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KaSa

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Been diagnosed with T2 since August 2016.
Sugar Level was 10.8 when first diagnosed so was told to lose weight and eat more healthy foods which I did within 3 months.
Second meeting with the nurse after I was diagnosed, the sugar levels went up to 15.5 even though I lost 2stone and was eat healthy.
I was then put on metformin 500mg x2 a day.

Just had another blood test 2 weeks ago and my level was 14.3 which was still high. Dosage was increased to metformin 500mg x4 a day.

This is stressing me out, I am not sure what I am doing wrong as I have lost weight and eating healthy as well as keeping active. I have a blood test machine and the average readings seem to stay constant at 14 (at times it has gone up to 17/18) but nothing below 14.

Am I doing something wrong? :(
 
Welcome.
Have you reduced your carb intake, such as bread, pasta, rice and potatoes.
 
Hi KaSa. Welcome. I bet it is stressing you out, it also stresses me out that you've just been told to eat healthy imo this is awful , You see quite a lot of food that is considered to be healthy even by some medics and nurses, is actually not good for us diabetics.
You're higher blood test levels are not your fault, I repeat not your fault! , it's the wrong/insufficient info you've been given !
Its carbohydrates our bodies can't handle to well and sugar in all its forms including natural sugars is just another carb.

try cutting down/out and finding substitutes for
Potatoes, rice, pasta and bread esp white. fill up on leafy green veg instead.
We also need to be careful with fruit , grapes are little sugar bombs and fruit juice is full of the stuff, those of us on insulin often use it as a hypo (low blood glucose) treatment. Many people tolerate berries better than other fruits.
Also unless you have been provided with a glucose meter , you have no means to see how various foods affect you , as diabetes is very individual in what carbs we tolerate better than others, I can eat porridge, others have to avoid it like the plague.
If they won't provide you with a glucose meter and enough testing strips and you can afford to self fund your own, the the SD Codefree meter is the cheapest one we know of to self fund, it's testing strips are around £7 for fifty
Where other high street brands are between £15 & £25 .
When your testing before and two hours after eating cost is an important factor.
You can buy this meter on Amazon or directly from Homehealth,
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/

Also have a read of
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html

Keep asking questions we'll do our best to help.
 
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Hi & welcome to the forum. I won't repeat what's already been said as it's all great advice.🙂
 
Hello and welcome to the forum. I hope you're a girl as I just said hello on another thread. 😛 I just assumed...I'm an ass.
 
Ljc said:
Hi KaSa. Welcome. I bet it is stressing you out, it also stresses me out that you've just been told to eat healthy imo this is awful , You see quite a lot of food that is considered to be healthy even by some medics and nurses, is actually not good for us diabetics.
You're higher blood test levels are not your fault, I repeat not your fault! , it's the wrong/insufficient info you've been given !
Its carbohydrates our bodies can't handle to well and sugar in all its forms including natural sugars is just another carb.

try cutting down/out and finding substitutes for
Potatoes, rice, pasta and bread esp white. fill up on leafy green veg instead.
We also need to be careful with fruit , grapes are little sugar bombs and fruit juice is full of the stuff, those of us on insulin often use it as a hypo (low blood glucose) treatment. Many people tolerate berries better than other fruits.
Also unless you have been provided with a glucose meter , you have no means to see how various foods affect you , as diabetes is very individual in what carbs we tolerate better than others, I can eat porridge, others have to avoid it like the plague.
If they won't provide you with a glucose meter and enough testing strips and you can afford to self fund your own, the the SD Codefree meter is the cheapest one we know of to self fund, it's testing strips are around £7 for fifty
Where other high street brands are between £15 & £25 .
When your testing before and two hours after eating cost is an important factor.
You can buy this meter on Amazon or directly from Homehealth,
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/

Also have a read of
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.co.uk/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html

Keep asking questions we'll do our best to help.
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Thanks for this reply..

Potatoes, rice, pasta and bread esp white. fill up on leafy green veg instead -- already started doing this
We also need to be careful with fruit , grapes are little sugar bombs and fruit juice is full of the stuff, those of us on insulin often use it as a hypo (low blood glucose) treatment. Many people tolerate berries better than other fruits...so annoyed with the nurse, I asked her about this, I said is it okay for me to eat fruits, her reply was yeah no problem with fruits, so I spent 3 months eating fruits and what happens? my levels go up ! ugh.
They gave me a glucose meter, been using it for the past two weeks, not a big fan of using it though, don't really like knowing what my levels are, makes me feel depressed when the reading is high :|
 
Ditto said:
Hello and welcome to the forum. I hope you're a girl as I just said hello on another thread. 😛 I just assumed...I'm an ass.
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Thank you
sorry I'm male :D lol
 
Hey! Firstly don't be too harsh on yourself. If you feel good, from losing weight and are in better spirits THAT ALONE is progress in my opinion. I have to congratulate you.

Now, make sure to take your readings in the morning, before breakfast. You see sometimes blood sugar will flucuate. White carbs, white bread, white rice, white pasta, pizza, and such will always raise your sugar levels high, same as foods such as a bar of snicker or even granola! Many thing granola is healthy. The companies will do anything to make a sale. Just by putting fruit into a food does not make it ''HEALTHY'' an example would be pineapple pepperoni pizza. Don't take readings straight after food. You should wait 2 hours from my experience before taking a measurement. Make sure your hands are clean. I've done this mistake, but measuring after food when I was still a child at 16, and I had dirty fingers. It may sound stupid, but mistakes happen. The reading went over the roof!

I personally don't use my meter anymore. I do still take my metformin, but if I am losing weight, in a better mood and have more confidence, I don't see why I would take a chance to have a reading from a machine. It can be helpful, but from experience believe so at the early stages of diabetes but you don't want to feel bad from seeing a reading which a machine thinks is correct when you think you should be something else. Of course, obvious signs like being hyper is something to take more seriously than a reading.

I'm planning to create an information document from scratch for the community and help others. I can't give a date, but stay strong and you can ask me or anyone else here for advice. Stay safe!
 
Hi and welcome to the forum
 
KaSa said:
... don't really like knowing what my levels are, makes me feel depressed when the reading is high :|
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This is why I won't take my blood pressure constantly which I'm supposed to. It would frighten the life outta me. I know it's always high despite all the meds. :( I can understand how you feel.

Apologies for getting your gender wrong. :D
 
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