Thanks for those kinds words.. much appreciated. Well done on your achievement too, every step you take towards your end goal will be helping you to control your condition. I'm following a very low carb diet with intermittent fasting. The weight loss has slowed a bit but my blood sugars are much more controlled and I think the dawn phenomenon is finally resolving itself (fingers crossed).Well done, your on a role with a positive attitude and doing great. I know how hard it is to lose weight, I have been trying hard for more than a year now but have only managed to shift 7kg. juggling hypothyroidism and diabetes is not easy, I set myself realistic targets like moving from stage 2 obesity to stage 1 obesity (achieved today) and then too be fat. I find this a much better way rather than focusing on kgs. Reducing the BMI for me equates with getting healthier. Whatever your method is, it seems to be working and doing the trick, keep up the good work
T2 diabetes is pretty much silent, until it is very advanced - one reason that doctors should be testing everyone's blood sugar as part of their annual physical. Even if a finger poke isn't best way to diagnose diabetes (given how much variation there is based on when you had your last meal), it costs virtually nothing and would at least catch people before they get vision impairment and neuropathy.Really interesting stuff everyone scary how many of us had no symptoms.
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I was told the same Ed......bit young for hip replacement. On the up-side, I have lost over a stone and a half in the last 3 months and am doing the LCHF diet with Omega 3 supplements and things are so much better. Clearly the fats and oils are lubricating the moving partsI was limping badly for over a year with what was diagnosed as osteoarthritis in my hip. The doctor essentially said I just had to get on with it as I was too young for treatment (basically - you're too young to have quality of life). Fortunately in casual conversation with someone it was suggested that cutting bread from my diet may improve things. I did and within 48 hours my hip felt fine. I'd say I'm at about 95% with it now, can tell it's not perfect but if I behave dietary-wise it's fine. I'm currently running and cycling 5 or 6 times a week and have no issues.
Just interested to see how others received the diagnosis, did you go to the GP as you were feeling unwell? Did you receive your diagnosis by another means.
I was diagnosed T2 at the age of 43 when I took an employment medical. I was maybe 3-4 kg overweight at 78kg versus ideal 74kg. My GP looked at the urine test result and said "Have you put any sugar in this?" Yes - really! The reading was somewhere mid 20s. Fasting test next day was 15 and so straight onto a cocktail of pills incl Statins and blood pressure but no Metphormin. Cholesterol has never been a problem and aba1c generally OK in the last 15 years unless I stop exercising (by that I mean regularly walking the dog for half an hour). No problems (yet) with eye and nerve damage.
Looking back I had few minor symptoms including slight night thirsts and slightly more frequent trips to the toilet - especially during the night.
My biggest issue is dawn phenomenon where my fasting morning sugars are anywhere from 8-14 and I feel like rubbish. Can't "un-fog" my brain for at least an hour and sugar stays high for hours unless I eat. I can have a massive bowl of carbs (usually porridge and fruit) but my sugar will still fall a lot quicker than if I eat nothing.
Biggest danger is probably complacency as I am generally reasonably fit and people keep telling me "well you don't look like you are T2" - in other words I am not obese I guess.
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