Sorry! But far better safe than sorry. Scary that an alleged nurse on 111 didn’t know what hb1ac was. It’s your blood glucose of 27 that’s potentially scary tonight more than your hb1ac though. Hope you get some sleep and this passes without incident.thanks for this, I have drunk some water and will have some more....I have phoned 111. spoke to the 'nurse' (she said she was) who did not even know what HbA1c is! They asked me lots of questions, tick box like, categories, impossible to answer!...and a doctor will ring me back within the next 6 hours. That's nice. Its 00.51 hours. I hope I get some sleep tonight!!
Sorry! But far better safe than sorry. Scary that an alleged nurse on 111 didn’t know what hb1ac was. It’s your blood glucose of 27 that’s potentially scary tonight more than your hb1ac though. Hope you get some sleep and this passes without incident.
I’m glad you are well and the figures are improved somewhat today. Not sure I can say what I think of this particular dr though and his knowledge of complications. Hope your dr is better informed ThursdayWell, I am still alive and kickin' ! Now 14.38. Eventually a young male doctor phoned me back, two hours later (I did not go to bed), and told him what had been going on. He said I could wait until Thursday (tomorrow) when I will go see my GP. We did a blood glucose test, pre-prandial today, and it was 17.8. The GP on 111 was very pleasant but sounded very young. I told him about my nightime foot and leg cramps - which are excruciating and EVERY night, and when I said could this be related to my diabetes, he said no. From research I have done, I think it COULD well be related to blood glucose levels, so I am not overly confident in his responses. Still, thank you very much for your advice. At least by ringing up i was reassured (and it would appear rightly) that I was not going to kick the bucket last night.
When eating low carb I always needed to take a vitamin and mineral supplement and put a tiny tiny pinch of salt into my first mug of coffee for the day - I also added cinnamon, but for the taste - it might help, I don't know. I don't use salt in my cooking and salt is necessary, I also drink a mug of water first thing in the morning and last thing at night, also cramp avoidance ploys.
I have been eating low carb whenever I could get away with it for a very long time, all through various long hot summers, and so have developed a routine over the decades which I still stick to - now that we can have heat waves in February I need to keep to it year round, I think.
Cramp can however also be caused by lack of the right nutrients - I know my calves and ankles used to cramp quite often overnight when I was unknowingly suffering from malnutrition (due to undiagnosed coeliac disease)@LionChild, yes, foot and leg pain can very much be symptomatic of glucotoxicity.
Whether its 30 minutes or 3 hours a day, exercise is great for general health, but short of intense and sustained exercise to an athletes standard, it will only scratch at the surface in actually reducing BS levels. Its all about diet and eating frequency. It is difficult to suggest anything as no details are given as to your actual diet before and after your diabetes education group.I was diagnosed about a year ago with Diabetes, HBa1c 51, after 3 months, 52, 3 more months 57, 3 more months, after exercising 30 mins a day, totally changing diet, after attending Diabetes education group, I have just been informed I am HbA1c of 119 !!!
What is going on?!!
Cannot do more.
Whether its 30 minutes or 3 hours a day, exercise is great for general health, but short of intense and sustained exercise to an athletes standard, it will only scratch at the surface in actually reducing BS levels. Its all about diet and eating frequency. It is difficult to suggest anything as no details are given as to your actual diet before and after your diabetes education group.
Cramp can however also be caused by lack of the right nutrients - I know my calves and ankles used to cramp quite often overnight when I was unknowingly suffering from malnutrition (due to undiagnosed coeliac disease)
There is no such thing as a good carb, telling you to eat baked potatoes and (presumably) baked beans for lunch is astonishing. A medium size baked potato will have about 36 g of carbohydrates of which 3 g will be pure sugar. One serving, about 1/2 can, (and who has one serving) of baked beans will have another 26 g of carbs, of which 10.3 g will be pure sugar. Your lunch, if its limited to just that, would be amount about 15 teaspoonfuls of sugar, of which 4 teaspoonfuls will be pure sugar and immediately released into your blood stream.Green smoothies?
Those easy to digest drinks full of carbs from 'healthy' foods?
I bought a super blender just before diagnosis, and even blitzing salad stuff showed that it was a bad idea.
At my education sessions we were told that baked potatoes and beans was a good choice for lunch, so it must be really easy to go down the wrong path.
I can only suggest you send off for a blood glucose meter, then start to test the meals you eat to check that you are not getting too many carbs.
I have just been informed I am HbA1c of 119 !!!
