Diabetic from Northamptonshire

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Hi,
I'm 28 and was diagnosed with type one diabetes about 6 months ago. Im lucky that I feel really well most of the time and my friends and family are really supportive, however none of them have diabetes so they dont really know what it is like.

I am really keen to make friends with someone in my area or london who has diabetes just so I could benefit from hearing about someone else's experiences and sharing my own.

Anna
 
Hi Anna, welcome to the forum!🙂 You'd be more than welcome to join us in London on November 21st if you can make it - quite a few of us will be meeting up there for the first time!😱🙂 Not sure who else we have in your neck of the woods, but hopefully they will spot your post!
 
hi anna and a warm welcome to the site x many on here all happy to help in genaral
 
Hi Anna and welcome to the site. As Northerner said, do check out the thread on the main message board about the London meet up, it looks like there's going to be a good few of us there.

Not sure who on here is local to you but do join in on the threads and ask questions, it's a great place to 'meet' other diabetics.
 
hi and welcome!! i'm from just outside birmingham so not too far away! i know northampton pretty well, my grandparents live there (just outside kettering)
 
Welcome Anna,

Any questions feel free to ask, we are all here to help and support each other. What insulin regieme are you on?
 
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Anna and welcome along, as others have said there is a london meet soon.
I was only diagnosed about 12 months ago and am 32 so kinda similar. Now that you have found this place stick around these people can be useful folk, with all your questions etc It's saved me a few times for sure.

See you around

Rossi
 
Hello!

Hi Anna,

I'm a type two diabetic but i do live in Northampton. (waves excitedly) I've been diagnosed for just over a year now and i have good days and bad days. There's a Diabetes UK group that meets once a month at the hospital you could come along to, it's free, there's interesting talks and a raffle. Slightly dominated by pensioners though. I'm also hoping to go to London to meet up with the other guys. Feel free to email me (is my email on this?) or give me a bell on Facebook (i'm the only Rachel Torode on it, i'm fairly sure), it's nice to be able to talk to people with even a vague idea of what's going on with you.

Rachel
 
Newly diagnosed T2 - not happy with my levels tonight

Since i was diagnosed with Type 2 a week ago i have lost weight and am walking at lunch time as i get half an hour lunch and i walk every night for 20 mins about an hour after my main meal. I tested before meal and was 5.2 but 2 hours later i tested and was so shocked at a reading of 12.3! - why was this? i ate a healthy meal (3 fish fingers, salad, one bagel and then some tinned fruit for dessert). It was even higher than when i had a chilli chicken burger at Burger King on Sun afternoon which was 10.6. I just don't understand :-( I am seeing the Nurse tomorrow afternoon so will mention it. Also i tested with a urine stick after my meal tonight and that was negative. Anyone know what i've done wrong?
 
Carina, bagels are pretty sweet and probably have a high glycaemic index, so does tinned fruit. Those are probably what did it.
 
carina62 said:
Since i was diagnosed with Type 2 a week ago i have lost weight and am walking at lunch time as i get half an hour lunch and i walk every night for 20 mins about an hour after my main meal. I tested before meal and was 5.2 but 2 hours later i tested and was so shocked at a reading of 12.3! - why was this? i ate a healthy meal (3 fish fingers, salad, one bagel and then some tinned fruit for dessert). It was even higher than when i had a chilli chicken burger at Burger King on Sun afternoon which was 10.6. I just don't understand :-( I am seeing the Nurse tomorrow afternoon so will mention it. Also i tested with a urine stick after my meal tonight and that was negative. Anyone know what i've done wrong?
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Carina - first let me say that you haven't done anything wrong. In a week you have achieved so much and are beginning to learn that some foods are a real surprise. Anyhow, as has been suggested your carb intake was quite high - as they were foods I don't eat particularly I looked it up in my "Calorie, carb and fat bible" and best figures I could find were 47g chd in the bagel, 12g chd in the fish fingers and 24g chd in fruit cocktail in fruit juice - 83g in total without anything in the salad.

83g would put me well into double figures at the 2 hour mark from your starting point. I rarely have more than 50g total carbs in any one meal and have a total of around 130-140g most days as that is the only way I can stay within the recommended ranges alongside taking both glucophage and gliclazide

A burger king chicken flame burger is about 30g chd without fries, sauces et cetera so a lot lower - surprisd me

Re urine test - two possible reasons for the negative are (a) it takes a lot longer for glucose to get into the urine and (b) some of us have a fairly high renal threshold so the excess glucose is filtered out by the kidneys and doesn't spill over into the urine until our blood glucose is fairly high
 
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