- Messages
- 7
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hello everyone,
First post, but I've been lurking and reading threads for a few weeks and have found them immensely helpful.
I was diagnosed as type 2 at the beginning of February. I am 44. I was given a prescription and a glucometer and basically sent on my way, with an injunction not to eat sugar and to walk for an hour every day. I am on glyclazide and Metformin. I am still waiting for an appointment from the Diabetes Day Centre in my local hospital. (I am in Dublin, so not in the UK, but there is nothing as good as this forum over here.) So, basically everything I have done to manage this I have gleaned from this forum and other sites. I was doing quite well. From a starting weight of 15 stone 2 I am down to about 13 stone 9. My bs levels were also coming under control. I was advised by my doctor to test in the morning when I got up and again before my evening meal. For a while my morning levels were between 4.8 and 5.2 and evening levels around 4.5.
But in the past three weeks or so my morning levels have started to creep up, there were a couple of mornings where I hit 6.0. I tried controlling this by not worrying too much and cutting down on evening carbs, late night snack etc and it started to moderate. But since Good Friday it has been creeping up again, a couple of 6.2s and a 6.4. This morning was the worst. I woke up at about 4.30am with a pounding heart and sweats (hypo or stress, I'm not sure). Never really got back to sleep again. When I did my test at about 7.10am I was 6.2 on the second attempt (still getting the hang of blood tests). I could feel myself panicking, so I took another one about five minutes later. 6.7!
I won't go into details, but I am under a significant amount of stress at the moment, much of which is unavoidable, and which has gotten worse in the past week. Is this a normal reaction to stress? My evening levels have remained more or less constant. I am worried now, as at my last check at the beginning of March my Hba1c was at 78, down from 111 at diagnosis. I am just worried now that I am starting to undo all the good work I've done this far.
First post, but I've been lurking and reading threads for a few weeks and have found them immensely helpful.
I was diagnosed as type 2 at the beginning of February. I am 44. I was given a prescription and a glucometer and basically sent on my way, with an injunction not to eat sugar and to walk for an hour every day. I am on glyclazide and Metformin. I am still waiting for an appointment from the Diabetes Day Centre in my local hospital. (I am in Dublin, so not in the UK, but there is nothing as good as this forum over here.) So, basically everything I have done to manage this I have gleaned from this forum and other sites. I was doing quite well. From a starting weight of 15 stone 2 I am down to about 13 stone 9. My bs levels were also coming under control. I was advised by my doctor to test in the morning when I got up and again before my evening meal. For a while my morning levels were between 4.8 and 5.2 and evening levels around 4.5.
But in the past three weeks or so my morning levels have started to creep up, there were a couple of mornings where I hit 6.0. I tried controlling this by not worrying too much and cutting down on evening carbs, late night snack etc and it started to moderate. But since Good Friday it has been creeping up again, a couple of 6.2s and a 6.4. This morning was the worst. I woke up at about 4.30am with a pounding heart and sweats (hypo or stress, I'm not sure). Never really got back to sleep again. When I did my test at about 7.10am I was 6.2 on the second attempt (still getting the hang of blood tests). I could feel myself panicking, so I took another one about five minutes later. 6.7!
I won't go into details, but I am under a significant amount of stress at the moment, much of which is unavoidable, and which has gotten worse in the past week. Is this a normal reaction to stress? My evening levels have remained more or less constant. I am worried now, as at my last check at the beginning of March my Hba1c was at 78, down from 111 at diagnosis. I am just worried now that I am starting to undo all the good work I've done this far.
