Cor blimey, just had a horrible shock!

[AngelSprings]

I was diagnosed a couple of years ago as being pre-diabetic, and followed a low carb diet which kept my blood glucose readings usually between 5 and 7, and managed to reduce blood test results from 45 to 42. However, in the earlier part of this year, and I do not know what caused it, I was in a lot of pain for three to four months in my lower back, thighs, knees, and it was agony to walk around. (My son thinks it was reaction to the covid vaccines I had, but I realise this is only conjecture, and I will never really know). However, most of the pain went, but on the last blood test the results had shot up to 49, and now when I test daily they are mainly in the sevens and eights, and nothing I do seems to lower them. I do follow a low carb diet, but the weight has never shifted. So this last fortnight I've been having three meal replacement shakes a day. The first week I lost six pounds, the second week only two pounds but just having three shakes a day is hard, I was very hungry, had no energy, and couldn't sleep at night, so yesterday I returned to low carb eating. And today feeling very fed up, because I do try hard with my diet, and just over an hour ago I found and ate one of those breakfast bars. I think it was a BeVita. Just tested my blood sugars and was horrified to see it had shot up to 12.7! How can a few mouthfuls of something sweet shoot up my levels so frighteningly quickly? Do I need to perhaps go on Metformin? I am trying to avoid having to do this. I apologise if I appear a bit pathetic when there's so many others with worse symptoms, but we all worry and very often magnify things sometimes out of all proportion.

Thanks for reading and best wishes.

 

[Christy]

Could it possibly be that there were traces of biscuit, sugar etc on your finger?

 

[Leadinglights]

If it's the ones I'm thinking of they are about 60g carb so no wonder your blood glucose had shot up, especially if it wasn't after 2 hours.