Sharing my experience and need some advice

Dear fourm members,

Thanks for the wonderful fourm and priceless advice given. It really helped me to absorb the initial shock when I was diagnosed last year in July. I am a south asian male 32 year old, 6 ft 2 tall and was well overweight (115kg).

My mum also had Type 2 and I knew it will come to us (other siblings as well) some point in future but never expected so soon. Has some blood tests as routine. I was told need to retest as fasting blood sugur was high. On the second test got call from sugery and was told i am type 2 and need to start medicines.

First reaction was shock and second was anger. I should have not been too lazy and careless with my life style. I dont smoke, drink but just ate too much with 0% exercise. My job is also desk job so no physical work involved. My wife's good cooking was aslo to be blamed!

Anyway, I refused to take the medicines and told the doctor I shall try to change my life style and will control by diet and execise. This was a great motivation for me to change my lifestyle. Any way fast forward to today,

I have lost 3 stones and my last Hab1c score was 46 (first one was 64). I did not take any medicines and doctor is very happy with the progress, now the next test will be after 6 month in Sep.

I do have test strips at home for BG testing but I dont use them very often, recently I have started testing on a daily basis every moring at I am getting

6.1, 6.1, 7,6.4 for last for days (I have been lest active exercise wise as quite busy with work).

Could that be an issue? these readings are any problem? as this falls in pre-diabtics readings.

Any advice or help will be apperciated, I want to below 6 if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Daibell said:

Hi. Those readings are excellent. You may want to also do some tests 2 hours after a typical meal. Early morning tests can be affected by overnight liver dumps of glucose. The 2 hours after food tests will show the effect of eating on your blood sugar

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Hi All, thank you very much for the replies.

Daibell- Thanks for the suggestion, I shall monitor it after 2 hours. Yesterday, I tested and came 9.2 after 2 hours. I think I have to test all the foods and see what is affecting most.

I normally eat everything but with moderation. Try to eat 5 fruits and salads etc.

My original question was- Do I need to be worried and start thinking to take medicines as I am not taking any medicines and just try to control through weight lost and diet. My morning readings and H1Cb1 readings shows I am in pre-diabatics range rather than diabatic.

It is more, how I can carry on controlling with diet only. I need to loose another stone but now it is getting difficult to loose as I have already lost 20KG.

Once again thanks in advance.