Twinkle
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi everyone,
I'm newly diagnosed Type 2 (two weeks tomorrow!) and still feeling a bit overwhelmed with it all! I've spent hours today reading threads on these boards though which has been really helpful 🙂
I'm Jane, just turned 41 and have a wonderful partner and 14 year old twins. My dad was Type 2, as was his Uncle and we also think my Nan although she never confronted it. So I've got all the gene factors, and along with having PCOS and being overweight it would appear that D has been 'in the post' for a while now. Retrospect is a wonderful thing but there you go!
My first visit to the GP (and I knew what it was - had all the classic text book symptoms for about a week) gave a reading of 12.2. Went back the following day with a ridiculous hope that it was all some horrific mistake to find it was 13.8. Three days later I had the fasting GTT (mmmm, that was tasty!) and the result was 21.
So here I am, 13 days later and on day 6 of Metformin. My 500g dose is doubled tomorrow for a week, and then goes to 1500g for week 3 onwards.
Had my first appointment with a lovely diabetes nurse today, my prick test was 9.2 which made me very happy 🙂 I've also lost around 2kg in these 13 days so am hoping I'm doing something right.
Millions more appointments to come, and still suffering with the (slightly milder now) affects of high readings - my vision is blurry, I'm tired and thirsty. I also have some feet problems I think, so that is being checked out at my next appt in 2 weeks.
I've reached 'acceptance' (having started in that original place, 'denial') and feel so determined. I'm a stubborn bugger who likes to succeed, therefore I will lose this weight (4 stone), stop smoking and enjoy my life because thanks to Diabetes and the mammoth kick up the backside I'm going to look after myself. It's a shame it had to strike for me to do anything about it, but them's the breaks.
Everyone seems very friendly, knowledgeable and more to the point in the same or similar boats so I hope I can hang around and help sometime.
Take care all, Jane 🙂
I'm newly diagnosed Type 2 (two weeks tomorrow!) and still feeling a bit overwhelmed with it all! I've spent hours today reading threads on these boards though which has been really helpful 🙂
I'm Jane, just turned 41 and have a wonderful partner and 14 year old twins. My dad was Type 2, as was his Uncle and we also think my Nan although she never confronted it. So I've got all the gene factors, and along with having PCOS and being overweight it would appear that D has been 'in the post' for a while now. Retrospect is a wonderful thing but there you go!
My first visit to the GP (and I knew what it was - had all the classic text book symptoms for about a week) gave a reading of 12.2. Went back the following day with a ridiculous hope that it was all some horrific mistake to find it was 13.8. Three days later I had the fasting GTT (mmmm, that was tasty!) and the result was 21.
So here I am, 13 days later and on day 6 of Metformin. My 500g dose is doubled tomorrow for a week, and then goes to 1500g for week 3 onwards.
Had my first appointment with a lovely diabetes nurse today, my prick test was 9.2 which made me very happy 🙂 I've also lost around 2kg in these 13 days so am hoping I'm doing something right.
Millions more appointments to come, and still suffering with the (slightly milder now) affects of high readings - my vision is blurry, I'm tired and thirsty. I also have some feet problems I think, so that is being checked out at my next appt in 2 weeks.
I've reached 'acceptance' (having started in that original place, 'denial') and feel so determined. I'm a stubborn bugger who likes to succeed, therefore I will lose this weight (4 stone), stop smoking and enjoy my life because thanks to Diabetes and the mammoth kick up the backside I'm going to look after myself. It's a shame it had to strike for me to do anything about it, but them's the breaks.
Everyone seems very friendly, knowledgeable and more to the point in the same or similar boats so I hope I can hang around and help sometime.
Take care all, Jane 🙂
