Just back from the docs

[Catbanj]

Thank you everyone. I appreciate the support

Because I am also needing to be low fat (I'm nursing a poorly gall bladder) and low sodium I tend to make things from scratch.... the Nutracheck app is my goto as it counts everything for me and you can create recipes- it then does the sums.

 

[Proud to be erratic]

Thank you everyone. I appreciate the support

Because I am also needing to be low fat (I'm nursing a poorly gall bladder) and low sodium I tend to make things from scratch.... the Nutracheck app is my goto as it counts everything for me and you can create recipes- it then does the sums.

Hello @Catbanj,

Your mention of a "poorly gall bladder" triggered with me a possible mini alarm bell. There can, not definitely, be linkage between gall bladder probs and diabetes - which might not be T2 diabetes. Gall stones can result in blockage of the bile duct and thence pancreatitis and that damage to the pancreas can result in diabetes which ought to be recognised and diagnosed as T3c. This is not diabetes from one having a greatly increased resistance to the insulin you are naturally producing (=T2) but diabetes because of some damage to your pancreas and thus impaired insulin production. The symptoms are similar in that you can have elevated BG, but the cause is very different and thus the treatment may need to be different. Since this chain of events can occur in a relatively small no of people it is easy for this to be overlooked by GPs and the diabetes routinely (wrongly) diagnosed as T2.

I am not in any way medically qualified and I've tried to put this to you with due caution and caveats.

 

[Drummer]

When I went back to what is normal for me, abandoning low fat foods I had some memorable pains which were fortunately brief, which I believe were gallstones departing from the gall bladder and being a bit larger than the bile duct liked. I was stoical about them but I was aware that they could be a warning to watch out for danger signals of a blocked duct.
There has been no reoccurrence, so I am happy to believe it was just a clearing out of stones formed due to eating very little fat for so long.

 

[Catbanj]

Thank you Drummer and Proud to be erratic. I'm still learning loads and hadn't twigged how interlinked everything could be. I completely fit the T2 profile- overweight, parent also had T2, working silly-long hours so no time for exercise or eating properly, grazing .... it's almost like I wrote the "how to get T2 diabetes instruction" book. Someone else suggested my diabetes could be something other than T2, so I am now aware of it and something I may discuss with my GP in the future.

There are gallstones but I mostly manage it by eating low fat diet. A bit like managing diabetes, I've found what I need to avoid over the years eg. Lamb. I've had a few GB infections which are very unpleasant, but other than that my GB and I have come to an understanding where we don't bother each other. My GP is happy with this as the hospital lists are years long so every little helps