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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
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- aggressive or supercilious people, clingfilm
Hi, I'm a newbie and very grateful to have found this forum as since I was rediagnosed last July, I've been frightened, frustrated and quite alone with this. I'm ploughing through the posts and am trying to absorb all the information which I really need and regret that I didn't get. This surely is a meeting of expert minds here. Basically, I need to get some advice - I've just had my third glucose tolerance test yesterday morning and I was shocked to see how dramatic the figures have become:
Fasting level - 6.3
plus 1/2 hour - 15.2
plus 1/2 hour 17.1
plus 1/2 hour - 15.4
plus 1/2 hour - 5.4
I am still feeling sick and weak after it. On the last test (my second one) the final level was 2.4 and I was also diagnosed as having reactive hypoglycaemia. I am very concerned about the levels from yesterday but my next appointment with my endocrinologist isn't scheduled until October although the phlebotomist said that she would probably call me on receipt of them. But in the meantime and because I'm worried, could anyone tell me if this looks like a diabetic pattern? I'm doing everything I can in terms of diet to control blood glucose levels and I', only 9st 2lb (I'm 5'7.5") and lost a further 3lbs without trying this last month. I'm feeling fairly desperate about this as I can't seem to control anything.
Just to say I'm taking 2500g metformin per day. It was 2 tablets after breakfast, 1 after lunch and two after dinner but my doc changed it last week as my highest levels of the day were occurring in the morning so she changed it to 3 tablets after breakfast, 1 after lunch and 1 after dinner.
I really am in need of guidance and friendship with this as its hard for the people in my life (however patient) to understand how awful it can be when you just can't balance out the blood, have no energy and are worried about diabetes.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Marjfra x
Fasting level - 6.3
plus 1/2 hour - 15.2
plus 1/2 hour 17.1
plus 1/2 hour - 15.4
plus 1/2 hour - 5.4
I am still feeling sick and weak after it. On the last test (my second one) the final level was 2.4 and I was also diagnosed as having reactive hypoglycaemia. I am very concerned about the levels from yesterday but my next appointment with my endocrinologist isn't scheduled until October although the phlebotomist said that she would probably call me on receipt of them. But in the meantime and because I'm worried, could anyone tell me if this looks like a diabetic pattern? I'm doing everything I can in terms of diet to control blood glucose levels and I', only 9st 2lb (I'm 5'7.5") and lost a further 3lbs without trying this last month. I'm feeling fairly desperate about this as I can't seem to control anything.
Just to say I'm taking 2500g metformin per day. It was 2 tablets after breakfast, 1 after lunch and two after dinner but my doc changed it last week as my highest levels of the day were occurring in the morning so she changed it to 3 tablets after breakfast, 1 after lunch and 1 after dinner.
I really am in need of guidance and friendship with this as its hard for the people in my life (however patient) to understand how awful it can be when you just can't balance out the blood, have no energy and are worried about diabetes.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Marjfra x