GooseyGander
Active Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
Hi all,
l‘ve been reading this forum since I was diagnosed in July and it’s really helped (thank you all) and I thought I would post to let you know my experience, as you say, it may help others… (sorry for the long story)…
I'm a 39 year old male and have a reasonable active job. I didn't think I was over weight (13st 8 at the start of the year) and thought didn't have a particularly bad diet, but looking back it was. I work antisocial hours so there was lots of snacking, late night eating and takeaways, when I couldn't make my own food with veg and fruits.
Last year I realised I kept needing the toilet for a wee every 3 hours almost like clockwork, and needing the loo regularly in the night. It seemed to subside after a couple of weeks so I thought it 'was just a phase' and carried on as normal. Then at the start of this year it happened again and one morning woke up blurry eyed and this had never happened before. I decided to Google MD it (and had everything from bladder infection to cancer) and the majority of everything pointed to Diabetes (as my dad is T2 as well). So decided to go and get tested! (I should have done it earlier but thought I’d be wasting peoples time because I was youngish and fine otherwise)
I saw my GP, who did a urine test and said there was glucose in it and that it was likely to be Diabetes but needed to blood tests the following day to confirm and would take a couple of days for the results. I finally managed to speak after, 5 days, to the Practice Nurse who said my results were a little high, I asked “a little?” and she said “well very, 80 when it should be 40”. Shocked was a mild understatement!
I saw the GP again who confirmed through another urine test that it was a type 2 and, within a week of my first, sent me for a second blood test to confirm the diagnosis (came back 78, confirmed!).
The next day saw the practice nurse to give me details about diabetes and to see what to do going forward. If I'm honest this was the most pointless exercise and I went with my wife we’re both left aghast of how she treated us. Very defensive, matter of fact and didn’t really seem to realise that I was concerned and wanted to see what I can do. She did the usual things, foot test, weight, and gave me a monitor to use, although she said I didn’t need to use it but it was up to me. She then proceeded to use it on me, could seem to get it to work and wasted about 4 or 5 strips before we got enough blood and a couple of lance jabs, not the greatest thing for something I have found is reasonably simple and doesn’t hurt (It was 8.1 before lunch and 4 hours after breakfast). She, instead of talking to me, just handed me a print out from the NHS website, which I had already read, about what Diabetes was. She told me I would get I course to go on of my choice (I missed the dates due to work, is it worth it, should I follow up to try and get on it?)
I then said I had read the Michael Mosley book and wanted to try and see if I could get into remission. She told me not to bother as it was unsustainable to live on that diet and that I should just cut back on sugary drinks (which I had a while back) and only have 1 or 2 Greggs sausage rolls a week (as I unsuccessfully joked about them in the appointment). She said she was going to prescribe 1000mg of Metformin (but could take just 500 if I wanted, which I am) and 80mg of Gliclizide as that controls BG quicker than Metformin. I asked if it was worth me dieting to at least try and not go on the meds and she said we need to control it get it down now so just take the drugs. I told her I was going to diet and exercise as there was no harm in trying to aim for remission even if it’s not possible. She looked down on my and said ”I have never known someone with your high result be able to get into remission…” then with condescension she said “… who knows you maybe my first miracle case!!”. I was livid with the lack and support and the fact that I do not want to be on drugs for (hopefully) another 40+ years, when there maybe something I could do something about it.
Since then I followed the Michael Mosley 800 calories a day book for 8 weeks, not religiously counting the calories/carbs but doing measured fruits, nuts and and Greek yoghurt for breakfast, salad, avacardo, mushrooms etc and a protein for lunch and then either chicken and fish with either veg, courgetti or cauliflower rice for dinner, no alcohol or sweet stuff. My only treats were 100% peanut butter and chunks of Cheese. For excercise I am trying to keep doing push-ups, crunches, planks, squats and hitting as close to 10,000 steps as possible.
Since the 8 weeks I have kept a similar diet but gone to more a Mediterranean diet as suggested and put back treats of red wine and the occasional whiskey or brandy. I have gone from 13st 4 at the first GP visit to 11st 8 this morning, which has stabilised to this over the past 4 weeks.
I have kept a basic food diary since being diagnosed which has My meter test every morning (has stayed between 4.1-7 except for one erroneous 7.6), my daily weight, and then a bit of info of anything that happened on that day in case I went to the doctors, out for dinner, was stressed at work or just interesting info.
My next blood test is next week, so will be interesting to see!
