Hi there another newbie needing some help.I had a heart transplant 16 weeks ago and since been diagnosed with type 2 which can be caused by the transplant,can be quite common.because I’m struggling to eat and exercise really struggling to control my sugars.a lot of my symptoms I was putting down to medication since transplant but been looking into things a lot more .I’ve tingling in my feet,hands and my lips and upset stomach.I would appreciate any advice on helping me to get my blood sugars down.thanks
Considering you've been through the wringer, it may be a bit much to change everything around in one go, so go slow... And with gliclazide, going low carb can result in hypo's. So whatever you do next, from discussing things with your doc to experimenting on your own...
Don't do a thing without a meter. You need to know how you're doing, or you might hypo, might keep eating things that are no good for a T2 (like bread, spuds, cereal/weetabix, corn, pasta, rice etc), you know... Just make sure you have something that'll tell you how you're doing. And be very careful as you go eh.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/ might help some with the food.
And yeah, while I'm one of the people who will generally vote against statins, I'm usually against them
when there's absolutely no reason to take them. If there's been cardiac trouble though, or familial high cholesterol, I'd be all for it, and you've got a pretty good cause, if you are on 'em. Can they up blood glucose? Yeah, they can. But if you tackle your blood sugars through diet or gliclazide, or both or... Whatever method you prefer, you should be able to just keep taking them without sacrificing too much in the blood sugar department. There's a lot of conditions that require medication that influence our blood sugars as well (like steroids for instance), and we'll just have to work around them!
As for not feeling like eating, the things you are eating are keeping your blood sugars up... That can make you not want to eat, as there's too much glucose going around as it is. So it's not so much the amount you're eating, it's what you're eating. I eat twice a day and I stuff myself with practically no carb food. I don't usually go hungry, and my blood sugars these days range from 3,5 to oh, 6 or thereabouts, but that's in the morning. (Dawn Phenomenon: the liver dumps stored glucose to help you start the day.).
You'll get the hang of this. Just, again, if you reduce carbs... Be very, very careful with the gliclazide. Your dosage may need to be adjusted.
Good luck!
Jo