Hiya from a new Type 2

[SueEK]

Thank you, I am sure it will take time to properly get a handle on it, but trying to understand 🙂
3 hours after 5.7 jumped to 7.1 - little bit surprised after 2 white coffees (oh how i miss you sugar) and small tomato juice - learn learn learn 🙂
But starting to feel less tired which will help in increasing my activity.
Slight blurry vision issue this morning. But I have glasses and vision changing (focus distance) was an issue I had so I guess it will take a while to settle and I am overdue for new glasses anyway.
Reading / long distance lenses are ok but the Task-oriented lenses have changed since yesterday.

Your blurry vision may be because you have started Metformin. I had the same thing, couldn’t read my computer screen at work, and confess I really freaked. It turns out that high bg levels allows the diabetes to take fluid from all over, including the back of your eyes, and so when Metformin readjusts your body to what it should be it also allows the body to replace the fluid, including behind the eyes, which results in you having blurred vision for a while. For me it was about a week I think but I think it took longer for other people. Do not go and buy new glasses as this should settle. If it doesn’t then obviously follow it up.
Hope that makes sense, got a headache and not really thinking straight!!

 

[karloc]

It is normal for BG to wander upwards once you get up and about in the morning. It is called the Dawn Phenomena (DP) and is caused by the liver releasing Glycogen into the blood stream supposedly to give you the energy to chase down and kill a woolly mammoth! If you are able to take a brisk walk, that may bring it down.

Interesting, thanks so much to learn 🙂

Sweeteners are not an issue for me has I hate them so so much. We ended up with some half and half sugar (my wife claims must have delivered wrong one, I'm not sure 🙂 ) but made coffee as normal and literally spat it out 😱 - so its not just in my mind.

Not sure how I will cope over time with my sweet tooth - In fact so sweet is my tooth that I won't touch brown sugar because I find it not sweet 🙄

Thanks for the info about eye sight.

 

[karloc]

Your blurry vision may be because you have started Metformin. I had the same thing, couldn’t read my computer screen at work, and confess I really freaked. It turns out that high bg levels allows the diabetes to take fluid from all over, including the back of your eyes, and so when Metformin readjusts your body to what it should be it also allows the body to replace the fluid, including behind the eyes, which results in you having blurred vision for a while. For me it was about a week I think but I think it took longer for other people. Do not go and buy new glasses as this should settle. If it doesn’t then obviously follow it up.
Hope that makes sense, got a headache and not really thinking straight!!

Thanks, changing / blurry vision was an issue I was having before being diagnosed so I guess no real shock that its happening. Getting old gave me blurry vision to start with so its likely to get worse over time and I suspected that the Diabetes was having a hand it that also. Not noticed such a fast change before but I guess I had a steady high BG before. Only on day 5 so early days and I know it will take some time but good to know what is 'normal'.
Hope your headache goes soon

 

[Red9]

good luck.

I follow Dr Michael Mosley’s research and it’s working for me.

https://books.google.co.uk/books/ab...=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y

 

[Drummer]

Tomato is a fruit - and fruit juices are to be avoided - they make absorbing the sugar so much easier and faster as the fluid from the cells is released as the process of juicing breaks open the cells.
I use a fresh lancet every time - I am a musician and do not want even the slightest of problems with my fingertips.

 

[karloc]

Tomato is a fruit - and fruit juices are to be avoided - they make absorbing the sugar so much easier and faster as the fluid from the cells is released as the process of juicing breaks open the cells.

I probably shouldn't have it but my reasoning to myself is... After suddenly stopping 5 to 10 coffees at 15g sugar each and 3+ cans of coke at 35g sugar each per day. It would be nice to have a nice tasty drink available and at 35g carbs per litre it would be ok 😉. I have been having less each day and tomato is a magic fruit 🙂.

 

[Drummer]

Oh I have no problem with tomato as it comes - when I responded I had just eaten one with breakfast - I would usually have had a coffee with cream afterwards, but I have been removing the 'dead' dishwasher and putting in the new one. Not doing badly for a 68 year old granny.
Yes you have made big changes, and probably really lowered your intake of carbs - I did the same, but I have found that to even be just at the top of normal I need to be so careful. I eat less than 40 gm of carb a day - but I suspect that I have had a long history of glucose intolerance which has been disregarded by the doctors who have always pushed diets with high carb and low fat. I have always been heavy, even when I had a 24 inch waist, as I was physically strong - I could swing by my arms across a 14 rung horizontal ladder in the local park - I did it twice a day Monday to Friday just to be sure I could, but the muscle was interpreted as 'over weight' equalling 'fat' - I used to be very active out of doors, but was advised to buy exercise videos and join a gym. I did not even have a TV....
If you have no long history of dieting you might very well find that you have a lot more leeway than I do.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

Hi @karloc and a slightly belated welcome to the forum 🙂

I had a lot of vision changes around the time I was diagnosed (in fact, it was my optician who first suggested I might be diabetic). I was advised not to get new glasses for at least six months, as it may take that long for your eyes to settle, apparently.

