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Darts_lad

Darts_lad

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Hi all. Been diagnosed for 3 weeks and feel like rubbish all the time. Cant sleep,can't eat with feeling a bit sick after and cant stop shaking. Am told i will feel better when the tablets start to work. Just want to talk to people who are starting out on this diabetes roller coaster. ) stay safe guys.)
 
Darts_lad said:
Hi all. Been diagnosed for 3 weeks and feel like rubbish all the time. Cant sleep,can't eat with feeling a bit sick after and cant stop shaking. Am told i will feel better when the tablets start to work. Just want to talk to people who are starting out on this diabetes roller coaster. ) stay safe guys.)
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Hi, sorry to hear of your problems. It may be that the tablets have started working already, what are you taking?
 
I'm just over three months from diagnosis, but have had a fairly smooth ride except for having to get rid off the tablets as the statins affected my memory and the Metformin gave me internal cramps, muscle aches and itching, and kept me indoors close to the bathroom. I tried, but it was beyond endurance for me.
On the low carb diet I do feel a bit cold in the couple of hours before dinner, which I think is my resistance to insulin reducing and so my still overenthusiastic pancreas pushing down my blood glucose levels. I have a hot coffee with cream and it seems to get the message for that day.
Do you have a meter to test your blood glucose levels?
 
Darts_lad said:
Hi all. Been diagnosed for 3 weeks and feel like rubbish all the time. Cant sleep,can't eat with feeling a bit sick after and cant stop shaking.
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It sounds like you're likely to still be hyperglycemic. You need to test your blood sugar to see what's going on, or go back in to your doctor and insist that they deal with your ongoing symptoms. Metformin can take a while to have an impact, and it isn't a large one.
 
Resurgam said:
I'm just over three months from diagnosis, but have had a fairly smooth ride except for having to get rid off the tablets as the statins affected my memory and the Metformin gave me internal cramps, muscle aches and itching, and kept me indoors close to the bathroom. I tried, but it was beyond endurance for me.
On the low carb diet I do feel a bit cold in the couple of hours before dinner, which I think is my resistance to insulin reducing and so my still overenthusiastic pancreas pushing down my blood glucose levels. I have a hot coffee with cream and it seems to get the message for that day.
Do you have a meter to test your blood glucose levels?
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I haven't been given a metre reader by the doctors ? Should i get one ?)
 
When they tested me my numbers were. Should be 5 or under and i was 18. And my colestral should be 5 and it was 13. Does this help ?)
 
Darts_lad said:
When they tested me my numbers were. Should be 5 or under and i was 18.
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You're probably still hyperglycemic, and your doctor needs to advise you on how to deal with it. In the meantime, it might help to eat as few carbs as possible, and get your calories from meats, fats, and non-starchy vegetables.
 
welcome here Darts_lad :) ...

keep asking if there is something you are in doubt of..

it is so bas at the beginning, but there is also something you need to learn , first thing is and remains being the food choice, they do not tell you that enough at the GP or hospital, actually they recomend much more carbs on a daily basis than diabetics in general can cope with..

there is some welcome information that everyone new here gets, so I´ll tag @daisy1 so you´ll get all the information too

if you want to get your blood glucose down fast then take a few days on NO carbs :
which mean eat things like meat (with the fat) nuts like walnuts and brazil-nuts and macadamia nuts, eggs and bacon and
pork scratchings ...
only drink water and totally sugarfree things to drink...

you can drink coffee or tea with fullfat cream if any carbs then eat those that is alreasdy in the food like cucumber tomatoes and avocado.

no bread and no potatoes and no rice no sugar no cakes.....
if you do miss bread too much then buy the famous LIDL protein rolls that have very few carbs in them...

there are treats one can eat that contain hardly any carbs but you cant learn all at the first days
 
Freema said:
welcome here Darts_lad :) ...

keep asking if there is something you are in doubt of..

it is so bas at the beginning, but there is also something you need to learn , first thing is and remains being the food choice, they do not tell you that enough at the GP or hospital, actually they recomend much more carbs on a daily basis than diabetics in general can cope with..

there is some welcome information that everyone new here gets, so I´ll tag @daisy1 so you´ll get all the information too

if you want to get your blood glucose down fast then take a few days on NO carbs :
which mean eat things like meat (with the fat) nuts like walnuts and brazil-nuts and macadamia nuts, eggs and bacon and
pork scratchings ...
only drink water and totally sugarfree things to drink...

you can drink coffee or tea with fullfat cream if any carbs then eat those that is alreasdy in the food like cucumber tomatoes and avocado.

no bread and no potatoes and no rice no sugar no cakes.....
if you do miss bread too much then buy the famous LIDL protein rolls that have very few carbs in them...

there are treats one can eat that contain hardly any carbs but you cant learn all at the first days
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Thanks for the advice ) ill go back to the doctors )
 
As a type 2 the doctors don't supply us with a meter. There are sources of fairly cheap ones. I bought one at Lidl and just used my last test strip yesterday to see that I was at 4.9 mmol/l at the end of the afternoon. That meter came with 75 test strips with it, and I don't really need any more, I have my diet pretty sorted. I just eat fairly low carb - tried to keep my post meal levels about 8 mmol/l and then watched the numbers drop.
 
Darts_lad said:
Im on Metformin)
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Well, Metformin can have some pretty bad effects if you're one of the unlucky ones. These include muscle pains, headaches, sickness, stomach pains, diarrhoea... Hopefully you can wait and these will go away, but possibly not, especially if they gradually increase your dose as they often do.
I had no side-effects, but many people do and no doubt they will be in touch. But if it continues, tell your GP and they can change the type or put you on something different.
Hope you feel better soon.
 
Resurgam said:
As a type 2 the doctors don't supply us with a meter. There are sources of fairly cheap ones. I bought one at Lidl and just used my last test strip yesterday to see that I was at 4.9 mmol/l at the end of the afternoon. That meter came with 75 test strips with it, and I don't really need any more, I have my diet pretty sorted. I just eat fairly low carb - tried to keep my post meal levels about 8 mmol/l and then watched the numbers drop.
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Thanks for the advice..low carb it is then and ill shop at lidl )
 
Ah - don't forget to look for the dark triangular protein rolls in the bakery section - slightly more expensive that ordinary bread, but my meter shows a bare flicker after I eat one - or sometimes two, but you know you've eaten them.
My shopping lists at Lidl vary a bit, but they have packs of chicken thighs, mushrooms, nets of tomatoes, celery, bacon and cooked meats, coleslaw, steak beefburgers, onions, celeriac, various types of cheese, frozen veges - lower carb ones without sweetcorn give you more to eat, prepacked salad, cream, crème fraiche, frozen and fresh berries - the frozen fish is good. I buy olive oil there, but need to go elsewhere to find wine vinegar without added sugar, also sugar free jellies, so I go to a big Tesco once in a while, though I have been known to go to other supermarkets just to see what they have got that I can eat or drink.
 
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