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PhilG

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Hi there
This is my first visit to t his forum. Just been diagnosed this week with type 2. feeling some what overwhelmed. really not sure I have approached this the right way. I listened to everything the nurse told me. Been doing all the blood tests, taking the medication (High Blood Pressure also diagnosed) what seem like radically changed my food intake, reduced the intake by lots, no sweets or sugar, sauces etc nothing, and much smaller meal portions, and no drinks but water.
Read the book the nurse gave , and completed all the Diabetes and me modules on the Diabetes UK web site.
Now I'm sitting here with my head spinning... thinking how can I do all this.. !
 
PhilG said:
Hi there
This is my first visit to t his forum. Just been diagnosed this week with type 2. feeling some what overwhelmed. really not sure I have approached this the right way. I listened to everything the nurse told me. Been doing all the blood tests, taking the medication (High Blood Pressure also diagnosed) what seem like radically changed my food intake, reduced the intake by lots, no sweets or sugar, sauces etc nothing, and much smaller meal portions, and no drinks but water.
Read the book the nurse gave , and completed all the Diabetes and me modules on the Diabetes UK web site.
Now I'm sitting here with my head spinning... thinking how can I do all this.. !
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Hi and welcome
Keep doing exactly what your doing and you should be fine , you have your head in the right place and well on your way to having low numbers , hope you start feeling the deserved benifits of your good work very soon Phil .
 
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Welcome from a fellow T2
 
Hi guys, thanks for the replies, still trying to get my head around all this.

Also, a wee question, please don’t think this is a stupid question it’s just that I have been reading, and looking up so much about T2 all the information is going round & around. Is it ok to take Paracetamol, as I have had a headache for a bit now. So, I thought I’d just ask, as I wasn’t sure???

Cheers
 
Hi Phil, I take paracetamol occasionally. Dunno if it's okay or not. I also take an aspirin a day as well and high blood pressure meds plus thyroid. It's a wonder we don't rattle!

How did you put that nice picture on?
 
Hi Ditto,
Thanks for the info, I too am on high BP meds, all this happened last week, bit of a bummer trying hard to get used to it, but it’s hard.
Regarding the nice picture, click you name on the home page when your logged in, and then click avatar, and then select a photo from your hard drive, easy.

Phil
 
Oh right, I'll give that a whirl thanks. 🙂
 
I couldn't find one picture that I liked! o_O
 
Hi - PhilG I know just how you feel. I was diagnosed 2 weeks ago with T2. Suffered with high blood pressure but since retiring it's gone low, still on meds! I have other meds for various ailments but take paracetamol every night. I give several pints of blood as required because I have too much iron. I've been reading up on low carb diets and the info is mind boggling, the ingredients too buy are endless but I'm trying to work on what suits the sugar readings. It's tough ....
 
As a confused novice can someone enlighten me as to the conversions of liquid stevia as opposed to powder. I have tried Hollands and Tesco but all I find is powder sachets at a price!! Can something like sweetex be used instead? I'm heading for low carbs but there are so many ingredients, are there cheaper alternatives. I think I also found my degree on a piece of paper provided when I was trying to take in what I had and what I had to do.
HbA1c - 54 at 1 Nov - Metformin 500 1xday up at wkly intervals to 4xday and sticking to single fig, sugar readings. Next blood tests to be done in Feb 2017. Glucose levels July 2015 5.0; Mar 2016 8.9; Sept 2016 8.1; Nov 2016 8.5. Today pre dinner 5.6, post dinner 7.5. I'm understanding that bit of paper more every time I read it but can't understand why I wasn't diagnosed earlier when the figures went above 7 which I understand is the 'probable diabetes' level.
 
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Some of us use sucralose based sweeteners. The most famous one is Splenda but supermarkets do their own brand at lower prices. You don't need much of it as it's very sweet and you can use it in cooking as well.
 
Rhapsody said:
Hi - PhilG I know just how you feel. I was diagnosed 2 weeks ago with T2. Suffered with high blood pressure but since retiring it's gone low, still on meds! I have other meds for various ailments but take paracetamol every night. I give several pints of blood as required because I have too much iron. I've been reading up on low carb diets and the info is mind boggling, the ingredients too buy are endless but I'm trying to work on what suits the sugar readings. It's tough ....
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Hi Rhapsody.. that's us both diagnosed at very nearly the same time. thanks for the info on the paracetamol. its no easy, well not yet anyhow, but I do think I'm doing ok. woke up this morning with BS level of 4.4, that was a shock, its never been that low in this last two week, usually around 9-13. still trying to work out the carbs.
 
PhilG said:
Hi Rhapsody.. that's us both diagnosed at very nearly the same time. thanks for the info on the paracetamol. its no easy, well not yet anyhow, but I do think I'm doing ok. woke up this morning with BS level of 4.4, that was a shock, its never been that low in this last two week, usually around 9-13. still trying to work out the carbs.
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Hi PhilG. My BS has been reasonable although don't take it first thing in the morning. I will tomorrow as I need to keep a record of things. It's been around 4.5 - 6.5. Been struggling with food so had a binge tonight and it went up to 8.5 after dinner. Spoke to a friend this morning too who is T2 and has been for about 10 years. She is on insulin because tabs didn't agree with her but she says all she does is eat smaller portions, cutting out some carbs but has the odd binge too. She is around 10 - 12 and says her GP is happy. Not spoken to her about it before but approached her only because I know have it too. I am getting lots of headaches at the moment but hopefully they will go soon. Stepping up to 3 tabs a days from next week and then 4 before my next appointment. I've not had rice, pasta, bread or spuds and feel totally deprived. It's going to be interesting when I next hit the golf course for 18 holes because I normally have porridge that morning so that will be a good test to see if the oats has an impact. I'm trying hard to be positive but the more I read the more my brain hurts. Keep in touch and let me know how you get on.
 
Just LOL at your brains hurting - we've all been there!

Levels of 10-12 'usually' are NOT OK at all despite her idiot doctor apparently telling her they were. Therein lies the route to complications I'm afraid. If you don't want the stinky things then keep your BG down as near as possible to 5 for as much time as you reasonably can. At first it is a minefield so always read the teensy little nutritional info panels on the back of all packets tins and boxes - and it's the TOTAL carbohydrate that you want. Your body doesn't actually treat different sources of carbohydrate any differently - it turns ALL carb to glucose and that's that - irrespective of where it came from - a bag of Tate & Lyle or half a ton of lettuce.
 
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a bag of Tate & Lyle or half a ton of lettuce.
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LOL Jenny, though both are nutritionally poor it'll take so long to eat the lettuce that you will not notice the spike😱
 
Ditto said:
I couldn't find one picture that I liked! o_O
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You should see the picture I used to have as my avatar. 😱 You still can, on my Wikia profile, or in its full horror here. I've seriously thought of changing my Wikia username to "6079 Smith W." to match the avatar! 😉
 
LOL. I didn't know you could have a Wiki profile. You like the book His Dark Materials? Didn't they make that as a film The Golden Compass. Worst film I ever saw in my life so I didn't even give the book a whirl.
 
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