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- Type of diabetes
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- My inability to eat sensibly.
Hi everyone,
I have joined the forum in the hope that I can get the motivation and help to sort myself out. I think I am very much a walking cliche. I am 41 and self employed IT Programme Manager. I was diagnosed with T2 around 4 years ago and I have largely ignored it. I am on Metformin and Cytaglyptin. I just had my blood tests and they came back at 86 which is obviously very very poor and I have began to notice the consequences of my choices. I am up at 5 in the morning and get back around 7.30 at night. (2 hour commute to work and 2 hours back). This means I come back and I am knackered. I am in the office for most of the day. I have a very sweet tooth and probably drink too much. I have flirted with the gym a few times and I have lost some weight but I am 6ft and weigh 16 stone so I need to lose weight. I am quite a faddy eater and that hasn't helped the situation. Also work can sometimes very stressful so thats where comfort eating causes trouble. Symptoms I have include after eating fighting not to fall asleep, or actually falling asleep because I haven't eaten. Pins and needles occasionally that takes a couple of hours to go and repeating thrush.
So I know there are a whole load of really serious symptoms and I certainly am worried about the potential for stroke etc. I have 2 kids 7 & 4 and I am the main breadwinner, so it is very very important that I don't fall apart!
I think I am pretty much at a low point at the minute, so that should be my starting point. A benchmark of being really really rubbish and now I need to pick myself up and actually do something about it. My immediate concern is the falling asleep. I could really do with some advice as to how to deal with that. (It doesn't happen when I drive, its being stuck in meeting rooms all day).
Sorry for the rather self indulgent post but I need to face my diabetes head on and any help or advice will very gratefully received. I am at the docs next Monday to review and update the medicine.
I have joined the forum in the hope that I can get the motivation and help to sort myself out. I think I am very much a walking cliche. I am 41 and self employed IT Programme Manager. I was diagnosed with T2 around 4 years ago and I have largely ignored it. I am on Metformin and Cytaglyptin. I just had my blood tests and they came back at 86 which is obviously very very poor and I have began to notice the consequences of my choices. I am up at 5 in the morning and get back around 7.30 at night. (2 hour commute to work and 2 hours back). This means I come back and I am knackered. I am in the office for most of the day. I have a very sweet tooth and probably drink too much. I have flirted with the gym a few times and I have lost some weight but I am 6ft and weigh 16 stone so I need to lose weight. I am quite a faddy eater and that hasn't helped the situation. Also work can sometimes very stressful so thats where comfort eating causes trouble. Symptoms I have include after eating fighting not to fall asleep, or actually falling asleep because I haven't eaten. Pins and needles occasionally that takes a couple of hours to go and repeating thrush.
So I know there are a whole load of really serious symptoms and I certainly am worried about the potential for stroke etc. I have 2 kids 7 & 4 and I am the main breadwinner, so it is very very important that I don't fall apart!
I think I am pretty much at a low point at the minute, so that should be my starting point. A benchmark of being really really rubbish and now I need to pick myself up and actually do something about it. My immediate concern is the falling asleep. I could really do with some advice as to how to deal with that. (It doesn't happen when I drive, its being stuck in meeting rooms all day).
Sorry for the rather self indulgent post but I need to face my diabetes head on and any help or advice will very gratefully received. I am at the docs next Monday to review and update the medicine.