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<blockquote data-quote="primmers" data-source="post: 176298" data-attributes="member: 31913"><p><strong>Re: Diagnosed "Borderline" Type 2, and now.. er.. just "Type</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi Paul, I was diagnosed Type 2 in January and started self testing pretty much as soon as I found this place. I'm planning to do fasting tests, pre food and two hour tests for a few weeks until I'm confident I can anticipate what sort of reaction my bod will have to the different foods and then reduce the testing. At the moment I'm still diet controlled, my first HbA1c test is next week. I hope that it's not so high that the GP feels it appropriate to start me on meds, if that is what happens I hope that the records I've got of what I've achieved by then inform a discussion on whether that's neccessary before I've given the diet control a good go.</p><p></p><p>Amongst the things I have learned is that a whole banana pushes my blood sugar way up but I can have a half in the morning and the other half later on and be ok. Oats in any form really push the blood sugar up for me; I get a worse reaction from a smaller amount of oatcake carb than a bigger amount of ryvita carb - go figure. I really need to eat regularly, erratic meal times throw my values for the rest of the day. Also, the other day I grazed a bit of fruit cake that I sort of knew was a bad idea, when I checked my blood sugar two hours later I was horrified and won't be grazing again. That certain knowledge is more likely to get me to change my behaviour than the vague 'I shouldn't really' approach I had pre diagnosis and trying to lose weight. A three month retrospective value could not have done any of that for me.</p><p></p><p>I think frequent testing could make some folk feel bad, it depends on what type of person you are and how much responsibility you want to take. I feel much better (ie less scared of complications) testing than just passively sitting and waiting to be told by someone else what's happening in my bod. I had a very healthy diet pre diagnosis - wholemeal bread, brown rice, between five and ten portions a day of veg, textbook stuff (though I had enormous trouble losing weight even when attending the gymn three or four times a week) so I find it hard to accept the idea that that sort of diet is good for diabetics. Since I reduced carbs my blood sugar levels seem to be more stable, though still towards the top of the range and the weight is literally falling off. I don't believe this is just a symptom of diabetes as I first visited the GP with the symptoms that turned out to be diabetes last September and lost no weight until I cut back on carbs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="primmers, post: 176298, member: 31913"] [b]Re: Diagnosed "Borderline" Type 2, and now.. er.. just "Type[/b] Hi Paul, I was diagnosed Type 2 in January and started self testing pretty much as soon as I found this place. I'm planning to do fasting tests, pre food and two hour tests for a few weeks until I'm confident I can anticipate what sort of reaction my bod will have to the different foods and then reduce the testing. At the moment I'm still diet controlled, my first HbA1c test is next week. I hope that it's not so high that the GP feels it appropriate to start me on meds, if that is what happens I hope that the records I've got of what I've achieved by then inform a discussion on whether that's neccessary before I've given the diet control a good go. Amongst the things I have learned is that a whole banana pushes my blood sugar way up but I can have a half in the morning and the other half later on and be ok. Oats in any form really push the blood sugar up for me; I get a worse reaction from a smaller amount of oatcake carb than a bigger amount of ryvita carb - go figure. I really need to eat regularly, erratic meal times throw my values for the rest of the day. Also, the other day I grazed a bit of fruit cake that I sort of knew was a bad idea, when I checked my blood sugar two hours later I was horrified and won't be grazing again. That certain knowledge is more likely to get me to change my behaviour than the vague 'I shouldn't really' approach I had pre diagnosis and trying to lose weight. A three month retrospective value could not have done any of that for me. I think frequent testing could make some folk feel bad, it depends on what type of person you are and how much responsibility you want to take. I feel much better (ie less scared of complications) testing than just passively sitting and waiting to be told by someone else what's happening in my bod. I had a very healthy diet pre diagnosis - wholemeal bread, brown rice, between five and ten portions a day of veg, textbook stuff (though I had enormous trouble losing weight even when attending the gymn three or four times a week) so I find it hard to accept the idea that that sort of diet is good for diabetics. Since I reduced carbs my blood sugar levels seem to be more stable, though still towards the top of the range and the weight is literally falling off. I don't believe this is just a symptom of diabetes as I first visited the GP with the symptoms that turned out to be diabetes last September and lost no weight until I cut back on carbs. [/QUOTE]
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