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Robin
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I can’t see any other posts by Wendy. There was a different Wendy who joined yesterday, you’re not thinking of her, are you Docb?
rebrascora
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I think Doc was referring to his reply to the thread!!
Hi Wendy and welcome from me too.... looks like you are up and running.
Would you like to tell us a bit more about your diabetes and how you manage it... diet, medication (if so what) or exercise or all 3 and Your most recent HbA1c if you would like to share that as it gives us an idea of where you are on the diabetic scale.
The forum is a vast resource of knowledge and experience, but we are only the experts in our own diabetes.... or trying to be anyway. You will learn lots of tips and hacks from others here but they may not all work for you. Experimenting to find things which are effective for you is a key part of good management in my opinion.
Good luck and if there is anything you don't understand, don't be frightened to ask.
Hi Wendy and welcome from me too.... looks like you are up and running.
Would you like to tell us a bit more about your diabetes and how you manage it... diet, medication (if so what) or exercise or all 3 and Your most recent HbA1c if you would like to share that as it gives us an idea of where you are on the diabetic scale.
The forum is a vast resource of knowledge and experience, but we are only the experts in our own diabetes.... or trying to be anyway. You will learn lots of tips and hacks from others here but they may not all work for you. Experimenting to find things which are effective for you is a key part of good management in my opinion.
Good luck and if there is anything you don't understand, don't be frightened to ask.
Wendy B
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Hi diet & exercise seems to have stopped working so I have recently been put on slow release Insulin (toujeo). At the moment 14 units once a day, along with my meds , metformin twice a day.
So feel bit worried about all this but hope it brings my FBS down & eventually Hba1c.
So feel bit worried about all this but hope it brings my FBS down & eventually Hba1c.
rebrascora
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Hi again Wendy.
Sorry to hear that you have been started on Toujeo and are feeling a bit anxious about that but hope it helps.
I am guessing your last HbA1c must have been pretty high for them to start you on insulin. Do you know the number?
I know it is a bit of a personal question and don't feel you have to answer it, but I would be interested to know if you are carrying much/any surplus weight? The reason I ask is that if you are not significantly overweight and you have been following a reasonably low carb diet and exercise regime, but your levels have increased, then it is possible that you may be LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) which is a form of Type 1 diabetes, rather than Type 2.
Unfortunately if you have been following the NHS dietary advice for Type 2 diabetics for the past 10 years then it may just be that your diabetes has progressed because you have not reduced your carbohydrate intake enough. Sadly NHS dietary advice for Type 2 diabetes is considered by many of us to be very out of date and lots of members of this forum find that following a low carb higher fat way of eating is more effective in managing their Blood Glucose levels AND also enjoyable and therefore sustainable for the long term. It takes a bit of getting your head around, because it involves cutting right back on bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and grain products like breakfast cereals, including so called healthy foods like porridge and fruit (in all it's forms ie fresh, dried juiced/smoothies etc) as well as the obvious cakes, biscuits and sweets/chocolate ... but there are compensations. Bacon and eggs and mushrooms for breakfast is back on the menu and I start every day with real double cream in my coffee. Fat keeps you feeling full and provides slow release energy and does not spike your BG levels. Carbs are like rocket fuel, they break down into glucose very rapidly, giving you a blood sugar high and then low, which makes you hungry again 2 hours later. I can often go from breakfast time until late evening without food and not feel hungry because the fat in my diet keeps me ticking over.
Having something like bacon and eggs and mushrooms or an omelette of creamy Greek natural yoghurt with a few berries (which are the lowest carb fruits) and some mixed seeds for breakfast instead of toast (even wholemeal) or breakfast cereals or porridge can make a significant difference to BG levels and that is just one meal.
Apologies if you know all this but since you have been diagnosed Type 2 for some time and new to the forum, it may be that you have been following less than optimal dietary advice to manage your diabetes and it may have progressed because of that.
Those would be my two thoughts....
either LADA or poor dietary advice/changes.
Since you have now been started on insulin, you would need to be quite careful about making dietary changes as you could drop too low, but now would be the best time to start that process whilst your insulin doses are still quite low/conservative. It is possible for some people to reverse it even when they have been on insulin for years, by adopting a low carb way of eating and come off not just insulin but also all other diabetes medications. This may not be possible for everyone but a low carb way of eating is a very effective way of controlling BG levels and therefore diabetes.
If you were to give us an idea of what your current daily diet consists of (ie a typical breakfast lunch and dinner including drinks and snacks), it might indicate if LADA is likely or if you have room to reduce carb intake in order to try to manage Type 2 better.
Sorry to hear that you have been started on Toujeo and are feeling a bit anxious about that but hope it helps.
I am guessing your last HbA1c must have been pretty high for them to start you on insulin. Do you know the number?
I know it is a bit of a personal question and don't feel you have to answer it, but I would be interested to know if you are carrying much/any surplus weight? The reason I ask is that if you are not significantly overweight and you have been following a reasonably low carb diet and exercise regime, but your levels have increased, then it is possible that you may be LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) which is a form of Type 1 diabetes, rather than Type 2.
Unfortunately if you have been following the NHS dietary advice for Type 2 diabetics for the past 10 years then it may just be that your diabetes has progressed because you have not reduced your carbohydrate intake enough. Sadly NHS dietary advice for Type 2 diabetes is considered by many of us to be very out of date and lots of members of this forum find that following a low carb higher fat way of eating is more effective in managing their Blood Glucose levels AND also enjoyable and therefore sustainable for the long term. It takes a bit of getting your head around, because it involves cutting right back on bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and grain products like breakfast cereals, including so called healthy foods like porridge and fruit (in all it's forms ie fresh, dried juiced/smoothies etc) as well as the obvious cakes, biscuits and sweets/chocolate ... but there are compensations. Bacon and eggs and mushrooms for breakfast is back on the menu and I start every day with real double cream in my coffee. Fat keeps you feeling full and provides slow release energy and does not spike your BG levels. Carbs are like rocket fuel, they break down into glucose very rapidly, giving you a blood sugar high and then low, which makes you hungry again 2 hours later. I can often go from breakfast time until late evening without food and not feel hungry because the fat in my diet keeps me ticking over.
Having something like bacon and eggs and mushrooms or an omelette of creamy Greek natural yoghurt with a few berries (which are the lowest carb fruits) and some mixed seeds for breakfast instead of toast (even wholemeal) or breakfast cereals or porridge can make a significant difference to BG levels and that is just one meal.
Apologies if you know all this but since you have been diagnosed Type 2 for some time and new to the forum, it may be that you have been following less than optimal dietary advice to manage your diabetes and it may have progressed because of that.
Those would be my two thoughts....
either LADA or poor dietary advice/changes.
Since you have now been started on insulin, you would need to be quite careful about making dietary changes as you could drop too low, but now would be the best time to start that process whilst your insulin doses are still quite low/conservative. It is possible for some people to reverse it even when they have been on insulin for years, by adopting a low carb way of eating and come off not just insulin but also all other diabetes medications. This may not be possible for everyone but a low carb way of eating is a very effective way of controlling BG levels and therefore diabetes.
If you were to give us an idea of what your current daily diet consists of (ie a typical breakfast lunch and dinner including drinks and snacks), it might indicate if LADA is likely or if you have room to reduce carb intake in order to try to manage Type 2 better.
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Sorry but activity/exercise does help!
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