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deanesales

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Hi everyone, My name is Deane and I am hoping this forum maybe able to help me seeing as the medical help i am getting is proving fruitless

I have type 2 diabetes which i have had for around 4 years in in all that time I am yet to find a solution that will keep my sugar levels reasonable

so look forward to speaking with others 🙂
 
Thought I might add a bit of info about my journey and how i have got to this point

So i was diagnosed with Type 2 in 2012, i found that I was putting on a bit of weight and that I was always thirsty ( I was not exercising as much as i should having stopped playing football for injury reasons) so my doctor at the time just prescribed me Metaformin and kind of left me too it, i found that these tablets gave me a really bad stomach, bad cramps so I went back to the doctors in early 2013 and got no help whatsoever.

They advised me that I need to lose weight ( i am 5ft 9in and then I weighed around 16 stone but i am a fairy stocky.Muscular guy) and that i needed to continue on the tablets. I really got no help what so ever and this went on for around another year.

I moved to a different county in 2014 and registered with a new doctor who seemed concerned and took a much more active role in trying to get my diabetes under control (i was never advised to do bloods or had a regular blood test) so they set about trying to control my sugars (which were constantly in the mid 15-19), they changed my tablets to a slow release metaformin and gave me a load of advice on diet etc etc

anyway to cut a long story short i am at a point where I have changed my diet (i am on a 3 day no carb diet) and am trying to exercise ( walking the dog,i am due to start playing football again one evening and circuit training one evening, plus I work in London do i average between 4000 and 8000 steps a day (try to walk up and doen the stairs in the tube station) but medication wise I am still at a dead end

I have been on Linagliptin, sitagliptin, Alogliptin/Metformin, Lingliptin/Metaformin,metaformin which have proved useless, non of them helped to level out my blood sugars and for the past 8 months i have been on Tolbutimide which again has not helped

I am due for another blood test on the 10th and a follow up with the diabetes specialist 2 weeks later and i am at the point when i believe that only insulin will be the way forward, so i guess i am looking for advice from those that have been there and are moist definitely more successful with management than me,
 
Welcome Deanesales, it sounds like you are doing the right things, keeping active is good. I drink bottles of DIET Tonic Water & never get cramps, hint of lemon keeps colds away too. Cost pennies.
 
Thanks for the welcome, to be fair I dont get them anymore, was only because of the metaformin, but still have blood sugars that are high despite all my efforts :(
 
deanesales said:
Thanks for the welcome, to be fair I dont get them anymore, was only because of the metaformin, but still have blood sugars that are high despite all my efforts :(
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It sounds that you have made your mind up regarding insulin, so I will not try and persuade you. If you are constantly high and have been through a variety of tablets, then insulin is going to work, whereas a change of medication might work.
As regards to having to go carb free, then this should help influence your team to support you. The major downside to insulin they is the risk to driving. If you keep a happy medium and test regularly, then this should not be an issue.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum. Ive been struggling for the past year to get my levels where they should be, I am slowly getting there. I also work in london and will walk instead of using the tube (I work on the tube, so avoid using it when possible!).
 
Welcome, Deanesales.🙂
 
Hi Deane, welcome to the forum, you should get plenty of advice, help & encouragement.....

A quick question, do you test? Self testing is a great way to find out what the food is doing to your Blood Glucose levels; in that way you can adjust what you eat accordingly.
 
thanks for the warm welcome all, Owen - I am open to suggestion but if i am honest nothing i have tried works so i guess it seems like the simple solution but i may be surprised when i go back to the specialist

and yes Martin I do but if i am honest i have tried lots of different foods and my levels aways seem to be above 10, even if i dont eat anything lol

I think my worst habit is not eating regurally, i am up and out at 5 most mornings so once i get to work i cant be bothered to eat so does this play a part? maybe so i have decided i am buying some wheetabix and milk and leaving them in the office
 
deanesales said:
thanks for the warm welcome all, Owen - I am open to suggestion but if i am honest nothing i have tried works so i guess it seems like the simple solution but i may be surprised when i go back to the specialist

and yes Martin I do but if i am honest i have tried lots of different foods and my levels aways seem to be above 10, even if i dont eat anything lol

I think my worst habit is not eating regurally, i am up and out at 5 most mornings so once i get to work i cant be bothered to eat so does this play a part? maybe so i have decided i am buying some wheetabix and milk and leaving them in the office
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Weetabix are going to send you high, I have really weird shifts, so bought some systema boxes. I take the food and avoid cereals. I keep an emergency tin of spam in case I get really hungry and cannot be bothered to take insulin
 
Hi Dean
You mention that you're doing a 3 day carb free diet. On your carb free days are your levels still up at c10? I'd be interested to know.
 
Marsbartoastie said:
Hi Dean
You mention that you're doing a 3 day carb free diet. On your carb free days are your levels still up at c10? I'd be interested to know.
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That would have been interesting to know.

Anyway, I hope the insulin does the job for you, Dean.

Andy 🙂
 
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