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Welcome to the forum @Doristhepug

Glad you’ve joined us 🙂

How has diabetes been treating you over the past 20 years? Do you take any medication to help with your glucose management?

Are there any particular concerns, frustrations, or worries you have at the moment that have encouraged you to join the forum?
 
Thanks for the welcome. I went on a lot of tablets as my weight sprialled out of control. This I attribute to Gliclazide. I went from a size 12/14 dress to 22/24. I became asthmatic & arthritic. That drug and all those that pile on weight should be BANNED! As soon as I stopped taking it my weight slowly started to reduce...took awhile to get to an 18. Then I went on Liraglutide injection and my weight went down to 14/16. I had some horrible family deaths including my hubby. I got cancer which I knew I had but ignored for over a year as he needed me, as he died 3wk later. Little grandson 3 went with his grandpa too...so with the injection and the 'death diet' (6 in 9 mth) & other bad stuff, I dropped to an 8. Went back up to a 10/12, but now Liraglutide gone since Dec/jan ish, Im struggling to stop the weight creeping up. Loneliness makes me comfort eat and boredom I guess. Been offered a GPL1 inhibitor tablet...but after Gliclazide I am scared of tablets. I know there is a new injection supposedly out Tirzepetide I think its called, but not been offered that. No one seems to care and as I have poor mental health now after 2 breakdowns, I don't chase it. Still considering the tablet but all my brain is screaming don't do it. I am on the usual Metformin SR (can't tolerate full) as my main diab. med. Diet gone to pot and without injection sugar thru the roof most of the time. Surgery know though. Supermarkets don't help. No low sugar aisle (wary of sugar free after bad experiences). I was once so overweight I refused to be weighed, but after inputting info online it suggested I was probably about 18/19st at my worst. Lowest was 8st 4lb. Now hovering around 10st but too frikky to get on scales as squashing into jeans etc. Just hoping for change. Seeing nurse in May....dear me! How is everyone else coping without their liraglutide?
 
Thanks for the update @Doristhepug

So very sorry to hear about the untimely deaths of those so close to you, it must have been (must still be) an absolutely devastating time. i lost my wife to cancer 5 years ago, and can’t imagine combining that grief with grieving for a child. No wonder your mental health has suffered :(

GLP-1s have been effective for a number of forum members in helping to support weight loss as well as helping with T2 diabetes. the current shortage of GLP-1 meds is because so many were used “off label” for weight loss.

Hope you are able to find a combination of meds that works for you. Look after yourself.
 
Can't help with diabetes problems but I can tell you an "Ey Up" story .My daughter was working with American friends who wanted to know how to speak English English instead of American English .Now as you know up North we speak proper English .The next day she was greeted with "" EY UP Beth"!
 
chaoticcar said:
Can't help with diabetes problems but I can tell you an "Ey Up" story .My daughter was working with American friends who wanted to know how to speak English English instead of American English .Now as you know up North we speak proper English .The next day she was greeted with "" EY UP Beth"!
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I am glad your girl is waving the Northern Flag for us! Tell her to teach um the word for 'headache' (yedwarch), that should cause some raised eyebrows...and of course she can plug the food charity in Wigan (Fur Clemt)! When her Dad was diagnosed terminal, our girl got wed so he could give her away and due to bringing it way forward...on a very Ltd budget, Fur Clemt did a little wedding buffet & did us reet proud. x
 
I'm so sorry you have gone through a tremendous struggles @Doristhepug . As a fellow Northerner I couldn't not drop in and say ay up.
At work in Shropshire once I mentioned that a snicket ran agin my house, and got blank looks. I called a fellow northerner over and said "you know what a snicket is, don't you Gill?" She replied "course I do, it's a ginnel bah t'roof". More blank looks.
A warm Northern welcome to you (although I now live in South Yorkshire which, as a West Yorkshire lass, I'm not sure counts!) xx
 
Shwmae from South Wales @Doristhepug . I am so so sorry for the awful time you have been through. I am taking glicazide 240 mg per day. I was unaware it caused weight gain. I haven't gained any weight so far. I hope you get the help you need. Any questions lots of us should be able to help
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Thanks for the update @Doristhepug

So very sorry to hear about the untimely deaths of those so close to you, it must have been (must still be) an absolutely devastating time. i lost my wife to cancer 5 years ago, and can’t imagine combining that grief with grieving for a child. No wonder your mental health has suffered :(

GLP-1s have been effective for a number of forum members in helping to support weight loss as well as helping with T2 diabetes. the current shortage of GLP-1 meds is because so many were used “off label” for weight loss.

