catmadlady
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hi, I have just been diagnosed as having diabetes type 2 and am finding it hard taking it in can anyone help and advise me of what % of suga I can have please 🙂
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AlisonM
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Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis.
You want to cut out as much sugar as possible, not only that, but you will need to cut down on things like potatoes, rice, pasta and bread too. They are full of carbohydrates which the body converts into glucose for energy and will cause your blood sugar levels to rise significantly.
Here are some links to useful information that may help you cope with your diabetes:
Jennifer's Advice
Maggie Davy's Open Letter
And a book you can get from Amazon which is a really good buy: Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year .
There's more in our Links and Reading sections. Have a look around, and don't be afraid to ask questions. We've a lot of people here who've been where you are and I'm sure someone will have the answers you need.
Have you been given a blood glucose meter and strips to test your levels?
You want to cut out as much sugar as possible, not only that, but you will need to cut down on things like potatoes, rice, pasta and bread too. They are full of carbohydrates which the body converts into glucose for energy and will cause your blood sugar levels to rise significantly.
Here are some links to useful information that may help you cope with your diabetes:
Jennifer's Advice
Maggie Davy's Open Letter
And a book you can get from Amazon which is a really good buy: Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year .
There's more in our Links and Reading sections. Have a look around, and don't be afraid to ask questions. We've a lot of people here who've been where you are and I'm sure someone will have the answers you need.
Have you been given a blood glucose meter and strips to test your levels?
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Lurch
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Hi catmadlady. Welcome. 🙂 You will get fantastic advice here and all I would personally emphasis is to test yourself. You will hear this advice over and over and there is no better advice. If a meter is not prescribed, the SDCodefree is currently available on Amazon for £12.99. Additional test strips are £7.12 for fifty. None less expensive! My SDCodefree has proved to be very consistent and its results perfectly predicted my eventual lab test hba1c results, so I trust it.
Use your personal testing to eliminate or reduce whatever foods cause your blood sugars to go too high. I wont quote levels because Jenny Ruhl does this far better and we are all on a different 'journey'.
Everybody's diabetes is different but even if advised otherwise, please try hard at diet and exercise management even if meds become necessary. The important thing is to give that hard-worked pancreas a chance!
Please ignore anyone who tells you that you should not/cannot self-help managing your T2. Follow the testing regime on Jennifer's Advice website and work at removing or reducing any food that causes your personal tolerance of carbs (includes sugar) to 'spike' your personal readings.
I urge you to self-test as soon as possible.
Did I mention self-testing?
Edit: Since posting this, dawned on me I paid double on Amazon last year for my wee SDCodefree and I need a backup meter. £12.99 is too good to ignore!
Use your personal testing to eliminate or reduce whatever foods cause your blood sugars to go too high. I wont quote levels because Jenny Ruhl does this far better and we are all on a different 'journey'.
Everybody's diabetes is different but even if advised otherwise, please try hard at diet and exercise management even if meds become necessary. The important thing is to give that hard-worked pancreas a chance!
Please ignore anyone who tells you that you should not/cannot self-help managing your T2. Follow the testing regime on Jennifer's Advice website and work at removing or reducing any food that causes your personal tolerance of carbs (includes sugar) to 'spike' your personal readings.
I urge you to self-test as soon as possible.
Did I mention self-testing?
Edit: Since posting this, dawned on me I paid double on Amazon last year for my wee SDCodefree and I need a backup meter. £12.99 is too good to ignore!
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Here are a few comments
Take some comfort from the fact that you are by no means alone; there is this forum, and your GP should have a nurse specialising in diabetes. Ask and they will probably help you to get a free meter as the makers are very keen to have people using their models; they make their money from supplying NHS with the test strips
Join Diabetes UK. They have a good magazine and info. pack for the newly diagnosed
Get books from your library.Obviously some of them will be out of date, but in general they will all be useful for you to get used to the scientific part of diabetes, and the jargon. They will have slightly different ways of explaining and dealing with things, you may well land on one that suits you.
Take some comfort from the fact that you are by no means alone; there is this forum, and your GP should have a nurse specialising in diabetes. Ask and they will probably help you to get a free meter as the makers are very keen to have people using their models; they make their money from supplying NHS with the test strips
Join Diabetes UK. They have a good magazine and info. pack for the newly diagnosed
Get books from your library.Obviously some of them will be out of date, but in general they will all be useful for you to get used to the scientific part of diabetes, and the jargon. They will have slightly different ways of explaining and dealing with things, you may well land on one that suits you.
HERE TINTIN
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Welcome to the forum, hope you can get lots of friendly advice here 🙂
Hello there. I was diagnosed in October, 2009. Initially, it is quite daunting and you get the feeling that you have to give up so much.
Now the good news, if you get on top of it, you may find that the restrictions aren't that bad (and the odd bit of 'naughtiness' won't harm you) and in fact you could end up feeling healthier than for some time.
In my case that is certainly what happened. I hope that the same can apply to you too.
Good luck,
Andy 🙂
Now the good news, if you get on top of it, you may find that the restrictions aren't that bad (and the odd bit of 'naughtiness' won't harm you) and in fact you could end up feeling healthier than for some time.
In my case that is certainly what happened. I hope that the same can apply to you too.
Good luck,
Andy 🙂
Pine Marten
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Hi catmadlady (how many do you have? 🙂 ), seconding what others here have said - it's a great forum here and you will learn lots of interesting stuff! I have found my particular 'journey' to be challenging but fascinating, and having lost weight and taken control of my health I feel a lot better now than I have for some time. I have the SDCodefree meter mentioned above and it's very useful - my surgery nurse has been impressed by how my readings have come down, and she encourages me a lot, so I hope you are getting support as it's so much better than having to fight!
All the best
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