NEWBIE alert! (aka Nutter alert)

Hellooo all - wish you all a great day and thanks for having me

Just got diagnosed Type 2 on Friday and spent the weekend sleeping. Have since realised that trillions of other people have this and manage quite well thank you and now it's time to stop being such a total wuss and get on with things

Current treatment is Metformin (oh my god my poor poor bum - will it ever recover?) hahahaha

Been vegetarian for over 20 years and due to work and family commitments virtually living on sugar free red bull (or store's own equivialent) for the last 2.5 years /// hmmmm ... wonder if that has anything to do with being diabetic now? a little light research has hinted perhaps less caffeine would have been sensible.

Oh well, such is life

Anyhow, I have yet to be seen by the diabetic nurse and have a fasting blood test tomorrow - so we'll see. The diet advice I've had so far???

"stop eating sugar"

Hmmmm ... useful, I think not ...

I was diabetic in my pregnancy (for three months I pushed a LOT of insulin) and my diabetic contact then said I was "allergic to all food" as really simple things she'd suggested I eat sent my bloods sky high. Like cottage cheese for instance. 14mmol ... seriously???

Anyway, obviously I am rather concerned now as I had such a problem last time around, I DO have a rather large (backside? belly? thigh?) weight problem so I'm trying hard to address that as much as possible ...

Did you want a potted history? Probably not - feel free to skim !!!

Hopefully at some point somebody will give me a blood monitor and I can actually start working out what kind of things I CAN eat ... right now I am really bored of eating fruit for breakfast, and have had enough eggs or egg white omelette's to kill a horse.

Just found some bread at tesco which is OAT high and seems to have a way lower carb count than all the other breads I've seen, so have snuck some toast and honey for brekkie today - hence the good mood lol

ANY suggestions for starting out, especially as I'm vegetarian (not vegan, obviously, as I've eaten about 6 eggs since Friday haha) would be REALLY gratefully received!

Many thanks,

Jem

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oh thank you lovely people so much for the welcome - you may get sick of the sense of humour at any given time, it has been known to annoy - if you wish to do away with me, please send the cadbury's creme eggs to

PO Box my god you're annoying

***hahahaha***

it's so good to be able to reach out and connect *oooo-er*

**** - I have to cut the fruit? bum ... ah well, I guess if I start with the macrobiotic reverse approach (I may have just made that up lol) and eat as carb free as possible and then introduce things once I get the monitor it could be a good idea to see just what works for me.

thanks for the advice on the cookbook - I have rose elliot books and know she makes food you can actually recreate without spending a hundred quid or five hours doing so

I honestly don't think that my diabetes contact from when I was pregnant knew what the hell to do with me. I filled in my diet sheets accurately and being a really anal type, completed the carbs and stuff lol - I don't think she knew what else to say!!! Being as I had hyperemesis for the whole **** pregnancy (that's where you get well acquainted with the toilet bowl and learn to love the smell of pine) pretty much the only thing I could eat and keep was potato, so probably not the best thing for a diabetic - but the kid came out healthy so YAY ... I realise you can't actually be allergic to all foods, although being allergic to chocolate must suck enough to make you feel like that!

I suppose I'm a bit scared that all the foods I try will end up with me having big readings again ... oh well, at least I love broccoli and tomatoes and mushrooms - please, if anyone says I can't have those, then just start posting those sticky gooey eggs right away!

Will pop back in to annoy the pants off you all again soon

all the best and really, it means lots to have the welcome and the advice to hand - CHEERS!

oooooops, nearly forgot, yep Sue I do eat dairy too, anything that didn't used to be alive basically ... unless you want to start a theoretical debate on veganism and fungi as a non-animal-vegetable-mineral classification aaaaaaaaaaaargh

cheers

Jem xoxoxoxox


**** forgot to add - Hanadr - thanks for information, I do agree that most people who suffer db in pregnancy will go on to a greater or lesser degree ... what I didn't know is that it's possible for me to be a Type 1 at the great age of 34 lol ... it seems ~I haven't googles nearly enough to make sense of this all - eeek!

ppps - can I use the "disease" (or is that a banned expression) as an excuse for being REALLY forgetful? hehehehe *sneaks off*

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thanks squillions

love to connect with "other nutters" - and see, I took no offence whatsoever

new forest eh, one of my favourite places, along with Stockholm ... kinda different I guess *random ramble alert*

and chocoholic eh ... one of my kind hahahaha ...

cheers again *gets warm feeling and not of the wee kind*

ciao J/xxx

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo - nobody ever even mentioned type 1 or 2 when I was pregnant --- all they said was I needed insulin throughout my pregnancy, had a glucose tolerance test at 6 weeks after the horror, sorry, I mean "c/section" - and was told although my sugars were a little high, that I should go away and eat healthily and that I was not diabetic. I've had fasting sugar tests every year since (the boy is now 4 and a half - and hellyeah, they have a LOT to answer for - including my addiction to sugarfree redbull!) and they've always been about 7 or 8 but "nothing to take action upon" according to my GP.

