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<blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2295158" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>Welcome on board. It's definitely scary at first, but I found it quickly passes to "I have to manage this now. I can, and I will."</p><p></p><p>It sort of did and didn't come as a big surprise to me. I've suffered from urinary tract infections for over 20 years, and been stuck in a cycle of "get infection and go to GP... GP demands a urine test... test finds evidence of infection but no root cause, but also finds sugar... panic about diabetes... do fasting bloods... they come back fine... repeat in about 12 months time." They hadn't got me in about 10 years, since the urology consultant gave me good antibiotics on repeat prescription. But this time round, the antibiotics hadn't worked (this does happen, sometimes) and my GP wouldn't give me different ones without a urine sample. So I gave them the sample, they did the tests, they found sugar as usual, and I flippantly thought "Oh here we go again." But this time, it was the real deal.</p><p></p><p>But let's face it, I tick all of the boxes. Overweight: check. Lack of exercise: check. Type 2 in immediate family: check (my mother.) Not watching my carb intake: check. It was almost inevitable.</p><p></p><p>I'm trying to take it as the boot up the backside I need to get my life in order. Though I do miss pasta and rice (and will be reintroducing small quantities when I work out how much I can tolerate) I'm fairly happy doing without bread, chocolate, sweets etc. </p><p></p><p>But they can pry alcohol out of my cold, dead hands. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I've just gone on the strictest diet I've ever been on. I think I'm entitled to one vice. That was one of the things that seriously put me off the idea of Metformin: the idea of potentially dealing with hypos up to 24 hours after consuming alcohol. That doesn't fit well with my social life at all.</p><p></p><p>I don't think lockdown has done any of us any favours, pre-diagnosis at least. It was easier (and seemingly safer) to order junk from Amazon than to venture out into the supermarket. I reckon I got through at least 3 2.4 kilo boxes of Celebrations. The irony was that I kept increasing my intake because I wasn't putting on weight. So why not? The stuff was doing me no harm.</p><p></p><p>Except that it was. I just didn't realise it.</p><p></p><p>I bought an exercise bike for when the weather is too poor to use the other one. Now I'm finding I get too lazy to do the prep work to take the proper bike out, and just do the exercise bike, instead. Though I did take the bike out for a 10 mile run this evening. It was the perfect weather for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nicole T, post: 2295158, member: 527609"] Welcome on board. It's definitely scary at first, but I found it quickly passes to "I have to manage this now. I can, and I will." It sort of did and didn't come as a big surprise to me. I've suffered from urinary tract infections for over 20 years, and been stuck in a cycle of "get infection and go to GP... GP demands a urine test... test finds evidence of infection but no root cause, but also finds sugar... panic about diabetes... do fasting bloods... they come back fine... repeat in about 12 months time." They hadn't got me in about 10 years, since the urology consultant gave me good antibiotics on repeat prescription. But this time round, the antibiotics hadn't worked (this does happen, sometimes) and my GP wouldn't give me different ones without a urine sample. So I gave them the sample, they did the tests, they found sugar as usual, and I flippantly thought "Oh here we go again." But this time, it was the real deal. But let's face it, I tick all of the boxes. Overweight: check. Lack of exercise: check. Type 2 in immediate family: check (my mother.) Not watching my carb intake: check. It was almost inevitable. I'm trying to take it as the boot up the backside I need to get my life in order. Though I do miss pasta and rice (and will be reintroducing small quantities when I work out how much I can tolerate) I'm fairly happy doing without bread, chocolate, sweets etc. But they can pry alcohol out of my cold, dead hands. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I've just gone on the strictest diet I've ever been on. I think I'm entitled to one vice. That was one of the things that seriously put me off the idea of Metformin: the idea of potentially dealing with hypos up to 24 hours after consuming alcohol. That doesn't fit well with my social life at all. I don't think lockdown has done any of us any favours, pre-diagnosis at least. It was easier (and seemingly safer) to order junk from Amazon than to venture out into the supermarket. I reckon I got through at least 3 2.4 kilo boxes of Celebrations. The irony was that I kept increasing my intake because I wasn't putting on weight. So why not? The stuff was doing me no harm. Except that it was. I just didn't realise it. I bought an exercise bike for when the weather is too poor to use the other one. Now I'm finding I get too lazy to do the prep work to take the proper bike out, and just do the exercise bike, instead. Though I did take the bike out for a 10 mile run this evening. It was the perfect weather for it. [/QUOTE]
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