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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- finger pricking and maths at every meal
How exactly do they know which type you are?
I'm really struggling with management.
I was diagnosed three years ago, prescribed 1000mg of metfomin and sent on my way - fully discharged and no follow up.
Luckily i has health insurance at a work and am a curious type. I used the insurance to get a diagnostic test - they told me they could't do anything i hadn't already had doe but at least did highlight that i shouldn't have been signed off. it was agreed i would go to the private consultants NHS clinic as my insurance didn't cover treatment. At this time i was about 3.5 stone overweight so according to them this was the cause, end of lose, the weight.
I was then prescribed 2000mg of metformin. This didn't do much and the hospital was too far to travel so i was transferred again.
This time i got a really nice consultant who i worked well with - but he was retiring soon!!
He put me on Gliclizide with the Metformin, for a short while until I put on about a stone in 4 weeks. he then took me of gliclizide and added Sitagliptin x 100mg to the metformin. this didn't do much. I was accused of not trying hard enough with my diet. eventually 100mg of canoglifazin was added. this did seem to have a positive impact for some time and afforded some carbohydrate allowance. Otherwise i couldn't eat any carbs. Over a year i brought my weight down and all seemed well.
At this point i experienced a very difficult tradgedy and for 18 months had to prioritise care of my mental health over diabetes checks - was already taking a lot of time out of work for therapy, had a horribly unsupportive manager and assumed that the diabetes was in control as i had finally had a positive HBa1c result. i didn't have any diabetes checks in that 18 months.
in around sept i noticed that i had been suffering severe lethargy again and decided to go to the gp. a full bloods said everything was fine but my HBa1C was though the roof. 98!!! this was in december. I then severely cut back my carbs - i'm talking no carbs. very little carbs. and i started finger pricking again. my readings have been between 10 - 15 same meds, virtually no carbs.
yesterday they threatened insulin and upped my canglifazin to 200mg per day. As i was on the run yesterday i had one sandwich in the morning - on high protine bread (9g of cards per slice) and some wholemeal bread on a sandwich for dinner, then at 5pm i did my bloods and got a 6.2 i was over the moon and thought the extra canaglifazin must be working. today however not so.
Same breakfast, some lentils at dinner and meat and veg for my evening meal. i tested before my evening meal - 12. and 2 hours after 15!!!
What i want to know is how do they really know what type you are?
how do all of these drugs work. I just found out that metformin is for insulin resistence - how do they know i'm insulin resistent.
I know canaglifazin literally flushes sugars out.
If canaglifazin has been the only one to make a real difference then how do i know if i even need the other two meds. Perhaps i'm not insulin resistant at all but the rare good readings i get are from flushing and abstinence? I do find i really can't eat any carbs if i want a good reading.
what does sitagliptin do? why has that been given to me?
What if i actually have LADA?
i've not had any sudden wight loss or ketosis that i know of. But then i was totally symptom free before diagnosis anyway.
I'm honestly really worried I have been misdiagnosed and have been taking loads of meds for ages and getting no where.
I have another month before my next set of bloods. it's not long compared to the 3 years I've already been going through this - but really after three years of consistently high blood sugars another month isn't something to be shrugged off.
i've kept the weight off and they are happy with that at least. cholesterol is high though because of all the meat consumption!!!
I'm really struggling with management.
I was diagnosed three years ago, prescribed 1000mg of metfomin and sent on my way - fully discharged and no follow up.
Luckily i has health insurance at a work and am a curious type. I used the insurance to get a diagnostic test - they told me they could't do anything i hadn't already had doe but at least did highlight that i shouldn't have been signed off. it was agreed i would go to the private consultants NHS clinic as my insurance didn't cover treatment. At this time i was about 3.5 stone overweight so according to them this was the cause, end of lose, the weight.
I was then prescribed 2000mg of metformin. This didn't do much and the hospital was too far to travel so i was transferred again.
This time i got a really nice consultant who i worked well with - but he was retiring soon!!
He put me on Gliclizide with the Metformin, for a short while until I put on about a stone in 4 weeks. he then took me of gliclizide and added Sitagliptin x 100mg to the metformin. this didn't do much. I was accused of not trying hard enough with my diet. eventually 100mg of canoglifazin was added. this did seem to have a positive impact for some time and afforded some carbohydrate allowance. Otherwise i couldn't eat any carbs. Over a year i brought my weight down and all seemed well.
At this point i experienced a very difficult tradgedy and for 18 months had to prioritise care of my mental health over diabetes checks - was already taking a lot of time out of work for therapy, had a horribly unsupportive manager and assumed that the diabetes was in control as i had finally had a positive HBa1c result. i didn't have any diabetes checks in that 18 months.
in around sept i noticed that i had been suffering severe lethargy again and decided to go to the gp. a full bloods said everything was fine but my HBa1C was though the roof. 98!!! this was in december. I then severely cut back my carbs - i'm talking no carbs. very little carbs. and i started finger pricking again. my readings have been between 10 - 15 same meds, virtually no carbs.
yesterday they threatened insulin and upped my canglifazin to 200mg per day. As i was on the run yesterday i had one sandwich in the morning - on high protine bread (9g of cards per slice) and some wholemeal bread on a sandwich for dinner, then at 5pm i did my bloods and got a 6.2 i was over the moon and thought the extra canaglifazin must be working. today however not so.
Same breakfast, some lentils at dinner and meat and veg for my evening meal. i tested before my evening meal - 12. and 2 hours after 15!!!
What i want to know is how do they really know what type you are?
how do all of these drugs work. I just found out that metformin is for insulin resistence - how do they know i'm insulin resistent.
I know canaglifazin literally flushes sugars out.
If canaglifazin has been the only one to make a real difference then how do i know if i even need the other two meds. Perhaps i'm not insulin resistant at all but the rare good readings i get are from flushing and abstinence? I do find i really can't eat any carbs if i want a good reading.
what does sitagliptin do? why has that been given to me?
What if i actually have LADA?
i've not had any sudden wight loss or ketosis that i know of. But then i was totally symptom free before diagnosis anyway.
I'm honestly really worried I have been misdiagnosed and have been taking loads of meds for ages and getting no where.
I have another month before my next set of bloods. it's not long compared to the 3 years I've already been going through this - but really after three years of consistently high blood sugars another month isn't something to be shrugged off.
i've kept the weight off and they are happy with that at least. cholesterol is high though because of all the meat consumption!!!