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Hi Everyone, first post on any Forum, ever.
I got Type 2 Diabetes for Christmas 2018, pretty devastated with the news.
My Doctor gave me leaflets and booklets and a sympathetic chat and told me the Diabetes Clinic would be in touch in the next few weeks with an appointment and lots of advise.
I went home, straight onto the internet to discover what Diabetes was, unfortunately I focused on articles detailing the worst case scenarios, why ? because I thought, its a degenerative diagnosis, whatever life is like now, this is whats coming my way in the future ( deepened my devastation )
I tried very hard to pick up on advice posted by a diabetic, take control of diabetes, don't let it control you.
I immediately changed my diet to 600-800 calories a day, 20-40 Carbs and no alcohol, read up on Carbs (which it turned out I knew nothing about) and walked or exercised twice a day.
Hoping to get into remission !!!!!!!!!!!
The brings me to the point of me contacting really.
Six days after my diagnosis I was driving to work and realised my vision was blurry, I got to work and spent the day painting for which I wore reading glasses and so forgot about the blurred vision.
On my way home the blurred vision was much worse, I arrived home and googled, Diabetes, blurred vision.
The article I read explained what Diabetic Retinopathy was, a degenerative loss of sight resulting in blindness.
I was going blind ---already.
I freaked out, I had the Mother of all panic attacks (never had one before) I completely and utterly lost control.
This was a monumental point in my life, blindness was not something I could cope with.
Eventually, when sanity prevailed, I phoned the Diabetes Clinic and asked the receptionist if I could talk to someone.
I spoke to a Diabetic Nurse, who listened to me, and calmly told me that since my diagnosis I had drastically altered my diet which had affected my glucose levels, she said the drop in these glucose levels would have caused my blurred vision, something that would go away and would not permanently affect my eyesight.
I can't really explain how I felt, I wasn't going blind.
The Nurse made me an appointment for the following day (was a 4-6 week wait) at which she talked to me for over an hour, lots of information, lots of encouragement, lots of understanding.
I'm not sure if this happens to everyone, my vision was very blurred, very quickly.
Blurred vision hadn't been mentioned to me at this point.
I really did think it was the start of me loosing my sight, I was terrified.
Being newly diagnosed is a scary time and there's a tonne of information to take in, its like starting a new life.
I've read your forum for some weeks now, amazed at what a considerate community that you all are.
I wouldn't presume, after a few short weeks of trying to cope with this, to offer any advice to anyone on your forum, except.
My advise would be to read this forum, if you have a question, some one here will have an answer, and remember, if you have blurred vision, don't worry, disconcerting as it is, it will go away.
Regards
I got Type 2 Diabetes for Christmas 2018, pretty devastated with the news.
My Doctor gave me leaflets and booklets and a sympathetic chat and told me the Diabetes Clinic would be in touch in the next few weeks with an appointment and lots of advise.
I went home, straight onto the internet to discover what Diabetes was, unfortunately I focused on articles detailing the worst case scenarios, why ? because I thought, its a degenerative diagnosis, whatever life is like now, this is whats coming my way in the future ( deepened my devastation )
I tried very hard to pick up on advice posted by a diabetic, take control of diabetes, don't let it control you.
I immediately changed my diet to 600-800 calories a day, 20-40 Carbs and no alcohol, read up on Carbs (which it turned out I knew nothing about) and walked or exercised twice a day.
Hoping to get into remission !!!!!!!!!!!
The brings me to the point of me contacting really.
Six days after my diagnosis I was driving to work and realised my vision was blurry, I got to work and spent the day painting for which I wore reading glasses and so forgot about the blurred vision.
On my way home the blurred vision was much worse, I arrived home and googled, Diabetes, blurred vision.
The article I read explained what Diabetic Retinopathy was, a degenerative loss of sight resulting in blindness.
I was going blind ---already.
I freaked out, I had the Mother of all panic attacks (never had one before) I completely and utterly lost control.
This was a monumental point in my life, blindness was not something I could cope with.
Eventually, when sanity prevailed, I phoned the Diabetes Clinic and asked the receptionist if I could talk to someone.
I spoke to a Diabetic Nurse, who listened to me, and calmly told me that since my diagnosis I had drastically altered my diet which had affected my glucose levels, she said the drop in these glucose levels would have caused my blurred vision, something that would go away and would not permanently affect my eyesight.
I can't really explain how I felt, I wasn't going blind.
The Nurse made me an appointment for the following day (was a 4-6 week wait) at which she talked to me for over an hour, lots of information, lots of encouragement, lots of understanding.
I'm not sure if this happens to everyone, my vision was very blurred, very quickly.
Blurred vision hadn't been mentioned to me at this point.
I really did think it was the start of me loosing my sight, I was terrified.
Being newly diagnosed is a scary time and there's a tonne of information to take in, its like starting a new life.
I've read your forum for some weeks now, amazed at what a considerate community that you all are.
I wouldn't presume, after a few short weeks of trying to cope with this, to offer any advice to anyone on your forum, except.
My advise would be to read this forum, if you have a question, some one here will have an answer, and remember, if you have blurred vision, don't worry, disconcerting as it is, it will go away.
Regards