Hi everyone,
I'm T2, been trying very hard over the last few weeks with a low carb diet after my last HBA1C which was 69, only medication I can tolerate for it just now is Alogliptin, had to give up the Metformin and Rybelsus as the side effects were horrendous and I couldn't cope with them.
I also struggle badly with clinical depression and severe anxiety, these have been ok up until the last couple of days, but I can feel the depression just tapping away at my brain again, it's such a horrible feeling, just waiting to see how bad it's going to be this time, trying to fight it constantly. I've barely been able to lose any weight in the last few weeks, I guess the older you get the harder it is to come off and that's starting to get me down because I know without some substantial weight loss I won't be able to put this diabetes into remission, I know this from when I was first diagnosed and lost 3 stone, which of course has gone back on since then.
I'm starting to struggle badly with sticking to the low carb diet, when my mental health is bad all I want is junk food, takeaways, wine, anything to beat back this blackness that just wants to descend again. I'm trying very hard not to give in but it's so difficult at times like these. Sometimes I just wish I could accept being fat and let this diabetes do what it wants to my body, I just keep failing at this. Sorry for the miserable post, just had to vent a little.
Maggie
I'm T2, been trying very hard over the last few weeks with a low carb diet after my last HBA1C which was 69, only medication I can tolerate for it just now is Alogliptin, had to give up the Metformin and Rybelsus as the side effects were horrendous and I couldn't cope with them.
I also struggle badly with clinical depression and severe anxiety, these have been ok up until the last couple of days, but I can feel the depression just tapping away at my brain again, it's such a horrible feeling, just waiting to see how bad it's going to be this time, trying to fight it constantly. I've barely been able to lose any weight in the last few weeks, I guess the older you get the harder it is to come off and that's starting to get me down because I know without some substantial weight loss I won't be able to put this diabetes into remission, I know this from when I was first diagnosed and lost 3 stone, which of course has gone back on since then.
I'm starting to struggle badly with sticking to the low carb diet, when my mental health is bad all I want is junk food, takeaways, wine, anything to beat back this blackness that just wants to descend again. I'm trying very hard not to give in but it's so difficult at times like these. Sometimes I just wish I could accept being fat and let this diabetes do what it wants to my body, I just keep failing at this. Sorry for the miserable post, just had to vent a little.
Maggie
