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I have just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes just another illness in a long line > I am partially disabled and cannot walk more than 50 meters without acute pain due to an accident . I have thown away all the high sugar items in my cupboard so I wont be tempted and I have given up smoking after 50 years . At the moment im just being assessed and have appointments with dietitians etc . my main problem at the moment is raging thirst i can dring 4 litres of water a day and still be thirsty . My treatment at the moment is one Metformin 500g per day. How long will it be before i stop being so thirsty. I see this now as just another challenge .


I WILL NOT BE BEATEN

Maurice
 
It sounds like your thirst is probably due to high blood sugar levels. Once these come down to more normal levels the thirst will stop.

You do not mention any blood sugar level numbers, I hope that you are given a blood glucose monitor to check your BG levels.

Here is the advice we give to newly diagnosed type 2's on the forum.Have a read and see if anything there helps.

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 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.
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Thanks Sue

Its all very new to me at the moment only diagnosed on monday of this week . There is so much contradictory information on the web so I am waiting to see the dietitian next week My doctor said pasta , rice etc was ok to eat . Im living on home made soup at the moment and no sugar cereals until i see the diet lady . Thank you very much for your response . I will let you know how I progress

Maurice

I will not be beaten
 
Hi Maurice and welcome to the forum :D

Sorry to hear that you have something else to contend with in addition to all your other issues. Keep up the good positive outlook and do ‘digest’ Sue’s post as what is in there is what you need to do.

‘They’ may say it is alright to eat all those starchy carbs but the reason you are feeling unwell and so thirsty is that your body cannot cope with them! The meds can only do so much and the real difference is in what you eat and how much you can make yourself move about. Many on here have various issues which preclude standard exercise but there is always something you can do no matter how little. :)

The advice given on this forum is not the same as NHS advice because it is the experience of people who actually live and eat with diabetes – and we know what works. Having said all that, we are all different and react differently to things and the only way you will know what is safe for you to eat or what you need to cut out/down is by testing so you need to ask for a meter. Let us know how you get on! :roll: :)
 
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