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Hello and welcome @Suzy61
If you read around you will read about how badly I was affected by my diagnosis. I threw myself a real pity party. But I am here to say that my life is now better than ever. I am assuming that you are a type 2 but most of my comments will be pretty general.
So you have found this site- that is a great start. Read around and post- ask questions, vent ask for ideas.
The next thing I really recommend is to get a meter. A meter is the tool that will help you manage the condition. It is the tool that will let you know how different foods affect your blood sugar levels. This information allows you to make decisions.
The last thing (for now
) is to start logging the food you eat- in particular the carb levels. Type 2s generally find that they do not handle carbs well. It is all carbs (yes eve the healthy ones). The amount of carbs that people can tolerate varies so your meter is your guide. My body tolerates only very low levels of carbs (my mind is a lot more flexible lol) so I keep my carb intake at the keto level. Some others can tolerate a lot more than me.
You will have more questions as time goes on. I certainly felt I had information overload at first but it does get better.
Good luck and welcome.
If you read around you will read about how badly I was affected by my diagnosis. I threw myself a real pity party. But I am here to say that my life is now better than ever. I am assuming that you are a type 2 but most of my comments will be pretty general.
So you have found this site- that is a great start. Read around and post- ask questions, vent ask for ideas.
The next thing I really recommend is to get a meter. A meter is the tool that will help you manage the condition. It is the tool that will let you know how different foods affect your blood sugar levels. This information allows you to make decisions.
The last thing (for now
) is to start logging the food you eat- in particular the carb levels. Type 2s generally find that they do not handle carbs well. It is all carbs (yes eve the healthy ones). The amount of carbs that people can tolerate varies so your meter is your guide. My body tolerates only very low levels of carbs (my mind is a lot more flexible lol) so I keep my carb intake at the keto level. Some others can tolerate a lot more than me.You will have more questions as time goes on. I certainly felt I had information overload at first but it does get better.
Good luck and welcome.
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Hi @Suzy61 and welcome to the forums. I'm sure you'll get lots of good advice from the T2s but I'll get in first and sneak in my favourite link to controlling T2 with a low carb diet.
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Do you know what your initial diabetic reading was? (The doctor should have done an hba1c, which is a measure of your average blood sugar over the last 3 months. Normal is less than 40ish, some of the folk here arrive with levels higher than 100.)
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Do you know what your initial diabetic reading was? (The doctor should have done an hba1c, which is a measure of your average blood sugar over the last 3 months. Normal is less than 40ish, some of the folk here arrive with levels higher than 100.)
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Hello All,
I have been recently diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes [in January] and I am taking Metformin 1000mg - at the diagnosis point my blood tests showed 83 and 9.7%.
When I was advised that eating a lot of carbohydrates was a bad thing for diabetics I worked out that I had been consuming between about 380g and 500g of carbohydrates per day for many years - most of that was food but quite a lot was from sachets of Latte coffee made with skimmed milk which constituted probably 150g per day.
After changing my diet to low carbohydrate meals averaging about 120g per day of carbs and not having the latte coffees for about 5 weeks and then using a glucose test meter for the following 2 weeks my everyday Home test blood glucose levels have averaged about 6 [% ?] morning and night time.
I have been testing about mid morning and at night about 2 hours after eating dinner - I only eat once per day - dinner / evening meal so the morning tests are probably about 15 or 16 hours after the previous evenings meal.
I obviously realise that I am not `cured` of Diabetes even though these blood glucose test results seem good / seem to be within the same range as people who do not have diabetes.
However I am still waking up dehydrated then I have to drink lots of water to re-hydrate so I am then urinating frequently - should theses symptoms have reduced because of these seemingly `normal` blood glucose test levels ?
I am not due for further Blood tests at a Blood test clinic until mid May and not due to see my Diabetes specialist Doctor until those results are available so I cannot ask my Doctor about this until then.
Meanwhile I would appreciate any advice from other type 2 Diabetic Members please.
My Regards, Chris
I have been recently diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes [in January] and I am taking Metformin 1000mg - at the diagnosis point my blood tests showed 83 and 9.7%.
When I was advised that eating a lot of carbohydrates was a bad thing for diabetics I worked out that I had been consuming between about 380g and 500g of carbohydrates per day for many years - most of that was food but quite a lot was from sachets of Latte coffee made with skimmed milk which constituted probably 150g per day.
After changing my diet to low carbohydrate meals averaging about 120g per day of carbs and not having the latte coffees for about 5 weeks and then using a glucose test meter for the following 2 weeks my everyday Home test blood glucose levels have averaged about 6 [% ?] morning and night time.
I have been testing about mid morning and at night about 2 hours after eating dinner - I only eat once per day - dinner / evening meal so the morning tests are probably about 15 or 16 hours after the previous evenings meal.
I obviously realise that I am not `cured` of Diabetes even though these blood glucose test results seem good / seem to be within the same range as people who do not have diabetes.
However I am still waking up dehydrated then I have to drink lots of water to re-hydrate so I am then urinating frequently - should theses symptoms have reduced because of these seemingly `normal` blood glucose test levels ?
I am not due for further Blood tests at a Blood test clinic until mid May and not due to see my Diabetes specialist Doctor until those results are available so I cannot ask my Doctor about this until then.
Meanwhile I would appreciate any advice from other type 2 Diabetic Members please.
My Regards, Chris
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Welcome to the community. I'm so much glad to have a chat with you here.
