Second week after being told my blood sugar was 27. Started on Metformin that day and am now also on Gliclazide.
Stopped all sugary drinks and foods, BS is now 12 this evening. Still waiting to see the nurse and have so many questions.
Hi Phil,
Sorry about the diagnosis. Have to agree with the others though, cutting down on sugar isn't the only thing you can do to get your bloodsugars lower. Practically all carbs turn to glucose once ingested, so that rules out spuds, bread, cereal, rice, corn, pasta, underground veggies.... You get the idea, I'm sure. Only thing is, you mention you've been put on gliclazide. If you cut those carbs right out, the gliclazide will still be upping your insulin production. That means you'll hypo if you lower your carb intake and still have the glic wringing insulin out of your pancreas, as it'll be more insulin than you need. So
don't make any changes to your diet until you have a meter, and make sure you have hypo treatment handy (dextro energy, jelly babies, juice boxes, whatever). Since gliclazide can cause hypo's your practice should be providing you with a meter, also because when on hypo-inducing medication you're not exactly allowed to drive when you're under a 5.0 mmol/l, you'd be uninsured if something happened. It's all a lot to take in, I'm sure, but.... I know I had hypo's on glic (I didn't know that could happen, and worse, my endo didn't know either!), and they're not pleasant at all. Thing is, if you can get your bloodsugars under control, you could well be off all medication in no time at all.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/ might help (let me know if the link doesn't work, sometimes it doesn't, no clue why), as well as dietdoctor.com, this place's website, diabetes.co.uk (not .org!) and Dr. Jason Fung's The Diabetes Code. But again...
Don't make any changes unless you have a meter to keep an eye on yourself eh.
The good thing about all this being, you can get your numbers back into the normal range and you could quite likely get rid of the medication after a while... I've been medication and compliction free for 3 years now. If I can do this, and a whole lot of others here with me, then so can you.
Good luck!
Jo