Thank you so much to those of you who answered my queries about diagnosis. On the basis of my fasting blood sugars being high (8ish) but not excessive he says I have type 2 diabetes. Is this really all they do to diagnose this?
Anyway he has referred me to have an oral glucose tolerance test just to check it really is diabetes as I'm such a bizarre presentation for type 2, and says we'll take it from there with regards to treatment. That will be "some time next week", and to come back to the GP in 2 weeks.
Meanwhile he told me to:
- lose weight (umm... I've already lost 8lbs in the last 3 weeks and am underweight)
- eat a healthy diet (nothing to tell me about what that was, and when I said I eat a healthy diet he said obviously not enough)
- do 30 minutes walk a day (I explained I spend at least 5 hours a day on my feet, much of that walking)
- if I do this properly I will probably not need any other treatment.
But much as I tried to find out, he couldn't tell me what I need to do differently. Argh!
Meanwhile I'm feeling steadily more ill, and today's check of my BM (I work in a hospital) was 13.4 which is surely not good. Is waiting 2 weeks with a BM like that sensible? I'm just not sure if I'm being paranoid, or if my GP is rubbish. I feel pretty upset at having been diagnosed, and feel as if I've just been abandoned and made to feel awkward for complaining that I haven't been given any information and want tests quicker.
Sorry to ramble and rant. But any advice how to approach this and what a "healthy diet" for a diabetic is would be so much appreciated! (he didn't even tell me I can't eat chocolate, and I'm SURE diabetics can't do that!)
Anyway he has referred me to have an oral glucose tolerance test just to check it really is diabetes as I'm such a bizarre presentation for type 2, and says we'll take it from there with regards to treatment. That will be "some time next week", and to come back to the GP in 2 weeks.
Meanwhile he told me to:
- lose weight (umm... I've already lost 8lbs in the last 3 weeks and am underweight)
- eat a healthy diet (nothing to tell me about what that was, and when I said I eat a healthy diet he said obviously not enough)
- do 30 minutes walk a day (I explained I spend at least 5 hours a day on my feet, much of that walking)
- if I do this properly I will probably not need any other treatment.
But much as I tried to find out, he couldn't tell me what I need to do differently. Argh!
Meanwhile I'm feeling steadily more ill, and today's check of my BM (I work in a hospital) was 13.4 which is surely not good. Is waiting 2 weeks with a BM like that sensible? I'm just not sure if I'm being paranoid, or if my GP is rubbish. I feel pretty upset at having been diagnosed, and feel as if I've just been abandoned and made to feel awkward for complaining that I haven't been given any information and want tests quicker.
Sorry to ramble and rant. But any advice how to approach this and what a "healthy diet" for a diabetic is would be so much appreciated! (he didn't even tell me I can't eat chocolate, and I'm SURE diabetics can't do that!)