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<blockquote data-quote="Teammidwife" data-source="post: 1666058" data-attributes="member: 327757"><p>Hi [USER=452662]@Eternal summer[/USER], how I identify with you. I was diagnosed in 2016, was put on metformin and initially felt I was doing ok. I got my HnA1c down to 41!! then my Gp and nurse wanted me to reduce the metformin (I didn't want to)--- next HbA1c was 42, so they told me to stop it and would not prescribe any more. The next level was 46, but I was told I was "well-controlled" so no need to take it. I felt abandoned, as if they did not care. Since then (June 2017) I have put on a stone in weight, no longer regularly check my blood sugar levels as I can't afford to keep buying the strips, though I have a machine. I read your post and am crying. You are newly diagnosed, you are on metformin, try to see this as a "blip" (yeah, I know, do as I say not as I do). I had stopped reading or contributing to the forum, it was only the title "struggling" that made me read your post.</p><p>I hate myself, I feel down, and that I don't matter - I am overweight so it is my own fault, why should my GP or anyone else care?</p><p>You have only relapsed since Christmas, you can get back in control. I too am NHS, a recently retired midwife, but knowing what I should do and actually doing it are 2 different things. GOOD LUCK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teammidwife, post: 1666058, member: 327757"] Hi [USER=452662]@Eternal summer[/USER], how I identify with you. I was diagnosed in 2016, was put on metformin and initially felt I was doing ok. I got my HnA1c down to 41!! then my Gp and nurse wanted me to reduce the metformin (I didn't want to)--- next HbA1c was 42, so they told me to stop it and would not prescribe any more. The next level was 46, but I was told I was "well-controlled" so no need to take it. I felt abandoned, as if they did not care. Since then (June 2017) I have put on a stone in weight, no longer regularly check my blood sugar levels as I can't afford to keep buying the strips, though I have a machine. I read your post and am crying. You are newly diagnosed, you are on metformin, try to see this as a "blip" (yeah, I know, do as I say not as I do). I had stopped reading or contributing to the forum, it was only the title "struggling" that made me read your post. I hate myself, I feel down, and that I don't matter - I am overweight so it is my own fault, why should my GP or anyone else care? You have only relapsed since Christmas, you can get back in control. I too am NHS, a recently retired midwife, but knowing what I should do and actually doing it are 2 different things. GOOD LUCK [/QUOTE]
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