conguitos
05-19-2009, 06:15 AM
Hi all, have some questions and perhaps someone can relate to what I've experienced throughout my life. I've spotted some over the internet that seem to have had the same "career" as I have. My endo told me of another guy that is similar to me, type 1 dropping insulin usage, intermittently or not...
I would like to clarify that to me, those classifications, type 1, type 2 or whatever, are misleading for several reasons, even distinctions between ms or diabetes are, to me, harming. Distinctions lead to isolation in research, instead of working together on why there are so many commonalities between ms and diabetes, for example, research is scattered through artificially diferenciated fields, withouth communication in between.
As of lately, the tingle (running ants) on my face, left foot, left hand and left butt (no joke there) has returned, the little finger of my left hand is numb and I feel a pressure on the left side of my head and my left ear is numb as well. This seems to have a correlation to me letting my BG go a little bit up (by eating more carbs and skipping my herbs, minerals, metals...). Lately I'm usually between 5 and 12. The 12 was a test I did to see what happens...
The problem is, that I've had that for >20 years, sometimes really maddening, as I can't sleep well when everything on the left side is tingling/numb. With 17 I woke one day like that, and since then it has never completely disappeared. You try to ignore it but you'll never get accustomed.
With 30 I went to a specialist, he did a scan, but found nothing wrong. Instead he suggested that I take Valium, which I declined. So I decided to live with it.
Last friday I decided to test how well my glucose metabolism reacts to fast acting glucose in small amounts. Bought lactose free chocolate and ate two rows as a dessert, as a meal I had meat with chickpeas. Quite carby the whole thing. What happened:
before meal 7.2
after 45 minutes 12.5
(freaked out, took my herbs, minerals, metals, 4 cl of brandy and 50 pushups)
after 90 minutes 6.2
after 140 minutes 5.2
after 200 minutes 4.5
The carbs, were around 40 gr, 30gr for the chickpeas and 10 gr from the chocolate, what caused the spike, at least to me, was the chocolate.
I don't think that the combination of the brandy + pushups + supplements, could be the sole "culprit" for the huge decrease in BG in 45 minutes, my body processed 40gr of carbs in around 90 minutes that's around 8x the level of fasting BG I should have. It looks like something suddenly kicked in, like if the sensors that measure BG activated the b-cells and those began producing/releasing insulin in masses after some threshold (admitedlly too high, and seems to be randomly reset) was reached. Sadly, I haven't no data about how much insulin a b-cell can produce per minute/hour, so any attempt to calculate how many b-cells you need to bring down 40gr of carbs in 3 hours, is futile. I know that such a calculation would be just an approximation, but at least it would be something to work on.
My guess is that, at least in me, there must be some sort of communication problem between the different systems that are responsible for my glucose metabolism. Sometimes I can be low for hours, without correction and then suddenly, someone begins to release glucose, then I can be high 7-8 for hours and for no apparent reason someone thinks that it would be about time to bring the BG down in minutes.
I've also had episodes of losing weight very rapidly in the past, from being slightly overweight to around the right BMI in weeks without following any diet. Always linked to some kind of stress. Also the bad sight, that I had, usually lasted for 4 to 7 days and began at the end of summer, beginning of fall, then at the beginning of spring, the tingling would return in force, having a weird feeling in my feet.
I suspect that my problem, is in part, due to my nervous system (mainly the brain) being sometimes out of order. Giving wrong directives and just not paying attention. I don't think that I've been autoimmune diabetic for the last 20 years and surviving without any therapy, but then, who knows, I didn't go to a doctor for controls for years.
Is my tingling some form of neuropathy? Probably yes, but caused by what? The daily acute stress brought up by myself in the past? Out of whack BG levels for > 20 years? And why mostly only the left side of my body? Hmmm, the chicken-egg problem.
Sure, eating a lot of refined carbs (or whole grain products), gluten and dairy products (I always had to be forced to drink milk as a kid) didn't help either, at least, carbs and gluten, are known to have implications on the nervous system, mainly gluten, being a substance similar to heroine.
Sorry for the long post, but perhaps someone can relate to the things written here. My questions are:
Has someone had similar experiences?
Has someone had a therapy/diagonosis related to stress problems (also as a kid) before being diagnosed diabetic?
