Gardengnome
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- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
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- going to a gym
hi all, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes on the 5th January and to be honest still trying to get my head around it. My GP has put me on metformin 500mg twice a day. Since starting the meds I have had the stomach problems which I have read about but also I have been having really bad muscle spasms starting in the middle of my back and coming round to the front. It doesn't say anything about this in the leaflet I have and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this as the pain is getting me down.
Also why is it that when you are told to give up or cut down on certain foods that is all you seems to crave when I didn't crave for them before so finding the diet thing really difficult at the moment also and hoping that this will get better with time.
I certainly have not taken the diagnoses in yet as a part of me still thinks that they have made a mistake.........also why are they not asking me to test my bloods? Is this usual?
Thanks in advance for any help
hi all, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes on the 5th January and to be honest still trying to get my head around it. My GP has put me on metformin 500mg twice a day. Since starting the meds I have had the stomach problems which I have read about but also I have been having really bad muscle spasms starting in the middle of my back and coming round to the front. It doesn't say anything about this in the leaflet I have and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this as the pain is getting me down.
Also why is it that when you are told to give up or cut down on certain foods that is all you seems to crave when I didn't crave for them before so finding the diet thing really difficult at the moment also and hoping that this will get better with time.
I certainly have not taken the diagnoses in yet as a part of me still thinks that they have made a mistake.........also why are they not asking me to test my bloods? Is this usual?
Thanks in advance for any help