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Fed up!

cheziecat

cheziecat

Member
Messages
9
Location
York
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hello,

Am having a bad day, well actually a bad few days!

Think the shock of the diabetes diagnosis has finally hit home, combine this with the fact that I can't seem to get my blood glucose levels down anymore than they were last week. Yes they are lower than when I was first diagnosed but still a lot higher than they should be.

i have now started walking to work and back, 2 miles each way, I was under the impression that exercise lowered your blood glucose levels? Will try and explain, yesterday I checked my levels when I got up 8.9, walked to work, hadn't eaten any breakfast, by the time I got to work they were 11.3. Today I tried some Porridge, 8.7 when I got up 12.5 an hour after breakfast, yesterday I had low carb bread when I got to work and an hour after that they were 13.4! I know carbs are not the best thing in the morning but there is no way I can eat a cooked breakfast at 7am, its not going to happen, am not good at eating in the morning and there's a limit to what I can eat at my desk so it's kinda tricky. My levels when I was off work last week were still high after breakfast, my morning reading was also higher but am assuming this was because I was getting up later?

The lowest reading I ever get is about this time in the evening, managed 7.3 this time last night, I just don't know what to do about the rest of the day, my lunch only puts it up by 1 maybe 2 points max so I know I'm doing ok there but the levels are still too high in the first place.

I can't eat any less carbs than I am doing at the moment, it's just not practical or something I feel I can do.

Am basically just fed up with the whole thing and don't really know what else to do, just keep crying and thinking I can't put up with this for the rest of my life!

Any advice, help, words of wisdom? And sorry for the moan!

Cheryl
 
Hi Sarah,

Thanks for the hugs they're very much appreciated :)

Have got my first appointment with the nurse on Friday, am pretty sure she's going to put me on metformin anyway, tried it a few years back to try and help with my pcos.

Will see how it goes and keep you posted!

Thanks

Cheryl
 
I hope everything works out for you. You seem to have stumbled on the paradox that if BG is a bit high, exercise can sometimes send it higher. If you get put on Metformin, don't worry, it's a very sae medicine.
 
Hi Cheryl,
I think we all feel for you. because many of us have been where you are now - all i can say is that it does get better. Diabetes is a condition that you learn to live with, part of which is learning which foods are good and bad for you, what exercise does for you, etc.

The usual initial treatment of type-2 is to recommend that the patient takes more exercise and reduces the carbohydrates. You have done both of these but with little success, so for you the solution is more likely to be a medication that will help to lower your blood sugars, as Sarah suggests. It seems likely that you have some degree of insulin resistance, so Metformin would be the first med that you would be prescribed.

Let us know how you get on at your next appointment and what is recommended for you.
 
hey it is hard getting your head around all of this, i struggle as well especially in terms of working out what to eat, when and having to pre plan everything


i have been checking my bloods at least twice if not three times a day and although there has been a reduction it is still way too high and i am only a few weeks away from seeing the doc again. although i am keen to avoid meds i am aware that i may need some help, just want to fight it all the way at the mo

i think we all have to remember that this is just another thing life throws at us, problem is we don't have our arms out waiting to catch we are already looking at all the other cr*p in the air watching for it to all come pouring down at the same time.

i'm sure things will improve but you have to give yourself time (and not a hard time! :lol: )

i am very encouraged by coming on here and hope you will keep on posting so we can all help!

take care x
 
Hi Cheryl
I have been feeling the same way for the last few days and think it is just realisation setting in that this is for life and it is hard to not be in control of something. I have been viewing the forum since I was diagnosed and have asked questions and have received the greatest of help and caring from the people on this forum. It does help to know that others are/have been in the same place as you. Keep smilin :D even though I know it is difficult things will get better when you get your levels right.

Regards
Chris
 
Hi Cheryl

Please dont be so upset, it does take some time before you achieve control of this diabetes thing, a lot of it is trial and error and I think almost all of us have been experiencing the same or very similar problems to the ones that you are trying to deal with now.

Dont feel a failure Cheryl, you are anything but, you are sensible by trying to sort things out best as you can, I wish I had been like that, instead I was a prat and thought very clever by ignoring and rebelling against my diabetes diagnosis. So give yourself credit for doing your best to address this issue.

As Sarah says, having to take medication in order to achieve good control of your bg is never ever a failure, some people just need that extra bit of help, stay fairly low carb and you might only need the minimum dosage anyway and it might not even be forever, I lost weight, did initially very low carb then gradually built up carb intake but I managed to stop my meds again, so far so good, still get no guarantee that it will always stay this way, but I am not stressing, take it as it comes.

Please dont stress, because this extra worry, this extra forcing youself to walk all that way to work and back is not a relaxing pleasurable kind of exercise but more like a stressful hard work type, that too can raise your bg.

Dont feel guilty for not being able to go extremely low carb, all fine if you can manage, but if you cannot then dont worry over it either, its a personal thing and you should do things only if you are comfortable with them. You are doing ok Cheryl, its early days yet, you will see it will become easier eventually, I promise.

I hope all goes well with your appointment, come back and let us know the outcome.

Big comforting hug for you

Karen x
 
Thank you all so much for your kind words, I really don't mind going on medication if it helps then I am all for it.

Had a bit of a bad food night last night and my levels this morning show that lol. Back on the low carb today! I think part of the problem is I try to get things sorted too quickly, I need to learn that this is going to take some time and that I have this for life so need to get used to the changes in diet and work out what works for me and what doesn't. Giving the walk to work a miss this morning, need to go to a retail park after work so am gonna have a relaxing day and drive, really don't feel too good anyway, serves me right after last night!

Anyway, I'd better get ready for work, thank you all again, it does mean a lot to know people have felt the same way, I think it's really easy to feel quite alone with this sometimes so it's good to know I have the support of you guys.

Will let you know how I get on with the nurse on Friday

Take care

Cheryl x
 
cheziecat said:
I can't eat any less carbs than I am doing at the moment, it's just not practical or something I feel I can do.
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IMO your numbers are up in the area where you may be suffering from "glucotoxicity" where the high BG generates extra insulin resistance which keeps the BG high.

Best way to break out of that is to hit it with as much medication as they will give you initially (metformin is a good plan if you also have PCOS, it needs starting at a low dose and racking up until it is effective, and takes a while to work)

Once you have the BG down into a more realistic area it's then much easier to keep it there, at which point you may be able to reduce or even eliminate medications.
 
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