Hi val, welcome to the forum
🙂 What you describe suggests that your blood sugar levels are still too high. What dose of metformin are you on? Are you able to test your blood sugar levels with a meter? I think that you ought to be seeing some improvement after three months, but a lot will depend on what advice and education you have been given so that you are doing everything you can to get your levels under good control.
I would suggest having a read of
Jennifer's Advice and
Maggie Davey's letter and see how these accounts match up with how you have been told to manage your diabetes. If not then it would be worth going back to your doctor or nurse and asking for a meter and some test strips prescribing so that you can monitor your reaction to the food and drink in your diet. They may be reluctant to do this as the strips are expensive, but be firm and say that you do not expect to need to test so regularly once you have been able to exclude unsuitable elements from your diet and established improvements.
You may have to fund the strips yourself initially if the GP is resistant, saying you don't need to test, but by buying some strips yourself and following an efficient testing regime (such as
Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S ) and recording the results, you can then return to the GP and show them how this is helping you. You can also point out that the cost of strips is small in comparison to the potential risks of long term complications if you are not equipped to be able to control things properly and learn about how diabetes is affecting you personally.
I would also highly recommend getting a copy of
Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker, which will help guide you through these early months - the more you know, the less daunting everything will seem
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Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, and we will be happy to help out whenever we can - no question is considered 'silly'!
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