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I'm autistic with ADHD, dysythmia and social anxiety disorder, as well as seasonal affective disorder, obviously diabetic (type 2), with fibromyalgia (very bad) and I've had two strokes. And I struggle with food. My last Hba1c was 81, my highest ever, and I've taken steps to cut carbs, cut...

Greetings! My last Hba1c was 81, the highest its ever been, so in the last week I have come off sugar/carbs almost entirely and my blood sugar levels are now between 4.0 and 5.5 on twice daily testing. But I have noticed that my vision has gone a bit strange, and that my glasses are only...

Greetings all, Just wondering how many of us are taking Dapagliflozin, and how many are suffering the side effects eg Thrush, Dehydration, Needing to wee a lot? I was on SR Metformin for many years until the stomach aches it gave me became intolerable, and now my GP has switched me to...

Long time no appear on the forums, and a lot has happened. My blood sugar is now 81, higher than it's ever been. And I think its fair to say that my doctors are far from impressed with me, despite there being a few reasons why its gone up so dramatically (from 42). A few years ago I was...

Long time no visit to this forum. Short story- Autistic, ADHD, Anxiety disorder, Dysthymia, Fibromyalgia. Type 2 Diabetes. Last two years have been pretty hellish and I know they have been for many. Covid has robbed us of family members, sister diagnosed with breast cancer, me sinking into a...

Hi. Its okay to struggle. Its okay not to be full of the joys of spring. 2020 has been a terrible year and its affected all of us to one extent or another. Being diabetic and having other illnesses and problems have only made things seem worse and that's perfectly understandable. If you...

Two years ago my HbA1c was 78. I was supposed to have an operation at that stage but it was considered unsafe and so I went on a strict LCHF diet and my next reading was 57...yay! My weight dropped from 15' 9 to 13 post operation and I was quite ill. My diet went to pot and every carb or sweet...

Hi there, Well...several years ago I was diagnosed with diabetes...despite having no symptoms..and as I was due my HbA1c test again I had a number of tests done at the same time. On checking the results I found an elevated Urea level and the wording (next to a test for Urolytes????) that...

I haven't been on here for a while because I've been so ashamed by my eating habits and my inability to eat anything like healthy these last several months. My carb intake has grown and I cant recall the last day I didn't eat something sweet and sugary. I had a nervous breakdown a while ago...

Hi, Hope everyone's doing okay given whats going on around us all. I got forced into home working last week and we have cases of corona-virus just up the road from us. Shops in our village have shut down rather cutting off supplies of bakery goods, meat and veg/fruit. I'm discombobulated...

So here I am. Diabetc, Type 2, history of chronic depression, self-harm, thinking more and more about suicide. My diets shot as I cant stomach LC/HF any more and I just cant face eating 'healthy' as I'm Autistic and my already narrow range of foods I can tolerate has now shrunk to a new low...

I don't know about others but since I "fell off" my diet its just gone from bad to worse. I have put on a stone in weight and have had two sugar free days in......a long time. I really try to be good but it doesn't help when your other half is depressed and struggling and has chocolate on...

Seems a while since I last posted. After two HbA1c readings of 41 in succession I liked to think that, somehow, I was getting somewhere, albeit by accident over design,. But then, as often happens, things started to fall apart. I found I could no longer tolerate the LCHF diet. I just...

Short history. Weight 15st 9lb in December 2018. Needed Op in March 2019- HbA1c was 78. Couldn't have operation as level over 70. Started losing weight (LCHF diet) and next Hba1c was 57. By time of operation and HbA1c the week before, in early April, I weighed 13st 5Lb and HbA1c was 41...

So...alongside the fact I am Autistic, have diabetes, fibromylagia and have had two strokes.. Another little diagnosis and another medication to take. Still, I am still here... (Just don't mention the HbA1c!!)

At the risk of offending people who were so negative last time (I removed the thread because of it) I am slowly starting my way back to the land of HbA1c "reasonableness". Its been four months since my operation, Four months of suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, PTSD and more. I haven't...

Realised this morning that I had put on 2lb. And I feel dreadfully....big. I feel, for want of a better phrase, "Absolutely shocking"!. My diet has gone from very good to dreadful. Okay, moderately dreadful- should do better- oh what am I doing ?- type of dreadful. I know that, if my HbA1c...

The last couple of weeks I have felt so overwhelmed that I have just given up.. Anyone who read my last, post-operation thread, would have seen what I was eating, purely to eat, and the guilt I felt about letting myself and everyone else down. Its so darned difficult. I have such good...

After all the hard work getting operation ready I’m sorry that I let things slip. I became ill shortly afterwards and my weight plummeted again. Then, after effects of the anaesthetic meant I couldn’t go to the toilet at all...for over a week. Then my wound reopened. Then another part reopened...

I’m a bad patient. Here I am 5 days post op, wound oozing, feeling washed out, unable to do anything, can’t lift or stretch, pick up or carry, 4 weeks off work and just dwelling on bad stuff.. Weight dropping off - another 3lb since operation..so eating junk and cake just to get something...