Has someone experienced a change in personality after going low carb (being calmer, less anxious)?
Has someone been diagnosed epileptic before or after being diagnosed with diabetes?
Thank you for your time :)
I would like to clarify that to me, those classifications, type 1, type 2 or whatever, are misleading for several reasons, even distinctions between ms or diabetes are, to me, harming. Distinctions lead to isolation in research, instead of working together on why there are so many commonalities between ms and diabetes, for example, research is scattered through artificially diferenciated fields, withouth communication in between.
As of lately, the tingle (running ants) on my face, left foot, left hand and left butt (no joke there) has returned, the little finger of my left hand is numb and I feel a pressure on the left side of my head and my left ear is numb as well. This seems to have a correlation to me letting my BG go a little bit up (by eating more carbs and skipping my herbs, minerals, metals...). Lately I'm usually between 5 and 12. The 12 was a test I did to see what happens...
The problem is, that I've had that for >20 years, sometimes really maddening, as I can't sleep well when everything on the left side is tingling/numb. With 17 I woke one day like that, and since then it has never completely disappeared. You try to ignore it but you'll never get accustomed.
With 30 I went to a specialist, he did a scan, but found nothing wrong. Instead he suggested that I take Valium, which I declined. So I decided to live with it.
Last friday I decided to test how well my glucose metabolism reacts to fast acting glucose in small amounts. Bought lactose free chocolate and ate two rows as a dessert, as a meal I had meat with chickpeas. Quite carby the whole thing. What happened:
before meal 7.2
after 45 minutes 12.5
(freaked out, took my herbs, minerals, metals, 4 cl of brandy and 50 pushups)
after 90 minutes 6.2
after 140 minutes 5.2
after 200 minutes 4.5
The carbs, were around 40 gr, 30gr for the chickpeas and 10 gr from the chocolate, what caused the spike, at least to me, was the chocolate.
I don't think that the combination of the brandy + pushups + supplements, could be the sole "culprit" for the huge decrease in BG in 45 minutes, my body processed 40gr of carbs in around 90 minutes that's around 8x the level of fasting BG I should have. It looks like something suddenly kicked in, like if the sensors that measure BG activated the b-cells and those began producing/releasing insulin in masses after some threshold (admitedlly too high, and seems to be randomly reset) was reached. Sadly, I haven't no data about how much insulin a b-cell can produce per minute/hour, so any attempt to calculate how many b-cells you need to bring down 40gr of carbs in 3 hours, is futile. I know that such a calculation would be just an approximation, but at least it would be something to work on.
My guess is that, at least in me, there must be some sort of communication problem between the different systems that are responsible for my glucose metabolism. Sometimes I can be low for hours, without correction and then suddenly, someone begins to release glucose, then I can be high 7-8 for hours and for no apparent reason someone thinks that it would be about time to bring the BG down in minutes.
I've also had episodes of losing weight very rapidly in the past, from being slightly overweight to around the right BMI in weeks without following any diet. Always linked to some kind of stress. Also the bad sight, that I had, usually lasted for 4 to 7 days and began at the end of summer, beginning of fall, then at the beginning of spring, the tingling would return in force, having a weird feeling in my feet.
I suspect that my problem, is in part, due to my nervous system (mainly the brain) being sometimes out of order. Giving wrong directives and just not paying attention. I don't think that I've been autoimmune diabetic for the last 20 years and surviving without any therapy, but then, who knows, I didn't go to a doctor for controls for years.
Is my tingling some form of neuropathy? Probably yes, but caused by what? The daily acute stress brought up by myself in the past? Out of whack BG levels for > 20 years? And why mostly only the left side of my body? Hmmm, the chicken-egg problem.
Sure, eating a lot of refined carbs (or whole grain products), gluten and dairy products (I always had to be forced to drink milk as a kid) didn't help either, at least, carbs and gluten, are known to have implications on the nervous system, mainly gluten, being a substance similar to heroine.
Sorry for the long post, but perhaps someone can relate to the things written here. My questions are:
Has someone had similar experiences?
Has someone had a therapy/diagonosis related to stress problems (also as a kid) before being diagnosed diabetic?
Has someone experienced a change in personality after going low carb (being calmer, less anxious)?
Has someone been diagnosed epileptic before or after being diagnosed with diabetes?
Thank you for your time :)