Greetings from soggy Cornwall

[slipper]

Thanks Lucie 123, will order that when I have paid for the other 3 diabetic books I bought.

 

[slipper]

I shall have to spend tomorrow building more bookcases as my library is swelling every time I visit this place!

Thank you Sue, I have cut down on my carb intake (honest) and am eating better things than before.

Lucy, thank you for the recommendation. Have just bought a copy of that book. I am pretty active - I own a shop so work 6 days a week in there. I also have 2 websites and sell on Fleabay, so I'm forever packing, etc. I don't think that I'll ever be going near a gym - I've got plenty of logs to chop up.

Slippery (that's 2 of us that can't spell then) 😛 I blagged a free meter from Abbotts - there's a link somewhere. I shall get the hang of it eventually. Keep on losing weight, I'm sure that gaunt will suit you. 😉

Thanks all!
Ian

Saw nurse yesterday and she happily gave me a meter, but limits the strips to 2 a week. Actually wanted them to test for good/bad food reactions so will buy some. Boots wanted ?29😱

 

[Northerner]

Saw nurse yesterday and she happily gave me a meter, but limits the strips to 2 a week. Actually wanted them to test for good/bad food reactions so will buy some. Boots wanted ?29😱

Slipper, you can get them cheaper by reclaiming the VAT on them - ask at the counter, I think there is a form you have to sign.

 

[slipper]

Thanks for that Northerner, at least 20% off then.

 

[Smutmeister]

After a fair bit of prodding I've got my doctors to do my first Hb1ac test.
The results were ok - 77 / 9.2% Not as clear a picture as I would've liked as I'd been on Metformin for 3 weeks at the time of the test.

I have a date for the retinopathy scan, no sign of a foot tickling person yet.

I've seen the practise nurse at the surgery, and yes she was practising on me as I've learned a great deal more here than at the docs.

Saw a different doctor at the surgery last week and I asked if she could explain their position on T2's testing. I'm told that we'd panic and fiddle with our meds. I asked her if the Hb1whatever test could tell me if I could cope with carrots. I'm still waiting for an answer.

I'm getting used to the diet, am still shedding weight but get tired all too easily.

Ian

 

[Northerner]

After a fair bit of prodding I've got my doctors to do my first Hb1ac test.
The results were ok - 77 / 9.2% Not as clear a picture as I would've liked as I'd been on Metformin for 3 weeks at the time of the test.

I have a date for the retinopathy scan, no sign of a foot tickling person yet.

I've seen the practise nurse at the surgery, and yes she was practising on me as I've learned a great deal more here than at the docs.

Saw a different doctor at the surgery last week and I asked if she could explain their position on T2's testing. I'm told that we'd panic and fiddle with our meds. I asked her if the Hb1whatever test could tell me if I could cope with carrots. I'm still waiting for an answer.

I'm getting used to the diet, am still shedding weight but get tired all too easily.

Ian

The panic and fiddle answer is based on a discredited theory - fiddling is what helps us understand! Panic and fiddle excuse is what saves them cash, because they omit the NICE recommendation to educate you to test appropriately.

9.2 is on the high side so hard work and understanding is in order to reduce it asap. Carrots are OK as long as they are not consumed by the kilo...

 

[Andrew]

That is just what I got

Hi
No meter for me through the Dr, he said testing is a waste of time and money, and causes panic, in the illiterate patients who are incapable of understanding the results!

I scrounged one!

The panic and fiddle answer is based on a discredited theory - fiddling is what helps us understand! Panic and fiddle excuse is what saves them cash, because they omit the NICE recommendation to educate you to test appropriately.

9.2 is on the high side so hard work and understanding is in order to reduce it asap. Carrots are OK as long as they are not consumed by the kilo...

 

[JohnH]

First of all - Hello to all. I am plodding through the forum and hopefully something will sink in.....time will tell.

My top tip:

Don't go to your doctor to get biopsy results on your birthday and casually mention that you feel like rubbish and you get up just about every night to pee what feels like the urine output of a racecourse full of racehorses.

It really does take the shine off what was already a pretty grim day (SAGA minus 2 - not that I'm counting and one of the biopsy results wasn't too welcome)

Later that day I gave my birthday cake a long hard stare but it didn't apologise and back out of the room as it should have done if it had any decency at all. It's now in the fridge snarling at me whenever I take a peek to try to fathom out what I can actually eat without descending into a sugary Hades or exploding into flames at the very least.

I've ordered some of the books that have been recommended on this site so will be sitting beside the letterbox in anticipation. At least by sitting there I won't be looking in the fridge.

I have no idea what my sugar levels are/were. I think it's a state secret but I'm seeing my doctor in the morning and will challenge him to an arm wrestle if he's not forthcoming. I have started taking my Metformin like the good little boy that I've promised to become. He mentioned 'exercise' the other day but by that point I had my fingers in my ears....at least he didn't say 'sport'

Thank you for reading this far. If I wore a hat I'd take it off to you in appreciation of your tenacity when faced with several paragraphs of tripe.

Ian

Great post !!! Great sense of humour !!

 

[Mark Parrott]

Just noticed this was posted in 2011! Where are all these posters now? Hope they are all doing ok.🙂

 

[Andy HB]

Just noticed this was posted in 2011! Where are all these posters now? Hope they are all doing ok.🙂

Yep that caught me out too until I noticed that I'd already replied (and didn't remember doing so!!).

But it was an excellent first post and well worth a reread. 🙂