Question for type 2s

[Bronco Billy]

When you received your diagnosis, what were your main concerns and what did you most want to learn about?

 

[Drummer]

I'm afraid my first thought was can I get to the butchers before they shut and where's my copy of (Dr Atkins) New Diet Revolution.

 

[Vonny]

My first thought was that my life was ruined, and the first thing I wanted to know was what to eat. As it was a complete shock despite being obese, I was just stunned to start with. "Who...me?" "The person who has a piece of cake once a blue moon?" I don't know if it's a general lack of knowledge that carbs turn to glucose immediately or if it was just me who didn't know, but there is so much education out there about low fat that it kind of eclipses all other information with regard to diet.

Since joining the forum I know my life has not only not been ruined, but actually improved immensely. I'm enjoying my grub more than before and am half the woman I once was

 

[RirisR]

Me I just burst into tears and wailed "but I don't want to be diabetic" the shock of it !
well I sucked it up and went low fat to try to lose weight changed when I found this
site and started to count the carbs it has improved a lot from a 14 now just below 7
and 12lb weight loss reading the forum daily for tips worked wonders for me

 

[Eddy Edson]

My first thought was "Woo-hoo! It's not cancer!". Then my main concern was how to get rid of it, and like most people I guess, I wanted to learn about what the hell I should eat?

 

[trophywench]

I felt so rough, I was pleased it was something I knew there was a treatment for!

 

[Lilian]

I had lived with diabetes, my mother was diabetic, all her sibblings were diabetic, my grandmother was diabetic. I knew about the diabetic 'diet' from as far back as I can remember. In those days diabetics were told to keep their carbs to a bare minimum. I remember my mother having a pack of cards with various portions of carbs and the carb count of them, so that we could play a game of exchange. So when I was diagnosed it did not come as a shock. However my instant concern was my eyes, because all those in my family who were diabetic eventually went blind. My mother woke up one day to find she could not see. My aunts went blind, my grandmother was blind, although I cannot recall the men losing their sight. My mother was one of the first (if not the first) to have laser treatment at one of the large London teaching hospitals. She had to stay in for a week or more. Whether or not it slowed the development of blindness I do not know, but eventually she did go blind. As soon as I was diagnosed I joined a local diabetic support group. It was quite an eye opener (excuse pun). At that time doctors were not diagnosing young people for diabetes. There were some horrific stories from some of them as to how they ended up in hospital before they got a diagnosis, but had been going to their doctor for some time that something was wrong. Another eye opener was that people could lose their limbs. I only had experience of blindness. We had a talk by the opthalmologist from the hospital. She recommended that we ask our doctor to refer us to the eye department, as they had all the best equipment, and once you were a patient, you would be for life, and it is better to go there before there was a problem. Those were the days when you could see a doctor the next day, and no problems with going to hospital clinics run by the consultants themselves. About 40 years ago. Anyway it was the best bit of advice, because as I was regularly seen at the hospital (and at the time our hospital eye unit was a part of Moorfields eye hospital - although not now). I am still a patient there and of all the departments of the hospital the eye unit is one of the best.

 

[Ljc]

My first though was, oh nooooo not another blooming thing.
I was lucky in my area when I was dx, all diabetics were referred to the diabetic clinic at the hospital, they were great. I soon learnt carbs were my enemy, unfortunately they promoted low fat , I didn’t listen to that part of their otherwise great advise.

 

[ColinUK]

My initial thought was guilt. I knew full well I’d been eating too much and piling on the pounds but somehow thought I was invincible. Even though I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without getting out of breath.

 

[grovesy]

I had Impaired Glucose Tolerance , and family history of Diabetes , so no suprise.