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Welcome to the forum, even 3 years into diagnosis many people have not really got to grips with the changes they need to make to their dietary regime and are still eating more carbohydrates that their body can tolerate. The sweats can be an indication that your blood glucose is running too high.
Many find that a low carbohydrate approach is successful in managing their blood glucose which means no more than 130g carbohydrate per day. Many food which are considered healthy are not so foe anybody Type 2 diabetic.
This link may help you see some changes that you can make. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Getting a blood glucose monitor will allow you to test the effect various foods and meals have on your blood glucose by testing before you eat and after 2 hours when an increase of no more than 2-3mmol/l would be OK.
This will allow you to make some better food choices. But also you can test to see if high blood glucose ties up with your sweats as of course that could be something else unrelated to your diabetes.
The GlucoNavii or TEE2 are monitors with the cheapest test strips.
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Welcome to the forum @Simonwrz
I think it has been really really tough for people who received a diagnosis with diabetes in the past 2-3 years. So much of the healthcare system was locked down and/or focussed on the challenges of the pandemic, that standard routine care became very difficult to offer.
You certainly aren’t alone in feeling a bit ‘out in a limb’ with your new diabetes, and many folks feel they’ve been left to get in with it pretty much on their own.
If you would like a good overview of T2 diabetes, to add to the knowledge you’ve already picked up, members here frequently recommend Maggie Davey’s Letter to the newly diagnosed and Gretchen Becker’s book T2 Diabetes, the first year, which you can work through gradually and will give you a solid starting point.
One of the biggest questions when trying to get to grips with your diabetes is often ‘what can I eat’ and while there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will want to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
Diabetes UK have also put together the Learning Zone (look for the orange tab in the main menu) which is highly recommended by forum members and is packed full of bite-sized modules that you can work through at your own pace.
Good luck, and keep asking questions on the forum too, of course! Folks here instinctively ’get it’, and nothing will be considered too obvious or ‘silly’ 🙂
I think it has been really really tough for people who received a diagnosis with diabetes in the past 2-3 years. So much of the healthcare system was locked down and/or focussed on the challenges of the pandemic, that standard routine care became very difficult to offer.
You certainly aren’t alone in feeling a bit ‘out in a limb’ with your new diabetes, and many folks feel they’ve been left to get in with it pretty much on their own.
If you would like a good overview of T2 diabetes, to add to the knowledge you’ve already picked up, members here frequently recommend Maggie Davey’s Letter to the newly diagnosed and Gretchen Becker’s book T2 Diabetes, the first year, which you can work through gradually and will give you a solid starting point.
One of the biggest questions when trying to get to grips with your diabetes is often ‘what can I eat’ and while there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will want to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
Diabetes UK have also put together the Learning Zone (look for the orange tab in the main menu) which is highly recommended by forum members and is packed full of bite-sized modules that you can work through at your own pace.
Good luck, and keep asking questions on the forum too, of course! Folks here instinctively ’get it’, and nothing will be considered too obvious or ‘silly’ 🙂
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Hi Simon, I was diagnosed around the same time and only now I have got to grips with dietary changes, It does take some time, but take It gradually, you'll get there, It is an eye opener as to ingredients in proccessed foods, loads of salt, sugar, carbs etc,
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