Finally on meds

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Diagnosed with Type 2 5 or 6 years ago. Kept control with diet and exercise till just before Christmas. Just started taking 1 500mg Metformin a day today, and waiting to see what side effects I may get. my BG had gone up to 56 mmol in December.

Seeking support here as it feels like a big fat failure.

Also on Ramipril and Symvastatin.

Jenni
 
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Hi Jenni, welcome to the forum 🙂 Sorry to hear you have had to start taking medications, but please don't feel a failure! Sometimes, however hard you work at it, your pancreas just can't keep your levels under control without a little help. You have done extremely well to keep things under control for so long. I hope that you don't experience any side-effects from the metformin, but if you do there is a slow-release version which you may tolerate better.

Please ask any questions you may have, or let us know about your ups and downs - sharing your problems can really help 🙂 I look frward to hearing more from you 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum jenni.

No-one should ever consider themselves a failure when it comes to diabetes. If you need the meds to help you out, then so be it (I was on gliclazide and then metformin for a bit after diagnosis).

There are possibly things that you can still do to help yourself like keeping up the exercising (or starting it) and possibly revisiting your diet. You never know, with a little bit of extra effort now, you might be able to improve your levels again .... maybe enough to think about dropping the meds again.

I may be talking moonshine though! But I am an incurable optimist!!

Andy 🙂
 
Thanks guys,

I did lose a lot of weight 5 years ago, and started exercising. Kept it up for 3 years, then started putting weight back on. Still lighter and fitter than I was, but obviously no where near good enough on either diet or exercise. Keen to get back on track.

Back on WW on line yesterday, so I can track what I eat.

Jenni
 
Hi Jenni

Good name that LOL

There are a couple of things that happen to us and the first one is Carb Creep. That's to say those of us who count carbs know very well from experience exactly how many grams of carbs we have on our plates. Yet somehow after getting iffy results for a while, when we actually check it properly on the scales just to make sure, it turns out the portion has increased over the months and years and so is quite a bit larger than it was to begin with - or we read the packet and discover 'they' changed the recipe and didn't tell us.

The second one is, WE change. It doesn't have to be because of a life-changing event or anything momentous at all - it just happens anyway in the normal course of events. This is particularly noticeable to T1s using an insulin pump, because there is a lot of adjusting you can do on a pump. We start off and gradually adjust our rates of insulin delivery over the day to suit. Within a month or two we need to adjust em again. And that's repeated again and again and again. Ostensibly, absolutely nothing has changed with regard to the weather, activity, hormones, concurrent illness or food.

There's absolutely nothing we can do to prevent this in the case where we didn't do anything to cause it in the first place! If you start blaming yourself for it you are on a hiding to nothing once you've eradicated the things that probably ARE your fault.

So like when you have a virus, treat the symptoms, if your BG ain't right, just do whatever you need to do to make it right - whether it's giving up carbs, taking more exercise or taking medication.
 
On Metformin for 7 days, and no side effects so far. Plus lost 3 lbs (better diet not the pills).
 
That's VERY postive Jen - well done however you caused it !
 
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