real battle since and hence why my Hb1ac was over 100 for over a year and has slowly started to come down. Oh and i drink a lot of spring water daily to keep myself hydrated, that was another thing about the cancer treatment, i have drank more water since than i ever did before, i don't think that is a bad thing though.
So eating carbs makes you hyper literally and blood glucose wise. Not surprising really. Whether you are on medication or not this will happen. The difference is medication was helping control the effects, whereas now you are using diet ie not having the carbs in the first place. Are you seeing an trend of generally lower numbers since the initial high ones when you first stopped the medication? Are they improving again yet?
I think you are saying it is extreme tiredness as opposed to a sudden loss of consciousness. Ie consistent with high blood sugars. It doesn’t sound like the cheese was the cause of the episode though as you already felt off when you ate it.
Keto typically brings down blood pressure, with many needing to reduce or even stop medication for it. Have you checked you bp since going keto or during these episodes?
some digestive issues do take a little while for the body to adjust. If you are certain electrolytes and water is sufficient (I’d try adding even more water temporarily to see if that helps or a magnesium supplement as many here swear by) then I’d see how I felt in a week or so in this regard.
and finally if many of the symptoms were occurring before you started keto it seems unlikely diet is the cause. I’m sorry you went through cancer and radiation. Could it be lasting side effects from this? I don’t know much about such treatments.
I suspect that over the next few weeks you’ll see the morning figures slowly creep down so long as your keeping the post meal rises down to 2mmol or less.
Do you have to wait long for bp analysis?
Do you actually need three and a half pints of water on top of any other fluids you might consume?
I have, over time, read numerous messages about the number of cups of water to drink - but never got any sort of sensible reason for it.
I do drink about that much in hot weather, about a pint and a half less in the colder months, but I go more by urine colour - when I notice - and reset my intake up or down week by week.
well it’s better. And it’ll never be entirely consistent as there are too many factors that effect it and meters aren’t that precise. Keep at it. Keep checking the effects of your meals. It’ll get there.Morning reading.. 9.5 :/
@miffli the first 4 weeks on the keto diet were maddening for me. Glucose levels stayed high for much longer than most people. While they did eventually come down, it took a long time, and at times I felt quite discouraged. I mostly just hung on and rode it out... Sometimes it's like that. Not fun.