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..... and found this forum this afternoon.
I'm a sixty year old male, about 2.5 stones overweight, quite fit and active apart from that. I went to see my GP for the first time in about 5 years last week. I've been experiencing needing to visit the loo too often and thought my diagnosis would be the common middle-age male prostate problem.
A urine test suggested raised blood sugar levels so I went back to the surgery next morning for some blood samples to be taken. I went back this morning for the results. The prostate cancer test was clear, thank God, my cholesterol is OK, buy my fasted blood sugar level was 11.5. I was quite shocked to be told that this meant I had type 2 diabetes. Is a reading of 11.5 really, really bad?
I've been prescribed metformin, and will shortly receive an invitation to the surgery's next diabetes clinic which will give me dietery and other advice, and an appointment at the eye clinic some time soon for a check up.
I have no real symptoms that I know of other than the original reason for visiting the GP in the first place, so I am shocked beyond words at the moment.
Thanks for the forum. I've already learned loads. My first question is - should I get a monitoring kit? My GP didn't mention it, but how am I to know whether the things I'm doing are working or not? If I get one, how often is it sensible to measure?
Thanks to all for your advice, in advance.
I'm a sixty year old male, about 2.5 stones overweight, quite fit and active apart from that. I went to see my GP for the first time in about 5 years last week. I've been experiencing needing to visit the loo too often and thought my diagnosis would be the common middle-age male prostate problem.
A urine test suggested raised blood sugar levels so I went back to the surgery next morning for some blood samples to be taken. I went back this morning for the results. The prostate cancer test was clear, thank God, my cholesterol is OK, buy my fasted blood sugar level was 11.5. I was quite shocked to be told that this meant I had type 2 diabetes. Is a reading of 11.5 really, really bad?
I've been prescribed metformin, and will shortly receive an invitation to the surgery's next diabetes clinic which will give me dietery and other advice, and an appointment at the eye clinic some time soon for a check up.
I have no real symptoms that I know of other than the original reason for visiting the GP in the first place, so I am shocked beyond words at the moment.
Thanks for the forum. I've already learned loads. My first question is - should I get a monitoring kit? My GP didn't mention it, but how am I to know whether the things I'm doing are working or not? If I get one, how often is it sensible to measure?
Thanks to all for your advice, in advance.