Newbie to forum, getting there with the diabetes

[Nigel28]

Hello,

After a routine visit to my GP in December I was diagnosed with type 2 (at the moment it points toward type 2 but they are not 100% sure) in December with a hba1c of over 100, I have changed my lifestyle drastically and I am on Metformin and Gliclazide, this combination has bought my hba1c down to 50 so I am getting there.

The worrying issue I have is that I had a hospital visit in August 2018 where they gave me a hba1c blood test which had results of 84 and they did not pass on the result to my GP or myself! So having diabetes for three years unchecked I am worried about long term damage which has been done to my body.

So far, I know that I have slight damage in my eyes, nerves and blood vessels is apparent in my feet. I do have very high cholesterol but my change in life style alone has bought this back to normal (I refused to take medication for this as well).

I may have a few questions as we go on, to get me back to as normal as possible.

 

[Lucyr]

Welcome Nigel and congratulations on the changes you have made so far. Whatever you are doing seems to be working well. How fast did your a1c drop from 100 to 50 and did the eye issue come after this? It could be that a fast drop in a1c caused the eye damage and this might settle in time.

 

[SB2015]

Welcome to the forum Nigel, and well done on the changes you have already made.

Any questions are welcome on here, and nothing is considered silly. Just ask.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Nigel28

Sorry to hear about your diabetes diagnosis, and that you weren’t told in a timely manner about your early raised HbA1c

As @Lucyr suggests, rapidly changing average BG levels can sometimes cause temporary changes to eyes and nerves, whuch may resolve in time, so it might be that any changes you are currently experiencing may not be a permanent fixture.

Either way, congratulations on your great progress so far! Hope your lifestyle changes and meds can continue to balance your glucose levels, and keep things pottering along.

Let us know how things go, and keep firing away with any questions you have. Have they taken additional blood samples to check for autoantibodies and cPeptide levels?

 

[Nigel28]

Welcome Nigel and congratulations on the changes you have made so far. Whatever you are doing seems to be working well. How fast did your a1c drop from 100 to 50 and did the eye issue come after this? It could be that a fast drop in a1c caused the eye damage and this might settle in time.

Drop was in about three months. Eye screening showed slight blood vessel damage before the drop in hba1c levels, had an eye test just after diagnoses before the drop in levels and the optician found that my eyes were so unstable that he was unable to complete the test, went back a couple of months later and he was able to complete the test.