Greetings from muggy Norfolk

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Hello everyone!
I'm Nina from Norfolk where there's a storm brewing over The Wash and the water butts are filling nicely.
I was diagnosed with Type 2 a couple of years ago, and because of a plethora of meds I take for my kidney transplant - which had it's 30th anniversary a couple of weeks ago - I am having problems now controlling blood sugar levels. I take steroids, amongst other things, for the continued working of the transplant, which increase blood sugars. There's no way I cannot take them. Have only a couple of drugs I can take for the diabetes, Glimipiride is current, but it's beginning to lose its effect, so at my next review in September, it will mean changing to the only other one which won't clash with all my other meds. If that doesn't work, then it will be insulin injections. Having had dialysis you wouldn't think this would faze me much, but it does.
Again due to the meds, I have osteoporosis in spine and hips which means exercise is difficult, and has to be short, quick bursts. Plus I am also a stone and a half over the weight I am happiest at, again meds increase weight.
What I would like to know us, are there any other transplant diabetics on the forum?
 
Welcome to the forum Nina, sorry to hear about all your ailments....

Hasn't rained here since probably May 20th.... Nothing in the forecast either..... (Live in Southern California)
 
Hiya! It heaved down here earlier, literally raining like stair rods, with the rods each bouncing about a foot in the air from whatever it hit.

Armageddon? Noooo - just an English summer!

I know a Type 1 diabetic who having wrecked her own kidneys by virtue of ignoring her D, had two transplants which each failed. Eventually they gave her a pancreas and kidney transplant and AFAIK (but haven't heard in recent years) she's still OK. However - she is hardly the role model you are looking for! (I sincerely hope LOL)

You are a bit (!) disadvantaged exercise-wise really aren't you? Which must be a tad problematic to put it mildly - but - how about diet-wise? Are you limiting your carbohydrates so as to reduce your BG as far as reasonable that way? And have a test meter, and regularly use it?
 
Hello Nina, and welcome 🙂

I've no experience of transplants, but I do have an illness which means I'm not supposed to exercise, so I know how it feels to be balancing that with the advice for diabetics. Generally speaking the diabetes specialists have been happy that I can do stuff like gardening and ironing at the moment though, rather than just having to stay still all day - how about you, is that sort of thing possible with your osteoporosis?

If you do have to go onto insulin, please don't worry - I am the world's most squeamish person, and I have not found it difficult at all (I have covered needles so I don't even see them, and the injections rarely hurt - most people find them less painful than the finger-pricking lancets). And contrary to some people's beliefs, insulin doesn't make you put on weight (so long as you make sure you are put on multiple daily injections, which you can adjust to how much you eat, rather than a fixed dose), so that should not be an issue.

We had the storm on Friday in this bit of the Cotswolds - the garden really needed it, and now the water butt is very full!
 
Hello from rainy Suffolk! Glad you found us 🙂
 
Is swimming an option? Having water to support you means it's kinder to bones thinned by osteoporosis.
 
Welcome to the forum, Nina.
 
Hi Nina and welcome to the forum 🙂
I'm in Norfolk too! Think we've had more than out share of rain for summer.
I also have osteoporosis and struggle with exercise but do lots of walking at work and last night attempted a shirt jog. But it really wasn't easy.
Hope you find lots of help and support on here 🙂
 
Hi and welcome to the forum Nina.
 
Thanks everyone for being so welcoming. Re the exercise.... I don't swim, so that's out. I potter in the garden, and have done for an hour this morning, but can no longer do anything strenuous. Luckily I know a man who does....! ClockworkDodo (love that name) yes I can still iron, hoover and so on, but now have a little pedal exerciser thing and use that for short bursts at the moment, the intention being to be on it for 15 mins at a time, several times a day, which should lose a couple of hundred calories. I'll gradually extend it... have finally reached the age where I am sensible. Boring!!!
 
I know someone with Osteoporosis - also Type 2 and a Moderator on an 'O' forum - and she does some sort of 'resistance' weight training.
 
How about using those elastic band type things? You can use them whilst sat down, do 10 minutes a time, a couple of times a day or whatever, to keep your muscles in reasonable shape? Because, I might be wrong here, but muscles that are in regular use, use up more energy even when not in use, then muscles that are not used? And I think (trying to remember what was said to my gran, who had O), if you have it in your lower body/joints, its even more important to keep the upper body strong, because you tend to use it more (for getting up out of chairs etc.)
 
MeNina said:
I potter in the garden, and have done for an hour this morning, but can no longer do anything strenuous. Luckily I know a man who does....!
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Can you send him over here, please :D - I have a lot of gravel which needs to be moved!
 
When he's finished at yours, we need a load of slabs laying and a few other things! LOL
 
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