- Messages
- 15
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Most things in life that are 'good for you', rude people and carrots. Especially carrots.
Hi all.
I was officially diagnosed with Type 2 a month or so ago, but it wasn't a huge surprise as I've been officially pre-diabetic for several years and it runs in the family. Multiple attempts were made to lose weight and 'walk away from diabetes' as my local GP surgery puts it, but they all failed. I think we all think we have more time than we do when it comes to that sort of thing, and having lost 20kg I relapsed and put it all back on again, mostly because of work stress. Anyway, around Christmas time last year my fasting glucose, which was hovering around the 6.7 mark, jumped to 7.0 and the GP told me to get a glucose tolerance test. The hospital screwed up and lost half the sample, and then for complicated life-related reasons I didn't get around to doing the replacement test until recently (if I'm being honest I put it off deliberately, because I was afraid to hear the diagnosis, and I basically knew it was coming by that point).
Anyway - GP seems to be being pretty aggressive about the medical route because they have me on 2000mg Metformin daily and the clinic nurse said not to be surprised if they needed to add another med fairly quickly. Since I've been on lifelong meds for some years now for high blood pressure and ectopic heartbeats, I've already been through the whole pit of despair about being drug-dependant and I am pretty sanguine about it.
I am having some side-effects from the metformin, but not the ones you generally expect. A permanent headache and dizziness seem to be where I'm at. I titrated up a level today from 1000mg to 2000mg but interestingly, the side effects seem to have actually lessened today from yesterday. Weird.
I guess if anything will finally get me to change my habits and lose weight (I'm 160kg so borderline morbidly obese per the NHS scale), it's this. Because the alternative is not pleasant. My dad had Type 2 and was diagnosed in his late 60s but I suspect had had it for a long time before that, and ended up with glaucoma and vascular dementia. Not a nice way to go.
Nutrition is far from my strong suit. I have largely lived off junk food for many years. I cook at home maybe once a week, if I get home early enough and can be bothered, which is rarely. How do people who have busy work lives manage to deal with the nutritional issues? Half the time I don't get home before 8 or 9pm. Nandos is not, I think, a healthy option - although perhaps healthier than KFC to which I'm frankly addicted and will be the thing I miss the most.
Hopefully I'll be here for a long time, but I guess we'll see
I was officially diagnosed with Type 2 a month or so ago, but it wasn't a huge surprise as I've been officially pre-diabetic for several years and it runs in the family. Multiple attempts were made to lose weight and 'walk away from diabetes' as my local GP surgery puts it, but they all failed. I think we all think we have more time than we do when it comes to that sort of thing, and having lost 20kg I relapsed and put it all back on again, mostly because of work stress. Anyway, around Christmas time last year my fasting glucose, which was hovering around the 6.7 mark, jumped to 7.0 and the GP told me to get a glucose tolerance test. The hospital screwed up and lost half the sample, and then for complicated life-related reasons I didn't get around to doing the replacement test until recently (if I'm being honest I put it off deliberately, because I was afraid to hear the diagnosis, and I basically knew it was coming by that point).
Anyway - GP seems to be being pretty aggressive about the medical route because they have me on 2000mg Metformin daily and the clinic nurse said not to be surprised if they needed to add another med fairly quickly. Since I've been on lifelong meds for some years now for high blood pressure and ectopic heartbeats, I've already been through the whole pit of despair about being drug-dependant and I am pretty sanguine about it.
I am having some side-effects from the metformin, but not the ones you generally expect. A permanent headache and dizziness seem to be where I'm at. I titrated up a level today from 1000mg to 2000mg but interestingly, the side effects seem to have actually lessened today from yesterday. Weird.
I guess if anything will finally get me to change my habits and lose weight (I'm 160kg so borderline morbidly obese per the NHS scale), it's this. Because the alternative is not pleasant. My dad had Type 2 and was diagnosed in his late 60s but I suspect had had it for a long time before that, and ended up with glaucoma and vascular dementia. Not a nice way to go.
Nutrition is far from my strong suit. I have largely lived off junk food for many years. I cook at home maybe once a week, if I get home early enough and can be bothered, which is rarely. How do people who have busy work lives manage to deal with the nutritional issues? Half the time I don't get home before 8 or 9pm. Nandos is not, I think, a healthy option - although perhaps healthier than KFC to which I'm frankly addicted and will be the thing I miss the most.
Hopefully I'll be here for a long time, but I guess we'll see
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