Stella
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Hallo, I will soon be joining diabetes UK and this is my first post. I can only go on computer at weekends at my library so apologies if you reply to me and I do not respond quickly.
I am in extreme denial about having this wretched condition, I was diagnosed 2 years ago at the age of 45 and was put on metformin and gliclazide within a few months, when my daily sugar levels were between 7-12. I lived and ate healthily all my life, my parents grew all their own fruit and veg,I did not like sugary snacks or drinks as a child, and I have done heavy manual work for most of my working life, always cooked my own meals, bought veg from farmers markets rather than supermarkets,etc, I do not smoke though I do like drink socially, mainly Saturday nights. When diagnosed I was not overweight. I have diabetes 2 because my Mum had it, it's hereditary.
2 years later, and I am a stone overweight, my blood sugar levels are double what they were when diagnosed (now between 12-19 on an average day) <b>and the only change is taking the bloody pills!</b> (Ok some small changes in diet, like going onto semi skimmed milk etc.) Also they have recently increased my pills to 2 of each a day, so I have been suffering horrible runs every few days.
It seems to me that the treatment has made me worse. I admit that some new health problems with growing older (arthritis in my legs) means I am now sedentary at work,(I am joining a gymn soon to lose weight) but it seems to me that if they (the doctors) had left me alone, I might now be at exactly the same level in weight and blood sugar as 2 years ago. I do not have these hypos everyone talks about, my sugar levels are consistently high.
Is there anyone out there like me? Do we have to put up with being lectured like children for the rest of our lives? Can we voluntarily come off the pills for a year to see what happens? I was so shocked to be diagnosed in the first place that I did not think clearly at the time to suggest this and now I am just bloody angry at being trapped into this "treatment.". After all, if you are told you have cancer everyone seems to understand that you have the freedom to refuse treatment so why is this so different?
Left alone it will take 30 years to kill me, big deal, so will half a dozen other things in that time! ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!!
I am in extreme denial about having this wretched condition, I was diagnosed 2 years ago at the age of 45 and was put on metformin and gliclazide within a few months, when my daily sugar levels were between 7-12. I lived and ate healthily all my life, my parents grew all their own fruit and veg,I did not like sugary snacks or drinks as a child, and I have done heavy manual work for most of my working life, always cooked my own meals, bought veg from farmers markets rather than supermarkets,etc, I do not smoke though I do like drink socially, mainly Saturday nights. When diagnosed I was not overweight. I have diabetes 2 because my Mum had it, it's hereditary.
2 years later, and I am a stone overweight, my blood sugar levels are double what they were when diagnosed (now between 12-19 on an average day) <b>and the only change is taking the bloody pills!</b> (Ok some small changes in diet, like going onto semi skimmed milk etc.) Also they have recently increased my pills to 2 of each a day, so I have been suffering horrible runs every few days.
It seems to me that the treatment has made me worse. I admit that some new health problems with growing older (arthritis in my legs) means I am now sedentary at work,(I am joining a gymn soon to lose weight) but it seems to me that if they (the doctors) had left me alone, I might now be at exactly the same level in weight and blood sugar as 2 years ago. I do not have these hypos everyone talks about, my sugar levels are consistently high.
Is there anyone out there like me? Do we have to put up with being lectured like children for the rest of our lives? Can we voluntarily come off the pills for a year to see what happens? I was so shocked to be diagnosed in the first place that I did not think clearly at the time to suggest this and now I am just bloody angry at being trapped into this "treatment.". After all, if you are told you have cancer everyone seems to understand that you have the freedom to refuse treatment so why is this so different?
Left alone it will take 30 years to kill me, big deal, so will half a dozen other things in that time! ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!!