Hope you are able to find a combination of meds that works for you. Look after yourself.
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Ta muchly for kind reply. Yes, raw/painful. Still scared of tablets. So angry NHS didnt control Ltd supplies of jab for diabetics till too late, they even told us not to hunt for jabs, yet private weight loss folk, did so aggressively! I only gave skeleton details of last 5 horrid yrs (another death few wk ago whilst autistic son in spinal unit...broken back). No point yapping on it or folk will need no so much a dark room as a dance hall fot lie in. Some now dont believe it 'cept them us knows tthe truth. It IS worth yappin on plans tho..most think You get 1/2 funerals in 5yr...but one rash of 6 plus others later, crippled us in dosh/heart/mind/spirit. Suggest all consider: 1 private health ins if poss(it saved my girl's life). 2.do LPA health/finance/will 3.start funeral fund. 4.do a file for poor divil who does LPAs/will. Not done mine yet: can't face it, no one left well enough nominate! Got do it soon! But who to leave pittance to? prob got just enuf to pay for it now, but so overwhelmed. Then diabetes on top. Can give a few tips on weight control though NOT recommending owt!! 1. Don't deny yourself anything unless its really not wise....instead have tiny amount. Eg cut a cake in 4 if size allows; eat one with a hot drink spread thru the day. 2. If you can manage it don't swallow your treats! Anything not vital to your meal is not needed in your belly! Crisps, sweets etc are for mouth sensation only ...so spit it out. Do NOT do that with meals...thats yer nutrition. Don't hop on scales all the time but don't avoid um//easier to lose 2lb than 2 stone. 3. Look at ALL food labels....there is an AP called Yuka which u can scan food labels & it tells you how good/bad it is.


So sugat thru roof not just no Liraglutide, but stress/grief. tween high 7s to 9s. Recently been in the teens & even a time or two over 20. Not especially bothered though as you may imagine. Hope my experience helps others though.
 
snowball12 said:
Shwmae from South Wales @Doristhepug . I am so so sorry for the awful time you have been through. I am taking glicazide 240 mg per day. I was unaware it caused weight gain. I haven't gained any weight so far. I hope you get the help you need. Any questions lots of us should be able to help
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Well you may be one of the lucky ones. Depends how long you have been on it...I was on it for years. Metabolism also plays a part I think. xxx
 
Vonny said:
I'm so sorry you have gone through a tremendous struggles @Doristhepug . As a fellow Northerner I couldn't not drop in and say ay up.
At work in Shropshire once I mentioned that a snicket ran agin my house, and got blank looks. I called a fellow northerner over and said "you know what a snicket is, don't you Gill?" She replied "course I do, it's a ginnel bah t'roof". More blank looks.
A warm Northern welcome to you (although I now live in South Yorkshire which, as a West Yorkshire lass, I'm not sure counts!) xx
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that meks me smile! My neighbour dint even know whar a ginnel wuz. Northern speyk is complex & differs town to town. I speyk Wiginese mesen.. I live in Wigan but a nearby town, Leigh is lumped with us now. Neither town chuffed. Wiganers often called Pie Eaters ...used to be a pie shop every few shops, mostly independents. Almost all gone now. Leigh townies (called Leighfers often referred to as 'lobbygobblers' as partial to Lobbies..(a northern stew). In days of yore there was also the hasta club (knock on neighbours door "Hasta geeta taybag?" ) Im sure we would be in a big fix if we were in foreign lands down south!
 
Doristhepug said:
Well you may be one of the lucky ones. Depends how long you have been on it...I was on it for years. Metabolism also plays a part I think. xxx
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Been on it a year with Metformin... fingers crossed it helps not hinders me.
 
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