Hi all, Newbie to the forum here.
so the possibility of maybe being diabetic was raised by my doctor about three years ago when I went with foot pain that turned out to be gout, and she decided that I was too overweight and blood pressure was too high, so she ordered blood and urine tests. I would have been about 18.5-19 stone at the time(quite possibly more), and my HbA1c came back as 55, and at the time she said is was Pre-diabetic.
I had no follow up apart from some retinopathy screening until a couple months ago when I got a letter to make an appointment for a diabetic review. so went along and the nurse took my bloods and sample for testing, checked my feet(all good) weight was 109Kg just over 17 stone, which was down about a stone from the last time I weighed myself about a year previously, this was probably due to me being more strict with my portion control and amount of snacking, I've been working from home after being made redundant last September so not as active being at work as I would have been. But my HbA1c has shot up to 77. And in all honesty, this has shocked me quite a bit. I thought I was doing reasonably well with what I was eating, and the fact I'd lost weight, I would have put money on it improving, or at least stayed similar. I'm not particularly motivated at the best of times, and it has taken a serious hit over the last couple of weeks.
The nurse gave me the choice of starting medication straight away or to try to lower it myself, so have until December to make significant progress as I don't want to take any drugs if I can help it. but I've struggled to make any real progress since, and am considering just calling the DN and going forward with the medication route, even though I don't want to.
So am definitely looking for as much advice, and probably more than I've even thought of yet.
But Hi
so the possibility of maybe being diabetic was raised by my doctor about three years ago when I went with foot pain that turned out to be gout, and she decided that I was too overweight and blood pressure was too high, so she ordered blood and urine tests. I would have been about 18.5-19 stone at the time(quite possibly more), and my HbA1c came back as 55, and at the time she said is was Pre-diabetic.
I had no follow up apart from some retinopathy screening until a couple months ago when I got a letter to make an appointment for a diabetic review. so went along and the nurse took my bloods and sample for testing, checked my feet(all good) weight was 109Kg just over 17 stone, which was down about a stone from the last time I weighed myself about a year previously, this was probably due to me being more strict with my portion control and amount of snacking, I've been working from home after being made redundant last September so not as active being at work as I would have been. But my HbA1c has shot up to 77. And in all honesty, this has shocked me quite a bit. I thought I was doing reasonably well with what I was eating, and the fact I'd lost weight, I would have put money on it improving, or at least stayed similar. I'm not particularly motivated at the best of times, and it has taken a serious hit over the last couple of weeks.
The nurse gave me the choice of starting medication straight away or to try to lower it myself, so have until December to make significant progress as I don't want to take any drugs if I can help it. but I've struggled to make any real progress since, and am considering just calling the DN and going forward with the medication route, even though I don't want to.
So am definitely looking for as much advice, and probably more than I've even thought of yet.
But Hi