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Hi to all,Newbie here.
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Hopefully you will be able to tolerate the Metformin, as it can be rather dire in the side effcts it can cause.
If you are altering your diet you need to be careful as the Gliclazide can cause hypos - you should have been issued with a glucose meter to check, as if you drive, a hypo is dangerous.
Were you given any advice on diet with regard to carbohydrate? - as you will gather quite quickly, many people control their type two with a low carb diet.
If you are altering your diet you need to be careful as the Gliclazide can cause hypos - you should have been issued with a glucose meter to check, as if you drive, a hypo is dangerous.
Were you given any advice on diet with regard to carbohydrate? - as you will gather quite quickly, many people control their type two with a low carb diet.
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Hi and welcome. 🙂
If you do have any issues with the Metformin, then ask them to give you the extended release Metformin, which is a little less likely to give nasty side effects, it is a little more expensive though, so may not be your GPs first choice. I was lucky in that my GP was fine about it. I am now off the Metformin and am diet controlled only, which is good. You will need to lower the amount of carbohydrates that you eat, not just sugar and sugary things, lose weight if it is needed, there is no easy way out of it I am afraid, but it is doable. It can all seem to be overwhelming at first, but if you have any questions, no matter how silly you think they are ask here, lots of help to be had. 🙂
I lost four and a half stones quite quickly, lowered my HbA1c quite quickly too, perhaps too quickly as I have just found out, so slow and steady is much better it seems. The advice offered by the NHS can sometimes be poor, but run things by people here, to get extra advice and cross check it, you can never have too much information. 🙂
If you do have any issues with the Metformin, then ask them to give you the extended release Metformin, which is a little less likely to give nasty side effects, it is a little more expensive though, so may not be your GPs first choice. I was lucky in that my GP was fine about it. I am now off the Metformin and am diet controlled only, which is good. You will need to lower the amount of carbohydrates that you eat, not just sugar and sugary things, lose weight if it is needed, there is no easy way out of it I am afraid, but it is doable. It can all seem to be overwhelming at first, but if you have any questions, no matter how silly you think they are ask here, lots of help to be had. 🙂
I lost four and a half stones quite quickly, lowered my HbA1c quite quickly too, perhaps too quickly as I have just found out, so slow and steady is much better it seems. The advice offered by the NHS can sometimes be poor, but run things by people here, to get extra advice and cross check it, you can never have too much information. 🙂
hi and welcome Melg69....You must be reeling from the diagnosis, but its not as bad as you think, with a few changes you will soon make great strides to control this condition, im sure your clinician gave you some advice to starting off with and you will want to add more... There are many helping hands here for you. Diabetes is very personal to the individual, the best way forward is to do self testing to understand what suits you and what doesnt. I understand surgeries dont routinely give out BG monitoring equipment to T2's.. but people can purchases these things quite readily and cheaply (others on here will give their advice about that). All I can say is take you time and dont panic, just read as much as you can, (loads of posts/threads and links on here to help you) Gain knowledge and wisdom and you will soon get in the swing of it. I have been swinging between diabetes and pre-diabetes since last April and made really good progress in the 1st 12 weeks grace period the Dr gave me and brought my levels down to pre-diabetic status but had a huge stupid hiccup over Xmas that set me back, but ive learned from it and im back on track and doing ok again. It just needs a little dedication. The first thing I was told to do was remove all 'obvious' sugars from my diet, and it worked well. Since then i moved onto the larder and gone through that looking for all those pesky 'hidden' sugars and threw tham out, like the ketchup, sauces etc. (I did ask Hubby if that was ok? He was = 😎 LOL) Then I reduced all carbs (potatoes, rice, pasta & bread whether brown or white made no difference) down to a minimum. I try to have a carb free lunch each day (to give my insides a rest). I dont use low fat things, (I find they're usually packed with sugar/salt (and i have to watch my blood pressure). I upped lean meats and fish (especially the oily kind, as im currently being monitored for cholesterol too, wow I sound like a wreck! haha! ) and started on a 10 min a day exercise regime at home (found Brit Heart Found. on You Tube suits me) I have taken to walking a bit more, get moving, and i have already lost half a stone (1 more to go). But i made changes i know i can sustain, no good going all gusto and burning out in a few weeks! This a lot to take in. My advice would be, take it slow and give yourself time to absorb the new world which is diabetes. We are glad you are here.
Ty for writing back to me. They give me agamatrix advanced blood clucose monitoring machine. I’m on one metformin for one week week2 I have to talk two then the 3rd week I have to take 3.
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Hello @Melg69
Welcome from me as well.
As @Tee G says there is a lot of experience on the forum to try and help and support you.
It is early days for you, so be patient and first step with the help of your medical team is to get your medication sorted.
There is no 'one size fits all' and you need to work out what eating plan will suite you best. Have you been given any advice on this yet?
It is good that they have given you a monitoring meter, as this is one of the main things that will help you work out what to eat and monitor your progress.
There is more information on how to do this on
https://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html
Many of us find that we need to reduce the carbs that we eat. As well as cutting out all the sugary things, I cut down on the carbs particularly the ‘white’ ones (white bread and flour,rice,pasta,etc ) and mainly eat fresh fish and poultry, yoghurt nuts and seeds and have learned to love vegetables.
There are more ideas on how to go about it and what to eat in Maggie Davey's letter.
Hope it goes well for you, and please keep posting, ask any questions and let us know how it goes
Welcome from me as well.
As @Tee G says there is a lot of experience on the forum to try and help and support you.
It is early days for you, so be patient and first step with the help of your medical team is to get your medication sorted.
There is no 'one size fits all' and you need to work out what eating plan will suite you best. Have you been given any advice on this yet?
It is good that they have given you a monitoring meter, as this is one of the main things that will help you work out what to eat and monitor your progress.
There is more information on how to do this on
https://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html
Many of us find that we need to reduce the carbs that we eat. As well as cutting out all the sugary things, I cut down on the carbs particularly the ‘white’ ones (white bread and flour,rice,pasta,etc ) and mainly eat fresh fish and poultry, yoghurt nuts and seeds and have learned to love vegetables.
There are more ideas on how to go about it and what to eat in Maggie Davey's letter.
Hope it goes well for you, and please keep posting, ask any questions and let us know how it goes
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Hello @Melg69 - good they gave you a BG monitor, sorry to hear of your levels at diagnosis the metaformin will help bring them down.
Everyone has offered and signposted all the advice to you here, so take your time and gradually some of this will make sense. Good luck with the changes you will make - this is a great forum for support and knowledge sharing, you are in safe hands.
Welcome.
Everyone has offered and signposted all the advice to you here, so take your time and gradually some of this will make sense. Good luck with the changes you will make - this is a great forum for support and knowledge sharing, you are in safe hands.
Welcome.
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