Hello,
I've been lurking for a couple of weeks so figured I'd join since I've gleaned much insight from you all. Here's whats been happening to me for the last couple of weeks.
I was diagnosed just over two weeks ago after a phone call to attend the gp asap.
The sit down was pretty good, I have diabetes and there is some confusion over which type so the conversation goes.
My bloods came back after a routine screen with a HBA1c of 106 .... .... .... Apparently this is bad, really bad!
That Friday evening I was asked to goto the local hospital for more tests and for monitoring. They agreed it was bad hah! However because I had no symptoms and the fact the diabetes specialists had gone home after 4 hours they decided to release me back into the wild with advise to take metaformin immeadiately. I went home and bought Jason Fuengs book and read it back to back in 24 hours. Immeadiately started low carbing to see what would happen, first with a taper.
Saturday morning off I went to the out of hours GP to get said prescription. Started to take them but no dice, as mentioned by so many of you the side effects are interesting if you are into bathroom interior desing
That Monday I was back at the GP, had a conversation with her about the side effects and moved to a slow release version which is much better for me. Later in the day I say my diabetic nurse and had an appointment booked with the hospital team later in the week.
Going back to the hospital they did an antibody test and are convinced I'm type 2.
Yesterday I saw the gp again, started on a statin and upped to 1000mg of the SR metaformin.
Over the last two weeks my fasting bloods have gone from 19 down to 9.8 this morning. I think that means low carbing is working (maybe). Although I find about 40-50g carbs works for me. Otherwise I can't function.
After all of the above I think the NHS has really tried pretty hard to help me and moved pretty quickly to figure out whats going on.
Now for the long haul, low carb, more exercise!
I hope you enjoyed this fun journey and bravo to all of you for giving up your hard earned knowledge!
I've been lurking for a couple of weeks so figured I'd join since I've gleaned much insight from you all. Here's whats been happening to me for the last couple of weeks.
I was diagnosed just over two weeks ago after a phone call to attend the gp asap.
The sit down was pretty good, I have diabetes and there is some confusion over which type so the conversation goes.
My bloods came back after a routine screen with a HBA1c of 106 .... .... .... Apparently this is bad, really bad!
That Friday evening I was asked to goto the local hospital for more tests and for monitoring. They agreed it was bad hah! However because I had no symptoms and the fact the diabetes specialists had gone home after 4 hours they decided to release me back into the wild with advise to take metaformin immeadiately. I went home and bought Jason Fuengs book and read it back to back in 24 hours. Immeadiately started low carbing to see what would happen, first with a taper.
Saturday morning off I went to the out of hours GP to get said prescription. Started to take them but no dice, as mentioned by so many of you the side effects are interesting if you are into bathroom interior desing
That Monday I was back at the GP, had a conversation with her about the side effects and moved to a slow release version which is much better for me. Later in the day I say my diabetic nurse and had an appointment booked with the hospital team later in the week.
Going back to the hospital they did an antibody test and are convinced I'm type 2.
Yesterday I saw the gp again, started on a statin and upped to 1000mg of the SR metaformin.
Over the last two weeks my fasting bloods have gone from 19 down to 9.8 this morning. I think that means low carbing is working (maybe). Although I find about 40-50g carbs works for me. Otherwise I can't function.
After all of the above I think the NHS has really tried pretty hard to help me and moved pretty quickly to figure out whats going on.
Now for the long haul, low carb, more exercise!
I hope you enjoyed this fun journey and bravo to all of you for giving up your hard earned knowledge!
