Hi All,
I hope I am finding everybody well.
I am new to the forum and being my first post I am feeling a little apprehensive.
Since the diagnosis my head has been all over the place with so many questions, what I should be doing and not doing (not counting the obvious stuff).
My diagnosis was made over the phone by my GP and the conversation felt so rushed, especially with my head was fuzzy from the news I hadn't taken a lot in with what he was telling me. He prescribed me Sukkarto SR 500mg twice a day and told me to come back in 3 months time. He also said that they will send some stuff through to the post to help me with it but I am still waiting. I will try to go see him again but it's a few weeks wait for the appointment.
Since the diagnosis I immediately tried to research as much as possible to try and understand a bit more about diabetes and how I can try and help myself and make the necessary changes immediately but I feel very concerned about how high I think my blood sugar is. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what figures he told me from my blood results or what it all means yet, but I know he said a figure of 151 for something but I don't know what it is, but he said that it should be in the 40's instead so I am way over.
I bought a testing kit on Monday and been testing every day and the figures I think are very high, the highest was 22.7 mmol/L 2 days ago, yesterday it was 16.5 and today it was 17.9. These figures seem very scary and I have been trying my best to lower it by being really good with my diet, albeit, its only been a week, but I've also lost 6lb since the diagnosis. I don't know how long the figures will remain so high and I don't even know if they are very dangerous of if I need to tell someone about them, my GP didn't seem that concerned about my blood results so I am really confused. I don't even know if I am testing myself correctly as I've been given any guidance, but I tend to test myself once a day before I eat, say around 5 - 6pm. For all I know that could be wrong.
Apologies if the above seems a mess but it just feels like (so far) I've been given a diagnosis, chucked some pills to take and to get on with it, and everything I have done thus far has been off my own back without really having a clue if what I am doing is correct.
Maybe there are others in a similar situation or have been in a situation where you've felt lost after diagnosis. Also, I get people telling me that it's ok I'll be fine I just need to lose weight and that it's very common. Again, that advice is absolutely of no use to me whatsoever because so much has to change especially my diet and to learn what I can and can't eat any longer.
Sorry for the long post and thank you for reading,
All the best
Danny.
I hope I am finding everybody well.
I am new to the forum and being my first post I am feeling a little apprehensive.
Since the diagnosis my head has been all over the place with so many questions, what I should be doing and not doing (not counting the obvious stuff).
My diagnosis was made over the phone by my GP and the conversation felt so rushed, especially with my head was fuzzy from the news I hadn't taken a lot in with what he was telling me. He prescribed me Sukkarto SR 500mg twice a day and told me to come back in 3 months time. He also said that they will send some stuff through to the post to help me with it but I am still waiting. I will try to go see him again but it's a few weeks wait for the appointment.
Since the diagnosis I immediately tried to research as much as possible to try and understand a bit more about diabetes and how I can try and help myself and make the necessary changes immediately but I feel very concerned about how high I think my blood sugar is. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what figures he told me from my blood results or what it all means yet, but I know he said a figure of 151 for something but I don't know what it is, but he said that it should be in the 40's instead so I am way over.
I bought a testing kit on Monday and been testing every day and the figures I think are very high, the highest was 22.7 mmol/L 2 days ago, yesterday it was 16.5 and today it was 17.9. These figures seem very scary and I have been trying my best to lower it by being really good with my diet, albeit, its only been a week, but I've also lost 6lb since the diagnosis. I don't know how long the figures will remain so high and I don't even know if they are very dangerous of if I need to tell someone about them, my GP didn't seem that concerned about my blood results so I am really confused. I don't even know if I am testing myself correctly as I've been given any guidance, but I tend to test myself once a day before I eat, say around 5 - 6pm. For all I know that could be wrong.
Apologies if the above seems a mess but it just feels like (so far) I've been given a diagnosis, chucked some pills to take and to get on with it, and everything I have done thus far has been off my own back without really having a clue if what I am doing is correct.
Maybe there are others in a similar situation or have been in a situation where you've felt lost after diagnosis. Also, I get people telling me that it's ok I'll be fine I just need to lose weight and that it's very common. Again, that advice is absolutely of no use to me whatsoever because so much has to change especially my diet and to learn what I can and can't eat any longer.
Sorry for the long post and thank you for reading,
All the best
Danny.