Janspice
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
I do feel for you it can be so confusing! When my daughter was diagnosed we recieved pictures of plates advising of a typical meal the carb content was in my opinion too much and other literature on food. We were given very little information at all. The health team we were with were not particularly helpful and the practice nurse said my daughter should check her blood levels 4-5 times a day. Normal life stopped it revolved around taking blood levels. Finally we saw my daughter wonderful endocrinologist who was furious with the information we were given and said to take blood level twice a week as she is type two and at that time on low dose medicine. What a relief poor little thing she had run out of fingers they were so sore with all of the testing. We moved to another health team who are wonderful and have fantastic support and advice. It appears that a lot of well meaning health advisers seem to have their own opinion on how to manage diabetes but most of them do not suffer with the disease and have had one size fit all training. Find an expert or as near as dam it that you can trust an rely on. I find diabetes.co.uk website is fantastic resource and it great to speak to people here. I think it's one of those sinarious that you never stop learning about. I am my daughters full time carer my problem is she has a learning difficulty and cannot always say how she is feeling so I have to go by how she looks or how she is behaving I wish I knew how it felt when your blood sugar is either high or low? Take care of your self.