It certainly doesn’t feel fine. If I felt better at 200, I may have believed the doctor…
Aww, thank you…I feel like it, especially when my skinny, prediabetic husband eats like a much better diabetic than I do. I’m not very disciplined when it comes to food. As for my A1C, I did have one to diagnose me with diabetes. It was 7.7. I just haven’t had one since, so I don’t know how much progress I’ve made. The doctor didn’t seem to think I needed to know. She told my to take my next blood test before I see her in two months. My hunch is that it’s in the 6.7 range…At my stage in the game, I could get down to the 5’s with any amount of restraint.
As for your A1C, how did it get back up to 9.9? Did you fall off the wagon or are you working it down from a higher number? How long have you been type 2?
I’ve considered the possibility that I have LADA, especially since I also have Hashimoto’s disease and my father has Vitaligo. I really hope I don’t have it, but I did asked to be tested for it and the Endo ordered those tests for my next blood workup in two months. Having said that, I was 30 pounds overweight with a 26.9 BMI at diagnosis and was a carb crack head, so it is possible that I’m type 2. Does LADA present in any particular way at diagnosis? Like some symptoms that type 2’s don’t get? I took the insulin in my second pregnancy because the doctor wanted me to have the strictest control possible. He thought my numbers on my own were not good enough…However, they weren’t through the rood either. I only had two impaired numbers our of four in the glucose tolerance test… I’ll check out your blog. Thank you!
Kelly, who is one of the many women here on TuD who had GDM, was diagnosed as Type 2, got antibody testing, found she was antibody positive, and now she is classified as having Type 1 diabetes and she’s on insulin (and I think just starting to use an insulin pump). In response to my blog on Autoimmune Gestational Diabetes, Kelly commented, “I would add that a sign of autoimmune GDM is being diagnosed under the age of 30, having no or little family history of Type 2, and being diagnosed (or testing positive for sugar in urine tests) before 25 weeks gestation.” Also, Hashimoto’s is very closely linked to Type 1 autoimmune diabetes, especially in women (I have Hashimoto’s as well as Type 1 autoimmune diabetes, diagnosed around the same time). In one of the articles I quote in my blog, the German study that was published in Diabetes Forecast, a really high percentage of the women who required insulin during pregnancy were found to be antibody positive, and have Type 1 diabetes. Hope this helps.
Well all I can offer is that my mom has had type2 for 11 years and has always been low carb. It is hard I will not lie. Carbs are my friend as well and it has been very hard for me to give them up. Like everyone on this board you do learn ways to still eat carbs, but the right amount of carbs made a different way. A diabetes education class is a wealth of knowledge as well. You have come to the right place for great support and great wisdom. You can do this and once you cut your carbs and get all of the high sugar foods out of your system, believe it or not but the cravings leave for the high sugar foods. Also, look at this way I have 3 kids ages 3,4, and 9 and by me keeping junk out of my house it is better for them and I am not tempted to eat it. If i want something I bake it the low carb way and nine times out of ten by the time I go to bake I no longer want it. I stopped going in the center aisles of the store because it is junk(minus nuts) and has high fructose corn syrup which deposits fat to the liver and helps create many health problems. Good luck!
I really do believe that low carbing is the way to go, it just takes a huge commitment and discipline. Your friend sounds fairly typical. I don’t think it’s impossible, but I think I have to ease into it. I’ve come a long way. I used to skip dinner so I wouldn’t waste the calories and I’d eat half s box of those hostess donettes (chocolate). Then, in the morning, I’d polish off the rest of the box for breakfast. I haven’t had one donette since diagnosis, nor will I. Hopefully I’ll get ignited one day and completely give up my addiction.
it’s amazing that you were a carbaholic and you’re now at 40 to 50 grams a day! I can’t imagine…And I’d be so skinny! Maybe I’ll get there. Just eating around 120 grams of carbs a day and I’ve dropped 15. But, more than the weight, it’s the horrible feeling I’d like to avoid. Thank you!
Thank you so much for reminding me that I’m learning to be a new person, and that doesn’t happen over night. So much of who I was was tied up in all that junk I ate. I lived for those sweets, and that’s a hard habit to break.
I agree with BSC. Test after 2 hours. Give your meds time to kick in. And we are all a work in progress, so forgive yourself!!