I went to the doctors yesterday and saw the diabetic nurse due to spending all night and half the day dropping into hypo territory.
I’m starting to think I trust a few random strangers on the internet more than I trust the HCPs ‘dedicated to improving my health’.
1. No. You do not need any sugar. Crazy she should believe this. You don’t even NEED carbs. Your body can make what glucose you need from proteins and you are likely to still eat a few via veg etc anyway so enough for health of the brain.1) Do I need a certain amount of sugar a day? If so how much?
2) Can you drop hab1c too quickly? Should/can I do something to undo this?
3) Do you think my insulin resistance theory is possible? Or am I totally miss understanding things?
4) Are hypos that you don’t feel unwell with dangerous for type 2 no insulin or medication for diabetes? 3.0-3.9 blood sugar?
I WAS on insulin, but have stopped it 5-6 weeks ago. I’m no longer on ANY medication for diabetes. I know I need to update my profile soon. Sorry for any confusion caused.@Fndwheelie I believe your profile says you are on insulin is that correct because if so any advise here would be fundamentally changed as going low carb while on insulin would need to be managed very carefully so as to prevent hypoglycemia.
No direct medication for diabetes, my current medication is:-Are you currently on any medication? Both for T2 or anything else?
Most of your body can switch from using glucose as its energy source to using ketones instead. Your liver can convert proteins into glucose more that fast enough to supply the part on your body that cannot convert to using ketones. Your liver also converts fats into ketones when they are needed. Many of the older diabetics are afraid of ketones, due to the excessively high level of ketones produced when the insulin level is too low. Very high levels of ketones are fatal. However, lower levels of ketones are present when your body is burning off your fat stores, but otherwise healthy. I suspect that your diabetic nurse has not kept up with this newer information about ketones.I went to the doctors yesterday and saw the diabetic nurse due to spending all night and half the day dropping into hypo territory. I wanted reassurance that now I’m not on insulin or any diabetic medication the hypos weren’t really something to worry about, or that there was something else going on.
Regarding my latest hab1c was 58, that was done about 5 weeks after my previous which was 85, she said that being that it’s not a full 12 weeks between tests that it was too quick a drop, I needed to reduce the hab1c steadily.
She said “you’ve cut out too much sugar. Our bodies still need some sugar every day, just as a diabetic you were eating too much. You can’t cut out all sugar.” Her suggestion if I wanted to carry on eating what I am that I have a couple of cups of tea a day with a spoon of sugar in..
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