Hi everyone
My name is Matt and I was diagnosed as tetering on the edge of Type 2 two years ago. I attended my GP for about 3 months and after that time I just stopped going, failed to respond to letters from the GP and effectively hid my head in the sand. My GP was pretty horrible about the whole thing and told me that unless I lost weight I would die early, oddly this did not have the intended effect and after a few visits to the Diabetes Nurse for checks I stopped attending my eating went off the rails and exercise went out the window.
So now I am the weight I was when I was diagnosed, I eat too much, I drink too much and I've started to feel thirsty all the time, I have to get up in the night to go to the loo, I get headaches and I feel low. I suspect that diabetes has caught me and despite my denial I'm getting more ill.
I've been too embrassed to go back to the GP or the nurse, I told them I would lose weight and despite a good start, I didn't, I just slipped back into my old eating habits and sedentry lifestyle, I spoke to someone at Diabetes UK this afternoon and she told me what I know, I HAVE to go back to the GP and I HAVE to get checked. Whether I'm too proud or whether I just don't want to recieve my life sentance I don't know, mostly I don't want the GP to stand in front of me and say 'I told you so FATTY!'.
I have booked an appointment with a Nurse first, she can do the bloods and tell me the score. It's not like I haven't been to the surgery recently, I have a 13 week old little girl at home and all though the pregnancy I was going to the surgery and hiding when I heard a door open in case it was the GP come to find meand shout at me for being an idiot.
Over the last week I've been waking up more often than our little girl and going to the loo and that is really what has triggered me to go back and get treatment, discomfort and fact that I want to see our little one grow up and not lay myself open to the huge list of potentially lethal ailments that untreated diabetes.
I'm an idiot for not doing anything about it, I love food, I love booze and I love life, unfortunatly I have a feeling that two of these things are no longer compatible with the last
MB
My name is Matt and I was diagnosed as tetering on the edge of Type 2 two years ago. I attended my GP for about 3 months and after that time I just stopped going, failed to respond to letters from the GP and effectively hid my head in the sand. My GP was pretty horrible about the whole thing and told me that unless I lost weight I would die early, oddly this did not have the intended effect and after a few visits to the Diabetes Nurse for checks I stopped attending my eating went off the rails and exercise went out the window.
So now I am the weight I was when I was diagnosed, I eat too much, I drink too much and I've started to feel thirsty all the time, I have to get up in the night to go to the loo, I get headaches and I feel low. I suspect that diabetes has caught me and despite my denial I'm getting more ill.
I've been too embrassed to go back to the GP or the nurse, I told them I would lose weight and despite a good start, I didn't, I just slipped back into my old eating habits and sedentry lifestyle, I spoke to someone at Diabetes UK this afternoon and she told me what I know, I HAVE to go back to the GP and I HAVE to get checked. Whether I'm too proud or whether I just don't want to recieve my life sentance I don't know, mostly I don't want the GP to stand in front of me and say 'I told you so FATTY!'.
I have booked an appointment with a Nurse first, she can do the bloods and tell me the score. It's not like I haven't been to the surgery recently, I have a 13 week old little girl at home and all though the pregnancy I was going to the surgery and hiding when I heard a door open in case it was the GP come to find meand shout at me for being an idiot.
Over the last week I've been waking up more often than our little girl and going to the loo and that is really what has triggered me to go back and get treatment, discomfort and fact that I want to see our little one grow up and not lay myself open to the huge list of potentially lethal ailments that untreated diabetes.
I'm an idiot for not doing anything about it, I love food, I love booze and I love life, unfortunatly I have a feeling that two of these things are no longer compatible with the last
MB