- Messages
- 6
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Hello everyone. I'm new here and I need some advice.
I was diagnosed with T2 in February 2021. I actually thought I had diabetes in 2016 because I was getting numbness in my toes. I checked this website back then as a lurker and went on a low carb diet, lost a ton of weight and started taking alpha lipoic acid. I had a blood test in 2017 which was apparently normal, to my pleasant surprise.
Anyway, I fell back into bad habits a few years later, and was diagnosed in 2021. I've only been taking metformin since then.
I've been attending my annual podiatry appointments, but I've been a complete idiot about getting my eyes tested. I was just too embarrassed to ring the optician. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm just too ashamed to tell people I have diabetes. I'd be more comfortable telling them I had VD or something.
About a week ago I noticed blurring in my left eye. I've been short sighted since I was a child so I have blurred vision anyway, but this was noticeably worse, and there is a shadow over the lower half of my vision.
I just know I have diabetic retinopathy and I'm kicking myself for not taking this disease more seriously and not getting regular check-ups.
I've booked an optician appointment for next week, but I'm terrified of going blind, it will be the end of me. I need to know if there's anything more I can do.
Obviously I am back on a low carb diet again (yay permanent hunger and misery) and I've bought fresh batches of lipoic acid and also n-acetyl cysteine. Do you think these will be of benefit?
My last cholesterol check was 5.1 which is only just over the threshold, but I did my blood sugars this morning for the first time in years and they were 9.0 mmol/l, which is worryingly high considering I'd not eaten much in the previous 24 hours.
I will do anything, literally anything, to avoid losing my vision. Thank you for anyone who has had the patience to read this far, and thanks to anyone who can help me.
I was diagnosed with T2 in February 2021. I actually thought I had diabetes in 2016 because I was getting numbness in my toes. I checked this website back then as a lurker and went on a low carb diet, lost a ton of weight and started taking alpha lipoic acid. I had a blood test in 2017 which was apparently normal, to my pleasant surprise.
Anyway, I fell back into bad habits a few years later, and was diagnosed in 2021. I've only been taking metformin since then.
I've been attending my annual podiatry appointments, but I've been a complete idiot about getting my eyes tested. I was just too embarrassed to ring the optician. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm just too ashamed to tell people I have diabetes. I'd be more comfortable telling them I had VD or something.
About a week ago I noticed blurring in my left eye. I've been short sighted since I was a child so I have blurred vision anyway, but this was noticeably worse, and there is a shadow over the lower half of my vision.
I just know I have diabetic retinopathy and I'm kicking myself for not taking this disease more seriously and not getting regular check-ups.
I've booked an optician appointment for next week, but I'm terrified of going blind, it will be the end of me. I need to know if there's anything more I can do.
Obviously I am back on a low carb diet again (yay permanent hunger and misery) and I've bought fresh batches of lipoic acid and also n-acetyl cysteine. Do you think these will be of benefit?
My last cholesterol check was 5.1 which is only just over the threshold, but I did my blood sugars this morning for the first time in years and they were 9.0 mmol/l, which is worryingly high considering I'd not eaten much in the previous 24 hours.
I will do anything, literally anything, to avoid losing my vision. Thank you for anyone who has had the patience to read this far, and thanks to anyone who can help me.