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Glucose Intolerent

oreochic77

oreochic77

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Hi really not sure if this is the right place for me to be but i have looked every place else and i cant find anything helpfull!

My name is Kerry and i am 32 years old i was Geo Diabetic 5 years ago with my last baby, my maternal Grandmother was also Geo diabetic with my mum and it never went away she eventually lost her leg bellow the knee and she died because of the diesise. My mums younger sister is on a perminate siringe drive for her insulin..........I have had a GTT and a fasting glucose test every year since my daughter was born and looking back the results keep getting higher and higher i have all the symtoms of type 2 but still my levals apparently are not high enough. I have now been told i am glucose intolernt and told it can be controlled by diet which is fair enough but all the advice i got was book in to see the nurse which will take me weeks to see her! mean while i am having all these symtoms which are driving me insane, the constantly being tierd feeling light headed, dizzy, and sick (i get these feelings if i eat or if i dont eat i cant win!) The constant Thrush and now starting with the water infections to! i just feel like a propper mess and feel sorta like i just have to put up with it till im ill enough to be Type 2!

Sorry everyone i just realised how long this message is! and help or advice would be fab! thanks so much for listining xx
 
Hi Kerry,

Sorry you are not feeling so good.

Folks are all different and will sometimes get loads of 'Type 2 symptoms' and sometimes none at all. Likewise the Blood Glucose Level that triggers the symptoms will vary from person to person. In my amateur view, I would say that if you are experiencing the symptoms of type 2, you are already at the level where action should be taken.

I would write down all your symptoms for a few days and go back to see the Doctor again. He or she may well tell you to go away and not to worry about it, but stand your ground to get some proper advice so you can take charge of your life and get back on track as soon as possible. If you can't get to see the nurse for so long, put the Doctor on the spot and ask him to give you all the dietary detail you need to get set on the right course and sit there writing it all down ...slowly.
My guess is that the appointment with the Nurse would come sooner than you expect :mrgreen:
.... or am I just a cynical old f*rt ? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

That is my take on things and I'm sure that folks with more experience will be along soon.

Never worry about long postings - it is important that you get information across and there is nobody charges by the column inch here :D

I can rattle on for pages sometimes :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

be good and be lucky

Dave
 
Thanks Dave

Yes of course you are right to be honnest when i saw the doc she was not my usuall doc and i did not find her helpfull at all. I know that the right diet and excercise is what i should be doing but if im feeling like rubbish how can i possibly exercise the way im feeling now as all i want to do is sleep lol. My job can be very heavy at times to and i only get a 15 min breack to eat and seems to be whatever is the quickest! this low carb diet thing seems so daunting to seems like u cant eat anything plus i am on a very low budget so i just dont know where to start lol..........i have just realised all i seem to have done in this post is whine lol dont mean to im just very frustated!

Kerry x
 
As you are pre diabetic the info below may be of some use to you.

You do not have to LOW carb but what you can do is work out the amount of carbs that you usually eat then reduce the amount by say a half and see how you go on from there. This will not only help to reduce your blood glucose levels but will also help you lose weight. Losing weight will, in turn, reduce any insulin resistance that you may have and help control BG levels.

Here is the advice we usually give to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics.This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different.

It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.

The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such as bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, starchy root veg and also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.

The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels. Some foods, which are slow acting carbohydrates, are absorbed more slowly so you may need to test three or even four hours later to see the affect that these have on your blood glucose levels.

Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.

When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.

As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!

As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.

It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.

Sue/Ken.
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thanks for the responce to good advice.................do u also advice i buy i bg monitor? i used to have one when i pregnant but i cant remember if i gave it back to the doc i think i might have?
 
I would recommend that you get a meter but the test strips are expensive and you will not get them prescribed being non diabetic. However by using the meter to test foods to see how they affect your bg levels you may not have to use it for long once you see which foods you can eat. It is up to you.
 
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