Type weird seems correct!
If a non-diabetic, or a well-controlled diabetic body has enough protein to convert into glucose, you may show ketosis, but not ketoACIDosis. They are 2 different things. Any time your body burns fat, you produce ketones. That is the basis of extreme low-carb diet advocates recommending ketone testing – if you’re producing ketones, your carb intake is low enough, and you are burning fat. In addition, if you fast for a day or two, you are likely to produce ketones, because you are not taking in any nutrients. In either case, if you’re getting enough protein, you don’t need many or maybe even any carbs.
On the other hand, ketoacidosis is what happens when you don’t have enough insulin to prevent MASSIVE breakdown of fat, and the ketones produced then alter the pH (acid-base) balance of your blood, and cause your organs to shut down. When you see the pictures of emaciated children before the common availability of insulin, it is because they have burned out all their fat, and then muscle, and all that is left is skin and bones. And then they died. Not a pretty picture!
Thank you Natalie! Iknew there wS a difference but didn’t know what. My friend, the grandma, is worried about me bless her heart! Her husband and now her ggirl has 2 and 1 respectively and she has been to several nutritionalists and is convinced my low carb eating is detrimental. I was beginning to doubt it too!
A lot of dietitians will tell you that low-carb eating is detrimental. They are quoting to you what they learned in school. There is still controversy over it, and since NO ONE has time to read all the studies in detail, people tend to go with the information that supports their own point of view.
There are more and more studies coming out that say either that low-carb is more effective, or at least not harmful – but it’s going to be decades before any of this is resolved, due to the slow progress of science and the tendency of humans to have their minds made up and not want to be confused by any facts!
So you essentially need to do what makes sense to you, after researching both sides as well as you can. I went on a carbohydrate binge in the first part of 2010 (because I LOVE carbs!) and couldn’t take enough insulin to handle it, and ended up in a coma. Since then, I’ve limited carbs (not eliminated them!) and my BGs are doing better, and I’ve lost significant weight. The coma may have done some permanent damage to my kidneys (waiting on lab results, but I’ve been having foamy pee, a possible sign of proteinuria). I also lost some of my few remaining beta cells, and need more insulin than I did before. So I’m treating carbs very gingerly as a result.
And I guess the final word is: MY body, MY science experiment – you have to do what you think is right, and hope it all turns out well in the end!
Natalie, Im laughing! For sure not at you or maybe even not with you because Im sure you arent laughing at this but your pragmatic way of saying figure out what you have to do and hope for the best! Guess it could be either way. Eat carbs and hope, tho you have proven that not such a great idea or dont eat carbs and hope. Wonder what Richard has done? Im sorry your experiment didnt work for you. I dont care what the low-carbers say it isnt that easy to go out to eat or even to watch your skinny eat anything and everything hubby because he will just get skinnier if he doesnt, eat like a horse and not even take a nosh. But I guess you are right. I got the idea years ago that if carbs were going to put my blood glucose up then why eat carbs. So why am I chomping to add carbs? humpt Natalie what kind of coma did you go into? I know you can if the insulin isnt working and you go way high but I was under the impression (mistaken?) that if you went to low your liver would kick in. But doesnt sound like you could be to low. Need a confused sign. Thot I knew some about diabetes but the longer im on this forum the less I know!!! LOL Enjoy so much talking to you!!! Thanks Karen
Well, I must be in a good mood if I can make someone laugh!!! 
The coma I went into was HHS (Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar State). It’s what happens when you DO have enough insulin in you to prevent DKA, but not enough to bring the BG down. My BG was over 600 when I was admitted to the hospital and I was in acute kidney failure and my liver enzymes were in the 100’s when normal is less than 40. Part of the reason I call myself Type Weird, though, is because when they started to treat me, the Type 2 protocols they tried to use didn’t bring my BGs down (I really am insulin-deficient, and my diabetes is NOT weight related), so Kathy, the CDE on duty (who knows me) told them I was a Type 1, and they switched to Type 1 protocols, and I started to improve.
So Kathy, my doc, another CDE friend of mine who lives in Ohio, and I have all agreed that when it comes to medical matters, I simply tell them I’m a Type 1, and I save Type Weird (which is the literal truth), with all its idiosyncrasies (including being a low glycator) for my friends, who will take the time and empathy to understand! It’s like having one foot in each world, and at least gives me empathy for both!
wow girl!!! just wow
Exactly. Not Type Weird. Type Wow. ;0)
A medical marvel (just what we don’t want to be, eh?)
I’m kind of like you caprifoglio… There’s not a soul in my family tree that has Type 1… No inexplicable “young deceased” either…grandad was only one at 52, but he smoked like a chimney and a heart attack got him. I got a pretty bad bout of food poisoning about 6 months before I was diagnosed, so everyone’s best bet is that it was my trigger-event…
I sincerely hope there isn’t a genetic link…I found out about my D1 one month AFTER my wife and I found out she was pregnant with our first…so, the lad was conceived pretty much while I was in the worst health possible. Scares me to death but I recognize it’s very survivable…
Unfortunately, there IS a genetic link, but it isn’t very strong. Something like 6% if the father is Type 1. So your little one will just have to take his/her chances, and you will love him/her so much that there will be no question but that you will take excellent care of him/her, regardless of whether diabetes hits or not.
You just have to live life with whatever it throws at you; just do your best and don’t get into any guilt or blame games. Life is life for everyone.