I had a low carb lunch and 2 hours later it was 13.6!That's the beauty in testing before and after meals, you can see with your own eyes which foods to avoid, now do a test with a low carb meal, your be amazed by the result, you can eat a huge meal that is low in carbs with very little effects on your finger prick test, then eat a slice of toast and get a huge spike, it's why you keep hearing about cutting your carbs
Hello PoppyFor about 3 months I have been losing a lot of weight without trying, have been going to the loo all the time and have been drinking gallons of water and feeling tired. I went to the GP a couple of days ago and he did a pee test, took bloods and said it looked like diabetes because there was lots of sugar in my urine. He asked me to make an appointment next week to get the results of the blood test and started me on Gliclozide. Then yesterday evening, the duty out-of-hours doctor rang and said the blood results were so high that I needed to go to the hospital to be tested again and probably admitted. The blood test was 25.3. They did it again and it was 23 and there were ketones. They let me go home without being admitted but said I should go to the GP today urgently and get tested again. I couldn't see my usual GP so saw someone else who was a complete nightmare - said he didn't have time to explain ketones to me, there was no point in doing the tests again since the drugs needed time to work, gave me no information about seeing the nurse (just told me to make an appointment) and generally left me feeling terrible. This is all a lot to take in and I am feeling completely shell-shocked.
Rarely, but occasionally we do see people with type 1 diabetes over age 50. If you were type 1 you would be put on to insulin quite quickly. If you're treated with medications & lifestyle changes you are not likely to be type 1 unless you became very ill.I'm afraid at 62 you are not too old to be Type 1
I was in my sixties when diagnosed as T1 and put on insulin straight away. Various blood tests later, the original diagnosis was found to be correct.Rarely, but occasionally we do see people with type 1 diabetes over age 50. If you were type 1 you would be put on to insulin quite quickly. If you're treated with medications & lifestyle changes you are not likely to be type 1 unless you became very ill.
For about 3 months I have been losing a lot of weight without trying, have been going to the loo all the time and have been drinking gallons of water and feeling tired. I went to the GP a couple of days ago and he did a pee test, took bloods and said it looked like diabetes because there was lots of sugar in my urine. He asked me to make an appointment next week to get the results of the blood test and started me on Gliclozide. Then yesterday evening, the duty out-of-hours doctor rang and said the blood results were so high that I needed to go to the hospital to be tested again and probably admitted. The blood test was 25.3. They did it again and it was 23 and there were ketones. They let me go home without being admitted but said I should go to the GP today urgently and get tested again. I couldn't see my usual GP so saw someone else who was a complete nightmare - said he didn't have time to explain ketones to me, there was no point in doing the tests again since the drugs needed time to work, gave me no information about seeing the nurse (just told me to make an appointment) and generally left me feeling terrible. This is all a lot to take in and I am feeling completely shell-shocked.
I was in my sixties when diagnosed as T1 and put on insulin straight away. Various blood tests later, the original diagnosis was found to be correct.
Just seen my own GP who has been much more reassuring than the idiot I saw last week. He has confirmed Type 2 and put me on Metformin on staged dose. I have to go on a structured programme for diet and he has suggested a low carb diet and given me info on GI stuff. He even suggested this site.
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