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Newly diagnosed type 2, could really use some help :/

To all: please keep on topic!

Hi Matt,

I agree with Bolouwski. Exercise is likely to be helpful in several ways and anything you can do that will increase your activity level will help. It's almost impossible to get perfect levels straight away and even people with very tight control still have up days and down days. If you can get to speak to a diabetic specialist nurse, definitely do that. Have a read around the forum and do ask any more specific questions.

How are you feeling now?
 
pianoman said:
Any chance you can take a hint and we can get back to supporting folks here? It is a support forum NOT a debating society. Or are you really that desperate to "win points" and always have the last word?
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I'm passionate about the most accurate information/standards being shared with new folks. The worst confusion and potential bad choices then - come from data, interpreted/stated in such a way as to minimize the seriousness of their condition (not on purpose of course)- whatever the condition of the particular healthboard. For any new person experiencing high spikes to hear, from any of us veterans, that they're not that unlike 'non diabetic' people - could, well let's say, give them the wrong impression. Standards matter in my book - maybe that's just me. I just want to make sure that the 'standards' aren't a 'moving target'. How we 'respond' to standards is TOTALLY INDIVIDUAL. I SOO respect that!!!

But just because it's possible in our wonderful information age to find a link in the first 2 hits from Google that say something that 'sorta' backs a 'newer standard' doesn't mean that there are multiple standards. That' why I stick with Google Scholar, medical journals, medical textbooks as my primary sources and not 'blogs' - even ones as good as WebMD and some others - definitely not Wikipedia as a 'primary source'. Normal blood Glucose rises and falls and the timeframes involved are not a fluid standard. The 'standard' is 'static'. The chart I posted, speaks for itself. I have nothing more to add.

I'm frustrated for Matt's sake that he has to 'wonder' 'who's' more right.. Disparate standards end up being the most confusing thing to a newbie post dx. I know it was for me.
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Moving on and back on topic......

Matt - you will do fine. Try to avoid spikes if you can. For the first few months you really do need to test at one hour 'if' you can afford the strips. If you can't - then 2 hours after the meal is your next best option.

How are you doing these last couple of days with the 'tiredness' and all the rest?
 
Rain000 said:
OK so I'm trying not to unload all my problems on you guys but I would appreciate some serious help. As i said I am new to diabetes and have just been diagnosed. My name is Matt and I'm 21.

I have been having really bad problems with confusion, low concentration and depression and was prescribed Metformin a while back and for the first two days of taking them my mind became really clear and i had never felt better. I was having meaningful conversations with people instead of feeling empty and fuzzy. A few days after i went back to the way i was and have not seen that part of me since. I'm not sure if this in fact down to my diabetes but if it is some light shed on the situation would be amazing.

I've been in tears lately over it and would like to get the problem gone :(
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Hi matt, poor you , you thought you had turned a corner with the meds metformin , you are bound to feel so confused and in a muddle not knowing what is going on. If you have gone back to feeling so empty, fuzzy headed, and weepy I would suggest you try talking with a HCP , GP/NURSE you feel comfortable with about how you are feeling. It does take time to adjust and come to terms with being newly diagnosed, which you are. Plus you're only young and as a young man you will be wanting to go out n enjoy yourself also. High blood sugars can leave you feeling rotten [honestly] so its no wonder you have felt low, fuzzy headed, and confused. You need time to adjust and let things settle down n begin to make sense. Its been a shock... Please vist the greetings and introduction thread we would love to welcome you there, and you can start off in small steps to find your way to gradually come to terms with how you feel. Please vist us there and ask any questions you feel/need to. Anna.x :)
 
Hi, Please can we all remember the topic title and be more sensitive to newbies, to bamboozle them with too much will just result in over whelming newbies and could even scare them . The LAST thing we wish to do. Go easier with heavy facts and no post mortems on facts, science,debates on here. Its the wrong thread for this going on. If you wish to discuss other things? off this topic please either PM person who is debating/discussing a different issue or find the relevant thread to discuss it. Anna.x :)
 
Yeah I'm not gonna lie page 2 overwhelmed me a lot :) but I appreciate that people are trying to find the best solution for me.

As for the "Yummy foods" I'm pretty much in love while boiled chicken and salads, I only drink water and greasy stuff puts me off but i love veggies :). I'm not big into sammich's or pasta. Potatoes neither... I love fruit however so i will be a little bit upset if i can't have an apple or bananas...

My one crux however is pizza...I felt pretty good all day, not fantastic but better then i was given a few slices of pizza and i derailed...looks like that's another thing off the list :)

I'm happy to live healthy and have been meaning to purchase some exercise equipment as I'm wanting to be skinny again...I'm not fat but i put on some weight that i didn't want over my university term.

I'm slowly coming off the evil anti depressants so hopefully i will be feeling better in no time :D
 
Rain000 said:
Yeah I'm not gonna lie page 2 overwhelmed me a lot :) but I appreciate that people are trying to find the best solution for me.

As for the "Yummy foods" I'm pretty much in love while boiled chicken and salads, I only drink water and greasy stuff puts me off but i love veggies :). I'm not big into sammich's or pasta. Potatoes neither... I love fruit however so i will be a little bit upset if i can't have an apple or bananas...

My one crux however is pizza...I felt pretty good all day, not fantastic but better then i was given a few slices of pizza and i derailed...looks like that's another thing off the list :)

I'm happy to live healthy and have been meaning to purchase some exercise equipment as I'm wanting to be skinny again...I'm not fat but i put on some weight that i didn't want over my university term.

I'm slowly coming off the evil anti depressants so hopefully i will be feeling better in no time :D
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Yeah - after those anti-depr get out of your system you'll better be able to judge what foods are doing to you. I will say that 'sleepiness' and brain fog after foods with 'wheat' in them -- are a 'classic' symptom of Celiac's disease. You should also maybe get that checked out. My wife suffers with that. So I know it well. Sorry to have been part of 'overwhelming' you with the standards to shoot for 'bunny trail' we created. What you DO with the info is up to you. I'm sure several of us just wanted you to know 'what the standards' were - even though there seem to be 'several'... :roll:

Keep us posted!
 
The new member asked for help not a load of head-butting and arguing......PLEASE rember this. In your "attempt" to help I dont think that this was accomplished.

Would like to apologise to those that genuinely tried to help the new member for the way this thread ended up.

Josie
 
i agree josie,
if i said anything to confuse then i appoligise i was just trying to re assure.
just felt maybe anti depressants may have contributed.
Rob... :)
 
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