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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F1ying" data-source="post: 2448423" data-attributes="member: 548955">Hi everyone. I’ve recently been diagnosed with T2, I’m 48, 5’2” and 92kg.  I was phoned about a blood test result while on holiday in August. Unfortunately I have spent the pandemic working from home, sitting at laptop and comforting myself with a large box of midget gems (the Lion ones with liquorice) and baking up a storm like the rest of the country. My hba1c was 93 mmol. They redid the test 2 weeks later and it was 92 mmol. So definitely diabetic. I had gestational diabetes 14 years ago. I didn’t have any follow up appointments re diabetes until this year when my dr realised that I’d fallen between the cracks. My mum also has diabetes; I’m in this position due to genetics and lifestyle choices that I now need to change. I had an appointment with the DN middle of September and she put me straight on to slow release metformin. Over the last 4 weeks I’ve built this up and I’m now taking 2000mg with my evening meal. (I started off taking them with breakfast but they made me feel really nauseous, switched to evening and that vastly improved.)I’ve had my feet checked (all grand), an appointment for eye check coming up next week, and had a flu jab & a pneumococcal vaccine. DN has phoned a couple of times to check up on me. The level of care from her has been very good. (Had another phone call today - going to do hba1c again in December to see how I’m doing and now [ATTACH=full]51586[/ATTACH]starting Statins, the blows keep coming as I’m at higher risk of heart attack/stroke).I’ve been testing my blood in the mornings before breakfast and I can see the fasting readings coming down as the metformin increased, highest was 17.6 and today the new low of 6.9 which I know is still high, but DN is pleased with my progress so far. I’m finding it hard to plan meals that whole family will eat (very fussy teenager who things salad is a dirty word!), and I only cook one evening meal for us all to eat. I’ve now been offered the DESMOND course. Have any of you been on this? What did you think? Is it useful? It’s going to be via zoom, two mornings in November.[Photo of the offending sweeties attached]</blockquote>

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