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Proper fed up today

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MeganN

MeganN

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Hi guys

Gonna have a bit of a moan. I'm really fed up today with everything. What's bothering me most is how restrictive my diet is. I'm bored with what I can eat as the list is so small. Got to the point where I got really angry when my parents sat down to a lunch of lasagne and jacket potato ( both are diabetic but don't seem to have to do much about their diet). Thinking why the hell do I have to have this worse than they do

So now I'm sat in the bathroom having a self Pitying cry :(
 
Hi Megan,

You have choices. You could have eaten the same as them and had high blood sugars all day and felt rotten or eaten according to what your meter finds acceptable, (I am assuming you have a meter?)

We have all been where you are now and we wanted to scream,"It's not fair" Another way of looking at it is to say that you will eat what you like and are not bothered about the possible complications you will encounter if you ignore it. They slowly creep up on you and are not visible because most of it is happening within your body.

Have a read of this article, it may help you.

http://www.diabetesexplained.com/diabetic-emotional-issues.html

We do know where you are coming from, it is a pain in the proverbial and never lets up. You will eventually find that there are things you can eat and enjoy that are acceptable. It means a new way of eating and never think of it as a deprivation or diet but rather a healthy eating plan that you can stick to.

((((hugs)))) to you, it will get better.
Maise.
 
Thanks Cherrypie

I'm just having a difficult day. Normally I'm fine and I know exactly what I can and can't eat according to my meter (I was a bit obsessive with the thing for the first few months!)

It upsets me more when I see my parents not even trying to modify their diet to get their sugars down while I'm trying really hard (they make me more mad than anyone else for some reason because its not like they are not diabetic, they have the same problem and ignore it a lot of the time). I'm not going to give up and eat what will eventually cause my body big problems because it's not worth it in my eyes but every now and then it all gets a bit much for me.

It's only been 7 months so hopefully this feeling is something I will learn to manage
 
Your parents are either very lucky or very silly! I bet you have a better HbA1C than they do!!!
 
robofski said:
Your parents are either very lucky or very silly! I bet you have a better HbA1C than they do!!!
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Only very slightly better :(
 
Lasagne AND jacket potato - are they mad, they don't go together even for non-diabetics.

Seriously Megan , the only person that really matters is you. Lots of people ignore their diabetes and suffer the consequences. Have you tried eating small portions (perhaps leaving some on the plate), not easy to do but it should work if you avoid anything fast acting. I find Lasagne is OK and in fact quite often choose it if out and about but I am on insulin.
 
Thanks vicsetter I'm trying to find out what I react badly to still. Pasta does devils work with my blOod sugar so I've never bothered to try lasagne.

Am feeling better now I'm back home for the evening and have mown the grass 🙂 love that job
 
Lasagne's a bit of a rollercoaster for me - I think the first bump is the tomato's and then the pasta hits at 4+ hours.

It's not the healthiest thing for me to eat (due to the saturates), but I don't find it an issue because all the cheese and meat overpowers the carbs and I don't get a huge spike from it. Although in part that is because we make our own tomato sauce rather then using a jar mix.

What sort of delta BG increase do you get with a meal? My consultant told me that if it was +4 when eating a fairly normal meal (which you are not if you are only eating 25g Carb) then your medication needs reviewing.
 
Mark T said:
Lasagne's a bit of a rollercoaster for me - I think the first bump is the tomato's and then the pasta hits at 4+ hours.

It's not the healthiest thing for me to eat (due to the saturates), but I don't find it an issue because all the cheese and meat overpowers the carbs and I don't get a huge spike from it. Although in part that is because we make our own tomato sauce rather then using a jar mix.

What sort of delta BG increase do you get with a meal? My consultant told me that if it was +4 when eating a fairly normal meal (which you are not if you are only eating 25g Carb) then your medication needs reviewing.
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I have got it down to +3 on the carb intake I'm on. I can't eat normally to show the nurse my results as I found early on that being high gives me Pain in my legs for some reason.

It's getting the nurse to listen and change my meds which is the challenge. She is of the opinion that I should just keep cutting carbs until my levels are right
 
Do you have the option of discussing things with the consultant and/or a specialist nurse?

Although you must be getting close to the maximum does of both Glucophage (3000mg/day) and Gliclazide (320mg/day) so she must be wondering what to do.

Although it's good that she isn't rumbling about eating starchy carbs with every meal and upping medication to cope, it's not necessarily that useful to go fully the other way either. It's about finding the balance that is right for you.

I know how you feel regarding food 😉 my father is on insulin and sometimes I do feel quite envious when he helps himself to the extra couple of roast potatoes 😱 (I live just over a hundred miles away, so I don't get that every day though)

Have you been continuously eating less and less carbs each week to get your HbA1c? Because if you were that might indicate that the insulin production from your pancreas is failing. If that was the case I'd get on your consultants back to do some tests!
 
Hi Megan, I was like you, a type 2, and as my levels wouldant come down I stopped eating to get lower. The nurse found out and within an hour I was on insulin. The nurse put me on it and when the Doc found out he said 'oh yes thought you would be better on insulin'! I was hopping mad at him. Doctors are ok but the nurses are the real pros. Since going on insulin (1988) my life has been far better eating what I want not starving and looking at other peps plates. Please you must mention this to your diabetic nurse you mustnt go hungry!
 
Austin Mini said:
Hi Megan, I was like you, a type 2, and as my levels wouldant come down I stopped eating to get lower. The nurse found out and within an hour I was on insulin. The nurse put me on it and when the Doc found out he said 'oh yes thought you would be better on insulin'! I was hopping mad at him. Doctors are ok but the nurses are the real pros. Since going on insulin (1988) my life has been far better eating what I want not starving and looking at other peps plates. Please you must mention this to your diabetic nurse you mustnt go hungry!
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It is the nurse I'm seeing. She just doesn't want to change anything when I tell her. Even my mum, sister in law and husband have told her that my diet is ridiculous but until I drop a massive amount of weight she is gonna keep me how I am. Not even like I've got a lot to lose only half a stone. She doesn't seem to care if it's making me miserable or not.
 
I know this sounds a bit silly, but could you send her a letter/email, explaining everything you have said here - that way at least she has something in writing so cant shrug you off - maybe pinpoint to her exactly what you do want.

Sometimes I think nurses are so rushed that they dont always listen enough - maybe this would give her chance to think about it more before you next see her and maybe then she will understand exactly how you feel - and no - nobody should go hungry!

I hope you get things sorted.🙂
 
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