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<blockquote data-quote="Norfolkmell" data-source="post: 2165098" data-attributes="member: 306528"><p>Do not despair you are in the right place for support and a huge wealth of personal experience from members here.</p><p>I'm not a medical person but I think you need to get your stress levels down, have you discussed it with your GP? I can't understand why they want to repeat the blood test so soon, as I understand it the test gives an average of BG over 3 months so if my maths are right it will show nine or ten previous weeks BG and two or three weeks since the last one so why are they repeating it so soon? You need to ask them why.</p><p>Have you been keeping a record of what you've been eating and test results before and two hours after? This should show that you are being proactive in trying to lower your BG. </p><p>Birthdays and family meals can be difficult but you cold tell family that you have decided to eat heathy and have been doing some results and try to chose the tastiest to you thing on the menu but pass on the potatoes or rice, say no to the pudding (if you can) as you are looking forward to a small piece of cake later, all perfectly correct with your healthy eating. Hopefully you will be able to take reading before and two hours after to see what effect it has had.</p><p>I was completely stressed out when I was diagnosed, I'd only gone for my annual screening for my asthma and blood pressure. I couldn't believe it when it came back at 59 I thought I was immune to diabetes. My Mum was one of 13 children, all with heart problems, the boys all T1 and the girls all T2 and 3 girls on insulin, Mum was diagnosed when we'd just lost my Dad so you can imagine the stress she was under. My Brother was also diagnosed T2 but I think as he already had a rare genetic syndrome causing numerous complicated illnesses it wasn't really treated and could well have been T1. So having got well past the age of when my Mum was diagnosed I'd assumed I wouldn't get it. I was lucky to have a super GP who suggested LCHF the best way to go, told me about diabetes.co.uk diet doctor and Dr Unwin, told me to look at the all the information, try LCHF and then have the blood test again in three months. My next test was 49 and I'd lost a stone and apart from my last test both BG and weight have been lower every time. BG up this time but I'm stressed, my GP agrees. I keep to LCHF 90% of the time, some weeks it's 100% and my own testing before and after meals is pretty steady, even when I've completely fallen off the wagon, last night was huge carb fest but BG this morning ok. I can only tell you how I've tackled things, we are all different and what works for one of us may be completely different to someone else.</p><p>You are only just beginning your diabetes journey and you've come to the best place I've found for support and how others are travelling on their journeys.</p><p>Hang on in there, you will always find someone on here for support and advice and we will do what we can to answer questions.</p><p>Sorry that this has taken so long to reply but if you follow the football you will understand! Plus we looked through the window of our new home this afternoon which has been being refurbished and the only apparent progress seemed to be the bucket and mop had moved from one side of the room to the other. It was also so windy I couldn't make the 100 yards to the promenade to look at the waves and the pier, I've never known it so windy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite59" alt=":smug:" title="Smug :smug:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":smug:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Norfolkmell, post: 2165098, member: 306528"] Do not despair you are in the right place for support and a huge wealth of personal experience from members here. I'm not a medical person but I think you need to get your stress levels down, have you discussed it with your GP? I can't understand why they want to repeat the blood test so soon, as I understand it the test gives an average of BG over 3 months so if my maths are right it will show nine or ten previous weeks BG and two or three weeks since the last one so why are they repeating it so soon? You need to ask them why. Have you been keeping a record of what you've been eating and test results before and two hours after? This should show that you are being proactive in trying to lower your BG. Birthdays and family meals can be difficult but you cold tell family that you have decided to eat heathy and have been doing some results and try to chose the tastiest to you thing on the menu but pass on the potatoes or rice, say no to the pudding (if you can) as you are looking forward to a small piece of cake later, all perfectly correct with your healthy eating. Hopefully you will be able to take reading before and two hours after to see what effect it has had. I was completely stressed out when I was diagnosed, I'd only gone for my annual screening for my asthma and blood pressure. I couldn't believe it when it came back at 59 I thought I was immune to diabetes. My Mum was one of 13 children, all with heart problems, the boys all T1 and the girls all T2 and 3 girls on insulin, Mum was diagnosed when we'd just lost my Dad so you can imagine the stress she was under. My Brother was also diagnosed T2 but I think as he already had a rare genetic syndrome causing numerous complicated illnesses it wasn't really treated and could well have been T1. So having got well past the age of when my Mum was diagnosed I'd assumed I wouldn't get it. I was lucky to have a super GP who suggested LCHF the best way to go, told me about diabetes.co.uk diet doctor and Dr Unwin, told me to look at the all the information, try LCHF and then have the blood test again in three months. My next test was 49 and I'd lost a stone and apart from my last test both BG and weight have been lower every time. BG up this time but I'm stressed, my GP agrees. I keep to LCHF 90% of the time, some weeks it's 100% and my own testing before and after meals is pretty steady, even when I've completely fallen off the wagon, last night was huge carb fest but BG this morning ok. I can only tell you how I've tackled things, we are all different and what works for one of us may be completely different to someone else. You are only just beginning your diabetes journey and you've come to the best place I've found for support and how others are travelling on their journeys. Hang on in there, you will always find someone on here for support and advice and we will do what we can to answer questions. Sorry that this has taken so long to reply but if you follow the football you will understand! Plus we looked through the window of our new home this afternoon which has been being refurbished and the only apparent progress seemed to be the bucket and mop had moved from one side of the room to the other. It was also so windy I couldn't make the 100 yards to the promenade to look at the waves and the pier, I've never known it so windy. :smug: [/QUOTE]
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