Newly diagnosed. Hi all.

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Hi, just popping in to announce myself. Just recently diagnosed T2 and placed on Glimepiride tablets for it (once a day) and controlling my diet. Have also started exercising and managed to lose just under a stone since I started.

I'm a born worrier. I recently saw a councillor that said I suffer from 'catastrophisation', in other words, blowing everything waaay out of proportion. If I have an headache, it's a tumour and I live as though it is until it goes. I know we all worry but I over do it.

To that end, I can't get a real grasp on how bad Diabetes is. I read on here that a lot of you lead normal lives, with the exception of your diabetes management of course, so that has eased my mind a bit. However every little thing that happens to me now is a consequence of the Diabetes, even though my doctor tells me that if I control it, I shouldn't get any of these issues, or at least be at less risk (nobody is risk free of course). I'll ease with time and with this forum I'm hoping it'll be sooner.

Soooo anyway, that's me. Hi!
 
Hi MancVandaL, welcome to the forum 🙂 I think you are bound to feel this way when you are recently diagnosed. Up until then eating was something you probably didn't think much about, just a natural activity a few time each day and I daresay (like me) you knew little about how the body used that food - just how much you could just take for granted. Now you're getting used to having to think about the food each time you eat, and learning about all the complex physiological processes that go along with that. There will be some sadness about what you have lost, some anger at what you now have to endure, and some fear about what the future might hold.

Hopefully though, the great start you have made will continue and you will begin to see many (not all) of those things you have to do to keep your levels under control as just another part of your day and the days when you are feeling worried or frustrated will diminish. Keep it up and the chances are that you will actually find you are becoming healthier in many ways 🙂

Remember the quote: 'Well-controlled diabetes is the major cause of....absolutely nothing!'

It helps enormously to have places like this forum when you can come and ask questions or vent your feelings and discuss your concerns, where you know that people already 'get it' and you don't need to explain. Good that you have joined so soon after your diagnosis and I look forward to hearing more from you 🙂
 
Remember the quote: 'Well-controlled diabetes is the major cause of....absolutely nothing!'

Wow! I've never heard that actually made me feel SO much better!

You're right, I have started to learn how the body uses food and tbh it's brilliant, I think everyone should know (they will if I'm around 😉 ). The body IS such an amazing machine and I've abused to all my life, until now.

Thank you for the supportive words. That's what I needed as my doctor is very 'matter of fact' about it, which doesn't help. To be fair he probably see's hundreds of diabetics so it's nothing to him. To us though, it is.

Thanks again. I might have that quote as a tattoo. 😉
 
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Thank you for the supportive words. That's what I needed as my doctor is very 'matter of fact' about it, which doesn't help. To be fair he probably see's hundreds of diabetics so it's nothing to him. To us though, it is.
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You're right. And what some healthcare professionals sometimes forget is that diabetes is a condition that is 99% (or more!) self-managed. The other 1% is their input, but the more you understand, the better your management will be 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum MancVandaL 🙂
 
Another warm welcome to you 🙂

HelenHanfe
 
Not T2 admittedly but there are several of us still alive and kicking after living with it for over 40 years, and it never stopped any of us doing anything we wanted to. Hell, (Sir) Steve Redgrave won an Olympic Gold Medal after he got Type 2, didn't he? Just because, he wanted to!

If anyone tells you it will shorten your life and you believe them, then they'll probably be absolutely correct. But the point is, the vast bulk of their statistics are a) historical - when treatments and understanding of the condition by the medical profession were nowhere near what they are today and b) include all the people who don't care, aren't interested in changing anything they do to accommodate their Diabetes, and don't attempt to help themselves.

And WE are not THEM, are we?
 
Thanks for the welcome all.

I've just found out today that two people I know are Diabetic and had no idea (I had no idea, they did). The reason is they just don't care. They're both eating anything they want and one of them is out drinking every night. I just don't get people like this? Why do they do it? Strange.
 
I've been diagnosed with type 2 for 15 years, controlled by insulin injection and metformin tablets, though I've only been a member of this forum for a couple of days. I don't seem to have any side effects apart from being a bit overweight. Here are a couple of quotes from my dietician and doctor

There is no such thing as a diabetic diet, just a normal healthy diet that everyone should be on

If you've got to have an incurable condition, be grateful it's diabetes; we can do more for that than anything else

The emphasis now is less for doctors to look after you for every minute of the day and more for you to control your own treatment. So, it sounds as though you are responsible enough to do that. You should be concerned enough to keep to a proper diet, but not so much that it takes over your whole life

Another quote from someone who was 72 and had had diabetes for many years

I shall die with diabetes, but not because of it

Hope that helps; there seems to be a lot of people here who can give advice and encouragement

Wish I could afford to eat and drink what I want every night!

Best Wishes Zuludog
 
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