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<blockquote data-quote="pavlosn" data-source="post: 672618" data-attributes="member: 22572"><p>Hi and welcome to the forum</p><p></p><p>Rest assured we have all been where you find yourself now.</p><p></p><p>Being diagnosed with a life long condition like diabetes can be a bit of a shock and the flood of seemingly conflicting information one receives about how to cope with it can be overwhelming. </p><p></p><p>As others have suggested you need to educate yourself about how to deal with this, and this forum and its members are a great source of information and advise based on the accumulated knowledge of many years of living with diabetes. But take you time, to process emotionally what is happening to you first. There is no rush, even if you get things wrong at first you are very unlikely to get them so wrong as to do harm to yourself in the short term; uncontrolled diabetes may be a killer but it tends to work long term rather than short term.</p><p></p><p>The good news is that this condition is manageable with some necessary lifestyle changes to ones diet , exercise etc. I note that you state that you are disabled but any increase in physical activity you are able to manage will be beneficial. Although increase in activity helps the main element leading to controlling your glucose levels will be diet.</p><p></p><p>The main thing you should concentrate on with regards to diet is that you may have to control/limit your intake of all carbohydrates not just sugar.</p><p></p><p>To know how much to limit them by you need to get a glucose monitor and test your blood immediately before and two hours after each meal, keeping a food diary, and adjusting the carb level of your next meal until you can manage to keep your after meal counts within 2 mmol of the before.</p><p></p><p>Once you can meet this 2mmol limit consistently, you should see a gradual improving trend in your before meal counts.</p><p></p><p>Once again welcome and good luck with your efforts</p><p></p><p>Pavlos</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pavlosn, post: 672618, member: 22572"] Hi and welcome to the forum Rest assured we have all been where you find yourself now. Being diagnosed with a life long condition like diabetes can be a bit of a shock and the flood of seemingly conflicting information one receives about how to cope with it can be overwhelming. As others have suggested you need to educate yourself about how to deal with this, and this forum and its members are a great source of information and advise based on the accumulated knowledge of many years of living with diabetes. But take you time, to process emotionally what is happening to you first. There is no rush, even if you get things wrong at first you are very unlikely to get them so wrong as to do harm to yourself in the short term; uncontrolled diabetes may be a killer but it tends to work long term rather than short term. The good news is that this condition is manageable with some necessary lifestyle changes to ones diet , exercise etc. I note that you state that you are disabled but any increase in physical activity you are able to manage will be beneficial. Although increase in activity helps the main element leading to controlling your glucose levels will be diet. The main thing you should concentrate on with regards to diet is that you may have to control/limit your intake of all carbohydrates not just sugar. To know how much to limit them by you need to get a glucose monitor and test your blood immediately before and two hours after each meal, keeping a food diary, and adjusting the carb level of your next meal until you can manage to keep your after meal counts within 2 mmol of the before. Once you can meet this 2mmol limit consistently, you should see a gradual improving trend in your before meal counts. Once again welcome and good luck with your efforts Pavlos [/QUOTE]
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