The problem with juice is that it is very fast-acting - to the extent that it can be used as a treatment for dangerously low blood sugar. Fruit which hasn't been juiced isn't quite so fast-acting, and tomatoes are relatively low in carbs so a good fruit to eat - but no fruit juice is good to drink for a diabetic (unless they are like me and have very frequent lows!). Are there any herbal or fruit teas you like? - they'd be a better choice for an alternative to coffee.

 

[karloc]

Thanks for welcome

I had a lot of vision changes around the time I was diagnosed (in fact, it was my optician who first suggested I might be diabetic). I was advised not to get new glasses for at least six months, as it may take that long for your eyes to settle, apparently.

I will wait, thanks - unless I need to move much further back from my computer when I might not have a choice 🙂

The problem with juice is that it is very fast-acting - to the extent that it can be used as a treatment for dangerously low blood sugar. Fruit which hasn't been juiced isn't quite so fast-acting, and tomatoes are relatively low in carbs so a good fruit to eat - but no fruit juice is good to drink for a diabetic (unless they are like me and have very frequent lows!). Are there any herbal or fruit teas you like? - they'd be a better choice for an alternative to coffee.

Never going to give up my coffee 😉, My beautiful espresso machine NEEDS me 🙂.
And herbal teas can smell nice but no, just no for me 🙂.

 

[karloc]

Second morning of BG 5.7 yay 🙂.

More active around the house then I felt a bit shaky, checked my BG and 6.2 so I guess it's a sign of being unfit 😱.
Feeling bit better after sitting / resting for a while, i guess i should check my blood pressure after 30 min rest.

 

[rebrascora]

Wow! Congratulations again. Great consistency! Wish I could get 2 fasting readings somewhere near the same.

I often feel shaky or unusually fatigued when it isn't a hypo. My consultant thinks it isn't diabetes related, but so far other tests haven't found a cause. I hope that he is wrong and when I get my BG more stable, it will improve.

 

[karloc]

Wow! Congratulations again. Great consistency! Wish I could get 2 fasting readings somewhere near the same.

I often feel shaky or unusually fatigued when it isn't a hypo. My consultant thinks it isn't diabetes related, but so far other tests haven't found a cause. I hope that he is wrong and when I get my BG more stable, it will improve.

Thanks, think I just needed a rest then much better - Still think my body is just shouted, Oi where is that sugar I'm used to

 

[rebrascora]

Still think my body is just shouted, Oi where is that sugar I'm used to

Yes that is exactly how I feel!

 

[silentsquirrel]

Second morning of BG 5.7 yay 🙂.

More active around the house then I felt a bit shaky, checked my BG and 6.2 so I guess it's a sign of being unfit 😱.
Feeling bit better after sitting / resting for a while, i guess i should check my blood pressure after 30 min rest.

Could be what we call a false hypo - if your levels have been above normal, your body objects to lower levels. This will change as your bg levels come down. Have a cup of tea, or perhaps half a biscuit.

 

[karloc]

Thanks

Just been out to late lunch at Beefeater with family - time to check the damage soon 😱

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

Never going to give up my coffee 😉, My beautiful espresso machine NEEDS me 🙂.
And herbal teas can smell nice but no, just no for me 🙂.

Sorry, I misunderstood - I thought you'd had the tomato juice because you thought you couldn't have coffee any more. Much better (at least for your diabetes) to have the coffee and ditch the tomato juice!

 

[karloc]

Sorry, I misunderstood - I thought you'd had the tomato juice because you thought you couldn't have coffee any more. Much better (at least for your diabetes) to have the coffee and ditch the tomato juice!

No problem 🙂. The Tomato juice is a sort of security blanket gives me something better than sugar in coffee or coke, that was my thinking. Not good but better.
Such a major change is hard 🙂

 

[KARNAK]

Hello @karloc another belated welcome to the forum.🙂

 

[karloc]

Hello @karloc another belated welcome to the forum.🙂

Thank you 🙂

Morning reading of 5.2 (my lowest so far) after 3 mornings of 5.7.
Feels like its going well and managed to loose 6lbs (still many to go).
Blood pressure also looking better.

My biggest issue at the moment is the change to my eye site, that slight change at a point when i needed to change my glasses is making it a struggle mostly when at the computer which is where I spend most of my time

 

[KARNAK]

Hello again @karloc 5.2 is regarded as the most natural figure on waking, DUK forum.🙂 My eyes were very blurry on diagnosis (DX) it lasted about a month and cleared up. I still get blurriness now and then but that is usually due to high BS (Blood Sugars) e.g. over ten, if you want too can you post your waking figures on https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/group-7-day-waking-average.20148/ its a bit of fun but members can keep an eye on each other and give advice where needed, take care.