Callmestar
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I got a Freestyle Libra 2 on a free trial. It's one of these blood glucose monitors that sits permanently on your arm so you can get a blood glucose reading whenever you need to.
I've had ongoing issues with ill health for several years now which I've posted elsewhere on this forum. With one of my main symptoms being extreme thirst and frequent urination, although m tests had never shown any sign of diabetes with my Hba1c always well within range. Recently though I had been having episodes where I'd start feeling very faint and weak, but also wired/simulated in the brain, so I thought perhaps it's low blood sugar along with adrenals pumping out which is making me feel stimulated. Hence I got this device to check.
I had one of the episodes of feeling faint and weak yesterday and testing my blood sugar and it was 5.8mmol/L / 104.4mg/dL, so it seems unlikely those symptoms are from low blood sugar but anyway other than the odd one of reading below 6, since using this blood glucose monitor, I can see my blood sugar even when fasting seems to sit well above 6.0mmol/L / 108mg/dL, which going by most information I can find, is classed as pre diabetes. I also wonder if i'm very sensitive to a very slight drop in blood sugar now, given the symptoms i'm having of feeling faint and weak which gradually subside somewhat after eating.
I just don't know what to do anymore. Many hear say, eat high carb, peat type foods, and they do in the short term make me feel a bit better. But equally my cholesterol is high, and my blood sugar looks to be a mess as well. My functional medicine doctor wants me to eat paleo type diet and is adamant on no orange juice etc which I said I was drinking via some of the ideas here. I do think i'm probably going to have to go paleo / low carb as I can't risk developing diabetes on top of everything else but it just seems a nightmare finding any solution or knowing what the right thing to do is.
I'm 80kg, 5'9, carry a decent bit of muscle but have a slight layer of fat over belly and chest.
I've had ongoing issues with ill health for several years now which I've posted elsewhere on this forum. With one of my main symptoms being extreme thirst and frequent urination, although m tests had never shown any sign of diabetes with my Hba1c always well within range. Recently though I had been having episodes where I'd start feeling very faint and weak, but also wired/simulated in the brain, so I thought perhaps it's low blood sugar along with adrenals pumping out which is making me feel stimulated. Hence I got this device to check.
I had one of the episodes of feeling faint and weak yesterday and testing my blood sugar and it was 5.8mmol/L / 104.4mg/dL, so it seems unlikely those symptoms are from low blood sugar but anyway other than the odd one of reading below 6, since using this blood glucose monitor, I can see my blood sugar even when fasting seems to sit well above 6.0mmol/L / 108mg/dL, which going by most information I can find, is classed as pre diabetes. I also wonder if i'm very sensitive to a very slight drop in blood sugar now, given the symptoms i'm having of feeling faint and weak which gradually subside somewhat after eating.
I just don't know what to do anymore. Many hear say, eat high carb, peat type foods, and they do in the short term make me feel a bit better. But equally my cholesterol is high, and my blood sugar looks to be a mess as well. My functional medicine doctor wants me to eat paleo type diet and is adamant on no orange juice etc which I said I was drinking via some of the ideas here. I do think i'm probably going to have to go paleo / low carb as I can't risk developing diabetes on top of everything else but it just seems a nightmare finding any solution or knowing what the right thing to do is.
I'm 80kg, 5'9, carry a decent bit of muscle but have a slight layer of fat over belly and chest.
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