I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2 two years ago, I take two 500mg metfomin each day.
My diat I do my best with? I have never checked my own blood sugar level. But every time it's take at hospital they say it's far too high. Please can I have some advise please.
Alvin
Hello have you discussed medication at the hospital ..I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2 two years ago, I take two 500mg metfomin each day.
My diat I do my best with? I have never checked my own blood sugar level. But every time it's take at hospital they say it's far too high. Please can I have some advise please.
Alvin
I was diagnosed with diabetes type 2 two years ago, I take two 500mg metfomin each day.
My diat I do my best with? I have never checked my own blood sugar level. But every time it's take at hospital they say it's far too high. Please can I have some advise please.
Alvin
hi i can only speak by my experience with diabetic professionals... firstly i had 4-5 people telling me how to manage my t2, you only need one nurse/consultant and a good dietician. i was being told to do 4 differant things and each was wrong and you need to know your dietry needs and stick with it and i am not say you are mr michlin . i have t2 but i was 6 st when diagnosed then a year + 2 diab comas i was told t2 brittle so anyone can be t2 . bog std gluco testing for every day **** you off diabeties can be once a month ,some once a week and it varies , as much as i respect doctors and nurses they cant all be right so firstly concentrate one nurse and one dietiticion .ask the nurse what should you do about testing ( im on 2 lots of insulin and never had tablets ) if she says no need to then listen and dont buy a meter and scare yourself. i have found that most drs/nurses and diatitions say that your mmol should be no lower than 4.5 and no higher than 6 . i do hope i have not confused you even more as i have myself lost a couple of marbles while typing sorry my marbles = sugar level .. kat is right and when someone has a black cat their allways right..love you all .thanks liam
i have been told its brittle diabeties the the consultant in late 2007 and have been trying to deal with it since , i have had differant consultants and nurses telling me differant things and i eat at set times and for the whole of my adult life cooked from fresh for myself and that has not changed and we still can not get it stable ,if i could just test before and after a meal i would be so happy as my fingers are so tender at timesMartin, reading your post, I'm a little confused, to be honest.
Mid way through your post you say, ".... bog std gluco testing for every day **** you off diabeties can be once a month ,some once a week and it varies,....". By that, are you saying testing is useless, or that testing in the usual way, before and after meals makes you fed up, due to the variable nature of your own type of diabetes?
Personally, I would say that for me, my meter and my home testing has been critical to achieving the improvements I made. Again, personally, I didn't need to consult a dietician, because I got meal by meal feedback from my meter on what was helpful to my blood sugars, and was was not doing me any good. There are no macro-nutrients that I know of that MUST come from carbohydrate foods. Sure, some carbs have useful macro-nutrients in them, but so do other foods.
I agree that the conflicting information out there on diabetes management can be bewildering at the outset. How did you choose which health care professional to trust in? What do they encourage you to do?
To me, it sounds like you could very easily be T1, as opposed to T2. There appear to be several people initially diagnosed as T2, due merely to age at diagnosis, who later transpire to be T1 all along. In your shoes, I would be asking for investigations, to ensure the classification in correct. My reasoning would be:
- Your very light weight at diagnosis; especially if you lost weight prior to diagnosis
- Diabetic comas are somewhat unusual in T2s
- the "brittle" nature of your diabetes sounds T1-ish, or T1 in a honeymoon period
- You went straight onto two lots of insulin; most T2s start on either dietary management, or oral medication, and working through a staged process before insulin is considered
Of course, I'm not a doctor, so just asking a couple of questions and giving you some feedback.
Good luck with it all. Diabetes can be a tricky puzzle.
i was writting back and somehow lost it so try again , i was put on a mix of two firstly then on levemir and fast acting in 2007-2008 ,in the end they called me in and said its brittle diabeties t2 . all my life i have never been over 11 stone and i dont eat take out or frozen dinners and i keep a diary of food and the consultants are over the moon with what i eat ,at this time i am struggling to keep the weight to 9-10 due to the other problems and i believe thats why i cant gets a stable level i will give you a example of bgs same breakfast every day same insulin monday 2 hrs after breakfast bgs 12.8 - tuesday exactly the same 3quaters of an hr later 2,1 . absolutly no differance in mood /food ectra and its got me to breaking point and finger testing would be great if i could just do meals but its night hypos aswel and checking while in the shops i have to ckeck now if i wake up in the night for a wee its been 9 years now so the honeymoon is well over . i have a new dietion now not that i need one but she is listening and dealt with this type of diab before but in teenagers not nearly 50 yrs old but i do hop between the 2 of us i can get some better control or i dont know , she did say that if the collitus and the pancreas were in better condition id have a better and more stable life she is looking at my other illnesess in with the diabetes and this is a first, by the way i get confused easily since i become unwell and do wander a bit no a lot si i appologise for that ,thanks for corresponding and take careMartin, reading your post, I'm a little confused, to be honest.
Mid way through your post you say, ".... bog std gluco testing for every day **** you off diabeties can be once a month ,some once a week and it varies,....". By that, are you saying testing is useless, or that testing in the usual way, before and after meals makes you fed up, due to the variable nature of your own type of diabetes?
Personally, I would say that for me, my meter and my home testing has been critical to achieving the improvements I made. Again, personally, I didn't need to consult a dietician, because I got meal by meal feedback from my meter on what was helpful to my blood sugars, and was was not doing me any good. There are no macro-nutrients that I know of that MUST come from carbohydrate foods. Sure, some carbs have useful macro-nutrients in them, but so do other foods.
I agree that the conflicting information out there on diabetes management can be bewildering at the outset. How did you choose which health care professional to trust in? What do they encourage you to do?
To me, it sounds like you could very easily be T1, as opposed to T2. There appear to be several people initially diagnosed as T2, due merely to age at diagnosis, who later transpire to be T1 all along. In your shoes, I would be asking for investigations, to ensure the classification in correct. My reasoning would be:
- Your very light weight at diagnosis; especially if you lost weight prior to diagnosis
- Diabetic comas are somewhat unusual in T2s
- the "brittle" nature of your diabetes sounds T1-ish, or T1 in a honeymoon period
- You went straight onto two lots of insulin; most T2s start on either dietary management, or oral medication, and working through a staged process before insulin is considered
Of course, I'm not a doctor, so just asking a couple of questions and giving you some feedback.
Good luck with it all. Diabetes can be a tricky puzzle.
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