Hello, my name's Campbell and I've just been diagnosed with type two last week. I'm determined to get on top of it, and have immediately changed my diet, I've always been slim, ate what I liked, never put on weight and exercised regularly, so a bit of a shock to the system. My first reading last Tuesday was 27.4 and this morning it's 11.4, so hopefully I can continue to drive it down. I'll no doubt be asking stupid questions over the coming months so bear with me.
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Hi Recently Diagnosed With Type 2
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Pumper_Sue
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Hello Campbell and welcome to the forum.
If your symptoms were sudden onset I would query your diagnoses. Anyone at any age can have type1 diabetes so do keep a very close eye on your blood sugars.
If your symptoms were sudden onset I would query your diagnoses. Anyone at any age can have type1 diabetes so do keep a very close eye on your blood sugars.
Thanks will do, there were a few signs over the last couple of months but as they coincided with the lock down I didn't notice them where I may have picked them up in normal circumstances.
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Thank you, Sounds daft but I like a target and a challenge, within a day or so I'd made up a spreadsheet and was charting my BG, I promise I won't make up a power point presentation though LOL.
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I'm on 1 Gliclazide a day and at present 1 Metformin with plans to get that up to 4 per day but I'm thinking if I'm pushing the BG numbers down will I need to increase my dose?
Oh well in that case I'll soon have it cracked...............LOLHaha! Diabetes does respond well to a bit of data nerdery
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There is a balance to be drawn. For most, reducing carbohydrate intake will bring the blood glucose down, often more effective than taking the pills. Its what happened to me, very fortunate because I am one of those who's system did not appreciate larger doses of metformin. If you are in that group it will be come obvious quite quickly if you increase the dose.
So, what I found that as I reduced carbs the need for the pills reduced and I am now on minimal doses of met and glic with a non-diabetic HbA1c. Being a number nerd has its advantages because you can watch the effect of any changes you make which is good fun. You have just got to remember that there is a lot of other stuff going on which alters blood glucose in the system over which you have no control so although you will spot the big things quite quickly, the subtle changes will remain a complete mystery.
I'm hoping that I can take as little meds as possible, up till last week I basically ate what I wanted and to be honest my portion control was out of control. What I'm not sure of on the carb side of things is, all carbs produce sugar?, if on the pack of a food it says "100g carb of which 5g sugar" does that mean the absolute max amount of sugar that carb is going to produce is 5g? There's not any anything else being produced which I have to be aware of?
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Simple message. All carbs turn to glucose so the only thing to think about is the total carbs, the "of sugars " bit is irrelevant. My guess is that it is there to appease the anti-sugar lobby and nothing to do with providing nutritional information.
I see you have caught onto portion size early. You can halve your carb intake by halving the portion size of carby things you eat and replacing with the non-carby things you eat. You will need to do this if you do not need to lose weight to make sure you take in enough nutrition to function. I like this approach because you don't have to change the things you eat, just change the proportions.
I see you have caught onto portion size early. You can halve your carb intake by halving the portion size of carby things you eat and replacing with the non-carby things you eat. You will need to do this if you do not need to lose weight to make sure you take in enough nutrition to function. I like this approach because you don't have to change the things you eat, just change the proportions.
That sounds very sensible, TBH previously when at home if we were having a pasta meal, I'd often be quite satisfied after eating barely a third of my main meal but I'd plough on through it and eat it all, at the time in knew it wasn't the right thing to do but...........
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Wheat based things showed up early in my testing as things that I needed to think about. So, decided to bin pizza, too much bread. Pasta dishes... halve the pasta and look for sauces with a lot of lumpy content (meat, fish, veg) to make up. Cream is good. Poppadoms and a side dish of veg curry instead of rice or naan with my main curry. Halve the spuds with a roast and take an extra slice of the roast and some extra veg. Make life easy for your self I say.
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Hi @Campbell and welcome. Everyone is very friendly and supportive here so ask away with any questions, nothing is considered stupid, I know - I've asked many a stupid question.
Glad to see you have got to grips with what you need to do. Just two little points that I would add 1. because you are slim, be careful that when you are reducing your carbs that you increase your intake of other foods because otherwise you are going to lose weight quite quickly and if you are slim it really does show. I had the same problem and after losing a stone and a half not only was I feeling hungry but not really looking that great either.` 2. A lot of us have a bg meter which really does help with finding out which foods we can and cannot tolerate, it is really useful, eg I can get away with having potatoes but certainly not pasta.
Hope you manage to stay on top of things, we are all here should you need us.
Glad to see you have got to grips with what you need to do. Just two little points that I would add 1. because you are slim, be careful that when you are reducing your carbs that you increase your intake of other foods because otherwise you are going to lose weight quite quickly and if you are slim it really does show. I had the same problem and after losing a stone and a half not only was I feeling hungry but not really looking that great either.` 2. A lot of us have a bg meter which really does help with finding out which foods we can and cannot tolerate, it is really useful, eg I can get away with having potatoes but certainly not pasta.
Hope you manage to stay on top of things, we are all here should you need us.
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That is something I always found - I was always the one who had a fish and no chips then left half the batter, right from being a teenager and I was not diagnosed with type two until I was in my mid 60s.
These days I use chopped cauliflower or courgette 'noodles' rather than more starchy grain based foods. I roast swede turnip, even radishes rather than potato etc. people have been known to eat my mashed swede and think it is sweet potato.
Thank you.
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