Lanny
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
GP nurse visit yesterday & hospital visit today went quite well! 🙂
GP nurse said it was a bit pointless to test if I’m LADA now for 2 reasons:-
1- the treatment is the same now that I’m on insulin &
2- they had already kept a close eye on how I responded to medication because I was so young at diagnosis.
My hospital team doctor more or less said the same thing & added that I’d responded well to oral medications for 11 years so, I’m definitely type 2.
As for the thyroid & feeling sleepy after meals, the thyroid is ok & she asked me if I have Apnoea. A condition where you keep waking up while sleeping at night because you stop breathing. I said yes I did have it for years since childhood & thought it was normal until my GP once asked how I was sleeping. I had a nose op done in the mid 1990’s to fix that problem.
I was born with a cleft palette which was operated once on before I was 1 year old. My parents didn’t know you need to keep going back for follow up ops while growing up: done in Hong Kong. That pulled one side of my nose down & narrowed the nostril on that side.
The mid 90’s nose op took cartilage from the inside to open the airway. I stopped having Apnoea & slept through the night. The surgeon at the time did say that cartilage can grow back & if it does I would need another op.
The doctor asked me how I was sleeping at night & I said it depended on whether I do fall asleep after eating or not. She said the problem was actually the other way round: disturbed sleep at night making me tired during the day & hitting me after eating. She’s referring me to ENT (ear, nose & throat) again.
My long term sugars at the end of Feb. 2018 were 82 down slightly from 83 five months earlier & 101 three months before that; one month after being in hospital. I was disappointed that I’d only dropped 1 from 83 to 82. But, she said that was ok as it took some time to find the right doses of insulin for me. Altough my doses were dropped recently because of hypos, 8 in 10 days, & I’m losing weight steadily, 0.75 stone in the last 3 weeks at 0.25 stone a week, that wouldn’t have shown up yet.
This is a different doctor from the one I saw the last two times & I like her bedside manner much better: she explains things & gives me the numbers.
Saw the dietitian & diabetic nurse afterwards. I gave them my food diary to compare with my blood sugars diary. I’m not used to so much praise when they were pleased by how I turned my diet completely around & losing weight. My sugars ARE rising again & my doses are being tweaked slightly again.
I asked them about carbs & cals counting. They said that being type 2 carb counting is not conclusive as an aid but, will teach me to do it when they send me another appointment in 1 or 2 months time. Concentrate on counting calories in the meantime as that will help the weight loss, which helps everything else.
All in all, I’m quite pleased! 🙂
GP nurse said it was a bit pointless to test if I’m LADA now for 2 reasons:-
1- the treatment is the same now that I’m on insulin &
2- they had already kept a close eye on how I responded to medication because I was so young at diagnosis.
My hospital team doctor more or less said the same thing & added that I’d responded well to oral medications for 11 years so, I’m definitely type 2.
As for the thyroid & feeling sleepy after meals, the thyroid is ok & she asked me if I have Apnoea. A condition where you keep waking up while sleeping at night because you stop breathing. I said yes I did have it for years since childhood & thought it was normal until my GP once asked how I was sleeping. I had a nose op done in the mid 1990’s to fix that problem.
I was born with a cleft palette which was operated once on before I was 1 year old. My parents didn’t know you need to keep going back for follow up ops while growing up: done in Hong Kong. That pulled one side of my nose down & narrowed the nostril on that side.
The mid 90’s nose op took cartilage from the inside to open the airway. I stopped having Apnoea & slept through the night. The surgeon at the time did say that cartilage can grow back & if it does I would need another op.
The doctor asked me how I was sleeping at night & I said it depended on whether I do fall asleep after eating or not. She said the problem was actually the other way round: disturbed sleep at night making me tired during the day & hitting me after eating. She’s referring me to ENT (ear, nose & throat) again.
My long term sugars at the end of Feb. 2018 were 82 down slightly from 83 five months earlier & 101 three months before that; one month after being in hospital. I was disappointed that I’d only dropped 1 from 83 to 82. But, she said that was ok as it took some time to find the right doses of insulin for me. Altough my doses were dropped recently because of hypos, 8 in 10 days, & I’m losing weight steadily, 0.75 stone in the last 3 weeks at 0.25 stone a week, that wouldn’t have shown up yet.
This is a different doctor from the one I saw the last two times & I like her bedside manner much better: she explains things & gives me the numbers.
Saw the dietitian & diabetic nurse afterwards. I gave them my food diary to compare with my blood sugars diary. I’m not used to so much praise when they were pleased by how I turned my diet completely around & losing weight. My sugars ARE rising again & my doses are being tweaked slightly again.
I asked them about carbs & cals counting. They said that being type 2 carb counting is not conclusive as an aid but, will teach me to do it when they send me another appointment in 1 or 2 months time. Concentrate on counting calories in the meantime as that will help the weight loss, which helps everything else.
All in all, I’m quite pleased! 🙂