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Type 2 What educaton courses have you been offered and did you take them up?
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I've also never been offered a course and glad as I would rather not waste NHS funds on something likely to be of limited help.
Freckledjet
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Diagnosed April this year with T2, took me 2 months to find out about Diabetic Clinic Education. Although delayed initially I found it an invaluable experience and education. First session is a drop in, followed up by two further scheduled appointments.
The NHS is a great service when you're in the system and I don't appreciate what's happening to our health service in this country.
The NHS is a great service when you're in the system and I don't appreciate what's happening to our health service in this country.
Down in rural Gloucestershire, they run three courses:
Diabetes and You, Food and You and Insulin and You.
'Diabetes and You' is voluntary, but is 'Highly Recommended (or else)' by TPTB.
It is a primer on the mechanics of Diabetes: What it is, does, what to eat to make best use of your suffering, what you can die of etc.
Learnt- I must have breakfast (Useless, I can't face breakfast at 5AM when I get up for work) and I probably shouldn't pour condensed milk on my bedtime porridge anymore.
Value- 'Better informed, but no wiser.'
Diabetes and You, Food and You and Insulin and You.
'Diabetes and You' is voluntary, but is 'Highly Recommended (or else)' by TPTB.
It is a primer on the mechanics of Diabetes: What it is, does, what to eat to make best use of your suffering, what you can die of etc.
Learnt- I must have breakfast (Useless, I can't face breakfast at 5AM when I get up for work) and I probably shouldn't pour condensed milk on my bedtime porridge anymore.
Value- 'Better informed, but no wiser.'
Bluetit1802
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Why must you have breakfast? Did they say? No condensed milk is excellent advice, but porridge at bedtime is also not to be recommended. Or are you injecting insulin?
For much the same reason I have porridge at night- help pull down my readings. I know from experience, if I don't have supper, then my morning sugar level is over 8, with it, then generally in the low 6's.
What they fail to take into account (others too), is that the twelve hours between getting up and getting home, eating, at best, is a sandwich and a packet of crisps. So supper is my second meal of the day.
And I have been a good boy. I've stopped the milk.
Bluetit1802
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Porridge is a funny one, but very high in carbs. As you eat it before bed I expect you haven't tested before and 1 hour, 90 minutes, 2 hours and half hourly afterwards as necessary. I can't find any science that says porridge or anything carb heavy at night will lower fasting levels.
Porridge is also very high in fibre, which is essential to me for more pressing reasons.
Too new to Diabetes to argue the science of carbs, only offer the results I get.
Nor am I analy retentative enough to test every few minutes, but the sugar peaks about 1.5 somewhere between two and three hours.
Fasting as I understand it is an extended period before eating- So five to six hours i.e. overnight, I get a lower figure than I started with. 10 hours is usually lower still, 12 hours can get worryingly high and 15 hours can get low enough to be mildly concerning, at least during the working week, making me think external factors are more significant than my midnight eating habits.
