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Hello there, welcome to the forum.
Tell us more about your 'diet' - if you want to - and people might be able to offer some guidance.
Also, do you know what your HbA1c result was?
 
When I had my blood taken it was 52 that’s all I know up to now. I was told by the nurse to eat what I’ve been eating but smaller portions and to have sugar free drinks
 
Shell2809 said:
I was told by the nurse to eat what I’ve been eating but smaller portions and to have sugar free drinks
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How do you feel about that advice?
I mean, it's certainly easy to communicate to a patient and it could be argued that it's a step in the right direction but...
 
I don’t know how I feel at the moment she said if I go on medication it’s going to be hard to go off it so they won’t me to try and diet for 3 months to see if my blood sugar comes down if not then I will have to take medication
 
Yep, When I was daignosed there was little communicated but after 9 months information has been provided over the various meetings. It certainly took a while and nothing between first and second bllod tests. I was given similar advice after the first test but went a little further cutting down on Carbs and when sent for second bloods my reading had come down. Plenty of good advice on here so ask away.
 
Shell2809 said:
When I had my blood taken it was 52 that’s all I know up to now. I was told by the nurse to eat what I’ve been eating but smaller portions and to have sugar free drinks
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Hi, and welcome.

That's not bad advice as far as it goes but I'd go a step further. I was pretty much where you are when I was diagnosed - and had an A1c of 36 four months later. I cut bread, pasta, pastry, potatoes, rice, sugar, and had next to no fruit. I aimed for a total carb intake of around 20g/day, mainly from vegetables. It worked really quickly for me.

Some willpower needed. You might find you need a more gradual approach - that doesn't suit me, but the important thing really is finding something that works for you. Best of luck.
 
Oh dear. What dreadful things to tell you..
Honestly what on earth can that sort of thinking be doing to patients?
Seriously - diabetes is an inability to deal with carbohydrates. They are the sugars and starches and a modern diet is crammed with them. They are considered healthy.
An ordinary type 2 diabetic can usually find themselves feeling so much better quite quickly. Usually type 2 sneaks up so people adapt, or think that it is normal to feel old and decrepit.
Cutting out the dense carby foods takes such a load off the metabolism.
I've been told to take less Thyroxine as my thyroid is picking up, after a very long time of taking 200 micrograms a day, I am now on 125. Thyroids are not supposed to do that, or at least I have never been told that there was any possibility of recovery.
These days I enjoy meat, fish, cheese, eggs and I have salads, stir fries and other veges, mushrooms, berries and a few other low carb fruits, but I find that my appetite is very small and I have no need to struggle to keep to the diet.
 
Shell2809 said:
When I had my blood taken it was 52 that’s all I know up to now. I was told by the nurse to eat what I’ve been eating but smaller portions and to have sugar free drinks
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Well, the good news being, 52 isn't anywhere near as dramatic as some members came in with -myself included- and quite a few of us managed to get back into the normal, non-diabetic range. So it can be done, no meds required. Though I have to say, I find the comment that once on, it's hard to get off, rather strange. Ah well. https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html might help a little get you started with your diet, it goes a tad beyond no sugary pop, haha. Seriously though.... While the advice is sort of in the right direction, but not quite all the way there, you seem to be rather lucky to have found a nurse who'll give you three months' grace to try it through diet. Would've been more useful if there'd be more info on said diet though, but we'll take whatever good we can find. Most people are just put straight on drugs with no information whatsoever, and then it's just a downhill thing from there on in. (If you only throw medication at T2, it's likely to progress rather steadily.)

Three months from now, with a reduction of carbs, your nurse'll have a dropping-jaw reaction to your progress. ;) You can read that as me saying, you're going to be absolutely fine. ;)
Jo
 
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