Moo rakers
Member
- Messages
- 7
- Location
- Dorset
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- I still work full time and I wish I could stop, but can't just yet.
Good afternoon.
I have started using insulin in the last week. Lantus 8 units for the first few days, then increased to 10 units on Friday evening.
I was diagnosed type 2 about 10 years ago and tablets were introduced 5 years ago and the quantities and extra medication slowly increased over those five years. I was started on Sitagliptin in Early December but this did not appear to work. I realise we did not give this much time by my readings were going up, I have in the last couple of months been under medical investigation for a non related (I think) problem and am due a minor investigatory operation under general anaesthetic in just over a week. The pro op check in nurse expressed concern at the BG levels I had recorded, so the decision made to introduce insulin.
I am trying to low carb, but probably avoiding too much until I build on my learning and information.
Today my results were 6.5 before breakfast, which I was delighted with, spinach omelette for breakfast then brisk 5 mile walk. I have been used to seeing BG go down directly after a walk but today it didn't. I am not sure why, can anyone suggest why this didn't happen?
Each day since taking insulin I have seen some reduction in my first in the morning readings. Yet yesterday morning after my first 10 unit dose the night before, my levels were 10.5, higher than the previous few days. I have checked what I ate, and did have one drink on Friday evening (advokat - it's left over from Christmas!) but that didn't seem too bad. BG stayed around 10 most of yesterday, with a walk of about an hour - not as brisk as usual as I felt shattered, and very few carbs yesterday. Why might they have been
I am trying very hard to get levels in normal range before my operation is due on the 30th. Is that a realistic hope? In the last couple of months since reintroducing testing my BG has mostly been top teens. I probably wasn't doing all I should have with reducing carbs over Christmas.
In the first year after diagnosis I lost over four stone on my own, mainly through fear of what it meant to have diabetes, and by significantly reducing carbs. Although I have gone up and down a bit since then, I am still almost four stone less than when first diagnosed. I ought to lose another stone but have found losing weight difficult in last year or so.
I have waffled I am sorry, but thank you for 'listening'. Any advice would be much appreciated.
I have started using insulin in the last week. Lantus 8 units for the first few days, then increased to 10 units on Friday evening.
I was diagnosed type 2 about 10 years ago and tablets were introduced 5 years ago and the quantities and extra medication slowly increased over those five years. I was started on Sitagliptin in Early December but this did not appear to work. I realise we did not give this much time by my readings were going up, I have in the last couple of months been under medical investigation for a non related (I think) problem and am due a minor investigatory operation under general anaesthetic in just over a week. The pro op check in nurse expressed concern at the BG levels I had recorded, so the decision made to introduce insulin.
I am trying to low carb, but probably avoiding too much until I build on my learning and information.
Today my results were 6.5 before breakfast, which I was delighted with, spinach omelette for breakfast then brisk 5 mile walk. I have been used to seeing BG go down directly after a walk but today it didn't. I am not sure why, can anyone suggest why this didn't happen?
Each day since taking insulin I have seen some reduction in my first in the morning readings. Yet yesterday morning after my first 10 unit dose the night before, my levels were 10.5, higher than the previous few days. I have checked what I ate, and did have one drink on Friday evening (advokat - it's left over from Christmas!) but that didn't seem too bad. BG stayed around 10 most of yesterday, with a walk of about an hour - not as brisk as usual as I felt shattered, and very few carbs yesterday. Why might they have been
I am trying very hard to get levels in normal range before my operation is due on the 30th. Is that a realistic hope? In the last couple of months since reintroducing testing my BG has mostly been top teens. I probably wasn't doing all I should have with reducing carbs over Christmas.
In the first year after diagnosis I lost over four stone on my own, mainly through fear of what it meant to have diabetes, and by significantly reducing carbs. Although I have gone up and down a bit since then, I am still almost four stone less than when first diagnosed. I ought to lose another stone but have found losing weight difficult in last year or so.
I have waffled I am sorry, but thank you for 'listening'. Any advice would be much appreciated.
