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Long term type II

Greetings.

How has your HbA1c been over those 24 years ?
Congrats on the weight loss, did losing the 7 stone help with your readings
 
Hello @Fallingstartime and welcome. That's an impressive weight loss.

How are you coping with the insulin? (My single piece of advice for new users: always carry glucose or equivalent in case of hypos.)
 
Hi @Fallingstartime , wow a impressive amount of weight loss congrats . If you don't mind me.asking how have you managed you diabetes over so many years
 
Fallingstartime said:
Hi I have been type II for 24 years very recently gone onto insulin as a backup measure. Also Victoza and Metformin. I am one of Victoza success stories loosing nearly 7stone over two years.
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Hi, I'm new as well and been diagnosed T2 for 17 years.
Medication: Metformin x2 per day, Alogliptin x1 per day, Gliclazide x1 every other day.
I put on weight during the lockdowns, so made a determined effort and lost 2.5 stone in the last year. I am now at my healthy weight for the first time in 40 years. (132lbs)
1 year ago I was on a walking stick and taking 6-8 ibuprofen a day for arthritis pain. ( I have several other health and mobility issues which I won't bore you with).
Now I am 90% pain free and going on x2 long walks every week. To achieve this I've been on OMAD LCHF, plus using a supplement (for arthritis pain), Moringa powder, twice a week. I've been vegetarian for many years, alcohol- free for 4 years.
Even after all this time, I still struggle to understand what the doctors mean by the different ways they measure bg and "good and bad fat" levels.
Over the last 5 years my Hba1c has been between 48 - 61, my most recent one was 57.
My daily fingertip tests are usually between 6 -7.5 .These readings have hardly changed since my diagnosis.
I am fitter and healthier now, allowing for my disabilities, than I have been for many years.
But fitness, and being pain-free, doesn't seem to matter to them. My diabetes nurse just bangs on about "you know it's a progressive illness, don't you, we might have to put you on Statins"?
I have actually refused Statins in writing.
It seems to me that they ignore the improvements we make in our health by our own efforts, and just repeat their mantra of "more medication, more, more, more"! The last time I spoke to her I said, as I get older I want to be taking LESS medication, not more!
Rant over, just wondered if anyone else feels the same?
 

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If I'd gone on taking the tablets I'd have been in a care home years ago - but every year I get the 'you need lower cholesterol' phone call.
I'm just off to deliver a knitting machine I repaired for the local university - yes it is a bit of a workout getting it up and down stairs as my workshop is in the bedroom and the stairs turn 180 degrees - but I can still do it, and intend to go on doing so for as long as possible.
 
I certainly get every bit as annoyed as you. If I asked to have a lower dose of anything because of the side effects (or because I am lighter and fitter than I was,) I got "we can give you something for that" which meant More Bloody Pills. It would be so good if we were seen as whole entities (how many of us are prescribed meds for one problem that increase another?) and that the ideal would be to use the meds to help us over the bumps in the road but, where possible, use other, safer ways of staying healthy long-term.

In the absence of professional help, I am going my own way. I don't recommend anyone else trying this at all, of course - it's a decision for each individual.
 
Outlier said:
I certainly get every bit as annoyed as you. If I asked to have a lower dose of anything because of the side effects (or because I am lighter and fitter than I was,) I got "we can give you something for that" which meant More Bloody Pills. It would be so good if we were seen as whole entities (how many of us are prescribed meds for one problem that increase another?) and that the ideal would be to use the meds to help us over the bumps in the road but, where possible, use other, safer ways of staying healthy long-term.

In the absence of professional help, I am going my own way. I don't recommend anyone else trying this at all, of course - it's a decision for each individual.
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BRAVO my friend. YOU are the diabetic and the choice rests with you. So many forget this.
 
Radicalcartoons said:
Hi, I'm new as well and been diagnosed T2 for 17 years.
Medication: Metformin x2 per day, Alogliptin x1 per day, Gliclazide x1 every other day.
I put on weight during the lockdowns, so made a determined effort and lost 2.5 stone in the last year. I am now at my healthy weight for the first time in 40 years. (132lbs)
1 year ago I was on a walking stick and taking 6-8 ibuprofen a day for arthritis pain. ( I have several other health and mobility issues which I won't bore you with).
Now I am 90% pain free and going on x2 long walks every week. To achieve this I've been on OMAD LCHF, plus using a supplement (for arthritis pain), Moringa powder, twice a week. I've been vegetarian for many years, alcohol- free for 4 years.
Even after all this time, I still struggle to understand what the doctors mean by the different ways they measure bg and "good and bad fat" levels.
Over the last 5 years my Hba1c has been between 48 - 61, my most recent one was 57.
My daily fingertip tests are usually between 6 -7.5 .These readings have hardly changed since my diagnosis.
I am fitter and healthier now, allowing for my disabilities, than I have been for many years.
But fitness, and being pain-free, doesn't seem to matter to them. My diabetes nurse just bangs on about "you know it's a progressive illness, don't you, we might have to put you on Statins"?
I have actually refused Statins in writing.
It seems to me that they ignore the improvements we make in our health by our own efforts, and just repeat their mantra of "more medication, more, more, more"! The last time I spoke to her I said, as I get older I want to be taking LESS medication, not more!
Rant over, just wondered if anyone else feels the same?
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Hi Radicalcartoons, Yep feel the same way as you. Fed up with adding more tablets every year, shake me and I rattle lol
Welcome to the forum I think you'll find many like minded people here :)
 
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