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Drummer
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Maybe so - but there are very few people who don't enjoy eating what they cook once they get into low carbing.
do have some 'toys' in the kitchen - a Tefal actifry - with timer, a halogen oven with timer and temperature setting, a temperature sensing grill, a slow cooker - they all make it easy to put things in to cook and then go and do something else - which reminds me, I need to clear the space for the dishwasher so I can have it in the kitchen next to the sink rather than out with the washing machine.
Hi,
I wonder if someone can advise me - my GP is rather absent. Diagnoised in July 2018 and am taking 3 Metformin daily - have been checking my BGLs regularly. My pre breakfast reading is 6.3 and then the post breakfast and supper (ie at least two hours later) is usually around the 6.4 or 6.6 reading. I am assuming that the diet and pills are now kicking in? Not due to see GP until Feb 2019. Also do I need to get my eye screening - the GP didn't mention anything, just simply told me I was diabetic and gave me the Metformin and a diet sheet that told me to eat pork and shellfish... I am vegetarian..ho hum
I wonder if someone can advise me - my GP is rather absent. Diagnoised in July 2018 and am taking 3 Metformin daily - have been checking my BGLs regularly. My pre breakfast reading is 6.3 and then the post breakfast and supper (ie at least two hours later) is usually around the 6.4 or 6.6 reading. I am assuming that the diet and pills are now kicking in? Not due to see GP until Feb 2019. Also do I need to get my eye screening - the GP didn't mention anything, just simply told me I was diabetic and gave me the Metformin and a diet sheet that told me to eat pork and shellfish... I am vegetarian..ho hum
Eddy Edson
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Great readings - you've got that sorted from the look of it. I guess it'd would be due to diet mainly, plus some assist from the Metformin.
I would have expected the doc or nurse to arrange eye & foot checks? Seems like the standard thing - I'd harass them about it.
Pine Marten
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Thanks for the comment about the readings - I am not due to see the Dr until Feb 2019 for any review - seems a long time to me. I suspect once I have done three months I will make an appointment to see her and have a chat. In the meantime I have just returned from the surgery - food check took place a couple of weeks ago not a word about eye check - I mentioned it today and the Dr is going to ring me sometime on Wednesday to talk about it as I need a referal from her. I rang the retinal screening place and the guy told me if he receives the referral by next week he can book me an appointment in two weeks. But because the surgery is so... I don't trust them to do it or they will simply leave the referal letter in an out-tray. I have found a local optician that does retinal screening and although I will have to pay for it - I will probably go there and have the thing done and dusted by next week.It is enough to make BGL shoot up!
Eddy Edson
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Strange - 3 monthly reviews are the usual thing post-diagnosis, as far as I know. Can you find a better surgery? And make a complaint to whoever's best to complain to, if the current one doesn't shape up.
On eyes: I'm in Oz, where the eye racket might be structured a bit differently, but I'd just point out that it won't be just a one-off check, probably. I think the standard is to have at least 6 monthly checks for a period, annual ever-after. So you'll want to make sure of continuity with whoever's doing it. Also, the eye risk is for me anyway the scariest thing about diabetes, so I'd want to be dealing with whoever is the most qualified practitioner available.
Having said that, my diabetes diagnosis came via the guy checking me out for new glasses, who had a new magic eye-camera thing and was eager to use it. He detected some early signs of retinopathy and slapped me around into going to a doctor, for the first time in 30+ years, for a diabetes check. So good on him.
EDIT: Re-reading this, I guess I'd also say that it's probably not something which won't wait for a few weeks. The chances are you don't have retinopathy at all & if you do have some early signs, it seems to be something which good BG and BP control will usually keep in check. But somebody else with more experience might have more valuable comments.
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