I have suffered with extreme fatigue for past couple of years and recently got diagnosed about 2 month ago with t2 diabetes.every morning i wake up with a sore head and shattered, i am very over weight and the nurse and i chose to hold off taking medication to control diabetes instead i am to lose weight .i feel as though im walking about in a daze all the time , im desperate for a bit of direction.im.really not sure what to eat or what i can do to help with fatigue. is anyone else in the same situation.thanks
Hi
@Bellboy76 ,
Far as food and testing goes (and yeah, before you ask, testing
is important), you might want to have a read here:
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html It's everything I wish I'd been told when diagnosed in a bit of a nut shell. Losing weight to "fix" diabetes is putting the cat before the horse. You want to tackle your blood sugars, and when you do that, the weight loss will follow. You'll always be a T2, but you can be a well controlled one and get back into the non-diabetic range (and thus, complication-free). I know the fatigue you mention intimately, as well as the brain fog, and here's a bit of hope: Change the way you eat, get your blood glucose under control, and you'll get entirely back on track. Like someone's plugged in the charger and turned on the light. And you'll have to keep your pants up after a while because they'll have a tendency to drop off of you.
It will get better. Learn about T2, read the info in the provided link, implement it, and you'll see a bit of a miracle happen. If you want more info, try Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code (or his youtube vids), dietdoctor.com or this forum's website, diabetes.co.uk. But really. You'll feel like you've gotten your life back.
Good luck,
Jo