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rebrascora
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Hi and welcome from a neighbour in County Durham (assuming your username is relevant??)
Would you like to tell us a bit about your diabetes? ie. How long you have been diagnosed and how that diagnosis came about... ie routine blood test or symptomatic, any medication you have been prescribed for it and your HbA1c if you know it. This is the blood test used to diagnose diabetes and monitor your progress and will usually be a number in excess of 47 if you have been diagnosed Type 2. How far above 47 gives us (and you) an idea of how significantly your body has gone awry and how much you may need to change things to regain control and/or possibly put it into remission.
Anyway, enough questions from me. If you have any of your own (and you would be quite unusual if you don't) ask away. You might not get two answers the same, but that is OK because diabetes is quite individual and what works for one may not work for another..... what we can do is suggest things you can try which have worked for us.... and hopefully will for you too.
Would you like to tell us a bit about your diabetes? ie. How long you have been diagnosed and how that diagnosis came about... ie routine blood test or symptomatic, any medication you have been prescribed for it and your HbA1c if you know it. This is the blood test used to diagnose diabetes and monitor your progress and will usually be a number in excess of 47 if you have been diagnosed Type 2. How far above 47 gives us (and you) an idea of how significantly your body has gone awry and how much you may need to change things to regain control and/or possibly put it into remission.
Anyway, enough questions from me. If you have any of your own (and you would be quite unusual if you don't) ask away. You might not get two answers the same, but that is OK because diabetes is quite individual and what works for one may not work for another..... what we can do is suggest things you can try which have worked for us.... and hopefully will for you too.
Hi thanks for the reply
Yes South east Northumberland for the last 5 years or so I have been managing my t2 by diet alone having got down from 56 to 41/44. But recently I have shot up to 75 then down to 69 now up to 81. My DN wants to put me on meds (diclazide) straight away but I am not to sure as I think this may be because I have been laid up for the past 3 months with a foot injury and not able to get about/excercise any one had any thing similar ?
cheers
Yes South east Northumberland for the last 5 years or so I have been managing my t2 by diet alone having got down from 56 to 41/44. But recently I have shot up to 75 then down to 69 now up to 81. My DN wants to put me on meds (diclazide) straight away but I am not to sure as I think this may be because I have been laid up for the past 3 months with a foot injury and not able to get about/excercise any one had any thing similar ?
cheers
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Hi again. Well done with getting levels down initially through diet and exercise. Has your diet gone to pot a bit as well as being unable to exercise due to the foot injury because that is quite a big increase for just lack of exercise, but being laid up will certainly make a difference and the pain/injury to the foot itself will cause an increase in levels. Have you had Covid as that could certainly have inflated your levels too. Do you self test your BG levels? Just wondering if you were able to pinpoint a time when levels started increasing.
Can you give us a bit more information about how you initially came to be diagnosed?
Are you carrying any/much excess weight and is there a history of diabetes in your family?
With an HbA1c up at 81, I think medication would be wise, particularly if your diet hasn't slipped and you are not going to be able to exercise effectively for a while longer. It doesn't necessarily have to be a forever situation, just to help your body out for now until you are able to get back to your previous successful management strategy.... or it may be that you are not a straightforward Type 2 diabetic in which case some further investigation may be necessary if levels don't come into line with diet and medication.
Can you give us a bit more information about how you initially came to be diagnosed?
Are you carrying any/much excess weight and is there a history of diabetes in your family?
With an HbA1c up at 81, I think medication would be wise, particularly if your diet hasn't slipped and you are not going to be able to exercise effectively for a while longer. It doesn't necessarily have to be a forever situation, just to help your body out for now until you are able to get back to your previous successful management strategy.... or it may be that you are not a straightforward Type 2 diabetic in which case some further investigation may be necessary if levels don't come into line with diet and medication.
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Welcome to the forum @geordie01
Glad you’ve joined us! We have all sorts of people finding their own way through the diabetes maze - some on meds, some without, some starting on meds, but then stopping them later. There’s no one way that will work for everyone, and some people need a little additional help at a certain point (but this isn’t always a forever switch).
What changes to your menu have you found most effective so far?
Do you check your own BG levels to help you tweak meals to be more BG-friendly?
Sorry to hear you’ve been laid up with an injury and less able to be active for several months. Are you on the mend now?
Glad you’ve joined us! We have all sorts of people finding their own way through the diabetes maze - some on meds, some without, some starting on meds, but then stopping them later. There’s no one way that will work for everyone, and some people need a little additional help at a certain point (but this isn’t always a forever switch).
What changes to your menu have you found most effective so far?
Do you check your own BG levels to help you tweak meals to be more BG-friendly?
Sorry to hear you’ve been laid up with an injury and less able to be active for several months. Are you on the mend now?
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