12 hrs old been released from hospital after corvic and diagnosed corvic diabetic after 15 days in patient and I came home with the diagnosis of diabetes type 2 with and got to take 500mg Metformin tablets twice a day can u give me any tips or apps I can use to help on my very scarer journey xx
Hello
@Sugarlisa ,
I'm sorry about everything you've gone through recently. It's a lot of scary stuff, and now diabetes on top of it... First thing's first: Give yourself some time. It'll be a while before you recover from all you've been through, and a diabetes diagnosis is quite the blow as it is. However.... The worst of it is pretty much over with now, believe it or not. Type 2 isn't the shop of horrors it used to be. We know more now, and you
can get your blood sugars back down, and avoid complications and whatnot. It's a lot to take in at first, but you'll get there. But like I said... Give yourself a moment. You don't have to get everything absolutely right overnight.
Now, as for apps and websites.... Apps are kind of useless if you don't use a meter (Get one with cheap strips, like the Codefree or Tee2. Strips are where the costs lie). MySugr is one where you log your blood sugars, and especially when you start out, it can be a great help and motivator, because it shows the progress you make.
https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html should help you with the next grocery run, when you feel up to it, and it gives some basics on testing as well. Check dietdoctor.com for suitable meals if you are at a bit of a loss or feel very creative (they have simple meals and complex bakes and everything in between), and you might want to pick up Dr. Jason Fung's book, The Diabetes Code. It's all a bit of a steep learning curve, but you'll get through it.
Mind you, for me personally, focus lies on controlling diabetes through my diet. In part because I responded badly to the medication I was given, in part because it's the more reliable way to avoid complications down the line. And it also happened to help a couple of other conditions I have/had, making them less severe or making them go away entirely. (Chronic migraines, rheumatism, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, morbid obesity etc). But you do have options, right? Go diet-only, a mix of diet and medication, or medication only. You have to figure out what works for you. but do yourself a favour and take a moment to find out what each of those options means in regards to your own personal lifestyle, how it fits with you, and what each option means in regards to halting entirely, or slowing the progress of the T2.
Breathe. You don't have to do this alone.
Jo
