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Silverspeed+1955

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I was a healthy 54 year old female, healthy weight, non smoker, ever, non drinker, ever, no take always, Perhaps a pizza now and again, and I was happy.. Until I moved and changed Drs last year when I was told I had diabetes type 2 ! For the past year I have lost more weight through cutting out all carbs, sugars, and any thing else that may make my bs rise, making me look like a very old, wrinkly and desperately unhappy 55 year old, diabetes has taken over and ruined my once happy life and now I have been told I have developed diabetic retinopathy and I don't even wear glasses! How can I pull myself together and become the person I once was, I am so stressed out!! Help! Thank you
 
hi, yikes what youve done is supposed to work, i cant help but hopefully bump this up so someone who can finds it, best wishes
 
Silverspeed+1955 said:
I was a healthy 54 year old female, healthy weight, non smoker, ever, non drinker, ever, no take always, Perhaps a pizza now and again, and I was happy.. Until I moved and changed Drs last year when I was told I had diabetes type 2 ! For the past year I have lost more weight through cutting out all carbs, sugars, and any thing else that may make my bs rise, making me look like a very old, wrinkly and desperately unhappy 55 year old, diabetes has taken over and ruined my once happy life and now I have been told I have developed diabetic retinopathy and I don't even wear glasses! How can I pull myself together and become the person I once was, I am so stressed out!! Help! Thank you
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Just sort out the retinopathy. Sounds like you are doing the rest yourself more than well enough. Having had 2 laser surgeries so far (1 to go) - it's not the most pleasant thing in the world, but it's hardly unbearable. And I am a wuss.

Spend your considerable energies into seeing if anything makes you spike, and then avoid it. Some people swear they are carb intolerant and removing them works, others, not so much. Everyone is different.

I have found out that whilst I respond to metformin incredibly well, my eyes suffer much more quickly from diabetes than most. Glasses don't help much; retinopathy is different. Just get it done and on a timely basis. If you miss out an appt, the first bout becomes irrelevant and needs to be redone - they have to get it all in a quick time frame. I had a lovely vitreous hemorrhage to prove that point to me.Keep prodding your doc, and make sure he / she has considered ACE inhibitors. statins, maybe omeprazole if they give you a bad tummy. I'm not a doc, so you must see yours - And research what they said, and query it if unsure.

I had T2 undiagnosed for a decade or more. I thought I was over-tired from working. My eyes and feet are f****d now. Don't wait for treatment, go and seek it out. There is no coming back. I am 41.

What you have is likely controllable. I wish you the best of luck.
 
Hi Arid, Thank you for your answer, I sincerely hope that you also carry on in health, the eye story is really friggin me out, you hear all sorts of frightening stories, and being of a very nervous disposition, well I am a nervous reck, so I appreciate your feed back.
 
My advice , although not correct is -
Live how you feel the most comfortablist as possible
Eat what you want and do what you want
Ive got neuropathy , incontinamce and 3 years ago lost all my sight but recovered in one eye
I'm only 27 and had diabetes 11year

Go and have fun , eat and do what you want

Ashley
 
HI Ashley,
I feel so guilty about my complaining after seeing what you have gone through, to tell the truth I don't know if you are being sarcastic and telling me to stop complaining, or if you are saying, life is too short for worry and stress, just live life and forget about the diabetes, how I wish I could, but it seems to consume me, from waking till night. Ashley, I am really sorry for how you have suffered....
 
dubzn1 said:
My advice , although not correct is -
Live how you feel the most comfortablist as possible
Eat what you want and do what you want
Ive got neuropathy , incontinamce and 3 years ago lost all my sight but recovered in one eye
I'm only 27 and had diabetes 11year

Go and have fun , eat and do what you want

Ashley
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Lol Are you serious?


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Yes I'm being serious and yes life is too short but shorter when you have that to deal with
There's all them physical problems but I've developed some very silly ones too
When I bring my BG to where it should be , I turn into the most nasty person ever and it's always aimed at my fiancée which has tore us apart once until we worked out what it was
I have no enthusiasm for much at all really - I don't play console , watch tv , drink/smoke or do drugs
I have a few interests but not many
It's crazy but I have no friends at all for 2 reasons
One of them was because when I went blind I couldn't recognise half of them when I was in town and the second is because the other friends , I never wanted to do anything with them and I was boring ect
It amazes me that I have my good lady !!!
This is why I say live just how you feel comfatable
 
in my honest opinion your bananas

if this gets me banned ill be sorry to go but sometimes ya gotta say what ya gotta say

bananas bananas bananas

and sometimes ya gotta say it over and over lol


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I've hijacked this thread !! I'm sorry
I'll open up a new thread and we can all have a moan at me there

But my advice is to do things that make you happy but also that keep you well as you still have your health albeit a little different to the rest of the world
Don't feel down
 
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