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Most of the leg symptoms you talk about is neropathy EXCEPT for the muscle atrophy. I haven't herd of that one from diabetes.
Most often neropathy happens when your BG is out of control, It is normal (for T2s) to have BG return to normal over time. It means that your pancreas is still working, sort of. However, every time your BG rises over 140 you are doing your body damage (as in neropathy). So having BG spike after eating is not a good thing.
Carbs are what spike BG, as far as BG there is no "good carb". Some carby foods have good nutrients in them but you can get the sane nutrients from low carb foods, you dont need carbs.
As far as the neropathy goes having your BG under tight control can stop the progression and even revers neropathy in some cases.
Unfortunately where you live food is rice, rice raises BG High BG leads to neropathy. So you need to change your diet.
There are drugs to help and exercise helps. test your BG 1 hour after eating that will tell you how high your spiking.
Each person is different as to how many carbs there pancreas can take care of. so you need to figure this out by testing.
fat and protein slow the BG rise by slowing the digestion down.
Alcohol interferes with the body's conversion of carbs to BG, however its not a consistent controller of BG.
test and ask.
good luck
Most of the leg symptoms you talk about is neropathy EXCEPT for the muscle atrophy. I haven't herd of that one from diabetes.
Most often neropathy happens when your BG is out of control, It is normal (for T2s) to have BG return to normal over time. It means that your pancreas is still working, sort of. However, every time your BG rises over 140 you are doing your body damage (as in neropathy). So having BG spike after eating is not a good thing.
Carbs are what spike BG, as far as BG there is no "good carb". Some carby foods have good nutrients in them but you can get the sane nutrients from low carb foods, you dont need carbs.
As far as the neropathy goes having your BG under tight control can stop the progression and even revers neropathy in some cases.
Unfortunately where you live food is rice, rice raises BG High BG leads to neropathy. So you need to change your diet.
There are drugs to help and exercise helps. test your BG 1 hour after eating that will tell you how high your spiking.
Each person is different as to how many carbs there pancreas can take care of. so you need to figure this out by testing.
fat and protein slow the BG rise by slowing the digestion down.
Alcohol interferes with the body's conversion of carbs to BG, however its not a consistent controller of BG.
test and ask.
good luck
