Hi anniep
Well, it sounds to me that you have once had control and lost it by doing what this nurse tells you to do. :roll: Now that you have gone back to doing what you know actually works you are starting to feel better and your BG level numbers are undoubtedly better. Far from being non-compliant you have tried and tested her way and found it not to work. As for her discussing you and your health with your husband you have every right to make a formal complaint. :evil:
You do need to put your health before everything else - if your health fails you will not have a job and not much of a life or anything else either :!: Your priorities need to change :!: As I understand it there is a slow release form of metformin but it is almost not worth pursuing that line with your current care situation. Press for a referral to an Endocrinologist or if that is not forthcoming then do what I had to do and refer yourself. :roll: Ring up the local hospital or nearest large hospital ask for the Diabetes Clinic Secretary and tell her all about it! Hopefully if you can make a strong enough case they will arrange to see you. Let us know how you get on :!:
You may well have been diagnosed for a while but the advice given on this Forum is not the standard advice which is, unfortunately, so often given to diabetes patients by the professionals.
The advice posted on here by Ken and/or Sue, the Forum Monitors, for new T2s is as follows:
“Welcome to the forum. here is the advice we usually give to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics. This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different .
It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.
The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such a bread, potatoes, pasta and rice also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.
The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating and then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels.
Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.
When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.
As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!
As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.
It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.”
