So is the empagliflozin causing your heart to race/beat quickly?
I have no idea it could be my weight etc . it seems to come after i take the tablet but Im okay. Just plodding on . These new elecrolyte tablet drinks you have 500ml of water with it , Reminds me if cremola drink as a child. I drank it down in one go. Glad its not an alcoholic pint lol.So is the empagliflozin causing your heart to race/beat quickly?
Poor Mrs Robinson - that must have been somewhat traumatic for you considering you were only seven!
Hope the electrolyte drinks help with the cramp - cramp is horrible!
I try not to worry about dying or how - live is for living, we can't sit around waiting for it!!
Each to their own taste.
All ingredients are not what id choose. Apple is to hard n sharp i only like cooked and if honest the crumble more than the fruit. So definitely off the menu. raw celery had to be an acquired taste one you smell as you taste it . Not for me hubby loves it. Chicken i like with a sauce so again hot . At Christmas its the cranberrh sauce n stuffing both out . So yes chicken is usually in a low carb hot sauce dish with cauliflower rice.
It's delicious, low carb and all fresh.
The apple works well with celery and a dressing of Greek yoghurt/Lemon Juice/Olive Oil and red wine vinegar.
Oh, and lashings of fresh Dill.
Had anymore cramps @Nayshiftin ?
What is wrong with beetroot, coleslaw and salad, add some crumbled Feta cheese and bingo a low carb lunch.
That sounds yummy
yes, just accept its the norm
That's kind of what I do, more or less. Sucks!
I agree, I pre empt it too as i get very restless legs. I have been up sincd just after two. Cant relax my legs scared they go into a cramp too. Tbh its now affecting me mentally as well as physically.
:: hugs :: Can you get to see a shrink or a counselor or whatever? It might really help & it wouldn't represent any kind of failure etc.
Sorry to hear you are feeling so down. Low carb can take time to get your head around and I know it was a struggle for me initially but I have eventually learning to cook that way by throwing things together again, like I used to when I wasn't low carb. Last night I was tired and nothing much in the house but I had 2/3 of a cabbage and a tiny bit of beef mince and some onions, so I created a sort of cabbage bhaji with the cabbage, an onion and cumin and garam masala and turmeric and some tomato puree and I tossed in the bit of cooked mince at the end. I order that dish from the takeaway occasionally but never cooked it myself and didn't have a recipe but knew roughly what ingredients should go it it and just followed my instinct and it was really tasty and quite quick and filling and will definitely try it again. Didn't weigh or measure anything because all ingredients were low carb.
Yea it is like grieving for the loss . I think because the scales are not going in the direction despite all this its not helping me .Sorry to hear you are feeling so down. Low carb can take time to get your head around and I know it was a struggle for me initially but I have eventually learning to cook that way by throwing things together again, like I used to when I wasn't low carb. Last night I was tired and nothing much in the house but I had 2/3 of a cabbage and a tiny bit of beef mince and some onions, so I created a sort of cabbage bhaji with the cabbage, an onion and cumin and garam masala and turmeric and some tomato puree and I tossed in the bit of cooked mince at the end. I order that dish from the takeaway occasionally but never cooked it myself and didn't have a recipe but knew roughly what ingredients should go it it and just followed my instinct and it was really tasty and quite quick and filling and will definitely try it again. Didn't weigh or measure anything because all ingredients were low carb.
I can understand you finding it tough when your husband is eating all that stuff as my partner eats a massive amount of carbs too and particularly sweet cakes and biscuits. I now try to focus on what I can have and find things to enjoy within that, but initially there was a lot of grieving for the things I can't have. I think what helped me was my first trip to the retinal screening clinic and a guy there being wheelchair bound with very limited sight and at the time it was coming up to Easter and I was bemoaning the fact that I would never again have a Cadbury's Cream Egg (a particular favourite of mine) but I suddenly realized that my grieving for these things was trivial in the scheme compared to his loss of sight and mobility. It was a bit of a turning point for me.
I hope you can start to find some positives and things you enjoy rather than focusing on and grieving for the things you can't have. Once you can turn that corner, it does get easier. I am chuffed to bits with myself for making a tasty and filling meal out of cabbage. My partner had Chinese takeaway.
My daughter mentioned something like silver linings she is doing. so I will look into that. I get my HbA1c soon and I will say then that the meds seem to have a real depressing effect on me. Hopefully she might take that as a q.Sorry to year you are feeling so low @Nayshiftin
It does sound like it might help to speak to your GP about how low your mood is at the moment. Does your surgery have an ‘e consult’ form?
I found that much easier to organise my thoughts and explain how I was feeling because I could change it before clicking ‘send’ and wasn’t tempted to fall into the “oh no, it’s fine really…” habits that I tend to fall back on face to face. Being more honest about how I was feeling was easier written down somehow?
As @Eddy Edson says, you might be able to access counselling, or get some other MH support like ‘social prescribing’, which might really help?
Thinking of you.
I looked online and not to do with diabetes and empagliflozin but to do with it when it treats heart conditions. Its known to cause depression. So I have jumped my queue as i have suffered with this thinking it was me not being able to help myself. I just wonder as its locked for non professionals if it has any knowledge if it improves after a few months etcSorry to year you are feeling so low @Nayshiftin
It does sound like it might help to speak to your GP about how low your mood is at the moment. Does your surgery have an ‘e consult’ form?
I found that much easier to organise my thoughts and explain how I was feeling because I could change it before clicking ‘send’ and wasn’t tempted to fall into the “oh no, it’s fine really…” habits that I tend to fall back on face to face. Being more honest about how I was feeling was easier written down somehow?
As @Eddy Edson says, you might be able to access counselling, or get some other MH support like ‘social prescribing’, which might really help?
Thinking of you.
