recently diagnosed Diabetes 2

[corfu2019]

Hi I am new to this , as the heading states recently diagnosed. Now to educate myself

 

[jackie 111]

hi im a new diabetic whats your story

 

[corfu2019]

Same here Jackie diagnosed three weeks ago type 2

 

[Vonny]

Hi @corfu2019 and @jackie 111. I was diagnosed in April of this year and the doc also insisted I went straight onto metformin although I also drew the line at statins, at least until I've seen if I can reduce my cholesterol by diet and exercise.

That's an impressive weight loss @corfu2019. I've managed nearly 2.5 stone but that's over 5 months.

I recommend both of you look at the food and carbs section of the forum as there are some great ideas for what to eat, having given up most carbs and sugar. It seems limited at first but I am never hungry (unlike when I consumed carbs 3 times a day!), and there are some fantastic threads about what people can eat. Obviously doing your own monitoring is good because everyone is different in their reactions to food. I keep a food diary so I can refer back and know what works for me.

This is a lovely forum, with lots of people with much more experience of type 2 that I have. I'm still learning, but getting there thanks to this place x

 

[trophywench]

That's a lovely thing to say, Vonny. Learning is the key of course, cos we all need to become experts at treating our own diabetes really!

Personally, I still seem to learn new things about diabetes nearly every day, even though I was diagnosed 48 years ago, so there's time for all of you to learn shedloads about the inner workings of the human body and especially your own! So get going and anything anyone needs clarification of or further info about, just yell up cos a £ to a p, someone on the forum will know more about it.

 

[Ralph-YK]

Welcome to the forum from a fellow T2.

 

[Docb]

And welcome from me too. If you want anything cleared up then ask questions - nothing is considered silly!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hi I am new to this , as the heading states recently diagnosed. Now to educate myself

Welcome to the forum @corfu2019

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis, but glad you found us 🙂

New arrivals are often directed towards Maggie Davey’s Letter to the newly diagnosed and Gretchen Becker’s book T2 Diabetes The First Year, which give lots of helpful, practical information with an overview of what T2 diabetes is, and how you can manage it effectively.

For a bit more background information, the ‘useful links’ thread is a mine of helpful information - useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes

One of the biggest questions when newly diagnosed is often ‘what can I eat’ and while there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will be wanting to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.

It can really help to keep a food diary for a week or two, especially if you can calculate or estimate the total carbohydrate content of all your meals, snacks, and nibbles - so that you can begin to see the varying ’carb loads’ of different things, and where small chanfes might make a big difference.

Let us know how you get on, and keep asking questions 🙂

 

[jackie 111]

Same here Jackie diagnosed three weeks ago type 2

How are you getting on with the metformin ? To be honest with you I have tried so hard as he said the best way to reverse it is weight loss. I lost 3 stone living on basically salmon, steak nuts lettuce. I am enjoying it I suppose but I see cream doughnuts everywhere and I so want one, On the tabs, I suppose you can eat them cant you now and again,I have to give blooods for ha1bc beginning of oct and if there's no major change I'm thinking of starting the tabs,

 

[trophywench]

No of course you can't eat donuts once you are diabetic - unless you are just about ready to run several marathons anyway .... no diabetic can handle the amount of carbohydrate in yer average cream doughnut without paying the price for them.

You can have the cream though! - remember when you whip cream, a large dollop of it is mainly air, whereas the same sized dollop of clotted cream is 100% cream.

 

[Vonny]

You can have the cream though! - remember when you whip cream, a large dollop of it is mainly air, whereas the same sized dollop of clotted cream is 100% cream.

Do you know Jenny, I never knew that but it makes absolute sense now you've said it. No wonder clotted cream is so delish!

 

[trophywench]

Recently went on a camping rally in N. Cornwall and we were treated to a very appropriate socially distanced cream tea by the Rally officer one afternoon. Blooming fab. But I know damn well the sultana scones are 35g carb apiece before you add either jam or cream - so defo needed extra insulin for that, no question. I'm lucky because I can do that - sadly the average T2 can't even if they're thin T2s, as T2s have different things going on in their bodies which T1s don't.

 

[Ellie L]

Hi @corfu2019 and @jackie 111. I was diagnosed in April of this year and the doc also insisted I went straight onto metformin although I also drew the line at statins, at least until I've seen if I can reduce my cholesterol by diet and exercise.

That's an impressive weight loss @corfu2019. I've managed nearly 2.5 stone but that's over 5 months.

I recommend both of you look at the food and carbs section of the forum as there are some great ideas for what to eat, having given up most carbs and sugar. It seems limited at first but I am never hungry (unlike when I consumed carbs 3 times a day!), and there are some fantastic threads about what people can eat. Obviously doing your own monitoring is good because everyone is different in their reactions to food. I keep a food diary so I can refer back and know what works for me.

This is a lovely forum, with lots of people with much more experience of type 2 that I have. I'm still learning, but getting there thanks to this place x

Did you find when you cut out carbs and sugar that you went into ketosis with a banging headache and muscle pain? I'm on early days and feel awful really hoping I come out the other side soon and I have given up caffeine too it's a harsh learning curve but got to be done !

 

[Vonny]

Did you find when you cut out carbs and sugar that you went into ketosis with a banging headache and muscle pain? I'm on early days and feel awful really hoping I come out the other side soon and I have given up caffeine too it's a harsh learning curve but got to be done !

Hi @Ellie L, I was really lucky and didn't suffer those symptoms. I used to get dreadful headaches when I tried to cut out caffeine, maybe it's that? I've now just cut down on caffeine, 4 cups of coffee per day and low sugar fruit teas in between.

I believe it's often recommended on this forum to do things gradually, so maybe reduce carbs rather than cutting them out straight away? Or as I now eat, some complex carbs like nuts. I'm sure someone with more experience than me will be along soon to make some suggestions.

Best of luck and hope you feel better soon x

 

[trophywench]

Awww Martin. (I do know I'm lucky being T1.)

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Did you find when you cut out carbs and sugar that you went into ketosis with a banging headache and muscle pain? I'm on early days and feel awful really hoping I come out the other side soon and I have given up caffeine too it's a harsh learning curve but got to be done !

I also had headaches when I cut right back on caffeine some years ago.

Some people going very low carb describe something like flu as the body adapts to burn fat for fuel in the absence of carbs, but @Vonny is right, many members here find it better to make significant dietary changes gradually to give the body, and particularly the find blood vessels, time to adapt. Some members have unfortunately experienced eye problems as a result of very rapidly changed average BG levels.

Welcome to the forum 🙂