Thank you and sorry if you read this far!!!
l‘ve been reading this forum since I was diagnosed in July and it’s really helped (thank you all) and I thought I would post to let you know my experience, as you say, it may help others… (sorry for the long story)…
I'm a 39 year old male and have a reasonable active job. I didn't think I was over weight (13st 8 at the start of the year) and thought didn't have a particularly bad diet, but looking back it was. I work antisocial hours so there was lots of snacking, late night eating and takeaways, when I couldn't make my own food with veg and fruits.
Last year I realised I kept needing the toilet for a wee every 3 hours almost like clockwork, and needing the loo regularly in the night. It seemed to subside after a couple of weeks so I thought it 'was just a phase' and carried on as normal. Then at the start of this year it happened again and one morning woke up blurry eyed and this had never happened before. I decided to Google MD it (and had everything from bladder infection to cancer) and the majority of everything pointed to Diabetes (as my dad is T2 as well). So decided to go and get tested! (I should have done it earlier but thought I’d be wasting peoples time because I was youngish and fine otherwise)
I saw my GP, who did a urine test and said there was glucose in it and that it was likely to be Diabetes but needed to blood tests the following day to confirm and would take a couple of days for the results. I finally managed to speak after, 5 days, to the Practice Nurse who said my results were a little high, I asked “a little?” and she said “well very, 80 when it should be 40”. Shocked was a mild understatement!
I saw the GP again who confirmed through another urine test that it was a type 2 and, within a week of my first, sent me for a second blood test to confirm the diagnosis (came back 78, confirmed!).
The next day saw the practice nurse to give me details about diabetes and to see what to do going forward. If I'm honest this was the most pointless exercise and I went with my wife we’re both left aghast of how she treated us. Very defensive, matter of fact and didn’t really seem to realise that I was concerned and wanted to see what I can do. She did the usual things, foot test, weight, and gave me a monitor to use, although she said I didn’t need to use it but it was up to me. She then proceeded to use it on me, could seem to get it to work and wasted about 4 or 5 strips before we got enough blood and a couple of lance jabs, not the greatest thing for something I have found is reasonably simple and doesn’t hurt (It was 8.1 before lunch and 4 hours after breakfast). She, instead of talking to me, just handed me a print out from the NHS website, which I had already read, about what Diabetes was. She told me I would get I course to go on of my choice (I missed the dates due to work, is it worth it, should I follow up to try and get on it?)
I then said I had read the Michael Mosley book and wanted to try and see if I could get into remission. She told me not to bother as it was unsustainable to live on that diet and that I should just cut back on sugary drinks (which I had a while back) and only have 1 or 2 Greggs sausage rolls a week (as I unsuccessfully joked about them in the appointment). She said she was going to prescribe 1000mg of Metformin (but could take just 500 if I wanted, which I am) and 80mg of Gliclizide as that controls BG quicker than Metformin. I asked if it was worth me dieting to at least try and not go on the meds and she said we need to control it get it down now so just take the drugs. I told her I was going to diet and exercise as there was no harm in trying to aim for remission even if it’s not possible. She looked down on my and said ”I have never known someone with your high result be able to get into remission…” then with condescension she said “… who knows you maybe my first miracle case!!”. I was livid with the lack and support and the fact that I do not want to be on drugs for (hopefully) another 40+ years, when there maybe something I could do something about it.
Since then I followed the Michael Mosley 800 calories a day book for 8 weeks, not religiously counting the calories/carbs but doing measured fruits, nuts and and Greek yoghurt for breakfast, salad, avacardo, mushrooms etc and a protein for lunch and then either chicken and fish with either veg, courgetti or cauliflower rice for dinner, no alcohol or sweet stuff. My only treats were 100% peanut butter and chunks of Cheese. For excercise I am trying to keep doing push-ups, crunches, planks, squats and hitting as close to 10,000 steps as possible.
Since the 8 weeks I have kept a similar diet but gone to more a Mediterranean diet as suggested and put back treats of red wine and the occasional whiskey or brandy. I have gone from 13st 4 at the first GP visit to 11st 8 this morning, which has stabilised to this over the past 4 weeks.
I have kept a basic food diary since being diagnosed which has My meter test every morning (has stayed between 4.1-7 except for one erroneous 7.6), my daily weight, and then a bit of info of anything that happened on that day in case I went to the doctors, out for dinner, was stressed at work or just interesting info.
My next blood test is next week, so will be interesting to see!
Thank you and sorry if you read this far!!!
