Calling all type 2's

[everydayupsanddowns]

My waking up was 5. 2hrs after breakfast porridge oats (yuk); cup of tea (drop of milk/no sugar) 7.2. Is this good? I'm going to try weetabix tomorrow because the oats were disgusting....

5.x to 7.2 is very good newtothis. If you continue with that success you coulr try an occasional 1 hour test to make sure you've not missed the 'peak' your BG reached, but otherwise that's a great result I'd say.

I'll be interested to see how you get on with Weetabix - despite it being high-ish fibre and despite what the adverts say about slow release it is usually measured in the 70s for GI. This means that on average out of 100 or so people, they had more of a rise eating weetabix than they would eating, say... chocolate... about the same as a jam doughnut 😱

Of course GI being averages there's no guarantee that your results won't be quite different.

Do you like toast? I find Burgen soya and linseed bread great for controlled levels after breakfast - even with a little jam added 😱

 

[trophywench]

hee hee Mike - Lozzark over on 'my other' forum once gave me an exact explanation about Weetabix and how the manufacturing process took anything good out of it, hence why they say on the packets 'Added this!' or 'Added that!' - to make you believe you are getting extra nutrients whereas what you are really getting is pile of almost nothing with a bit of this and that that the mfrs took out! - and they don't necessarily put all they took out, back in .......

 

[Katieb]

Glad I eat more porridge and blueberries these days! I always thought Weetabix was good for you! Will study it's affect on my BG more closely methinks!🙂 Katie

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

hee hee Mike - Lozzark over on 'my other' forum once gave me an exact explanation about Weetabix and how the manufacturing process took anything good out of it, hence why they say on the packets 'Added this!' or 'Added that!' - to make you believe you are getting extra nutrients whereas what you are really getting is pile of almost nothing with a bit of this and that that the mfrs took out! - and they don't necessarily put all they took out, back in .......

Yes Lozzark has a knack of being able to explain these things very well... I think I read/was part of a very similar discussion 🙂

To do with how crushed and mashed the grains are I think (hence why seedy bread is better than 'wholemeal' because the carbs in the seeds are much much harder to get at. Apparently even 'stoneground' often has a better profile than machine-milled wholemeal because the stones are not as efficient at milling the flour.

 

[Northerner]

Weetabix saved my life when I was a baby - it was the only solid food I could keep down and finally started to put on weight after a very shaky start in life 🙂 I've got a box in the kitchen that is unopened and rapidly approaching its 'chuck it out for the birds' date...

 

[trophywench]

LOL at Northie - I still like it the baby way - 1 weetabix, a few grains of granulated Sweetex and has to be hot milk!

I was still eating Farex - hot milk and with sugar - when I was 9, cos I liked it that much. ROFL Then they invented Frosties and I was transformed into a Normal* Child overnight. * give or take ....

But of course I didn't get diabetes till I was 22 - so I could!

 

[Muzzie501]

I'm type 2 diet and exercise and have good control at the moment but I was wondering how long I could expect to maintain good control without medication.

I know it's not the same for everyone but I would be very interested to learn how long other type 2's have lasted on diet and exercise alone which might give me a rough idea.

Thanks. Jill.

Hi Jill all I can add is I`ve been diagnosed 4 weeks and all ready on 500mg of Metformin once a day. I was told it would hard to control my BG by diet & exercise alone. I have all ready lost 4 pounds but think that's down to the Metformin, just have too see how it goes. Muzzie

 

[Newtothis]

Hi Jill all I can add is I`ve been diagnosed 4 weeks and all ready on 500mg of Metformin once a day. I was told it would hard to control my BG by diet & exercise alone. I have all ready lost 4 pounds but think that's down to the Metformin, just have too see how it goes. Muzzie

Hi Muzzie,
I also was diagnosed 4 weeks ago; my random blood test was 11.7 and fasting 7.4. My first HbA1c is 7.2; DN would like me to get that down to under 7 by December. Can I ask what you're blood sugars were when first diagnosed. Many thanks, Amanda x 🙂

 

[squidge63]

I was diagnosed in 1999, I noticed my glucose level in my notes while waiting for an echocardiogram, and thought hmmm that isn't normal .. It was 9.4, they didn't seem concerned with that as I was admitted with chest pain, it was tested one day as I was so sleepy and it was 11, so I had to go for a glucose tolerance test, handed my specimen in and had blood taken, after a while a Dr came out and told me I didn't to have the test as my specimen went high when tested and my blood test showed I was diabetic.

I was D/E for 6 months and went on to metformin, a year later added gliclizide and 2003 was on started insulin, am still on metformin 6 x 500mg a day.

Three weeks ago my sugars were all over the place, couldn't get them down. I was in hospital 2 weeks ago as I had a stroke, and my sugars were perfect (probably due to eating 3 meals a day and small portions), and apart from lastnight, since I have been home they have been very good. Got to work on my HbA1c down as it was 9.6%.

 

[AnnW]

Just coming to the end of my first year after diagnosis. I was put straight on metformin, 1 in the morning and 2 at night, and diet and exercise. I have often wondered why I wasn't given the option of diet and exercise first. Was it because my reading was high on Dx ? It was 22.5 .
I am ok with the meds and I think (!!) keeping a reasonable check on things. I have lost weight , I swim 5 times a week , 40 lengths each time , and I have now incorporated a walk of about 3 miles in the afternoon.
I feel so much better.
I do occasionally have some chips, sometimes crisps and my treatof apple crumble once a week but otherwise I eat quite healthily I think.
I have my 3 rd Hba1c coming up soon, blood test this week, so I'll see how it's been going.
I find to some extent I can feel if my sugars have gone up without testing... Is that a reasonable thing to say? I just feel a bit different if I haven't eaten the right thing !
Fun isn't it? !!