brianb
Well-Known Member
Sorry for this long winded posting and to all the people who have read and answered my questions on this matter when I was first diagnosed in March this year.
A little history
Beginning of March My place of work setup a “well being clinic” for a week where a doctor and few nurses came along to give anyone who wanted a heath check could do so in works time So not wanting to miss a skive I attended……………wish I hadn’t.
Anyway we had to take a urine sample along, which the nurse tested, then retested Oh she says you have got glucose in your urine….let me test your blood pressure…..oh that’s a wee bit high 185/110…….. You need to go to your doctors today; she wrote me a note and sent me away.
So went to the docs where she ordered a fasting blood glucose and retested my BP, still high at this point……….who’s wouldn’t after being sent home from work with a note for the doctor!
Anyway after a few days the first fasting result came back as 8.7 so they took another fasting test and that came back as 8.9 so they diagnosed me as being a type 2 on the spot with no further tests. Decided that I needed to take Simvastatin, Aspirin and Lisinpril…never been ill in my life, don’t even take Paraceamol unless I have a real mans cold and on me death bed so this was a SHOCK.
It’s worth mentioning my aunty and her nephew are type 2 diabetics so there is family history.
Anyway taking the good advice from this forum a bought a test meter and tested until my fingers were sore, now my readings go a bit like this
Fasting levels on getting out of bed usually about 6.9 give or take a little.
1 hour after meals 8.9 ish can hit 10 if I really load the carbs i.e. good curry with all the extras
2 hours after meal can be down to 5.5
Don’t really do low carb, still eat potatoes etc BUT Bread does make me go to 8.9 after only 2 slices, don’t know if that’s significant.
Now to me and after reading this forum for many months this does not sound like a true diabetic to me.
I don’t go over 10 and I return to normal levels after 2 hours, from what I’ve read this is a normal person’s response.
No before I was diagnosed I used to drink about a litre of coke/pepsi a day, never really bothered about sweets or sugars more of a savoury man myself weighed in at 16 stone and had Non Alcoholic Liver Disease (NASH) and My ALT were around the 150 mark…That’s high…..and had this condition for nearly 20 Years (I’m 42 at the moment)
After my second high BG they did my first HBA which came back at 6.4, Now if I was diabetic and at the point of my first HBA I had not given up pop etc then wouldn’t my HBA have been a lot higher if I was diabetic.
Now back to my liver problem. The liver is responsible for handling glucose amongst other things and as I have a dodgy liver could this not have given a couple of high reading making me look diabetic?
Now I have lost a bit weight since diagnosed and I have gone from 16 stone to
13st 12, still overweight but going in the right direction.
My ALTS have returned to normal after all these years, don’t know if weight loss has helped this or not.
As I say my BG appears to be normal
SO
Big question is AM I DIABETIC????
Is there a test which would prove this without question?
I also purchased a blood pressure meter and my averages on that are about 130/85 which are normal for a non diabetic I think
I don’t mind being diabetic But I don’t like all the drugs that the say I MUST take as a preventative measure. IE Simvastatin to keep my Cholesterol down. My Chol was only 5.8 on diagnosis and only needs to be lower because of diabetes. They say take lisinopril to help protect the kidneys because im diabetic.
You’ve all been there so you know what im saying, because you are diabetic all this extra baggage gets thrown in.
As I say im Never ill, don’t take meds and to be honest im feeling a bit down about the whole thing.
ANY ADVICE PLEASE.
Sorry
Brian
A little history
Beginning of March My place of work setup a “well being clinic” for a week where a doctor and few nurses came along to give anyone who wanted a heath check could do so in works time So not wanting to miss a skive I attended……………wish I hadn’t.
Anyway we had to take a urine sample along, which the nurse tested, then retested Oh she says you have got glucose in your urine….let me test your blood pressure…..oh that’s a wee bit high 185/110…….. You need to go to your doctors today; she wrote me a note and sent me away.
So went to the docs where she ordered a fasting blood glucose and retested my BP, still high at this point……….who’s wouldn’t after being sent home from work with a note for the doctor!
Anyway after a few days the first fasting result came back as 8.7 so they took another fasting test and that came back as 8.9 so they diagnosed me as being a type 2 on the spot with no further tests. Decided that I needed to take Simvastatin, Aspirin and Lisinpril…never been ill in my life, don’t even take Paraceamol unless I have a real mans cold and on me death bed so this was a SHOCK.
It’s worth mentioning my aunty and her nephew are type 2 diabetics so there is family history.
Anyway taking the good advice from this forum a bought a test meter and tested until my fingers were sore, now my readings go a bit like this
Fasting levels on getting out of bed usually about 6.9 give or take a little.
1 hour after meals 8.9 ish can hit 10 if I really load the carbs i.e. good curry with all the extras
2 hours after meal can be down to 5.5
Don’t really do low carb, still eat potatoes etc BUT Bread does make me go to 8.9 after only 2 slices, don’t know if that’s significant.
Now to me and after reading this forum for many months this does not sound like a true diabetic to me.
I don’t go over 10 and I return to normal levels after 2 hours, from what I’ve read this is a normal person’s response.
No before I was diagnosed I used to drink about a litre of coke/pepsi a day, never really bothered about sweets or sugars more of a savoury man myself weighed in at 16 stone and had Non Alcoholic Liver Disease (NASH) and My ALT were around the 150 mark…That’s high…..and had this condition for nearly 20 Years (I’m 42 at the moment)
After my second high BG they did my first HBA which came back at 6.4, Now if I was diabetic and at the point of my first HBA I had not given up pop etc then wouldn’t my HBA have been a lot higher if I was diabetic.
Now back to my liver problem. The liver is responsible for handling glucose amongst other things and as I have a dodgy liver could this not have given a couple of high reading making me look diabetic?
Now I have lost a bit weight since diagnosed and I have gone from 16 stone to
13st 12, still overweight but going in the right direction.
My ALTS have returned to normal after all these years, don’t know if weight loss has helped this or not.
As I say my BG appears to be normal
SO
Big question is AM I DIABETIC????
Is there a test which would prove this without question?
I also purchased a blood pressure meter and my averages on that are about 130/85 which are normal for a non diabetic I think
I don’t mind being diabetic But I don’t like all the drugs that the say I MUST take as a preventative measure. IE Simvastatin to keep my Cholesterol down. My Chol was only 5.8 on diagnosis and only needs to be lower because of diabetes. They say take lisinopril to help protect the kidneys because im diabetic.
You’ve all been there so you know what im saying, because you are diabetic all this extra baggage gets thrown in.
As I say im Never ill, don’t take meds and to be honest im feeling a bit down about the whole thing.
ANY ADVICE PLEASE.
Sorry
Brian