Hi Mrs Mac.
I'm sorry you too have had to face this and that your doctor was such a ..................in fact, I won't say what he is, I'm too much of a lady!
I am in a very similar position to you, in that I have just been diagnosed and have an 19 month old son.
When I was about 28 weeks pregnant, I found out I had gestational diabetes; I couldn't control it with diet or metformin and had to take insulin. As soon as he was born, it went away.
I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at the beginning of April (Hba1c of 53 and fasting blood test of 9.) I was told over the phone by my GP, told to avoid sweet things and he made an appointment for me with the practice nurse - that appointment was on Tuesday, so 3 weeks away! I had plenty of time to read up about diabetes on the internet - it left me ashamed, scared, crying and in all honesty, I am still feeling like that, although now interspersed with the very occasional moment of feeling positive and acceptance. In fact, just writing this message has set me off crying again!
I still had a testing kit from when I was pregnant and had been taking blood sugar tests before seeing the practice nurse. Some of the results were high depending what I had eaten, but others not so bad. When I saw the nurse, she was pleasant enough but didn't really provide me with a great deal of information. She told me to book onto an Xpert patient course (likely to be a few months before there is space!) and told me that someone would get in touch with me within a couple of months for an eye and foot check. She told me to avoid sugar and eat fewer carbs and to go back in 3 months - she mentioned Metformin but agreed that I should attempt to control with diet if I wanted to. I asked for and was given some testing strips so that I could test my blood sugar.
I am determined that I am going to lose weight (I need to lose just over 1.5 stone) in the hope that I can control this with diet. I am eating low carb to try to control it and hope that once I lose weight I may be able to eat a little more carb (but hopefully by then I will be so used to a low carb diet that I won't want them!)
Like you, my evening meals have often consisted of rice or pasta dishes - I try to batch cook sauces to put in the freezer so we can have something quick for tea. I now find myself in a position of having to completely rethink the way I eat.
I had a portion of keema curry in the freezer so decided to make that the other night so I could try out cauliflower rice. It was easy and quite nice actually and I didn't feel cheated out of rice. Last night I made a chicken, chorizo, pepper, mushroom, tomato sauce for pasta but I had mine on top of some roasted courgette and topped with parmesan. I really enjoyed it and wasn't bothered that my husband had pasta whilst I had courgettes.
I haven't told anyone other than my husband and Mum about the diagnosis and don't know when I will. I don't want to be judged.
Even though I had some decent blood sugar results yesterday, I was having a really bad day, crying and angry at this diagnosis. I think the emotional roller coaster is going to be here for a while yet. If you want someone to join me on your own roller coaster ride then please feel free to drop me a message. It would be nice to have someone to talk to who is experiencing the same things right now.
x