I m AiShia diagnosed with diabetes 10 yrs ago (reading 75) Up and down over the years. I am finding it hard sometimes to get back to a normal reading especially as the G P are almost insisting that I take Metformin. Is it to cover themselves in the end and to make these drug companies even richer.
Im Aishia diagnosed with Type 2 about 10 years ago. It was 75 then. Been upd down o er the years. It is really hard work sometimes to get it down to
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Dear @Aishia,
I got diagnosed with Type2 Diabetes a week or so ago. I was asked by the doctor to take Metformin ER. I was reluctant to take it. A friend of mine suggested me this forum and people here have helped me a lot. Neither am I a doctor nor experienced at this. So, I am just going to tell you what I am doing with my life to deal with it.
1. I have completely changed my diet - low-carb foods.
2. Intermittent fasting >16 hours (sometimes it is around 22 hours).
3. 2 meals a day. Sometimes, even one.
4. I am exercising daily and go on long brisk walks.
5. I am not taking any medications.
With the above approach, I was able to lose 7 kg until now. I measured my glucose level today, and both fasting and post-fasting were in the normal range. However, this is just one data point I have. So, not convincing enough yet. I wish you success and hope some of the experienced members of the forum - @Pipp, @valann, @Debandez, @MrsA2 - would be able to help you out.
I got diagnosed with Type2 Diabetes a week or so ago. I was asked by the doctor to take Metformin ER. I was reluctant to take it. A friend of mine suggested me this forum and people here have helped me a lot. Neither am I a doctor nor experienced at this. So, I am just going to tell you what I am doing with my life to deal with it.
1. I have completely changed my diet - low-carb foods.
2. Intermittent fasting >16 hours (sometimes it is around 22 hours).
3. 2 meals a day. Sometimes, even one.
4. I am exercising daily and go on long brisk walks.
5. I am not taking any medications.
With the above approach, I was able to lose 7 kg until now. I measured my glucose level today, and both fasting and post-fasting were in the normal range. However, this is just one data point I have. So, not convincing enough yet. I wish you success and hope some of the experienced members of the forum - @Pipp, @valann, @Debandez, @MrsA2 - would be able to help you out.
Hi Aishia,
Welcome to the forums
I've been diagnosed a similar time to you and I've had my doctors insist on medication, in fact they did try me on metforming but I'm allergic to it so they have me on something else (look below my post), I can never remember the name. I only found this forum less than 3 months ago and they have helped me to understand and cope. I am now following the low carb diet and it really is making a difference to me, so have a read around the forums as it may help you too.
Do you have a BG meter? if not I suggest you invest in one so that you can see what spikes you, I test upon waking then just before eating and 2 hours after the first bite.
I am also Not a doctor, just someone with T2D that joined these forums and have never felt alone with my diabetes and am trying to get off of my medication too.
Looking forward to reading more of your posts
Well keep up with it I say before they really try and get you on the Metformin.Because in the end we are only a no. No name, just no.So it is up to ourselves in the end.Just sometimes just not convinced about what the G Ps say. Because I had a rhesus baby. She nearly died because the G P forgot to give me an antibody injection. My sister lost her baby(still birth)(rhesus again)at 8 months just because the nurse but the wrong blood group down on her clinic card. What did they do try and cover themselves and say that the Ford (cord) has gone round the baby's neck.
So get the willpower to do it ourselves is the answer in the end.
So get the willpower to do it ourselves is the answer in the end.
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Sorry, I'm not the one to comment on metformin, or any other medication. Never been offered any, but that's because my surgery's system doesn't have me logged as T2 (long old story). Just means I have to be in control of my own body and health without medical help
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Thanks for the tag @krishk
Hi @Aishia and welcome
Sorry to hear about the bad experiences with GPs. My family have had a couple of bad experiences too. One of those was that my daughter got drug induced lupus from acne meds. Turned out she should have has regular blood tests done after being put on them which didn't happen. My mum was offered thalidomide when pregnant with me, thankfully she declined. I'm very wary of taking meds and declined metformin and statins when first diagnosed. I was also threatened with blood pressure meds as that was way too high also. To date I'm completely med free and I was diagnosed t2 almost 5 years ago now.
The key is to lower carbs. Carbs turn to sugar which we struggle to deal with. We are all different and to find out the food/drink your body struggles with you can use a blood glucose monitor. Testing before you eat and 2 hours after, keeping a food diary and you can pop results into an app called 'mysugr', this will give you an estimated hba1c. I've linked a leaflet which gives more info.
When I tested myself I realised I needed to give certain foods a very wide berth. I made myself a swaps list which I've also attached.
I was very surprised when diagnosed that savoury food turned to sugar. These infographs confirm approximately just how much.
phcuk.org
I found this book online for £5 (going back a few years) and it's still the one I recommend despite having discovered many more excellent books on type 2 diabetes.
The Diabetes Weight-Loss Cookbook: A life-changing diet to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes https://amzn.eu/d/gjNr69A
The success stories thread is excellent too with members sharing their great results. I made a short video showing my results and how I achieved them which can be found in this thread
www.diabetes.co.uk
This forum is amazing with so many experts (the diabetics themselves) happy to help others.
Hi @Aishia and welcome
Sorry to hear about the bad experiences with GPs. My family have had a couple of bad experiences too. One of those was that my daughter got drug induced lupus from acne meds. Turned out she should have has regular blood tests done after being put on them which didn't happen. My mum was offered thalidomide when pregnant with me, thankfully she declined. I'm very wary of taking meds and declined metformin and statins when first diagnosed. I was also threatened with blood pressure meds as that was way too high also. To date I'm completely med free and I was diagnosed t2 almost 5 years ago now.
The key is to lower carbs. Carbs turn to sugar which we struggle to deal with. We are all different and to find out the food/drink your body struggles with you can use a blood glucose monitor. Testing before you eat and 2 hours after, keeping a food diary and you can pop results into an app called 'mysugr', this will give you an estimated hba1c. I've linked a leaflet which gives more info.
When I tested myself I realised I needed to give certain foods a very wide berth. I made myself a swaps list which I've also attached.
I was very surprised when diagnosed that savoury food turned to sugar. These infographs confirm approximately just how much.
Public Health Collaboration
phcuk.org
I found this book online for £5 (going back a few years) and it's still the one I recommend despite having discovered many more excellent books on type 2 diabetes.
The Diabetes Weight-Loss Cookbook: A life-changing diet to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes https://amzn.eu/d/gjNr69A
The success stories thread is excellent too with members sharing their great results. I made a short video showing my results and how I achieved them which can be found in this thread
45 minute video including 79 slides on how I put my type 2 diabetes into reverse
I found this brilliant forum after my type 2 diabetes diagnosis in December 2017. The forum members helped and guided me back to good health in a short space of time. Forever grateful. So i recently decided to make this video sharing exactly how I put my type 2 into reverse and also lost over...
www.diabetes.co.uk
This forum is amazing with so many experts (the diabetics themselves) happy to help others.
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Thank you all for your replies. I have really tried for the last 7 weeks (the low carb diet). The reading s of 10-11s
have gradually come down to 8 and 9 and this week have had a lot of 6s and even 3 which were 5.7.
Having the Hba1c next week.So hoping it will have come down a lot.
have gradually come down to 8 and 9 and this week have had a lot of 6s and even 3 which were 5.7.
Having the Hba1c next week.So hoping it will have come down a lot.
Thank you, and the thing is I event really started on the exercise yet because I was feeling
too exhausted all the time.Will start some gentle exercise to start off with now.
too exhausted all the time.Will start some gentle exercise to start off with now.
