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Hannah1979

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I'm so confused. I'm a type 2. My recent HBA1C was 72. I was suppose to have a hysterectomy on the 27th of Feb but it was cancelled as my HBA1C was over 69 and that's the max they will put you under a general anesthetic on. So I wouldn't classify myself currently as a stable diabetic.

However I am also a Community nurse and I really want to carry on working and help my patients. I also don't want to get unwell as I have 3 children 13, 11 and a 2 year old with ADHD and Autism.

Should I be working? Or self isolating with my children. Does everyone in the whole house have to isolate? My husband does not have a long term condition and he is an undertaker. Can he still work? Please help

Many thanks Hannah
 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...protecting-older-people-and-vulnerable-adults

We are supposed to be taking the general advice strongly. Social distance as much as we are able to.

In the meantime try your best to control your diabetes to maximise your health should you get exposed. Low carb eating is supported by the nhs (there’s even a CPD course) even if many staff as as yet unaware of it. See the highlights and basic info about it in my signature below. A huge proportion of type 2 in here have gotten good control and even remission by doing this.

whilst this isn’t directed to you as a personal attack in anyway (I’m very grateful for the work all medical staff are doing right now) I’m shocked that your employer the nhs has not made it clear to you what the appropriate advice is. Surely in your position people will be asking you exactly the question you are asking us.
 
That's pretty high blood sugar levels. If you can't get control of your BG levels you might consider getting tested for antibodies and a C-peptide test to make sure you're not a type 1 instead of a type 2. 40% of us type 1's are misdiagnosed as a type 2 at first. So keep it in mind just in case.

During this extremely stressful time, it probably will be a lot harder to take control of your Bg levels though. But you need to try.
 
Hello and welcome,

I think that with the current state of the world anyone with diabetes needs to be very careful to do their best to keep their blood sugar levels under control. If you do catch the virus I would expect it to impact your blood sugar levels negatively. As someone with a child with ADHD and autism ( I have one with both and 2 others with autism) I think it is even more important to look after yourself- your child will be distressed if you are not able to continue to take care of him/her.

I admire health workers but they do have to be careful to look after themselves- with uncontrolled blood sugar levels it is in my view much more important to achieve this.

Your patients and family need you to stay well.

I agree with the advice about low carb also and also to get the tests to confirm you are type 2.

Good luck.
 
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To be fair the advice to check type 2 is well warranted if changes to diet don’t work (They do need to be tried first) or medications are constantly being increased or there’s weight loss not gain. Or some other alarm bell. Not many gp’s will check without something more than high numbers. Plenty of type 2 have high numbers down to diet alone.
 
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