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New to type 2 cycling energy levels
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rebrascora
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Hi and welcome
What are your BG levels like. Do you know what your HbA1c reading is? This is the reading from a blood sample taken from your arm and sent to the lab, so the result takes a day or two to come through and will be a reading above 48 if you have been diagnosed as diabetic.
Have you been prescribed any medication?
Have you been given a BG meter with test strips? If not self funding one can be a huge benefit in managing your levels and figuring out which foods cause you the most problems and so tailoring your diet to maximum benefit. They are relatively inexpensive to buy (approx £15) but the ongoing cost of test strips is what tends to run the finances up and for this reason many people here on the forum who self fund, use either the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Healthcare Tee2, as they have by far the cheapest test strips @£8 for a pot of 50
High BG readings will cause you to struggle with energy levels and feel fatigued and it is best not to engage in strenuous exercise if your BG is over 15, so it can be really helpful to be able to take your reading throughout the day and particularly before and 2 hours after food to see what effect that food has had on you, but also before exercise.
What are your BG levels like. Do you know what your HbA1c reading is? This is the reading from a blood sample taken from your arm and sent to the lab, so the result takes a day or two to come through and will be a reading above 48 if you have been diagnosed as diabetic.
Have you been prescribed any medication?
Have you been given a BG meter with test strips? If not self funding one can be a huge benefit in managing your levels and figuring out which foods cause you the most problems and so tailoring your diet to maximum benefit. They are relatively inexpensive to buy (approx £15) but the ongoing cost of test strips is what tends to run the finances up and for this reason many people here on the forum who self fund, use either the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Healthcare Tee2, as they have by far the cheapest test strips @£8 for a pot of 50
High BG readings will cause you to struggle with energy levels and feel fatigued and it is best not to engage in strenuous exercise if your BG is over 15, so it can be really helpful to be able to take your reading throughout the day and particularly before and 2 hours after food to see what effect that food has had on you, but also before exercise.
Rebrascora
I have just been told my HbA1c is 92 due to going from a no carb diet ( where it was 40 )to a normal diet. I have been informed that they will test me again at the end of july and see if I can get it down by diet and exercise. I will see about a meter. It's a catch 22. I have started a low carb diet and the doctor has informed me that if it does not lower then medication. Thanks for the advice. I will look into the meters you suggested and check my BG
Cheers
Flock
I have just been told my HbA1c is 92 due to going from a no carb diet ( where it was 40 )to a normal diet. I have been informed that they will test me again at the end of july and see if I can get it down by diet and exercise. I will see about a meter. It's a catch 22. I have started a low carb diet and the doctor has informed me that if it does not lower then medication. Thanks for the advice. I will look into the meters you suggested and check my BG
Cheers
Flock
rebrascora
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92 is pretty high and I would go steady with the exercise until you get it down. A brisk walk is fine or working in the garden as these are both really good activities for lowering your BG levels gently but I would be wary of more strenuous activity at the moment.
I am not sure what you mean by....
"I have just been told my HbA1c is 92 due to going from a no carb diet ( where it was 40 )to a normal diet."
Were you on a very low carb diet and then started to eat carbs? If so why were you eating low carb (previous diabetes diagnosis perhaps?) or just preference and why the sudden change to a normal carb diet?
When was that reading of 40 taken?
Are you a relatively fit and active person and have you lost any weight without trying too much recently?
Sorry for all the questions, just trying to figure out what might be going on and wondering if possibly you might not be Type 2 diabetic but another Type.
I am not sure what you mean by....
"I have just been told my HbA1c is 92 due to going from a no carb diet ( where it was 40 )to a normal diet."
Were you on a very low carb diet and then started to eat carbs? If so why were you eating low carb (previous diabetes diagnosis perhaps?) or just preference and why the sudden change to a normal carb diet?
When was that reading of 40 taken?
Are you a relatively fit and active person and have you lost any weight without trying too much recently?
Sorry for all the questions, just trying to figure out what might be going on and wondering if possibly you might not be Type 2 diabetic but another Type.
Hi
A few years ago (4) I started getting pin and needles in hands and lower limbs. Cycling a lot at the time but one day they mainly went down one side. My dad had a stroke which killed him, so went to A and e. All tests came back than it was not a stroke but some nerve damage and I had a glucose intolerance. Then I started getting bad stomach and lower intestine pain. II stopped drinking, eating cakes, biscuits and sweets. Cut out milk went to sit diet and nothing changed. The diet just went from low to no carb. Lost weight and lots of cycling.My pin and needles was still getting worse. Tests for BG came back fine. 2 years ago stomach etc was still bad.i then started a more balance diet weight started to come back on and stomach got better but nov last year felt weak but I was still cutting out, milk sweets, biscuits, cakes.and beer. The tests came back at 40. i slowly came back on beer, biscuits, milk etc but seemed to get weaker stomach a lot better until test last week at 92. Diabetes runs in the family, mum had it and her mum etc.
Flock
A few years ago (4) I started getting pin and needles in hands and lower limbs. Cycling a lot at the time but one day they mainly went down one side. My dad had a stroke which killed him, so went to A and e. All tests came back than it was not a stroke but some nerve damage and I had a glucose intolerance. Then I started getting bad stomach and lower intestine pain. II stopped drinking, eating cakes, biscuits and sweets. Cut out milk went to sit diet and nothing changed. The diet just went from low to no carb. Lost weight and lots of cycling.My pin and needles was still getting worse. Tests for BG came back fine. 2 years ago stomach etc was still bad.i then started a more balance diet weight started to come back on and stomach got better but nov last year felt weak but I was still cutting out, milk sweets, biscuits, cakes.and beer. The tests came back at 40. i slowly came back on beer, biscuits, milk etc but seemed to get weaker stomach a lot better until test last week at 92. Diabetes runs in the family, mum had it and her mum etc.
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welcome to the forum @Flock
Were you adding fats while in your low carb phase? I’m not a low carber, but maintaining weight on low carb often involves eating good fats - dairy, olive oil, nuts and seeds, oily fish etc. If the body is ‘fat adapted’ it can burn fat for energy in the absence of carbohydrate.
If your HbA1c is 90 from 40 it suggests to me that you are not able to process the energy you are eating well (it is stuck in your bloodstream and not making it into your cells and muscles). i wonder if that if contributing to your fatigue. Elevated BG certainly is associated with tiredness
Do you have T1 or LADA in your family, or is it all T2?
Were you adding fats while in your low carb phase? I’m not a low carber, but maintaining weight on low carb often involves eating good fats - dairy, olive oil, nuts and seeds, oily fish etc. If the body is ‘fat adapted’ it can burn fat for energy in the absence of carbohydrate.
If your HbA1c is 90 from 40 it suggests to me that you are not able to process the energy you are eating well (it is stuck in your bloodstream and not making it into your cells and muscles). i wonder if that if contributing to your fatigue. Elevated BG certainly is associated with tiredness
Do you have T1 or LADA in your family, or is it all T2?
My mum had T1.
Also I had good fats in my diet at the time.
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Might be worth mentioning that to your Dr if you haven't already, and perhaps raising the possibility that you may be T1 or LADA rather than T2? T1 can develop at any age, and c-Peptide tests can help evaluate whether you are insulin resistant (producing lots of insulin as is commonly the case in T2) or insulin deficient (because of beta-cell destruction common in T1)
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