Hi there

Hi Libbyloo and welcome to the forum.

Many of us have a bit of spare tyre they can afford to lose but when that rapidly disappears some of us are facing weight loss they do not want.

My consultant has reassured me that my weight will plateau so I am carrying on regardless with the thought in mind that I suppose it is better to be thin than without my sight or my feet. :shock: :roll:

It will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Hang on in there, explore the forum and ask questions when you need to. Hopefully there will be others along who may have a more useful answer for you.

Hi Libbyloo and welcome (I'm new too!)

When I first found out that I was diabetic last November, I too had lost a lot of weight ( a stone in 2 weeks ) and I'm very slim already.
They treated me initially as a Type 2 and put me on Gliclazide which brought my levels down initially but then they went all over the place!

Eventually it was decided that I was a Type 1 and went on to Insulin. Do you think this might be the case with you?
I hope they will tell you more at your next appointment, but in the meantime read through some of the posts on this forum and hopefully you might find a post that you can identify with.

Sorry I couldn't help more. Good luck.

Hi

I'm new here too. I was diagnosed at the beginning of Dec and am still getting to grips with it all. I'm not slim but I'm not overweight either - bmi 23.5 and I've never really been overweight - borderline, perhaps at times following 2 pgs. I'm also, apparently, fairly young to be Type 2 at 35. I'm finding it hard not to lose weight just because of cutting out sugar, low-carbing to some extent and doing extra exercise. I was told 'don't lose any more weight' at my check up a couple of weeks ago. It's frustrating. I'm taking prolonged release metformin 4 x 500mg per day to see if thta can get things under control but have to do an extra sample test in 2 weeks because they want to check my acetate/ketones levels which were on the high side at the check-up.

I don't really have any useful advice and am still very new to all this. I feel a bit out of control of it all because I can't really do much more on my own to lower my bg levels and if it is still not under control when I go back in 2 1/2 months time I'm not sure what they will suggest.

Just wanted to say 'hi - you're not alone' really.

Sharlie