Does anyone feel a little isolated and frustrated for the lack of information for skinny type 2s.
I feel that I am being treated in the same way as a lifestyle type 2 and although I appreciate that high blood sugars are the same outcome I feel I need access to more specialised dietary and lifestyle advice.
I am within a healthy weight and BMI and all my blood markers are healthy apart from the HBA 1C.
I exercise regularly and definitely well within suggested healthy margins and my diet is pretty sound - according to the diabetic nurses. I am unsure of how much metformin and statins will improve my situation as I may not have much insulin resistance. There is very little advice that can be offered to me specifically on this other than 'try it and see' and ' you need to take the medication as soon as possible to have the best long term outcomes' - if you are already in shock about having type 2 diabetes and have been told that it is probably more 'genetic' (my father has 'skinny' type 2) then surely this merits more testing to check that the standard approach is the right one for you. I also do not like the idea of suddenly taking medication for the rest of my life when seemingly everything seems pretty ok apart from the blood sugars.
Basically, I don't feel that my personal situation is being considered in the advice I have been given and find it unhelpful and frustrating to be given general advice about loosing weight, changing diet and exercise when I am effectively already living within the guidelines. Apparently approximately 10% of T2D sufferers come under this 'skinny' bracket and I feel that some further procedural testing and/or specialist advice would be very helpful.
It would be great if skinny type 2s were given a completely different category (perhaps not called diabetic at all) and hopefully result in a different way of dealing with us as regards access to advice and services.
Anyone else feeling a bit angry and as though their true needs are not being met?