120 mg/dl = 6.7 mmol/L Apologies if I'm just repeating another message.
I bought a Nutribullet just before diagnosis and found that even blending lettuce and a tomato made a drink which spiked me - yet I can eat a huge salad and get an increase of 1mmol/l. It is, perhaps, the breaking up or open which gives my digestion easy access - I seem to have a very efficient gut, as I did sometimes wonder if I could digest cellulose, to judge from the sarcastic comments of the dieticians I have encountered, who accused me of all sorts of errors in my unsuccessful attempts to lower weight under their direction.There is nothing wrong with putting green vegetables in a blender, but try not to blitz them too much so that you preserve the fibre. Vegetables have very little carbs and the fibre should counteract the sugar content. Vegetables are important because that is where you get your mineral nutrients. Blending them is an easy way to have a lot of vegetables at one sitting, and people need a lot of vegetables, without the laborious task of eating salads at every meal. They should have little impact on your BS levels unless you are adding juice with them instead of just water.
I lost 15lbs in just under one month. The fact that it took you a year is the surprise on your diet. Once you move away from a carb diet, you will lose weight whatever your reasons for dieting. Your diet does sound good, the 'green smoothies' bother me because you are distinguishing them from the kale and spinach. What else are you adding to that smoothie. Although I have not converted to a keto diet, the indications are that it is very effective at lowering BS levels, but they recommend low carbs and high fat, not low fat. Your body needs both fat and salt to function properly and to process the fats within you. This very high reading, was it a proper blood test, which measures your average BS level over 2 to 3 months, or was it on a standard home glucose monitor. Eratic and insufficient sleep over a prolonged period is known to cause/contribute to insulin resistance. If you tested yourself 1st thing in the morning you may naturally have a high reading because your body will have dumped sugar into your system just before you are due to wake up to give you the energy you are going to need to start the day.well before, my diet was not particularly bad, but not very conscientious either. In the past 6 months in particular though, I really eat healthily - lots of kale, spinach, green smoothies, broccoli, avocados, carrots, chicken, fish, (hardly ever red meat), carefully chosen cheese with low salt---cut out almost completely refined carbs, no chocolate, except rarely a small bit of dark with 70% cocoa solid.....30 mins exercise a day - yes, for a number of months... de-caf coffee,....BUT, sleep terrible, and problems with stress levels---forever...
Another issue, is quite sudden loss of weight...from 12st 12 Ib to 11st. 3 in less than a year, and without focusing on losing weight. I am only just questioning this, even though very good diet now, it is still a lot of weight for me to lose. I have mostly been overweight, and now my BMI is 25.3 which is only slightly overweight, and indeed a great improvement. 2 years ago I was 14 stone.
One medium tomato represents just over 6g of carbs, most of which is sugar. If you are putting in more than one tomato than that might be an issue. Tomatoes are fruit and their sugar is in the form of fractose which is managed, poorly, by your liver, not your pancreas. If you regularly juice with tomatoes the fractose prevents the body from using up its far stores and defeats the object of a low carb diet. When eating a salad, rather than a juice it would be unusual to have more than one tomato at a time. If you are looking for something to sweeten the lettuce juice, try 1 small beetroot. It's similar to a tomato in nutrients but you don't need more than one in the blender to sweeten the lettuce and the carbs are processed by your gut and pancreas in the regular way and doesn't interfere with your low-carb regime.I bought a Nutribullet just before diagnosis and found that even blending lettuce and a tomato made a drink which spiked me - yet I can eat a huge salad and get an increase of 1mmol/l. It is, perhaps, the breaking up or open which gives my digestion easy access - I seem to have a very efficient gut, as I did sometimes wonder if I could digest cellulose, to judge from the sarcastic comments of the dieticians I have encountered, who accused me of all sorts of errors in my unsuccessful attempts to lower weight under their direction.
One medium tomato represents just over 6g of carbs, most of which is sugar. If you are putting in more than one tomato than that might be an issue. Tomatoes are fruit and their sugar is in the form of fractose which is managed, poorly, by your liver, not your pancreas. If you regularly juice with tomatoes the fractose prevents the body from using up its far stores and defeats the object of a low carb diet. When eating a salad, rather than a juice it would be unusual to have more than one tomato at a time. If you are looking for something to sweeten the lettuce juice, try 1 small beetroot. It's similar to a tomato in nutrients but you don't need more than one in the blender to sweeten the lettuce and the carbs are processed by your gut and pancreas in the regular way and doesn't interfere with your low-carb regime.
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