High blood sugar

[JohnBoyDetect]

Hi my name is John I have been Diebetic for the last 10 years after being diagnosed by a natural healing doctor while removing accupuncture needles. The signs to him were my feeling faint he told me straight away that I am diebetic . I went straight to my GP and told him he just laughed at me saying what a load of rubbish. Ok I said and went on my way. One month later I noticed I was drinking like a fish anything I could lay my hands on coke lemonade anything so went back to GP and told him I am drinking like a fish so again he didn't think anything was wrong but sent me for a blood test.After a few days he called me back and apologised saying that other doctor was spot on you are 100% diebetic

 

[rebrascora]

Hi John and welcome to the forum.

Do you know what your HbA1c was at diagnosis and did they give you medication?
How have you managed your diabetes since then? Have you had good control until recently or have your Blood Glucose levels been high for the past 10 years?
Many of us here on the forum follow a low carb diet to help manage out BG levels. This means avoiding anything sweet and sugary including the usual cakes sweets and biscuits and fizzy drinks as well as fruit juice, but also cutting right back on starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc and fruit, mostly limiting ourselves to a few berries like raspberries/blackberries/strawberries.

It may seem like that really leaves very little to fill you up but most of us eat more fat to make up for the calories that we are not getting from carbohydrates, so we eat fatty meat and oily fish and cheese and nuts and eggs and avocados and full fat natural yoghurt and have cream in our coffee and cook our green veg with a knob of butter or a dollop of cream cheese. Fat has been demonised for the past 50+years but there is now a school of thought that the initial research which the low fat advice was based on, was flawed and that it is actually the carbohydrates in most of our processed foods which are causing us far more health problems. It takes a bit of getting your head around when you have been used to piling your plate with carbs for the whole of your life, but once you get the hang of it, it can be an enjoyable way to eat and is therefore sustainable long term. The great thing about fat is that it takes longer to digest and therefore keeps you feeling fuller for longer whereas carbs break down very quickly and easily, leaving you feeling hungry again soon afterwards.

 

[rebrascora]

PS. Drinking Coke and Lemonade were almost the worst possible things to consume when you were suffering diabetic thirst like that as they just add to the glucose in your blood, when what your body needs is water to flush them out through your kidneys. You were lucky you did not end up in hospital.
I know when I got "the thirst" all I wanted to drink was water and it never tasted so good!

 

[Toucan]

Hello John,
Welcome to the forum. It is good that you persisted and eventually got your diagnosis sorted out.
As Barbara said, we would be interested to know how it is all working out for you now. She has also given some good updates on low carb eating. There are some other links on the forum introductory pages to various topics. If there are any particular thing that you would like information or help with please let us know. There are many people on the forum with a wealth of knowledge and experience.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @JohnBoyDetect

 

[CathyB]

Hi John, welcome to the forum 🙂

 

[JohnBoyDetect]

Hi John and welcome to the forum.

Do you know what your HbA1c was at diagnosis and did they give you medication?
How have you managed your diabetes since then? Have you had good control until recently or have your Blood Glucose levels been high for the past 10 years?
Many of us here on the forum follow a low carb diet to help manage out BG levels. This means avoiding anything sweet and sugary including the usual cakes sweets and biscuits and fizzy drinks as well as fruit juice, but also cutting right back on starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc and fruit, mostly limiting ourselves to a few berries like raspberries/blackberries/strawberries.

It may seem like that really leaves very little to fill you up but most of us eat more fat to make up for the calories that we are not getting from carbohydrates, so we eat fatty meat and oily fish and cheese and nuts and eggs and avocados and full fat natural yoghurt and have cream in our coffee and cook our green veg with a knob of butter or a dollop of cream cheese. Fat has been demonised for the past 50+years but there is now a school of thought that the initial research which the low fat advice was based on, was flawed and that it is actually the carbohydrates in most of our processed foods which are causing us far more health problems. It takes a bit of getting your head around when you have been used to piling your plate with carbs for the whole of your life, but once you get the hang of it, it can be an enjoyable way to eat and is therefore sustainable long term. The great thing about fat is that it takes longer to digest and therefore keeps you feeling fuller for longer whereas carbs break down very quickly and easily, leaving you feeling hungry again soon afterwards.

Hi John and welcome to the forum.

Do you know what your HbA1c was at diagnosis and did they give you medication?
How have you managed your diabetes since then? Have you had good control until recently or have your Blood Glucose levels been high for the past 10 years?
Many of us here on the forum follow a low carb diet to help manage out BG levels. This means avoiding anything sweet and sugary including the usual cakes sweets and biscuits and fizzy drinks as well as fruit juice, but also cutting right back on starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc and fruit, mostly limiting ourselves to a few berries like raspberries/blackberries/strawberries.

It may seem like that really leaves very little to fill you up but most of us eat more fat to make up for the calories that we are not getting from carbohydrates, so we eat fatty meat and oily fish and cheese and nuts and eggs and avocados and full fat natural yoghurt and have cream in our coffee and cook our green veg with a knob of butter or a dollop of cream cheese. Fat has been demonised for the past 50+years but there is now a school of thought that the initial research which the low fat advice was based on, was flawed and that it is actually the carbohydrates in most of our processed foods which are causing us far more health problems. It takes a bit of getting your head around when you have been used to piling your plate with carbs for the whole of your life, but once you get the hang of it, it can be an enjoyable way to eat and is therefore sustainable long term. The great thing about fat is that it takes longer to digest and therefore keeps you feeling fuller for longer whereas carbs break down very quickly and easily, leaving you feeling hungry again soon afterwards.

 

[JohnBoyDetect]

Sorry i don't remember my HB readings they were more likely high and have fluctuated ever since but have never been down to the normal level of 40 - 42 . This most recent visit to the nurse it was up to 80 and she said 3 months ago i was at 60 .She has had words with my doctor and he wants me to try two canagliflozin with one metformin in the morning and the Gliclazide just one at night with one metformin . She wants to see me back in three months and just hope this HB level comes down . I have started the three day fasting died so far not to bad but get hungry about 8.30 pm and grave things to fill up on