I didn't get an appointment for 2 months! The bloods r back within hours, it's the availability of the doctors and the appointments that's not there unfortunately...
Be careful with Gliclazide it's not a good drug it completely wrecks ur pancreas and if it isn't helping you control ur levels I would ask to change it as it puts massive pressure on ur pancreas and can sometimes wear ur beta cells out to exhaustion pretty quick. This obviously depends on the type of diabetes you have, for LADA it's just no good because no matter how much pressure the meds put on ur pancreas, if the cells r not there they're not there and it will just exhaust the ones u have left quicker!
My morning levels are the only ones I just can't control....they have been below 7 about twice in 3 months and over 7 every other time! My post meal levels have been quite good but they have started to be a bit unpredictable as I had a really bad cold and was run down so they went upto 8-9 mmol which is high for me... At the minute the highest I get post meal is about 8.2 which I get upset about as I am usually between 6 and 7 mmol 2 hours after eating. Chips don't agree with me, I end up on 11 mmol after chips so I never really eat them anymore, however, on Good Friday I went for fish and chips (as u do!), i pulled all the batter off the fish and put loads of vinegar on the chips and 2 hours later I was at 7.4 mmol which was brill considering...vinegars a godsend!
Mine are getting more unpredictable depending on what I eat and one thing I cant get my head around at the moment is that....I wake up on a high BG so I take my Metformin and have some breakfast to bring the level down....I usually have Cheerios or Weetabix as they are more whole grain but two hours later I'm almost on a hypo at 4.1 nd start to feel ill! Metformin doesn't cause hypos so I'm a bit confused over this at the moment but the best thing I would say to do it to try diff foods and test regularly to see how they're effecting ur levels! For me, I haven't cut out carbs dramatically, I've changed all my carbs to low GI and have really small portions...I find this better for me right now but some people just cut them out almost completely, I don't think I could do that!
With regards to the 'inconclusive' it really is annoying but with me, because My insulin production was in the normal range but right at the bottom and because I only had one antibody type and because the Metformin was working there wasn't anything they could say or do, it was my body not the doctors unfortunately lol! And so I basically just have to wait til June to see how many more beta cells have been murdered :-(
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