Hi...I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes about 5 years ago..at first I was so good I watched what I ate and lost 3 stone..unfortunately over the past 3 years I have gone into some sort of denial...I started eating badly all the time...I regularly took my metformin and checked my blood levels and they were okay...but this didn't stop me eating chocolate cakes etc most days...a few weeks ago I decided enough was enough and I have stopped eating sweets etc everyday...I am just so worried that I may have caused some damage because of the way I have been eating...I wasn't even aware you had to watch your carbs til recently...I have had no support from my doctor....I want to take this more seriously as I know it's not a joke...I just don't know where to start...sorry to go on and thanks for taking the time round read my waffle!!
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ADVICE FOR TYPE 2 DIABETIC PLEASE
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trophywench
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Well you've had all your annual checks and blood tests presumably, and your retinas photographed? Or not?
stephknits
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Welcome to the forum, glad you found us! Great that you want to start over again, good for you. Sorry to hear you have had no support from your gp, hopefully you will find more help here. My advice would be to try to let go of what you have doen in the past and start again with a fresh page. Try writing down what you eat and see where you could make simple changes (for example swoping things with lots of carbs for. A lower carb option - swop rice for cauliflower rice etc).
Perhaps you could set yourself a daily carb (including sugars) to start with?
Best of luck 🙂
Perhaps you could set yourself a daily carb (including sugars) to start with?
Best of luck 🙂
Yes have had my yearly checks and my eye exams and all was okay thanks.
Thank you
Thank you....do you know how many carbs we can have a day? I have only read the sugar contents on food never the carbs....I'm going to book appt to see my diabetic nurse and see if there is any support locally for me
bilbie
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This is what I would have liked to be told on day 1
I would get a meter to test your bloods
I think sugars and starches are biochemistry addictive. I would cut the Sugars including fruit/juice and Starches, including breads, pasta, rice, potato etc
This gives a simple overview to how it works for me. The more carbs I eat the more carbs I want. They don’t give up easy and it’s biochemical
an introduction to low carb, no need to pay to see more, there is enough on the net.
http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb
what to expect the first week, besides being hungry for the first 36 hours, then it stops
https://www.verywell.com/getting-through-the-first-week-2242037
I would get a meter to test your bloods
I think sugars and starches are biochemistry addictive. I would cut the Sugars including fruit/juice and Starches, including breads, pasta, rice, potato etc
This gives a simple overview to how it works for me. The more carbs I eat the more carbs I want. They don’t give up easy and it’s biochemical
an introduction to low carb, no need to pay to see more, there is enough on the net.
http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb
what to expect the first week, besides being hungry for the first 36 hours, then it stops
https://www.verywell.com/getting-through-the-first-week-2242037
trophywench
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LOL - so when you say you've had no support from your doctor, that's not completely true then! - I hoped it wasn't.
What help have YOU asked him for? Does he actually KNOW that you feel unsupported?
Yes I realise that WE know it's difficult to deal with and we need our hands holding to some extent - but to be absolutely fair, what GP actually has the time nowadays to give the kind of support you are now getting from this forum? They don't, do they?
It's an odd thing really - we're at a Group practice and although I wasn't registered with him, they have always had one who had 'a special interest in D' - following retirements he's now head of Practice. I've never found him a great deal of help to be honest - but another T1 I met and got friendly with on a D course we were on a few years back, said her dad, a T2 - thought he was marvellous. And recently over something my husband had going on - the bloke has been excellent in his caring attitude (Pete was diagnosed by the hospital and received everything he has needed since, from them) BUT as soon as 'our GP' was notified of the original diagnosis - Dr E was on the phone to him at home, wanting to know if he was OK, needed any help with anything, was there anything they to do to help, if he needed anything, just ask etc. We knew they would be able to help if we needed them to - but I thought it excellent to specifically ring and ask. Oh and he needed a scrip for something that needed hoops jumping through - and again he'd ring every few days with a update, even if they hadn't heard anything yet!
I think the problem is you know, that because we are clueless to begin with so can't say 'This is what I need!' - they can't provide it. Yet, once we understand a bit more and can put it into words - then they DO try and help if they can. So - we are really our own worst enemies - however - the surgery nurses could help more than they sometimes do - by suggesting where each of us can find out more info on the interwebnet thingy, or books to read.
But there again - do THEY know, themselves? I think WE need to tell them, don't we!
What help have YOU asked him for? Does he actually KNOW that you feel unsupported?
Yes I realise that WE know it's difficult to deal with and we need our hands holding to some extent - but to be absolutely fair, what GP actually has the time nowadays to give the kind of support you are now getting from this forum? They don't, do they?
It's an odd thing really - we're at a Group practice and although I wasn't registered with him, they have always had one who had 'a special interest in D' - following retirements he's now head of Practice. I've never found him a great deal of help to be honest - but another T1 I met and got friendly with on a D course we were on a few years back, said her dad, a T2 - thought he was marvellous. And recently over something my husband had going on - the bloke has been excellent in his caring attitude (Pete was diagnosed by the hospital and received everything he has needed since, from them) BUT as soon as 'our GP' was notified of the original diagnosis - Dr E was on the phone to him at home, wanting to know if he was OK, needed any help with anything, was there anything they to do to help, if he needed anything, just ask etc. We knew they would be able to help if we needed them to - but I thought it excellent to specifically ring and ask. Oh and he needed a scrip for something that needed hoops jumping through - and again he'd ring every few days with a update, even if they hadn't heard anything yet!
I think the problem is you know, that because we are clueless to begin with so can't say 'This is what I need!' - they can't provide it. Yet, once we understand a bit more and can put it into words - then they DO try and help if they can. So - we are really our own worst enemies - however - the surgery nurses could help more than they sometimes do - by suggesting where each of us can find out more info on the interwebnet thingy, or books to read.
But there again - do THEY know, themselves? I think WE need to tell them, don't we!
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