Hello,
I was diagnosed type 2 a long time ago, 12 years I think, but have always managed to keep it under control with diet, enough to be shifted into remission/pre-diabetes a couple of years back.
After successfully avoiding it for 3 years (I was on the original screening list) I got covid in Feb and had symptoms that match long-covid ever since. In May the doctors did full bloods and found my Vit D & folate low but HbA1c up a lot to 54 mmol/mol (December test it was 41). My latest test at the start of Nov show my Vit D & folate normal again but B12 now a bit low and the HbA1c at 53.
The doctors seem more interested in treating the symptoms, even as far as saying I need to adjust diet and activity even though the exact same d&a had kept things in check for a decade. They don't seem to want to deal with the elephant in the room, covid. Before covid everything was managed, post covid it isn't. I know the research is showing mixed results regarding links between covid and an increase in diabetes but there is still the old when body is fighting infection/illness it releases more glucose which when you have diabetes means higher blood sugars.
Sadly I feel like they just aren't listening to me and simply throwing medicine at the problem, don't get me wrong something needs to be done to get my blood sugars right but to ignore an obvious cause is stupid. Over twenty years ago I had a breakdown (first of a few) and spent years getting treatment for depression and by treatment I mean meds, was supposidly put on the waiting list for therapy but it never occurred until I hit a very chaotic period that basically forced their hand. During the therapy it became very obvious I was autistic and I finally got an official diagnosis 7 years ago. But another example of being let down by the NHS (oddly I'll happily defend the NHS despite often falling through the cracks).
So onto my question, anyone else had covid and found their diabetes got a lot worse?
I was diagnosed type 2 a long time ago, 12 years I think, but have always managed to keep it under control with diet, enough to be shifted into remission/pre-diabetes a couple of years back.
After successfully avoiding it for 3 years (I was on the original screening list) I got covid in Feb and had symptoms that match long-covid ever since. In May the doctors did full bloods and found my Vit D & folate low but HbA1c up a lot to 54 mmol/mol (December test it was 41). My latest test at the start of Nov show my Vit D & folate normal again but B12 now a bit low and the HbA1c at 53.
The doctors seem more interested in treating the symptoms, even as far as saying I need to adjust diet and activity even though the exact same d&a had kept things in check for a decade. They don't seem to want to deal with the elephant in the room, covid. Before covid everything was managed, post covid it isn't. I know the research is showing mixed results regarding links between covid and an increase in diabetes but there is still the old when body is fighting infection/illness it releases more glucose which when you have diabetes means higher blood sugars.
Sadly I feel like they just aren't listening to me and simply throwing medicine at the problem, don't get me wrong something needs to be done to get my blood sugars right but to ignore an obvious cause is stupid. Over twenty years ago I had a breakdown (first of a few) and spent years getting treatment for depression and by treatment I mean meds, was supposidly put on the waiting list for therapy but it never occurred until I hit a very chaotic period that basically forced their hand. During the therapy it became very obvious I was autistic and I finally got an official diagnosis 7 years ago. But another example of being let down by the NHS (oddly I'll happily defend the NHS despite often falling through the cracks).
So onto my question, anyone else had covid and found their diabetes got a lot worse?