The only reason I got this diagnosis at all is because I saw a different doctor as an emergency appointment, because mine was unavailable. I had cystitus for the nine trillionth time this year ... lovely (sorry if that's TMI) ... and there I was - in my surgery for almost two hours having a bunch of stuff going on ...

So although I'm kind of stuck in that "lack of useful information" zone right now (where's my Sodding blood meter???) I am still hugely grateful to be having the diagnosis at all - I'd rather it was sorted out, instead of feeling like death warmed up (and only for 2 minutes on defrost at that) as I have done for the last 12 months.

Anyhow, I have a fasting blood tomorrow to quantify things. next week I have an appointment with MY own gp (wish me luck) and then middle of September I finally get an appointment with the diabetic nurse at my surgery.

Really suffering an urge for ben and jerry's phish food ice cream right now

Ah well ... never mind hehehehehe ...

See you later, got to go and do some work now,

cheers once more, Jem xoxox

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Thank you for sharing your story and information, it's good to hear what can and does happen to other people.

I'm guessing I'll be back in for another GTT pretty soon (barf) ... thanks again lovey, how old's the sprog now?

xxx

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15 months - ahhhhhh --- you know when people said to me it'd change my life (sic: having a kid) I had NO conception of just how much hahahaha ...

Likewise, pre-pregnancy, no symptoms, although I was asked about family history, at which point, it was aunts and not direct, thwn my baby was 2 weeks old my dad decided to tell me he was diabetic, and had been for sometime. Sheeesh. Helpful. Not.

I have absolutely no memory of what the last two GTTs brought numberwise (apart from the fact I struggled to keep it down hahahaha) nappy head - oh love, it doesn't go away when you get them out of nappies and into spiderman/barbie pants ... I am going to get a tee-shirt made up saying:

"I BLAME THE DISEASE"

Do you think it'll sell well lol?

Some random unreleated blah - a woman loses around 10% of her brain capacity in pregnancy. Hey I didn't have that much to start with!!!

Later xxx

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That's really good - I am sorry to admit I laughed!

... I found the laundry liquid in the milk space in the fridge when dear son was little. That was not good

Oh god I recall the GTT woman mixing the goop and I sat thinking, just the look of it, let alone the taste and texture was enough to bring a lump to the gullet *BARF* ... she told me if I blew sugary chunks, she'd make me take another test the next day ... it was the least vomitty two hours of my entire pregnancy (throughout which I spewed with gay abandon, about 18 times a day, from 8 weeks right up until I barfed on the bloke who was mopping up my fear as they inserted the spinal block thingy on the op table ... all good fun "Only child?" I hear you ask hahahahahaha)

Still it was a good 7 plus months of pukeyness, throughout which time I managed to invent a puke-o-meter --- a shorthand rating scale for "how sick" I had been that day - to avoid long and drawn out vomit related conversations!! A "one" was mild nausea followed my a little light heaving whereas a "five" was like the time I broke a rib heaving and managed to give myself an entirely red eye, due to broken blood vessels.

It's a good job kids give youso much more back, isn't it? Love 'em but sticking at one!

J/xxx

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Absolutely no apology necessary whatso'er!

Ah the temptation ... yes, I recall that moment of insanity - sorry, I mean natural instinct ... it was in the three week gap between the end of colic and the beginning of teething. Ah I slept for actual whole hours at a time (ok, maybe 3 or 4 haha) ... and ate cadbury's creme eggs on a weekly basis ... lol ... it was a brief period of insanity

Hmm you might have to talk dp into it a bit, but you're absolutely right, there are loads of very sucessful pregnancies had by diabetics ... and if you already have a good grasp on handling your own plan, or are willing to take advantage of the honeymoon thingy, then go for it ... that is, if the remaining 10% of thy brain is SURE lol ...

Enjoy and have a lovely night - tomorrow's a whole new day of discover for your toddler ... and you get to tag along hehehehe ...

J/xxx

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Excellent - I love it when us nutters are allowed to run in herds ... actually, what is the collective for nutters? A zing? A basket? teehee - yeah, I think "oh look, from here in undergrowth I can see a wild basket of nutters" works REALLY well

--- move over Attenborough

and my god, you're not wrong about fast eddie's threddie ... certainly brought a tear degree material indeed.

Tell dear daughter being nutters is what keeps us sane ... kinda.

Cheers, Jem xx

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3 and some odd weeks after diagnosis I get to meet my diabetes "nurse" tomorrow - wish me luck

I'm sure to be told to eat plenty oh healthy carbs hehehehe