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Should I be worried?

Lesley_Charles

Lesley_Charles

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Location
Northumberland, England
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Diagnosed with type 2 over 9yrs ago. Up til end of last year control was good with metformin. However, annual review showed a change! It was agreed to increase metformin & have further bloods taken in March.
Now having to add gliclazide & monitoring bloods daily, which is something I've never had to do before! Can anyone tell me if it's normal to have such a variation in their bs? My fasting level was 8.0 & this afternoon at 4pm had registered 17.0 !
A little anxious
 
Hi there. As always, we'd like to know what you're eating & drinking. How is your health otherwise? Are you on a weight-loss diet?
 
Had muesli for breakfast. An Apple for snack. Tuna pasta salad at lunch. Low fat yogurt at 3pm. Drinks have been coffee or diet coke.
Unfortunately suffer with fibromyalgia, & have mobility problems. Definately needing to lose weight , but for every time I manage to get rid of 3stone, I quickly put it back on plus more!
 
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Lesley_Charles said:
Had muesli for breakfast. An Apple for snack. Tuna pasta salad at lunch. Low fat yogurt at 3pm. Drinks have been coffee or diet coke.
Unfortunately suffer with fibromyalgia, & have mobility problems. Definately needing to lose weight , but for every time I manage to get rid of 3stone, I quickly put it back on plus more!
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I must say that what you are eating will certainly be contributing quite significantly to your high blood scores. In my experience, and my research certainly tells me loud and clear that the biggest, strongest tool we T2s have in dealing with our diabetes is our diet.

The current NHS guidelines tell us,to eat lots of,carbohydrate - as you are, but my experience, which is,mirrored by many on here, is the carbohydrates (whether "white" or wholemeal) push the blood scores up, and repeating the process meal after meal, just keeps the score up.

If you go,to,the "What have you eaten today" thread, you will see loads of meal ideas which will help guide you through the dietary maze.

What have your last few HbA1cs been? It would be useful to know what sort of trend you had before the most recent past.
 
May be a low carb higher fat diet may help, from what you say your eating have you been following the Nhs diet?
 
Sorry bout this. Just diagnosed with type 2. On metaformin 2 2 daily. Bloods not going down lower than 12 high as 20. Should I be worried?
 
Thanks for advice - grateful for any! This is all a minefield to me. I have never felt worried & was possibly rather too laid back over past 9yrs. HbA1c was always steady at 4.7. Last year elevated to 6.0 & most recent 6.5!
Will have a look with interest at the thread you mention.
 
Paul59 said:
May be a low carb higher fat diet may help, from what you say your eating have you been following the Nhs diet?
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Was advised years ago to attend slimming world, which went really well & lost 4st. Since then fibromyalgia got worse & I stopped going to meetings hence increase in weight! Only excercise I can manage without severe pain is swimming so difficult to be motivated the way I should be!
 
magsquinn said:
Sorry bout this. Just diagnosed with type 2. On metaformin 2 2 daily. Bloods not going down lower than 12 high as 20. Should I be worried?
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Hi Mags, welcome to the forum. Can I suggest that you repost that in the Introduction or Type 2 forum? That way any answers will be tailored towards your own particular issues. It can get a bit confusing trying to help 2 people in the same thread when they probably have different issues to deal with ;)
 
A low carbohydrate higher fat diet may well help you with both your glucose levels and with losing weight, so it's worth investigating. Contrary to "popular" belief it's the carbohydrates that are the culprits in weight gain and not the fats - unless you're scoffing too much of both...

I lost weight on this diet without doing any proper exercise. But it needs to be a permanent lifestyle change rather than a "fix it then go back to previous eating habits" type diet!

Good luck.

Robbity
 
rowan said:
Hi Mags, welcome to the forum. Can I suggest that you repost that in the Introduction or Type 2 forum? That way any answers will be tailored towards your own particular issues. It can get a bit confusing trying to help 2 people in the same thread when they probably have different issues to deal with ;)
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Robbity said:
A low carbohydrate higher fat diet may well help you with both your glucose levels and with losing weight, so it's worth investigating. Contrary to "popular" belief it's the carbohydrates that are the culprits in weight gain and not the fats - unless you're scoffing too much of both...

I lost weight on this diet without doing any proper exercise. But it needs to be a permanent lifestyle change rather than a "fix it then go back to previous eating habits" type diet!

Good luck.

Robbity
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Ok
 
I don't usually post on this forum (been a member for a long time though).

My control was going a bit bonkers recently. Turns out it was my thyroid contributing to it.

I know thyroid is checked with diabetic blogs, but you may so have subclinical thyroid problems even if your TSH is within reference range.

I have a lot of symptoms that I had put down to worsening glycaemic control, that have reversed almost instantly after starting on thyroxine.

Worth exploring? Fwiw, my TSH was in range when I started having symptoms...
 
@Lesley_Charles and @magsquinn , hi and welcome :)

Cutting carbohydrates from your diet is essential to get BG control.

Have a read of the first item linked in my sig below and ask any questions.
 
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