- Messages
- 10
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Licorice
Some background:
I have major weight issues (all self inflicted) and went to the doctor at the end of June (on my 35th birthday of all days) to check me up before i started a diet and hopefully to get some help and support. I'd got to a ridiculous 200kg and a BMI of 57 so after a few previous aborted attempts thanks to useless GPs, i got up the courage to try again.
Had a raft of blood tests including non fasting glucose and AC1. Glucose was high (wasn't told how much) but AC1 was 51 so was diagnosed with T2. When i last tried this in 2010, i only had some liver issues, so it's a recent development and they tell me they think they caught it early on.
Unfortunately, in the week between the blood tests and going back for the results, I ruptured my Achilles tendon and so was put straight on 1500mg of metformin a day and sent to the A&E to get my leg in plaster. Of course they wouldn't operate because of the T2 diagnosis, so i am now about 8 weeks into wearing the boot and waiting for about 6 months of physio to start.
I have begun my diabetes education meetings which are hosted at the local library, but I can't get onto any exercise classes or much else until I can walk again.
Once the final meeting is over next week, hopefully then I can discuss with the GP to get everything sorted out like BG monitoring rather than just the one a day urine strip, and all the rest of the things I need to start doing. Seems that so far, apart from a few specifics on diabetes, the meetings have mainly been with a dietician and all just basic good diet advise (which i need anyway, but I was hoping for more insight into diabetes specifically). I'm hoping once they are over and I can get some appointments with the DSN, i might be able to start understanding this a little more.
Somehow, despite being unable to walk or exercise, have managed to lose 8 kilos in 10 weeks and my last ac1 two weeks ago was down to 48, so not all bad, even though i haven't even really started to get my head around it all.
I have major weight issues (all self inflicted) and went to the doctor at the end of June (on my 35th birthday of all days) to check me up before i started a diet and hopefully to get some help and support. I'd got to a ridiculous 200kg and a BMI of 57 so after a few previous aborted attempts thanks to useless GPs, i got up the courage to try again.
Had a raft of blood tests including non fasting glucose and AC1. Glucose was high (wasn't told how much) but AC1 was 51 so was diagnosed with T2. When i last tried this in 2010, i only had some liver issues, so it's a recent development and they tell me they think they caught it early on.
Unfortunately, in the week between the blood tests and going back for the results, I ruptured my Achilles tendon and so was put straight on 1500mg of metformin a day and sent to the A&E to get my leg in plaster. Of course they wouldn't operate because of the T2 diagnosis, so i am now about 8 weeks into wearing the boot and waiting for about 6 months of physio to start.
I have begun my diabetes education meetings which are hosted at the local library, but I can't get onto any exercise classes or much else until I can walk again.
Once the final meeting is over next week, hopefully then I can discuss with the GP to get everything sorted out like BG monitoring rather than just the one a day urine strip, and all the rest of the things I need to start doing. Seems that so far, apart from a few specifics on diabetes, the meetings have mainly been with a dietician and all just basic good diet advise (which i need anyway, but I was hoping for more insight into diabetes specifically). I'm hoping once they are over and I can get some appointments with the DSN, i might be able to start understanding this a little more.
Somehow, despite being unable to walk or exercise, have managed to lose 8 kilos in 10 weeks and my last ac1 two weeks ago was down to 48, so not all bad, even though i haven't even really started to get my head around it all.