Hi
I am a 57 year old male type 2 diabetic and have been for some considerable time now. At the outset I was prescribed gliclazide (1 tablet per day) but as time has passed I have been prescribed all manner of drugs including metformin, ramipril, atoravastin, candesartan, pioglitazone, saxagliptin until ending up about one year ago being put on insulin injections and building up to what is now three injections a day of novorapid (30 units at a time) and one injection of insulatard at night time. This has controlled my sugars very well and although I suffered a series of low blood sugars at first these have now steadied themselves and I tend to hover around the 5.5 to 7.5 mark. However the one side effect that I have found is weight gain and I believe that I have put on two stone over the last year. This brings about a problem insofar as I have to increase insulin doses to cater for the gain in weight which, in turn, puts more weight on. I do have a very sedentary job, sat down for most of the day with little chance of exercise. My joints/muscles are such that I cannot walk for long and certainly can no longer run for any more that 50 metres. I really do need to get my head around this and end up with a self treatment plan, firstly to reduce my weight and secondly to try to improve my diabetes to a greater extent with an ultimate goal of not having to take injections any longer and rely on tablets only. The problem is that my doctors offer little or no support in this, I have never received any dietary advice from them let alone a care plan. If fact things are so bad that when I responded to their request to book a yearly review the best that they could offer was a nine week wait for an appointment. Any advice would be gratefully received...
I am a 57 year old male type 2 diabetic and have been for some considerable time now. At the outset I was prescribed gliclazide (1 tablet per day) but as time has passed I have been prescribed all manner of drugs including metformin, ramipril, atoravastin, candesartan, pioglitazone, saxagliptin until ending up about one year ago being put on insulin injections and building up to what is now three injections a day of novorapid (30 units at a time) and one injection of insulatard at night time. This has controlled my sugars very well and although I suffered a series of low blood sugars at first these have now steadied themselves and I tend to hover around the 5.5 to 7.5 mark. However the one side effect that I have found is weight gain and I believe that I have put on two stone over the last year. This brings about a problem insofar as I have to increase insulin doses to cater for the gain in weight which, in turn, puts more weight on. I do have a very sedentary job, sat down for most of the day with little chance of exercise. My joints/muscles are such that I cannot walk for long and certainly can no longer run for any more that 50 metres. I really do need to get my head around this and end up with a self treatment plan, firstly to reduce my weight and secondly to try to improve my diabetes to a greater extent with an ultimate goal of not having to take injections any longer and rely on tablets only. The problem is that my doctors offer little or no support in this, I have never received any dietary advice from them let alone a care plan. If fact things are so bad that when I responded to their request to book a yearly review the best that they could offer was a nine week wait for an appointment. Any advice would be gratefully received...