Gov letter

[nosugar]

Hi all.
new boy on here. This post is regard to the Gov letter re isolation. Being a type 2 with no underlying health probs am i to assume i`m not classed as increased risk. To date i have not received any such letter from my GP practice or GOV body. I am continuing my life as previously, shopping, exercise and general well being. Your comments/thoughts highly appreciated.
Cheers No Sugar

 

[Kaylz]

No diabetes alone does not put you in the self isolation category, you just need to follow social distancing rules like any other ordinary tom, dick or harry xx

 

[Becka]

There are two risk groups.

People at a higher risk are those 70 or over, pregnant, and those who would normally be offered the flu jab. This includes all diabetics, and those people need to take more stringent care to socially distance.

A further group is those with a very high infection risk, which relates to specific health conditions which significantly affect the lungs or immune system. This group does not include diabetics unless they have one of the health conditions, and these are the people who need to isolate for twelve weeks.

Here are the specific details for the two groups:

HIGHER RISK GROUP:

• 70 or older
• pregnant
• lung conditions, such as asthma, COPD, emphysema or bronchitis
• heart disease, such as heart failure
• chronic kidney disease
• liver disease, such as hepatitis
• conditions affecting the brain and nerves, such as Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), a learning disability or cerebral palsy
• diabetes
• problems with your spleen – for example, sickle cell disease, or if you've had your spleen removed
• a weakened immune system as the result of conditions such as HIV and AIDS, or medicines such as steroid tablets or chemotherapy
• being very overweight (having a BMI of 40 or above)

VERY HIGH RISK GROUP:

1. Solid organ transplant recipients.
2. People with specific cancers:
   • people with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy
   • people with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy
   • people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment
   • people having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer
   • people having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors
   • people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs
3. People with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD).
4. People with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell).
5. People on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection.
6. Women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired.

 

[Ralph-YK]

Welcome to the forum Nosugar from a fellow T2.
I've got heart problems (as well as the T2), and had an operation on it last November. I've not got a letter either. Looks like T2 doesn't get you on the list.

 

[trophywench]

70, T1, hypothyroid, PAD, BP - Nope.

Bloke I married 72, COPD - Yep!

 

[Nick Cliff]

Welcome to the forum @nosugar
Am in the same situation as yourself. Agree with others that being T2 but otherwise healthy doesn't constitute a higher risk. After all T2 is a long term issue if you have it under control.
So I am wfh, social distancing and out for exercise plus occasional shopping which is otherwise done by the younger members of the household.
Stay safe.
Nick

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @nosugar

Yes, you’ve got it right. ‘Just’ diabetes doesn’t put a person into the full self-isolation-letter-from-the-government-shopping-and-meds-delivery group, just ‘stringent social distancing’.

The government have started to use slightly different terminology for the groups (hoping to clear up some of the confusion I think) between ‘at increased risk’ (social distancing), and ’clinically extremely vulnerable’ (full isolation).

Details here: https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/board...nology-but-the-advice-remains-the-same.86467/

But the increased risk (if you happened to get Covid19 and got it badly) is genuine with diabetes, particularly if your diabetes has had any effect on your heart, and if you are carrying extra weight. So it’s worth being as careful with social distancing as you can, washing your hands very frequently, not going out unless it’s essential, one exercise a day, as few shopping trips as you can, and staying at least 2m away from people when you do go out.

 

[nosugar]

Hi and thank you all for your replies. Yes i am following rules, it makes you feel happier knowing persons with same problems. The 2m distance in lidl for instance is not observed very well, there are always people who ignore the rules. For me Tesco has the best control, bring it on.

 

[trophywench]

Indeed - shun Lidl then. Doesn't change anything from our POV since the only thing we've regularly chosen to buy from Lidl is their Bio washing detergent because it's cheap and in a huge plastic bottle specifically to keep the toilet cassette in our motorhome fresh whilst regularly in use. Hence, there's currently still some left from the last purchase we needed to make and we can't use it! It is good for doing the washing too should we need to whilst away for protracted periods, but not convenient for home use owing to suitable storage possibilities in our kitchen!