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Thanks again for all the replies - I'm obviously panicking easily as I havent a notion whats going on!

Hopefully a false alarm - my doctor spoke to a diabetes specialist who said the ketones were at a low enough level not to get worried and could have been for a variety of factors, but as the BG levels were so high I have to start taking metformin (sp.?). Looking forward to seeing nurse tomorrow who will hopefully point me in the right direction diet wise and self-testing.
 
Thanks for letting us know Tommy - glad all is OK 🙂 There's a whole new language for you to get used to! Hope things go well with the nurse. If possible it might be a good idea to take someone along as it can be easy to miss or forget things when you are trying to take everything in.
 
Welcome Tommy! Only diagnosed three months ago myself so I remember just how scary it feels when you are told. If you aren't given a meter tomorrow, Lloyds chemist have ?5 off the Accu check meters at the moment but strips (normally ?27/28 in chemist) are best bought on e-bay. Hopefully your doctor will be reasonable and prescribe all this for you. Some don't.
Wishing you all the best for tomorrow. 🙂
 
Quite an uneventful morning - when I went in the nurse that I met didnt know what I was there for - I told her the doctor said I must see the nurse on Thursday morning who will give me some advice on diabetes and get me setup to see dietician etc - she said I was booked in for a diabetes clinic next Wednesday anyway and I would see all then.

Therefore I'm still none the wiser - I think I will take a scan myself through the boards to get advice on dos and donts food wise. I asked her about getting some sort of monitor but the nurse said that only people who take insulin need the monitors.
 
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Quite an uneventful morning - when I went in the nurse that I met didnt know what I was there for - I told her the doctor said I must see the nurse on Thursday morning who will give me some advice on diabetes and get me setup to see dietician etc - she said I was booked in for a diabetes clinic next Wednesday anyway and I would see all then.

Therefore I'm still none the wiser - I think I will take a scan myself through the boards to get advice on dos and donts food wise. I asked her about getting some sort of monitor but the nurse said that only people who take insulin need the monitors.
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Well, that wasn't very useful was it Tommy? Have a look in the Recommended Books section for some useful books on GL and GI diets - these are the types of diet best suited to keeping blood sugar levels under control. You should ask at the diabetes clinic about a monitor - obviously the practise nurse had only a limited knowledge about how meters can be used for all diabetics - even those who take no medication at all!

In the meantime, please ask anything that you are unsure of or would like information about and we'll do our best to help out 🙂
 
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I asked her about getting some sort of monitor but the nurse said that only people who take insulin need the monitors.
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I have two things to say about that ....

1) Cobblers 🙂

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2) Cobblers :D

Now in the style of Kryton in Red Dwarf, you may notice that I said the same thing twice, but I felt that it was such a stupid statement by the nurse that it deserved a second reply (or something like that!).

Andy

p.s. You'll see lots of information on this forum and elsewhere which explains why meters are so useful for most diabetics whether they take insulin or not. It has certainly been useful for me.
 
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