Hi All,
My names Alli, I used to live in the Uk - East Yorks but we moved to Australia 5 years ago.
background... I had Pre-gestational diabetes, my dad also had T2 and most of his family members did too. Dad also had high BP bad cholesterol, and heart disease.
I believe I also have PCOS (was asked this by a nurse when I had 2 miscarriages 20 years ago...)
So 2 years ago, I was diagnosed with meniere's disease - had a bad vertigo attack and a fatty liver and IBS, so I changed my lifestyle, cut out the booze for 3 months, change my diet to "clean living" and did aerobic exercises and weight lifting for 1h x 5 days a week, I re-introduced light beer and low alcohol sweet wine just 2 days a week and on special occasions lost 10Kgs (22lbs) have since put 3Kgs (6.6lbs) back on but the doc said I need to lose a further 5.8kgs (12.7lbs) so that would put me at 76kg (12 Stone) just out of the obese weight range and a healthy BMI, I laugh as i'm only in a UK size 12-14 clothes now at 81.8Kgs (180lbs/13 stone) I did find that My fitness pal helped to track sugar/salt/carbs/fiber/calories
But from January this year I have suffered with an infected gum/wisdom tooth and on the 25th may I had enough out it came, great I thought, but 1 week later I started with an acute sinus infection that lasted 5 weeks, it put me in the ER on heavy meds for the pain and 4 lots of antibiotics, I finally went back to the Drs 3rd July to see if I could have anymore as it wasn't shifting, the doctor took my BP which was 160/102 it had been like this for the last 4 times but they blamed the pain meds for this...
I had to have a 24 hour BP monitor which was Friday 5th July and a full blood workup done..
So I get a call to say my BP report had been faxed in to the Drs, I had an appointment on the 17th July I can get the results then I thought, the Cardio Tech said I must make an appointment for before then....ok Alarm bells are ringing. I got an appointment the same day and was told by the doc that I had low Vitamin D, High Cholesterol (5) High Triglycerides (2.5) High BP (average was 150/95 although it did go up to 180/112) and BG of 12.9 fasting level ....where to start with that lot...
So I was booked in to see a Diabetic Nurse, but the waiting list was 9th August, my local community clinic here had a cancellation for Thursday 11th July I had to pay a small fee, but it would put my mind at rest so off I went..
I got a free meter from here, she really didn't offer anything I didn't already know unfortunately, other than my diet is 80% clean, I needed to change from coffee to tea (but I don't like tea and my coffee is powered, weak and milky) my post breakfast of porridge was 13.3 and with a clean diet she said it looks like I shall be going straight to metformin, I'm already taking Micardis for high BP and Crestor for high cholesterol.
I have been testing myself and writing a food diary so I can what my body can and can't tolerate...
My pre breakfast levels range from 10.01 upwards
post breakfast range from 10.9-17.3 (weetabix made with hot water and 1/2tsp of smart sugar os a NO for me from now on)
pre lunch range from 6.9-10.5
pre dinner 9.1
post dinner 13.1
(no more readings at the moment as it's only been 3 days of having the meter)
So I decided to do a little test of what I can eat and not eat, I'm not a big chocolate or desert eater I would rather have cheese. dip or crackers so that helps a little.
But if anyone has any advice or something they have tried that's nice and doesn't really effect your BG level that would be great!
Many thanks
Alli
My names Alli, I used to live in the Uk - East Yorks but we moved to Australia 5 years ago.
background... I had Pre-gestational diabetes, my dad also had T2 and most of his family members did too. Dad also had high BP bad cholesterol, and heart disease.
I believe I also have PCOS (was asked this by a nurse when I had 2 miscarriages 20 years ago...)
So 2 years ago, I was diagnosed with meniere's disease - had a bad vertigo attack and a fatty liver and IBS, so I changed my lifestyle, cut out the booze for 3 months, change my diet to "clean living" and did aerobic exercises and weight lifting for 1h x 5 days a week, I re-introduced light beer and low alcohol sweet wine just 2 days a week and on special occasions lost 10Kgs (22lbs) have since put 3Kgs (6.6lbs) back on but the doc said I need to lose a further 5.8kgs (12.7lbs) so that would put me at 76kg (12 Stone) just out of the obese weight range and a healthy BMI, I laugh as i'm only in a UK size 12-14 clothes now at 81.8Kgs (180lbs/13 stone) I did find that My fitness pal helped to track sugar/salt/carbs/fiber/calories
But from January this year I have suffered with an infected gum/wisdom tooth and on the 25th may I had enough out it came, great I thought, but 1 week later I started with an acute sinus infection that lasted 5 weeks, it put me in the ER on heavy meds for the pain and 4 lots of antibiotics, I finally went back to the Drs 3rd July to see if I could have anymore as it wasn't shifting, the doctor took my BP which was 160/102 it had been like this for the last 4 times but they blamed the pain meds for this...
I had to have a 24 hour BP monitor which was Friday 5th July and a full blood workup done..
So I get a call to say my BP report had been faxed in to the Drs, I had an appointment on the 17th July I can get the results then I thought, the Cardio Tech said I must make an appointment for before then....ok Alarm bells are ringing. I got an appointment the same day and was told by the doc that I had low Vitamin D, High Cholesterol (5) High Triglycerides (2.5) High BP (average was 150/95 although it did go up to 180/112) and BG of 12.9 fasting level ....where to start with that lot...
So I was booked in to see a Diabetic Nurse, but the waiting list was 9th August, my local community clinic here had a cancellation for Thursday 11th July I had to pay a small fee, but it would put my mind at rest so off I went..
I got a free meter from here, she really didn't offer anything I didn't already know unfortunately, other than my diet is 80% clean, I needed to change from coffee to tea (but I don't like tea and my coffee is powered, weak and milky) my post breakfast of porridge was 13.3 and with a clean diet she said it looks like I shall be going straight to metformin, I'm already taking Micardis for high BP and Crestor for high cholesterol.
I have been testing myself and writing a food diary so I can what my body can and can't tolerate...
My pre breakfast levels range from 10.01 upwards
post breakfast range from 10.9-17.3 (weetabix made with hot water and 1/2tsp of smart sugar os a NO for me from now on)
pre lunch range from 6.9-10.5
pre dinner 9.1
post dinner 13.1
(no more readings at the moment as it's only been 3 days of having the meter)
So I decided to do a little test of what I can eat and not eat, I'm not a big chocolate or desert eater I would rather have cheese. dip or crackers so that helps a little.
But if anyone has any advice or something they have tried that's nice and doesn't really effect your BG level that would be great!
Many thanks
Alli