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Kathryn Rose

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My GTT test last week showed my blood sugar after 2 hours was 9.
I saw my GP on WEDS,and he spoke to me very severely and said I am at high risk of diabetes.
The way he spoke was" Don't be happy because you have not yet got diabetes.You are at very high risk,so I want you to think as if you do have it." He then ushered me out saying to go back in 1 month.
Since I came home I feel very upset and low.I am on beta blockers and I see they can raise blood sugar.I am on them for coronary spasm.Since I saw the GP I have had 4 attacks of chest pain.Prior to that I have not had it for a year or more.So it seems the stress caused by the GP could be causing it.I feel awful even now.Sometimes he is very nice but not this time.This upset may do me as much harm as the blood sugar.
I tried to talk but he did not want to.He gave me a booklet called "Living with diabetes"
My husband has jad it for 20 years so I know all about it.My husband goes to the same doctor.
 
Hello Kathryn Rose and welcome to the forum. :)

Sorry to hear of your health issues but it may be that finding your way here will be one of the best things to happen as there is so much information and help here. I don't suppose that the doc told you exactly how to eat and live as if you do have diabetes either and in any case what you find out on here may well be quite different to what he may tell you! :roll: I will paste on here the 'Advice to newly diagnosed T2s' which Ken and/or Sue, our Forum Monitors, often post. If you follow this carefully you may even be able to hold off diabetes which would be the best outcome for you. 8)

Have a really good read around the various threads and ask any questions you need to as there is usually someone on here happy to help. Let us know how you get on. :)

Welcome to the forum. here is the advice we usually give to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics.This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different .

It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.

The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such a bread, potatoes, pasta and rice also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.

The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels.

Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.

When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.

As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!

As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.

It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.
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