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Newly Diagnosed with T2

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Hi Everyone
I have been newly diagnosed with T2 - today in fact.
A random Blood Pressure test that was high, had the Dr requesting Blood Tests and ECG. The Blood Tests showed high glucose levels with an HbA1c of 90 - the test was repeated and was just below 90 - so here we are.
My son was diagnosed with T1 when he was 6, he is now 32, so I do have a little knowledge of Diabetes, but not really of T2. I have also supported Diabetes UK by doing some cycling events. My first thought after being told I have high BP and T2 was - Sh*t! Can I still ride my bike.
I am not too worried at the moment as I do know that this is do-able. I am thinking of lowering my carb intake as a starting point - there is a prescription of Metformin coming my way too I believe. I think I have won the genetic lottery - Cheers Mum! 🙂
Oh and I have had NO symptoms whatsoever - who knew!
 
Lisa-P said:
Hi Everyone
I have been newly diagnosed with T2 - today in fact.
A random Blood Pressure test that was high, had the Dr requesting Blood Tests and ECG. The Blood Tests showed high glucose levels with an HbA1c of 90 - the test was repeated and was just below 90 - so here we are.
My son was diagnosed with T1 when he was 6, he is now 32, so I do have a little knowledge of Diabetes, but not really of T2. I have also supported Diabetes UK by doing some cycling events. My first thought after being told I have high BP and T2 was - Sh*t! Can I still ride my bike.
I am not too worried at the moment as I do know that this is do-able. I am thinking of lowering my carb intake as a starting point - there is a prescription of Metformin coming my way too I believe. I think I have won the genetic lottery - Cheers Mum! 🙂
Oh and I have had NO symptoms whatsoever - who knew!
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Welcome to the forum. You are lucky not to have been getting symptoms with such a high blood glucose or unlucky depending on how you look at it as if you had it may have been picked up sooner.
Yes, Type 2 is different so be careful to look at information relevant to that. Reducing carbs is what many find successful and is just as powerful as metformin.
This link may help with finding a way of modifying your diet.
https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Absolutely no reason why you should not still be able to ride your bike, pretty good exercise which helps in reducing blood glucose.
 
Hi and welcome.

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis but good that you have found the forum as it is a goldmine of knowledge and experience and of course moral support.
It sounds like you are reasonably fit and active if you already cycle regularly and with such a high starting HbA1c and a son who is Type 1, I wonder if it might be possible that you could also be Type 1 rather than Type 2. Type 1 often comes on more slowly in mature adults and your HbA1c just gets you a diabetes diagnosis. The Type 2 label is largely guess work based on clinic factors like if you are overweight or inactive or have a poor diet and unfortunately age is often a tipping factor as many GPs are under the misunderstanding that Type 1 only exhibits in children and young adults, so if you are middle aged, it is often just assumed you are Type 2 (there are many of us here who were misdiagnosed in our 50s), so do keep that in the back of your mind if the usual medication and dietary changes don't have the desired effect or if they do short term, but then levels rise again.

Do make sure to start the Metformin gradually, building up to the full dose over the space of a few weeks and many of us found that it was helpful to take them mid meal with a substantial amount of food to reduce the risk of digestive upset.
 
I am curious, since you mention your mother, as to whether she was diabetic and if so, Type 1 or Type 2 and if Type 2, was she eventually insulin dependent?
 
Lisa-P said:
Hi Everyone
I have been newly diagnosed with T2 - today in fact.
A random Blood Pressure test that was high, had the Dr requesting Blood Tests and ECG. The Blood Tests showed high glucose levels with an HbA1c of 90 - the test was repeated and was just below 90 - so here we are.
My son was diagnosed with T1 when he was 6, he is now 32, so I do have a little knowledge of Diabetes, but not really of T2. I have also supported Diabetes UK by doing some cycling events. My first thought after being told I have high BP and T2 was - Sh*t! Can I still ride my bike.
I am not too worried at the moment as I do know that this is do-able. I am thinking of lowering my carb intake as a starting point - there is a prescription of Metformin coming my way too I believe. I think I have won the genetic lottery - Cheers Mum! 🙂
Oh and I have had NO symptoms whatsoever - who knew!
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Similar to me - I went into the surgery so they could update their data and had high BP and racing heart rate so they did an ECG. It was fine. The blood test wasn't (hba1c of 83). I wasn't having any of the 'classic' symptoms, but suspected the leg pains I was having might have been due to T2, as my dad developed it at the same age. (I later realised that my blurred eyesight was due to T2, but I though it was just my eyes changing as I wear glasses and was due another test) High BP/heart rate often occurs along with T2.

Low carb worked for me (<50g a day) and it seems to be under control now. (Probably helped by getting my weight down to normal levels, as I was verging on obese.)

Low carb and weight loss also got my heart rate, BP back to normal levels. (And improved cholesterol as well)
 
Thanks everyone 🙂
At first, there was doubt over T1 or T2 - there still could be. There were no ketones in my urine.
I havent started on the metformin yet, just awaiting the prescription, But yes, I have been given a regime to start off slowly.
My paternal Grandmother had T1D and the Dr's think thats where my son gets if from.
My own mother was Type 2 and had High Blood pressure, she was not insulin dependant - so genetically, it was always likely that I could developed the same - my sister has HB and my brother has T2D.
The high HbA1c could be higher due to a steroid injection I had in my thumb - I found out yesterday that this can stay in the system for around 6 weeks and can elevate the HbA1c reading.
I am relatively fit - I do cycle a lot - although I havent since I got the HB diagnosis because I initially thought I would need to sit in a corner and do nothing! I could do with losing some weight, and had started to look at my diet anyway. This will force me to be a little more determined to watch what I am eating and not be so blaze about it.
 
Good that they considered Type 1 as a possibility. I didn't have ketones but the Type 1 testing (C-peptide was borderline but GAD antibody test positive) confirmed it for me. The fact that I was still producing a borderline level of insulin prevented me from developing ketones, so the ketone test isn't definitive.

Can I ask what you mean by HB?
 
Sterioids can increase blood glucose but I would suspect unless you had been having them for an extended period of time during the three months prior to the HbA1C test being done it wouldn't make a huge difference to the result.
 
rebrascora said:
Good that they considered Type 1 as a possibility. I didn't have ketones but the Type 1 testing (C-peptide was borderline but GAD antibody test positive) confirmed it for me. The fact that I was still producing a borderline level of insulin prevented me from developing ketones, so the ketone test isn't definitive.

Can I ask what you mean by HB?
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I assumed HB was High Blood pressure.
 
rebrascora said:
Good that they considered Type 1 as a possibility. I didn't have ketones but the Type 1 testing (C-peptide was borderline but GAD antibody test positive) confirmed it for me. The fact that I was still producing a borderline level of insulin prevented me from developing ketones, so the ketone test isn't definitive.

Can I ask what you mean by HB?
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HB - High Blood Pressure
 
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