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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...

I would like to thank everyone who, during the last few months, posted advice and support in such a positive and friendly manner. Much appreciated. Having read 5.2 - 5.4 over much of recent times I was a mite suspicious of the hospital machine reading 7.2 BG which then, very rapidly, became 6.4...

My first reading was 7.4 and I knew that was too high so put it down to a rogue strip.. Next reading was still a suspiciously high 6.7 Waited another 5 minutes 5.7 Waited another 2 minutes 4.6 Monitor is new, battery is fine and I know what I ate yesterday was very little in terms of carbs...

I have had to take some “different” measures when it comes to eating. As has been well documented on here I have struggles with food and am now seeing a dietician, although not until May. My weight has stabilised for now. I’ve put on a pound, lost a pound, gained half a pound and lost it...

From 78 on 06/12/18 Then 57 on 22/01/19 And now 41 on 21/03/19 I have to say I was almost disappointed lol as I had hoped for a figure in the 30s but understand that I had a few "naughtier" days in the three weeks leading up to the test and the latter counts more than former activity...