LJ.
New Member
Hello......Well here I am..............Sigh! 
It is currently looking very much, that I may be on the road with Type 2 diabetes. Not suprising really with the amount of rubbish junk food that I eat, and beer that I drink! Not to mention the lack of exercise as well. I had plenty of opportunity to change my ways but carried on without giving any careful thought of the consequences ahead. My poor old Dad, who passed away two years in December, suffered terribly with his Type 2. I dunno if I even dare mention the state his feet got into which led to amputation and dialysis. I saw all the signs but took no notice. Should I go put my head in a noose?
Over the weekend I had a bad spell of waterworks infection and got seen to promptly Monday morning. The pee sample showed the nurse that there was sugar and I had explained that over the weekend there was quite a persisting sticky thirst. She did a Blood Sugar test that read 5.9 and said it looked okay but next week, once the course of Antibiotics that I am on have finished, I will be having a more accurate blood test to see if anything is revealed. I'm sure it'll come back positive.
So this morning, now I'm a little fitter, I got the old CodeFree Blood monitor out to check my before and after brekfast. Admittedly the test strips are out of date (03. 2016) of which I have just bought more from ebay... before brekfast the reading was 119 mg/dl and two hours later the reading was 111. I have to get a mmol/L meter. Readings converted are: 6.6 before and 6.1 two hours after. What doe's that look like to the experts? The brekfast consisted of whole grain bite size shreddies with green top milk, followed by scrambled eggs on one slice of brown bread toast with one rasher of bacon and cuppa tea, green top milk and no sugar.
It is funny.... and you'll laff.... Out came the heart monitor (130/79 pulse 99) and temperature gauge (37.5 under tongue) along with bathroom scales (101.7kg). Wife has even been down Tosco for a whole load of low fat foods.
How long will this last? Could I be here for the rest of my life? well.... I'll have a better idea next week of where I am heading. 🙂
It is currently looking very much, that I may be on the road with Type 2 diabetes.
Not suprising really with the amount of rubbish junk food that I eat, and beer that I drink! Not to mention the lack of exercise as well. I had plenty of opportunity to change my ways but carried on without giving any careful thought of the consequences ahead. My poor old Dad, who passed away two years in December, suffered terribly with his Type 2. I dunno if I even dare mention the state his feet got into which led to amputation and dialysis. I saw all the signs but took no notice. Should I go put my head in a noose? Over the weekend I had a bad spell of waterworks infection and got seen to promptly Monday morning. The pee sample showed the nurse that there was sugar and I had explained that over the weekend there was quite a persisting sticky thirst. She did a Blood Sugar test that read 5.9 and said it looked okay but next week, once the course of Antibiotics that I am on have finished, I will be having a more accurate blood test to see if anything is revealed. I'm sure it'll come back positive.
So this morning, now I'm a little fitter, I got the old CodeFree Blood monitor out to check my before and after brekfast. Admittedly the test strips are out of date (03. 2016) of which I have just bought more from ebay... before brekfast the reading was 119 mg/dl and two hours later the reading was 111. I have to get a mmol/L meter. Readings converted are: 6.6 before and 6.1 two hours after. What doe's that look like to the experts? The brekfast consisted of whole grain bite size shreddies with green top milk, followed by scrambled eggs on one slice of brown bread toast with one rasher of bacon and cuppa tea, green top milk and no sugar.
It is funny.... and you'll laff.... Out came the heart monitor (130/79 pulse 99) and temperature gauge (37.5 under tongue) along with bathroom scales (101.7kg). Wife has even been down Tosco for a whole load of low fat foods.
How long will this last? Could I be here for the rest of my life? well.... I'll have a better idea next week of where I am heading. 🙂
