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KARNAK
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Welcome to forum Tommy,🙂 panic not. Follow this link and scroll down to the T2 section for positive information. https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes.10406/. Are on any medication for Diabetes? if you are can you let us know if you wish. Other members will be along to give you more advice soon, hope this helps?
Drummer
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For those lucky enough to only require a change in diet all you need to do is remove the excess carbohydrate and in a remarkable short time your metabolism can get back to normal.
The inability to deal with carbs does remain though, but I started to eat low carb in my early 20's and would probably never have known I had a problem except for the mantra that carbs are healthy so must be eaten every day and often. It is possible to remain on a low carb diet for decades, eating only the best things such as roast chicken, steak and pork chops, or whatever fish you might like, combined with whatever low carb veges or salad stuff takes your fancy.
The inability to deal with carbs does remain though, but I started to eat low carb in my early 20's and would probably never have known I had a problem except for the mantra that carbs are healthy so must be eaten every day and often. It is possible to remain on a low carb diet for decades, eating only the best things such as roast chicken, steak and pork chops, or whatever fish you might like, combined with whatever low carb veges or salad stuff takes your fancy.
Forgot I had posted the reading was 81 so rather high for someone my age the medication I have been given is called metformin 500g once a day for the first week until my system can overcome the side effects then going forward if ok 2 a day have to be taken
Eddy Edson
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It's fairly common when you start with Met. Most often, it calms down after a little while, and if you're not on it already, there's a slow release version which is usually better tolerated.
T2D is a pain in the butt, but with a little bit of focus it's often possible to get it tamed pretty quickly - say a few months. I went from 89 to the 30's in about 6 months, and there are plenty of people around here who seem to have done the same kind of thing, faster.
For me, the main thing was losing some weight, even though I wasn't particularly overweight to start with. If you lose enough, it can clear fat from your pancreas and liver, which can allow your pancreas to work better while reducing insulin resistance, a big factor for T2D.
Working out what to do about carbs is also important, but personally I think there's a lot of woo around about carbs. For me, it was a matter of cutting out obvious c**p, temporarily reducing fruit portion sizes until I had things under better control, and the same kind of thing with grains. But completely ditching fruit and other good carbs in favour of eg bacon and other meaty things makes zero sense to me.
T2D is essentially a cardiovascular condition and whatever you do in the long term, focusing on heart and artery health is at least as important as focusing on BG. In the short term, the best advice is eat-to-your-meter. Work out what effects your BG the most, ~2 hours after eating, and adjust accordingly. Remember, everybody's different when it comes to carbs, and whatever little BG rules people come up with about never eating this or always eating that, it may or may not apply to you.
Again, keep things in perspective: plenty of non-diabetics can be well above 9 after eating, and the most important single metric is your average level as reflected in your HbA1c, not the intra-day peaks and troughs, so long as they are not way out of line.
These days I'm not particularly carb restricted - regularly eating 250g+ per day - and my last HbA1c a few weeks ago was 27. That's just me, but it shows why I'm dubious about people saying that ultra-low-carb is the only way to go.
Drummer
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The side effects of Metformin can be very severe - I was very miserable, and ended up binning the tablets - Metformin and Atorvastatin.
Diabetes is not a cardio vascular disease, and by eating a low carb diet you can - if you are lucky, make it become irrelevant.
I had no unhealthy carbs to remove, so perhaps I was not typical of type twos.
I have now had three annual checks where my Hba1c was at the top end of normal, but I used a blood glucose meter to check that what I was eating gave me normal readings after eating.
Diabetes is not a cardio vascular disease, and by eating a low carb diet you can - if you are lucky, make it become irrelevant.
I had no unhealthy carbs to remove, so perhaps I was not typical of type twos.
I have now had three annual checks where my Hba1c was at the top end of normal, but I used a blood glucose meter to check that what I was eating gave me normal readings after eating.
Just a little check in down the line have dropped 8lbs of weight so far by changing diet still feeling tired struggling with a substitute for the morning bottle of Lucozade I used to have , Back at the docs soon for readings again see if I have got them down.
SueEK
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Well done @Tommyt, you are heading in the right direction. Are you managing to tolerate the Metformin now after your initial problems? Tiredness was my biggest problem but it is so much better now, just the occasional day when I’m tired so chin up the more you do the easier things become. Keep in touch and let us know your new bg level when you have it x
Hi Tommyt welcome to the forum, don't let it get you down too much, there are loads of people here with more problems than yourself (not meaning to be rude). As I have said to others, it is just possible that Type2 may be eradicated somewhere within the next 10 years, although I acknowledge I could be completely wrong.
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