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<blockquote data-quote="Fndwheelie" data-source="post: 2120464" data-attributes="member: 447317"><p>Everything he said sounded normal (not necessarily correct) for a doctor to say up until “eat low carb”!</p><p></p><p>Your hab1c is high at over 120,</p><p>48 and above is considered diabetic, between 42 and 47 is pre-diabetic, so aiming for low 40s is good. (Numbers from memory, and my brains not functioning well today so I could be slightly out.</p><p></p><p>Metformin is a normal starting point, and that’s a low dose so might get upped quickly for you. If it upsets your stomach and doesn’t improve after a couple of weeks you can talk to them about changing to the slow release metformin, they are kinder to some people’s stomachs.</p><p></p><p>You don’t NEED to test your blood sugars, but it’s a flipin’ useful tool to learn about how your sugar levels rise and fall. The best test times are as soon as you wake up, before a meal and 2 hours after the first bite. Some people test 1.5 and 3 hours after eating also. Once you know what foods are doing you can reduce the number of tests.</p><p></p><p>Metformin doesn’t affect your driving, but better to tell them than have an accident and then find out the insurance isn’t valid or something.</p><p></p><p>It’s great that he told you to eat low carb, there’s this website, <a href="http://www.dietdoctor.com" target="_blank">www.dietdoctor.com</a> and the newspaper The Sun are currently running a daily pullout of low carb and diabetes information.</p><p></p><p>If the diabetic nurse from your GP surgery hasn’t contacted you or given you an appointment by Wednesday then if I were you I’d be chasing them up. Though with the wealth of information you can find on this site and these forums I’m sure you will manage just fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fndwheelie, post: 2120464, member: 447317"] Everything he said sounded normal (not necessarily correct) for a doctor to say up until “eat low carb”! Your hab1c is high at over 120, 48 and above is considered diabetic, between 42 and 47 is pre-diabetic, so aiming for low 40s is good. (Numbers from memory, and my brains not functioning well today so I could be slightly out. Metformin is a normal starting point, and that’s a low dose so might get upped quickly for you. If it upsets your stomach and doesn’t improve after a couple of weeks you can talk to them about changing to the slow release metformin, they are kinder to some people’s stomachs. You don’t NEED to test your blood sugars, but it’s a flipin’ useful tool to learn about how your sugar levels rise and fall. The best test times are as soon as you wake up, before a meal and 2 hours after the first bite. Some people test 1.5 and 3 hours after eating also. Once you know what foods are doing you can reduce the number of tests. Metformin doesn’t affect your driving, but better to tell them than have an accident and then find out the insurance isn’t valid or something. It’s great that he told you to eat low carb, there’s this website, [URL='http://www.dietdoctor.com']www.dietdoctor.com[/URL] and the newspaper The Sun are currently running a daily pullout of low carb and diabetes information. If the diabetic nurse from your GP surgery hasn’t contacted you or given you an appointment by Wednesday then if I were you I’d be chasing them up. Though with the wealth of information you can find on this site and these forums I’m sure you will manage just fine. [/QUOTE]
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