Hi all, i am new here and would like to share my story.
I have been type 2 since 2008. i was initialy given metformin but could not take it as i spent more time on the loo than i did doing anything else.
i was put on gliclazide which increased to 2 tablets at breakfast and one at dinner.
the doctor then put me on victoza though that week there was a news article on it causing pancreatic cancer so i went back to the doctor and told her i was concerned as my gran died from that so my doctor took me off it right away.
i was then put on lantus slow release insulin at bed time and around 18 months ago was also put on forxiga which had a big impact on my sugars.
so in a nut shell i was on 30 ml lantus before bed, forxiga before bed and gliclazide at breakfast and lunch.
for the last couple of years i have had chronic pain in mu muscles which i have had extensive tests for. some days were so hard, the pain seemed to be taking over my life.
then a friend suggested that i get my hair analized to see what foods i should avoid. so i made an appointment with a nutritionalist.
when the results came back i was a but dubious. i was told to stop eating wheat, stop drinking milk, and stop drinking caffine. apparently caffine makes you prodice more insulin and contributes to your body storing fat.
so i decided to give this a go and 2 weeks on i am more or less pain free for the first time in years. for the last week i have been sleeping well and not waking up several times a night to use the loo.
after 4 days i stopped the forxiga tablets as i was getting too many low sugar readings. on day six i reduced the insulin doen to 20 ml
on day 8 i reduced the gliclazide down to 2 tablets instead of 3.
on day 10 i cut the insuling down to 15 ml. i stood on the scales and i was 10 lb lighter.
i made apt with my dr who went totaly crazy at me and told me that she did not recomend what i was doing. she said cutting out food groups like wheat was not good for people with medical conditions. i tried reasoning with her that if i continued to take all that medication i would be in big trouble as my sugars were consistently between 4 and 8 but on occasion still going as low as 3.1. I showed her my log and she told me she was booking me back in with the hospital for a review.
she repeated over and over that she did not recoment it. so i asked her how she could justify sayign that when for the last 18 months she had been running tests tind out why my pain was so bad and still had no answers for me and yet in less than 2 weeks on this new diet i was mostly pain free, my sugar levels were stable and i had lost 10lb.
she could not answer me at all and i left her office feeling like a naughty school kid that was doing somethign that she should not be doing.
i am now on day 14, i reduced my insulin again last night to 10ml. and i forgo to take the gliclazide at breakfast. i took one gliclazide with lunch and at 15:00 my sugar dropped to 3.1 again.
i have found that there is very little support frm my doctor. i dont know if i should continue to reduce my medication or not. i work full time so i need to be careful as i spend a lot of time driving. i cant afford to get low sugar levels like this.
the diet i am following now is the harcomb diet, you can find it on facebook and youtube. . it might not work for everyne but it is working for me and its worth a try.
for years i just didnt understand diabetes. and in the early days i probably did not take it seriously enough.
i can hardly believe the change in me in just 2 weeks. this evening i ran up the stairs something i havent been able to do in a long long time due to the muscle pain i have been in.
so often you hear that its impossibe to reverse diabetes. and so often you sit and look at the sugar monitor in despare because the readings are so high.
what i will say is the advice seems to be to eat several small meals through the day. i tried sticking to this as the dietician advised but in the last 2 weeks i have been having 3 good meals a day instead. which actually makes a lot more sense as your insulin will spike 3 times a day instead of 6. its a win win.
i am hoping to stop the insulin altogether soon. who knows what the next 2 weeks will bring.
anyway thanks for reading, i hope it gives someone somewhere hope that they can manage their diabetes better. if you know where to go and what to do.
annalou xx
I have been type 2 since 2008. i was initialy given metformin but could not take it as i spent more time on the loo than i did doing anything else.
i was put on gliclazide which increased to 2 tablets at breakfast and one at dinner.
the doctor then put me on victoza though that week there was a news article on it causing pancreatic cancer so i went back to the doctor and told her i was concerned as my gran died from that so my doctor took me off it right away.
i was then put on lantus slow release insulin at bed time and around 18 months ago was also put on forxiga which had a big impact on my sugars.
so in a nut shell i was on 30 ml lantus before bed, forxiga before bed and gliclazide at breakfast and lunch.
for the last couple of years i have had chronic pain in mu muscles which i have had extensive tests for. some days were so hard, the pain seemed to be taking over my life.
then a friend suggested that i get my hair analized to see what foods i should avoid. so i made an appointment with a nutritionalist.
when the results came back i was a but dubious. i was told to stop eating wheat, stop drinking milk, and stop drinking caffine. apparently caffine makes you prodice more insulin and contributes to your body storing fat.
so i decided to give this a go and 2 weeks on i am more or less pain free for the first time in years. for the last week i have been sleeping well and not waking up several times a night to use the loo.
after 4 days i stopped the forxiga tablets as i was getting too many low sugar readings. on day six i reduced the insulin doen to 20 ml
on day 8 i reduced the gliclazide down to 2 tablets instead of 3.
on day 10 i cut the insuling down to 15 ml. i stood on the scales and i was 10 lb lighter.
i made apt with my dr who went totaly crazy at me and told me that she did not recomend what i was doing. she said cutting out food groups like wheat was not good for people with medical conditions. i tried reasoning with her that if i continued to take all that medication i would be in big trouble as my sugars were consistently between 4 and 8 but on occasion still going as low as 3.1. I showed her my log and she told me she was booking me back in with the hospital for a review.
she repeated over and over that she did not recoment it. so i asked her how she could justify sayign that when for the last 18 months she had been running tests tind out why my pain was so bad and still had no answers for me and yet in less than 2 weeks on this new diet i was mostly pain free, my sugar levels were stable and i had lost 10lb.
she could not answer me at all and i left her office feeling like a naughty school kid that was doing somethign that she should not be doing.
i am now on day 14, i reduced my insulin again last night to 10ml. and i forgo to take the gliclazide at breakfast. i took one gliclazide with lunch and at 15:00 my sugar dropped to 3.1 again.
i have found that there is very little support frm my doctor. i dont know if i should continue to reduce my medication or not. i work full time so i need to be careful as i spend a lot of time driving. i cant afford to get low sugar levels like this.
the diet i am following now is the harcomb diet, you can find it on facebook and youtube. . it might not work for everyne but it is working for me and its worth a try.
for years i just didnt understand diabetes. and in the early days i probably did not take it seriously enough.
i can hardly believe the change in me in just 2 weeks. this evening i ran up the stairs something i havent been able to do in a long long time due to the muscle pain i have been in.
so often you hear that its impossibe to reverse diabetes. and so often you sit and look at the sugar monitor in despare because the readings are so high.
what i will say is the advice seems to be to eat several small meals through the day. i tried sticking to this as the dietician advised but in the last 2 weeks i have been having 3 good meals a day instead. which actually makes a lot more sense as your insulin will spike 3 times a day instead of 6. its a win win.
i am hoping to stop the insulin altogether soon. who knows what the next 2 weeks will bring.
anyway thanks for reading, i hope it gives someone somewhere hope that they can manage their diabetes better. if you know where to go and what to do.
annalou xx
