Hi and welcome. Yes, keep the carbs down but you can have some so they aren't banned. Try to stay below something like 150gm/day for starters. That's Total carbs as listed on the back of food packets. Get hold of a glucose meter so you can check your BS from time to time. When using the lancet on a finger, use the side of the finger and not the central pad as many nurses wrongly do. If you keep your blood sugar reasonably under control you shouldn't suffer any major health problems if any during life. Diabetes is serious but the good news is that it can be well controlled fairly easily.
Of course you feel all over the place now, but this is all totally do-able, and MUCH easier to actually do than to worry about. It's a bump on the road of life, but there are lots of those. We here offer loads of support and information from actual experience. Best of all is the chance to take control!
Now - there are lots of diabetic-friendly foods, so don't mourn what you can't eat - embrace all the luscious things you CAN eat. And drink. Learn what carbohydrates are, and which foods contain them, which contain sugars (or both). This is a fabulous opportunity to work with your body not against or in spite of it. Overall you will become much healthier, have more energy, great skin. All the information is here, so carve out time in your day to sit and read what we can tell you. It's a lot, so take it in easy stages. I have been on the forum for nearly a year, and I learn something new every day.
Hi, I’m sorry but your doctor is an idiot! It’s better to not know what pushes up your numbers? This is crazy advice I’m so sorry you have this person “looking after you” keep reading here.Hello mr diabell,
This is great advice I will try to listen so I can be more healthy and not die early.
I asked the doctor for a prickly thing but he wouldn’t give me one and said they don’t give them to type 2 people, I asked why he said because it can be misleading and say I could eat chicken but if my blood sugars go high I will stop eating chicken and they don’t want me to do that.
Thanks for the support
The Pepsi with or without sugar?I have managed to stop drinking full fat coke now
I have moved onto Pepsi.
The lancets they use in hospital can be quite painful, but there are much kinder lancets that many of us use, and the finger pricking device can be set to different levels, so usually I don't find it at all painful at home.
Yes, I do prick my fingers to get blood glucose readings. I used to have to do that before every meal, but now that I use glucose monitors I do it less frequently. The finger-pricks hurt every time, but only for a few seconds, so I can bear it. It is not as bad as having a needle put in my arm for blood tests. I have always been accident prone, starting with one of my fingers being crushed at age four, so I have often had worse, longer lasting, pain.
Having to be careful what I eat is a nuisance, and counting carbohydrates all the time (I am type 1). However, I have learned to be moderate with everything. It is not easy to do, but there is no choice if I want to avoid complications.
You mentioned that you were worried about leg ulcers and toes being amputated, but you can avoid those by keeping you blood glucose readings in a healthy range. This will not mean much to you at the moment, but the diabetes nurses will teach you after you get your diagnosis. None of this is going to be easy, but you can do it.
Hi, I’m sorry but your doctor is an idiot! It’s better to not know what pushes up your numbers? This is crazy advice I’m so sorry you have this person “looking after you” keep reading here.
The Pepsi with or without sugar?
You really need to stop the sugary drinks, they are the worst thing for you, there really isn’t any baby steps where full sugar drinks are concerned. Replace with Coke Zero, sugar free fizzy drinks or sugar free squash for now, this will go a very long way to getting your numbers downHello antje,
With sugar but I don’t think it has as much as coke baby steps
Hello antje,
With sugar but I don’t think it has as much as coke baby steps
You really need to stop the sugary drinks, they are the worst thing for you, there really isn’t any baby steps where full sugar drinks are concerned. Replace with Coke Zero, sugar free fizzy drinks or sugar free squash for now, this will go a very long way to getting your numbers down
Wait, you switched from coke to Pepsi? Lol, for real?
What about switching to sugar free coke or Pepsi? You'll likely get used to the flavour pretty soon, even if you don't much like it at first.If I have to stop sugary drinks I will not be loving life.
What about switching to sugar free coke or Pepsi? You'll likely get used to the flavour pretty soon, even if you don't much like it at first.
Why?I have had an idea if I but a bit of full fat coke in a glass and top up with Coke Zero like a dilute pop? Would that be ok?
Why?
Makes much more sense to just drink the Zero as it is.
Why would you want to add a drop of the original to that, it would only serve to make your blood sugar go up.
Chuck it out, you'll do fine on the no sugar version!Because I think I am addicted to Coca Cola
I get all weird when I don’t have it
If you Google coca cola addiction you'll find lots of sites that say it's a possibility, and that's its a harmful addiction. There's loads of help there to kick the habit, but same as here everywhere says it mist be kickedBecause I think I am addicted to Coca Cola
I’m gonna be brutally honest and say no one shot a day is not ok. Once again it’s the worst thing you can do.Hello loving life,
If I have to stop sugary drinks I will not be loving life.
Maybe if I have a shot of it once a day?
My next step will be sparkling water
What did you do to get your numbers down?
If you Google coca cola addiction you'll find lots of sites that say it's a possibility, and that's its a harmful addiction. There's loads of help there to kick the habit, but same as here everywhere says it mist be kicked
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