Advise please

[Gilx]

Hi. Hopefully someone has experienced this and can advice me.

I was felling unwell my feet and hands had tingling sensations and my vision seemed blurry and i best the best way to describe it was i felt out of it almost hungover feeling and gained weight quickly, i went to the doctor who said i may have prediabetes and carried out bloodtest(this took about 7 days to get done) in that time i stop taking sugar,ate healthy no bread,potatoes,rice,pasta and upper veg intake. I did the test and has a blood sugar level of around 6.8 but my 3 month blood test showed high bloodsugar suggesting prediabetes, the dr on the phone suggested coming in and getting meds, when i went in the dr i saw seemed angry i had gone in as i was told i had prediabetes on the phone and just said change your life style and offered no suggestion how to, i am now a week on a still feel terrible.

Now i have bizaarly really hotfeet and just feel like rubbish all the time, i have cut out all rubbish from my diet , i run 10-15k a week normally but since i 1st went dr i havnt ran as felt awful. Would i not start to feel better after having a better diet after a week or will it take longer?

 

[Drummer]

It is simply that medical opinions differ, even between doctors in a surgery.
I found eating low carb very effective against my full blown type two, and the few weeks when I managed to take the medication were absolutely dreadful, so perhaps you have had a narrow escape.
Have you cut down on carbohydrate?
Are you avoiding anything touted or labelled as low fat?
Most people need to alter their food choices to exclude the 'healthy' carbs - which were making them ill, and to find a new fuel in fattier cuts of meat, oily fish, full fat yoghurt and so on.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hello @Gilx

Welcome to the forum!

Sorry to hear you had a bit of a rough time between two different doctors. Must have been quite distressing for you.

It sounds like you’ve made some very positive changes to your food intake, and the 6.8 ‘spot check’ reading you had is excellent (we should aim for BG roughly between 4 and 7 before meals, and up to 9 by 2 hours after meals).

As you have dramatically reduced your carb intake, it may be that your body is still adjusting to your new way of eating. some people call this ‘carb flu’.

Hopefully you will begin to feel better as your BG stabilises, and you get more consistently ‘in range’ numbers.

If you can manage that, then your ’3-month average’ HbA1c check should see big improvements the next time it’s taken

Keep us informed with how you are getting on 🙂