Hi everyone,
I'm 39 & have been T2 for 8-9 years now. For about 5 of them was diet controlled, well when I say diet controlled.... What i mean is ate anything I wanted & put it to the back of my mind. Eventually realised after quite a bit of resistance on my part I needed tablets so I went onto Metformin & Gliclazide. This carried on for 2-3 years and slowly over time it became obvious i was having very poor control of blood sugars and my Hba1c was getting very high. Never could understand this, as for past year or more i was very aware of what i ate and stuck to a very low sugar diet. But the time came where i was referred to a diabetic clinic and told it was time for insulin, I cried for days. To me insulin was the worst scenario, life totally taken over by finger prick tests to be done all the time, injections twice daily for life & totally controlled diet. Well i have been on insulin for 8 weeks now and I can honestly say hand on my heart it was the best thing I've done. Almost immediately sugars dropped, I'm now 95% of the time in the normal range for fasting and post meals. I feel so much better, happier and lots more energy, it isn't until now I look back and realise just how poorly I was. I also see a dietician regular who has been brilliant, she explained everything to me and all about carbs. It suddenly all fell into place and i understood what I'd been doing wrong all these years while on oral medication. Straight away changed to a low carb diet and haven't looked back since.
So that's my story..... Sorry it's been a long introduction....haha!! But I just wanted to share my experience, insulin isn't the enemy I've always thought it was.
I'm 39 & have been T2 for 8-9 years now. For about 5 of them was diet controlled, well when I say diet controlled.... What i mean is ate anything I wanted & put it to the back of my mind. Eventually realised after quite a bit of resistance on my part I needed tablets so I went onto Metformin & Gliclazide. This carried on for 2-3 years and slowly over time it became obvious i was having very poor control of blood sugars and my Hba1c was getting very high. Never could understand this, as for past year or more i was very aware of what i ate and stuck to a very low sugar diet. But the time came where i was referred to a diabetic clinic and told it was time for insulin, I cried for days. To me insulin was the worst scenario, life totally taken over by finger prick tests to be done all the time, injections twice daily for life & totally controlled diet. Well i have been on insulin for 8 weeks now and I can honestly say hand on my heart it was the best thing I've done. Almost immediately sugars dropped, I'm now 95% of the time in the normal range for fasting and post meals. I feel so much better, happier and lots more energy, it isn't until now I look back and realise just how poorly I was. I also see a dietician regular who has been brilliant, she explained everything to me and all about carbs. It suddenly all fell into place and i understood what I'd been doing wrong all these years while on oral medication. Straight away changed to a low carb diet and haven't looked back since.
So that's my story..... Sorry it's been a long introduction....haha!! But I just wanted to share my experience, insulin isn't the enemy I've always thought it was.
