I have been diagnosed type two diabetic about 5 months and am on metformin tablets.I started on 2 a day one morning and one evening that has now been upped to three a day.
During this time I have never checked my own blood sugars or been advised to by a Doctor though it seems that everyone else that I read about seem to do the finger prick test regularly am I in a minority and should I ask my GP about doing this.
I had my 3 monthly test and it came out at 6.6 a drastic improvement on when first diagnosed though I understand it should be idealy be be 6.5 and below.
My cholestrol was also quite high 5 .7 the doctor suggested tablets for this to but I declined for now to see how I go.
I have since diagnosis been excercising regularly,running 3 miles 3 times a week when I can and eating healthy food as the whole thing came as a bit of a shock to me,though my mum did have it and did absolutely nothing about it carrying on stuffing choc bars as before and I am slightly oer weight.
I would appreciate your advice,even the what to eat what not to eat seems very complicated though I suppose I`ll get used to it.
But without checking your levels yourself how do you know if you are doing well or not except for the 3 monthly test.
During this time I have never checked my own blood sugars or been advised to by a Doctor though it seems that everyone else that I read about seem to do the finger prick test regularly am I in a minority and should I ask my GP about doing this.
I had my 3 monthly test and it came out at 6.6 a drastic improvement on when first diagnosed though I understand it should be idealy be be 6.5 and below.
My cholestrol was also quite high 5 .7 the doctor suggested tablets for this to but I declined for now to see how I go.
I have since diagnosis been excercising regularly,running 3 miles 3 times a week when I can and eating healthy food as the whole thing came as a bit of a shock to me,though my mum did have it and did absolutely nothing about it carrying on stuffing choc bars as before and I am slightly oer weight.
I would appreciate your advice,even the what to eat what not to eat seems very complicated though I suppose I`ll get used to it.
But without checking your levels yourself how do you know if you are doing well or not except for the 3 monthly test.
