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paddytc

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Type of diabetes
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Hi all, firstly let me explain that I'm not very Au Fait with computers and no doubt it will take me some time to navigate the forum, as you can see from the time I'm very much a non sleeper ( haven't been to bed yet, I actually hate going to bed!), as a non- sleeper I suffer the normal symptoms, permanently tired and my short term memory is diabolical, did I say my short term memory is diabolical? see what I mean,(insert cheesy grin smilie).

My name is Pat, male gender, 67 and retired, married, have been for 45 years and have gem of a Mrs, hobbies, fishing, only coarse fishing these days but used to be a 'rock hopper',- sea angling from precarious positions, beach and boat angler and before I became ill, I was into deer stalking but DVT's in both legs and PE's, blood clots in my lungs from the DVT's put paid to that 4 years ago, I have a transceiver radio and enjoy talking to folk around the world, the only problem is that I'm only allowed to transmit on a very narrow band of radio frequencies, CEPT for those in the know, I have recently joined a 'Ham Radio' club and will be taking my exams for the Ham license in the New Year which will give me a greater scope of frequencies to use.

I have 3 children, one of each, (insert another cheesy smilie), a lad and two girls and 5 grown up grand children, 4 girls and one grandson plus 3 terriers, that's about it really, I'm a one finger keyboard operator so it's taken me ages to type this.
 
Hello Paddy and welcome to the forum. How long have you had diabetes and how are you coping with it? If there's anything you need help with just ask a question on here and someone will be able to help.
 
Welcome to the forum. You sound like an interesting character.

Pavlos
 
image.jpg To the forum Paddy I am sure you will enjoy the forum.
 
Hello Paddy, you sound like a lot of fun! Looking forward to reading more of your posts. Good luck with your Ham exam - it will open up a lot more possibilities for you.
 
Hi and welcome. I see from your profile that you are on Lantus. How is your blood sugar control? What was your last HBa1C. Do ask any questions you may have.
 
Hello and welcome.

You seem to have some very interesting hobbies.
 
Hi everybody, thankyou one and all for the very warm welcome, instead of answering everyone individually being as this is my first post, apart from my introduction, I shall do it en bloc.

Daisy your question first, lets see, diabetes 2, I've had the condition getting on for 9 years and to be honest with you I've struggled to control it from the off, medication wise I'm on 1gram of Glucophage twice daily, 300mg invokana/canagliflozin and 20 units of lantus before bed, up until 2 months ago I was on the slow release gliclazide, diamacron and that didn't do much to bring my glucose down, what it did do was to make me pile on 2 stone in weight, which I'm struggling to get rid of, it did get me some new clothes though,:),( have you noticed that I've found the smilies ), me and medication don't get on very well, when I was first diagnosed, like everybody else, I was started on metformin, what a crippler!, I daren't stray to far from the loo and no way could I go out, the GP said that was a normal reaction and that it would wear off and I'd be back to normal within a few days, wrong, very wrong, he then put me on slow release meds that for the life of me I can't remember what they were, still had problems tummy wise, and then he put me Glucophage slow release metformin, not perfect by any means but I've managed to lead a more normal existence.

GP's in my opinion don't know enough about diabetes and bluster about to much, he'd try me on this and that medication and nothing seemed to work very well and I was getting a lot of side effects, not nice ones either, I asked to see to see a consultant but he kept putting it off, our practice opted out of the national health years ago and they were allotted 'X' amount to run the practice, the only problem with that is unlike a national health practice if you need to see a specialist it comes out of the allocated funds and they're not to keen on that, whereas the national health practices just pick the phone up and book you in to see someone as they don't have to fork out for it.

Any way, over five years ago, my glucose readings started to climb to silly numbers, between 23 and 27 on my monitor and I was visiting the GP every week there was an underlying problem that had I been seeing a consultant it would have been sorted out much earlier, to give you an idea what was going on, about 12 months before I was diagnosed with diabetes I developed a DVT in my left leg due to some American wonder drug for arthritis, I can't remember what it was called but it ended in a double X, and after thousands of people in the states dying or getting strokes it was withdrawn, when I tackled the GP about it he said it couldn't be proved that was what caused my DVT, I went on to a course of warfarin which was automatically stopped after six months, now, getting back to my glucose readings getting too silly numbers, I was also quite ill which I put down to the high readings, about 6-8 weeks after my readings went high I developed a DVT in the right leg and had to go to hospital, had a course of heparin and put back onto warfarin a week or so after that January the second I was admitted to hospital once more with PE's, blood clots in my lungs, so now I'm on warfarin for life, between 6.5 to 9mgs daily as it alters all the time and my INR has to be between 3 and 4. all this could have been avoided if I'd have seen a consultant.

I'm now under a consultant at Good Hope hospital and the guy is brilliant, I have to see him in 10 days time but I already know what the out come will be, something I've tried to stay clear of, no more tablets, insulin 3 times a day and lantus at night time.:(

I have two friends that are on insulin and they tell me that they've never felt so well as they do now, me, I still have trepidations.

I don't know if anyone is taking invokana, it's a new treatment that was OK'd by NICE for release in February of this year, instead of making your pancreas work overtime as gliclazide does, rather, the sugar is removed from the blood through the kidneys and passes through the urine, there are the usual side effects as with any meds the main one being that I'm passing water near enough every hour and even at night it's a trip to the loo at least every two hours, as I said I'm a terrible sleeper and this makes it worse, so I'll be quite happy when I come off it.:)

Daibell, My HBa1C is a bit naughty it always runs between 8 and 9 and chol is 5, it's not for what I eat, and I do keep my carbs low, this morning, I never went to bed until after 10.30 and was up at just gone 12, considering that I never had anything to eat since teatime yesterday my glucose reading was 9 and I had 2 small slices of brown bread for my breakfast and my post prandial, 4 hours later was 11.7, hopefully the insulin will sort that out.

This the longest bit of typing I've ever done, and as I said I'm a one finger keyboard puncher, and it's took me ages and I reckon I've probably sent you all to sleep, I don't think I'll be doing this anytime soon, it's nearly a novel:)

Well folks I'll say goodnight. ATB Pat
 
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