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Hello everyone!
I've just found this forum - it looks like a treasure trove of information.
I don't have DB myself, but my husband was diagnosed with T2 earlier this month, and we have both started a wholescale change of our diet and lifestyle to help us both to become healthier. Tricky to cook whole-grain everything when your toddler isn't supposed to overload on fibre - but I am personally enjoying the cooking bit, so far. I think it's been caught early since there is no kidney damage yet, and his nerves seem okay. We are waiting for an eye-screening though.
My husband doesn't want to go onto medication if he can help it - but will if it means that future complications could be staved off. The DN refused him a monitor and strips, and so he is expected to try diet and exercise control without knowing how he's doing. He was told to go back if he became more symptomatic. We brought a monitor, lancets, and strips ourselves, and he tests regularly to try to find out how different foods affect him. Readings can start at between 7.5 and 11 mmol first thing, and vary throughout the day, but they never go higher than about 12.5 mmol, or lower than 7.4 mmol.
It's still sinking in, you know? Like they must have made a mistake, or maybe it's a blip. He is 34, just into the obese category and has a grandmother, and great-grandmother with T2. You know how things like diabetes only happen to other people? They don't do they.
I've just found this forum - it looks like a treasure trove of information.
I don't have DB myself, but my husband was diagnosed with T2 earlier this month, and we have both started a wholescale change of our diet and lifestyle to help us both to become healthier. Tricky to cook whole-grain everything when your toddler isn't supposed to overload on fibre - but I am personally enjoying the cooking bit, so far. I think it's been caught early since there is no kidney damage yet, and his nerves seem okay. We are waiting for an eye-screening though.
My husband doesn't want to go onto medication if he can help it - but will if it means that future complications could be staved off. The DN refused him a monitor and strips, and so he is expected to try diet and exercise control without knowing how he's doing. He was told to go back if he became more symptomatic. We brought a monitor, lancets, and strips ourselves, and he tests regularly to try to find out how different foods affect him. Readings can start at between 7.5 and 11 mmol first thing, and vary throughout the day, but they never go higher than about 12.5 mmol, or lower than 7.4 mmol.
It's still sinking in, you know? Like they must have made a mistake, or maybe it's a blip. He is 34, just into the obese category and has a grandmother, and great-grandmother with T2. You know how things like diabetes only happen to other people? They don't do they.