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Okay, I'm a T2 (no, not a terminator machine sent back to assassinate a future resistance leader silly!). I seem to have controlled it a bit at the moment. I am told this thing doesn't get any better....
I've figured out the condition involves 1 of 3 possibilities:
1) The receptors on my muscles, which open them up to receive glucose are bags of sh**e and not doing their bit properly. The old pancreas is working fine in generating insulin. It just isn't working on the receptors like it should be.
2) The pancreas is a monkey and not doing it's job properly. Receptors related to glucose are fine. Just not enough insulin being pumped into system to enable them fully.
3) Both of the above.
Next big question. How do we figure out exactly which of the above is true for us? What tests can be done?
Sometimes, the GP and Nurse don't seem to have much of a Scooby! (As in Scooby Doo = clue). They have recommended that I follow their course of action (met + simvastatin + them being stingy with test strips) for 3 months before referral to a specialist. I'm not following their plan but am trying a more natural approach for the moment having taken met and sim for month and a half or so and then ceasing due to the levels of dangerous gas met was causing me to pump into an already teetering ecosystem.
So how do I find out exactly how the condition is effecting me beyond the generalities? What tests must I insist on getting done by the Diabetologist, when I do eventually get to see him in a few months?
I'm all fired up!
I've figured out the condition involves 1 of 3 possibilities:
1) The receptors on my muscles, which open them up to receive glucose are bags of sh**e and not doing their bit properly. The old pancreas is working fine in generating insulin. It just isn't working on the receptors like it should be.
2) The pancreas is a monkey and not doing it's job properly. Receptors related to glucose are fine. Just not enough insulin being pumped into system to enable them fully.
3) Both of the above.
Next big question. How do we figure out exactly which of the above is true for us? What tests can be done?
Sometimes, the GP and Nurse don't seem to have much of a Scooby! (As in Scooby Doo = clue). They have recommended that I follow their course of action (met + simvastatin + them being stingy with test strips) for 3 months before referral to a specialist. I'm not following their plan but am trying a more natural approach for the moment having taken met and sim for month and a half or so and then ceasing due to the levels of dangerous gas met was causing me to pump into an already teetering ecosystem.
So how do I find out exactly how the condition is effecting me beyond the generalities? What tests must I insist on getting done by the Diabetologist, when I do eventually get to see him in a few months?
I'm all fired up!