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Hello everyone,

I'm a 20 year old student, and I was diagnosed with Type 2 two days ago. To say it was a shock would be something of an understatement. I'm trying to process everything now, but I suspect that's going to take a while. In the meantime, I'm glad to find this forum, hopefully the topics will start to make things clearer for me!

There's also the small matter of trying to finish my degree in the midst of all of this, so we'll see how that goes.
 
Hi Syntaxed and welcome to the forum. :)

You have found your way to a good resource where you will find so much information and there are usually folks around who are happy to answer your questions. :D
 
ZACNEMMA said:
That seems very young to be diagnosed type 2. Are you sure your not mis-diagnosed?
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They seem to have tested me for all kinds of things, so I'm guessing not. Apparently it's becoming more common in people my age.
 
Hi syntaxed

I just got diagnosed myself. Still haven't seen the nurse to get all the data about my condition.

If you have been feeling rough my first suggestion to make the condition more bearable is to avoid all sugary items and bread, white flour products, potatoe, white rice type 'carbs'.

I felt like death warmed up a few weeks ago but doing the above has had dramatic effects on my energy levels.
 
Hello again Syntaxed :)

As PP says if you follow the advice on here you will soon feel much better. :D

The following is what Sue and/or Ken often post for newly diagnosed T2s:

Here is the advice we usually give to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics.This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different .

It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.

The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such a bread, potatoes, pasta and rice also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.

The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels.

Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.

When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.

As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!

As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.

It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.
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