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Type2 -does it ever get better?

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lambkin

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Hello all,

First I had cancer treatment, and then told that I have type2 diabetes. My numbers are huge (between 12 and 19.5). Put on metformin -which gives me chronic tummy problems and smelly wind. Have tried the slow release version- but no difference to the side effects. Now have been put on avandamet (some sort of medication with metformin in it).
I have kept off the sugar, occasional glass of wine with my Sunday meal and trying to eat regular meals- yet still these high numbers.
I have stopped taking the blood sugar readings during the day because the very high numbers worry me so much. (Diabetes nurse unhappy with me and says that I should still take the readings). Now diagnosed with neuropathy in my feet, and my eye sight is certainly not as good as it was; am having trouble reading even with my glasses on.

Am I being a wimp in all of this? Why does it feel like I am the only one having these problems.
Please someone tell me it does get better.
Lambkin
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Hi Lambkin.
On initial diagnosis my readings were very similar to yours.I think you'll find if you can get your blood sugars down, then you'll lessen your chances of complications enormously BUT to take control you need to first accept doing regular checks on your blood sugars.Only by doing those checks will you be able to assess what your body needs and act accordingly with your food intake and medication.
You still sound as though you are in the "shock" state that most of us go through at the beginning (it varies from person to person how quickly being diagnosed as diabeic is accepted).
You are not alone though. I have only just found this site myself and already I like the fact I am amongst others who know how I feel and as I can chat for England, I think I'll be on the site an awful lot.
Take the bull by the horns, pick up your test kit and do those readings. It is THE best thing you can do right now.Your diabetes nurse will help guide you on medication but it's easier for her to do if you are taking those readings. The sooner you get your readings stable, the less visits you'll need to make to the nurse, you'll probably feel a whole lot better generally and most importantly <b>you'll</b> feel in control.
I still have spells of bad control but then I soon realise I feel better when readings are on an even keel, so I make extra effort.
Good luck and chin up. You are not alone.
 
Hi Lambkin,

Sorry to hear about your problems, I have been T2 for 10 years now and spent a lot of time in denial, never had as high a readings as you have reported, 13.6 has been about the highest as of late ussually during holiday period!

Through this website I have finally found a forum of people who can help and encourage one another. I have now nearly stopped drinking coffee and have started on a course of the fish oils etc recommended to try and get better control and I am sure you will as well in time.

Hank
 
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<br />Hi Lambkin,

Sorry to hear about your problems, I have been T2 for 10 years now and spent a lot of time in denial, never had as high a readings as you have reported, 13.6 has been about the highest as of late ussually during holiday period!

Through this website I have finally found a forum of people who can help and encourage one another. I have now nearly stopped drinking coffee and have started on a course of the fish oils etc recommended to try and get better control and I am sure you will as well in time.

Hank
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Hi Mate,

First of all I know what you are going through. I have just had my 6th does of intravenous chemo. I was diagnosed with type on xmas eve, with a blood sugar level of 25.2. I had a real bad spell in course 4 of chemo, where the diabetes got me. Eys went, peed for england and would have drank out of a puddle.

Anuhow they put me on Gilacazide, which was a sturggle ( noside effcts) just worry in getting the sugar levels down. I was also having 80 mg steriods for 5 dasys after the chemo does, so sugaer levels were real high. Anyway I was taking 3 glics a day, breakfse, dinner and evening. After I stopped the steriod tablets my bllod sugar dropped, I dropped the glic to one tab a day, and sometimes none, as I was controlling the blood sugar down to 3.5 and up 6.5. It would peak about 7-9 after meals but soon went down again.

Its back up again now im on steriods tabs after my chemo dose yesterday, so i started on the glics again 3 times a day until I come off the steriods.

I ahve had eye probs, reading short and long distance, have numb feet, which i alsways put down to the chemo and heart tabs i am on, (had heart attack aged 39) now 43.

Anyway, i went to the extreme, with the diet, put **** sugar right out, only dring tea, water and non sugar sucralose ginger beer. Most meals are mediteranean veg, chicken and fish, ahve stoneground bread and crackers, quavers, apples, tinned fruit and muller low fat yougurts, peach flavbour is good, carbs real low in that one.

I dropped a stone in weight intitally but have stabilised that.

I never go hungry , enjoy my grub, keeping on working and just keep taking the blood sugar tests. It can be done, but the first few weeks are a nightmare. Favourite meals is one onion, 3 cloves of garlic, tin of chopped tomatoes, cheery tomatos, sliced up mushrooms, covered in olive oil and fried in the wok on 2 slice of stone ground toast, followed by a muller yog or apple or tinned fruit.Good low sugar slow realease carb dinner.

Pollock fish is good, and mackerel, in olive oil or tomato sauce.

Potatos are limited, but stews are good too etc.

its only been the 3rd good week Ive had in getting my levels down, but it all comes in after a while, its a matter of getting your head round it all, seeing what puts your sugars up and change to whats best for you.Read the back of the tins, packets, drinks etc, look for the carbs what they are and how high, sugars out, but thats me.

I miss my chocs, buts thats it, oh yes my biscuits too. but i just nibble at crackers or cheery tomatos oe hand full of grapes.I feel better for it, and am not feeling bloated like I used too with some of the food I ate.

I wal always active, fit, never drank or smoked, but still fell foul to non hodgkin lymphoma, and block artery through a clot in my heart from a damage football groin injury and then diabetes.

Soemtimes life justs ****s on ya mate.

Watch the feet, they a proble, i LOST FEELING UP BALL OF ONE FOOT AND 3 TOES GONE IN OTHER. cHECK YOU FEET ALL THE TIME, MAKE SURE YOU WEAR slippers around the house etc.You dont wanna stand on somethin, and not know about it.
 
Hi Lamkin, welcome to the exclusive club.

I am recently diagnosed with type two, & I was hoping that diabetes hadn't been at me. My eyes appear fine, even though they have been rubbish all my life, but my feet have lost some sensation - which is a worry, since I have recently come back to walking as a hobby & hoped to take it up in a big way when I finally retire.

I have been through the stages of denial & am now apparently depressed, according to the test my doctor gave me< & I truly sympathise with you - it must (was!) seem to be the worst news in the world: now you will go blind & your feet will drop off. Great.

But - this is one disease YOU can control: it does have advantages. Mine is weight loss. I have seized my life with both hands: I exercise more, which is good for the depression - a good long walk somewhere challenging & beautiful lifts the spirits as well as making you fitter, leaner & less sugary. I eat at least five times a day, maybe even seven _ but the portions are small & well chosen: half an apple, or a couple of rice cakes, a Weetabix biscuit with stewed fruit & low sugar soy milk: lots of green veggies, a correct portion of protein & carbs, no added fat, salt or sugar. I drink lots of water ( What diabetic isn't thirsty?) herbal teas & diluted fruit juices.

This is not the end, it's the beginning of a new, healthier you. Leaner, fitter, prettier.
You go for it. I'm here for you & beleive you can do it, by whatever method you go at it. And I am sure everyone else here is right behind you too, & understands & will be there for you. We wouldn't post otherwise, would we?:D<font face="Lucida Console"></font id="Lucida Console"><font size="4"></font id="size4"><font color="navy"></font id="navy">

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