Health Diabetes & Sugar imbalances

Went for a bloodtest this morning after I complained to my GP of feeling tired.
Fasted from 10pm the previous night and I passed out twice: once during the blood withdrawl and then again resting shortly afterwards.

Really worried i've got diabetes but now i'm really confused?

I thought diabetes means your bloodsugars are too high (from lack of insulin)
Why would I passout from a bloodtest? I never eat breakfast so the 'fast' was normal for me

As well as tiredness, I was also suffering from poor circulation and painful kidneys
Known symptoms of highblood sugar - so this past week I cut out all sugar, felt just as tired but my kidneys felt better.

Measured my blood glucose levels during with a home kit - it averaged 5.9 mmoi/l
Lowest I got it was 3.6 (after mornings training with no real breakfast)
Highest I saw it was 9.1 (few hours after an evening meal)

I am very fit and healthy this September I completed an Ironman distance triathlon
I suck at sprint distances but endurance sports i never seem to tire, I don't think I could do these things with diabetes but it does mean I eat an unhealthy amount of sugar on a daily basis.

All Free unqualified medical advice welcomed from the forum

In my opinion there is no such thing as a healthy amount of sugar. It is like a drug, gives you a really good feeling for a second and then you feel bad afterwards. Looks like a drug too, ever noticed? It should be consumed reaally carefully, or you'll get hooked. Better not to try at all.

http://www.sugarisadrug.com/

ps. I'm just a hippie-freak wearing a tinfoil hat and eating carrots and grass and leaves and stuff... you dont have to listen to me ;)

Wait and see what the GP says. Have a talk with them or the practice nurses
If it is diabetes you will probably be referred to a diabetologist at your local hospital.

Eat healthly, stay off the refined carbohydrates, processed food etc. Rest your self and look after your self.

Let us know what happens

Went for a bloodtest this morning after I complained to my GP of feeling tired.
Fasted from 10pm the previous night and I passed out twice: once during the blood withdrawl and then again resting shortly afterwards.

Really worried i've got diabetes but now i'm really confused?

I thought diabetes means your bloodsugars are too high (from lack of insulin)
Why would I passout from a bloodtest? I never eat breakfast so the 'fast' was normal for me

As well as tiredness, I was also suffering from poor circulation and painful kidneys
Known symptoms of highblood sugar - so this past week I cut out all sugar, felt just as tired but my kidneys felt better.

Measured my blood glucose levels during with a home kit - it averaged 5.9 mmoi/l
Lowest I got it was 3.6 (after mornings training with no real breakfast)
Highest I saw it was 9.1 (few hours after an evening meal)

I am very fit and healthy this September I completed an Ironman distance triathlon
I suck at sprint distances but endurance sports i never seem to tire, I don't think I could do these things with diabetes but it does mean I eat an unhealthy amount of sugar on a daily basis.

All Free unqualified medical advice welcomed from the forum

You are not diabetic.

My wife is a Type 1 and has been since she was six.

PM DFP for all medical advice.

If it turns out that you are, get this

Very good.

"Measured my blood glucose levels during with a home kit - it averaged 5.9 mmoi/l
Lowest I got it was 3.6 (after mornings training with no real breakfast)
Highest I saw it was 9.1 (few hours after an evening meal)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar

But, I don't see why you'd ask on a bike forum mid-way through a GP's diagnosis for information on a condition you may or may not have.

Wait and see what the GP says. Have a talk with them or the practice nurses
If it is diabetes you will probably be referred to a diabetologist at your local hospital.

Eat healthly, stay off the refined carbohydrates, processed food etc. Rest your self and look after your self.

Let us know what happens

Endocrinologist not diabetologist

You are not diabetic.

My wife is a Type 1 and has been since she was six.

PM DFP for all medical advice.

If it turns out that you are, get this

Very good.

Dr Bernstiens book the diabetes solution is better.

No it isn't.

I tested my blood sugar after (unplanned) fasting for a day, I was all jittery and expecting it to have crashed. But it came up as 12mmol (normal 4.5 or so)

Freaked me out a bit, but its always been normal other than that time.

Low sugar level ( high insulin) is also bad.
Had this once and almost passed out. Or it was a mini-stroke and low blood pressure.

My grandad had type 2, my dad has, I have all the symptoms, but my sugar is ok.
What am I missing?

steve redgrave discovered he had diabates shortly before he won the last Olympic gold medal of his, was something like 6 months prior.

But anyway, a lack (hypoglycemia) of glucose is just as bad as excess (hyperglycemia) it goes both ways.

Diabetes isn't "high" blood glucose necessarily but rather the body's inability to control and stabilise it's level in the blood.
Because your body can't produce insulin, the negative feedback mechanism which relies on it when glucose is low is also impaired, so it swings both ways.

Either way, now days, with a reasonable amount self responsibility and careful self assessment , it's not a problem.

It's only a problem when people are irresponsible and neglect themselves.

That would be me then.

Went for a bloodtest this morning .......

All Free unqualified medical advice welcomed from the forum

Get this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_nectar

My girlfriend quit sugar about 14 months ago and turned to this stuff. I did the same but about 2 months ago. Though i'm not as stringent as she is.

Anyway, its great. Its a perfect replacement for sugar; my cravings have stopped and i dont have highs and lows so much.

I've even got my friends dad on it; he's been diabetic for the last 8 years, switched to agave nectar and finds his mood/energy levels are a lot more even.

?.

How can you quit sugar. It's in everything.

You have to COMPLETELY change what you eat.

Its actually a lot easier than you think.

You can eat natural sugars, of course, but nothing with refind sugar - maybe i should've made that clear

So it's possible, then, that the changes to perceived cravings / mood / energy levels are a much a result of more focus on general diet?

I guess so. But its all linked, huh?

Eat better food and cut shit. Refined sugar being part of the shit.

Get a veg box every wednesday from Growing Communities box scheme.
Cut meat to pretty much the weekends.
Swap sugar for Agave.
Go raw about 2 days a week.
Dont eat any pre made / fast food bulshit.
Cycle.
Drum.

sorted.

All Free unqualified medical advice welcomed from the forum

Not a good idea.

Not a good idea.

Bollocks. DFP is more than qualified to pass both comment and dignosis.

FACT.

"Measured my blood glucose levels during with a home kit - it averaged 5.9 mmoi/l
Lowest I got it was 3.6 (after mornings training with no real breakfast)
Highest I saw it was 9.1 (few hours after an evening meal)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sugar

But, I don't see why you'd ask on a bike forum mid-way through a GP's diagnosis for information on a condition you may or may not have.

Win.

can we throw glycemic index or GI into the mix. it's quite important.

i pass out during blood tests, i have a weird phobia about blood pressure. Used to pass out in biology at school, took ages to see the link.

Also any reference to blood illness, even animated school videos about white blood cells or sickle-cell illness used to send me off.

weird.

Htfu.

exactly

can we throw glycemic index or GI into the mix. it's quite important.

Glycemic load is better

There are a few types of diabetic.

PM you my number gimme a call and i can talk you through it.

better at what?
chess?
making an omelet?