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Welcome to the forum Lindale Lad 🙂
 
Thanks to you all, again and Hi to am64, GodivaGirl, Lucy 123, mark T and slipper!

My good wife is trying to help by getting low/west/no sugar food and drink. I am currently finishing the last of the muesli (which I started eating before the diagnosis), the brand was chosen for its low sugar and will be starting on porridge very soon. I don't have a sweet tooth fortunately but could never resist buying a large bag of wine gums when paying for fuel and scoffing the lot before I got home! That was once in a blue moon though.

No cramp for the first time for a while last night. Put two of those very small paper packets of the stuff on my meal as I was eating out. Maybe I need more salt.

This is a whole new ballgame to me!

@Lucy 123 - no, I'm not testing bs yet. Not sure when this might be required.
 
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Just want to say hi and welome to the forum 🙂

Love the area round south lake district, Morecambe Bay, etc go to stay at Grange over Sands as often as money allows (and o.h. too!!!) 🙂 may pick your brains for other places to stay, hehe, if you don't mind.

Take care,

Shirl
 
Hi Shirl

There's so much to see and do in this easily accessed area of the country, if you ever need a guiding hand, so to speak, just give me a shout. I live two miles from Grange over Grass.

My sister has a **** B&B in the village, too. That looks like there's a swear word hidden - "four star B&B)

Thanks for the welcome.🙂
 
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Results

A week after my first 6 month blood test, I got the results this morning. Started in March at 14, today 11 and I'm to aim for 7.

Metformin increased to 850gm twice daily from 500gm x2. A referral to DESMOND, too. I'll have to look the implications of that up.
 
This page takes you to the details of DESMOND (Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed) in North West England, with links to other information about the programme http://www.desmond-project.org.uk/locationmap.html#northwest

Great progress with blood results - I'm assuming you mean HbA1c in %? If you want to convert to the new units, mmol/mol, is page can do it for you Diabetes Education and Self Management for Ongoing and Newly Diagnosed
 
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Lindale Lad said:
A week after my first 6 month blood test, I got the results this morning. Started in March at 14, today 11 and I'm to aim for 7.

Metformin increased to 850gm twice daily from 500gm x2. A referral to DESMOND, too. I'll have to look the implications of that up.
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Moving in the right direction! 🙂 Many people here have benefitted greatly from attending a DESMOND course, or similar, so I hope it is equally good for you 🙂 One of the really good things is getting to meet others with diabetes and comparing notes.
 
A belated welcome from me too, Lindale Lad. Keep up the good work - it seems that you are like me - have to know the reason WHY things happen as well as what to do about them. :confused: Ask away on here - they are a very friendly and knowledgeable lot, with a good sense of humour (well, most of them !) too.

Looking forward to getting to know you and watching your progress with getting this blasted condition under control.
 
Thanks Copepod, Northerner and Vince 13 for your comments and links. I'm going to look at the DESMOND link right now.

Fortunately I don't have a sweet tooth and I'm determined to alter my diet for the better. Having rarely read the nutritional info on the packets, I'm becoming an anorak. It's amazing how much sugar is in stuff, something that the majority of you know.

It's the simple, possibly somewhat embarrassing-to-ask because-I-should know-the-answer questions like,

"Will a couple of apples a day cause problems? and

"Having just boosted my Metformin in the last 24 hrs, I do feel a little heady/queasy today - is that due the medication?

that take a bit more searching for the answers.

Thank you all, again, for your kindness and time to answer not just mine, but all the other members posts.

*p.s. I've been trying to think why I'm still feeling "heady" and am wondering if my eating regime today has made things worse. I was told to regularise my meal times and amounts - no problem there. This morning an out of routine job saw me leave home at 0515 and return to eat breakfast at 1000ish instead of 0800. No lunch at midday due to not feeling hungry and am now awaiting my tea. Tonight I don't have tea at the regular time as I'm at a meeting where supper is provided, at 2045.

Would this contribute to the swimming head? I suspect I already know the answer. :(
 
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Hi L.L 🙂 I find I need to eat regularly or I also feel a bit odd. My dietician also says I should do this, so that may be one reason why you feel 'heady'

She also says I can drink a glass of red wine but always with food because of the metformin apparently .. She suggests a day off ( which I am able to do easily as I drive one evening a week 🙂 )

Fun isn't it ? 😉
 
Yep, it really isn't good to skip meals. The gap between breakfast and tea is also a huge one (even if it was unusual).

But even if you do regularise your meal times, it's still possible to feel a bit funny some times. Personally, I found I felt a little 'zonked' during my walks. It was as if I was looking at the world through a glass bowl ... very odd. Anyway, that feeling is very rare for me now. But it has taken 18 months or so for that to be the case.

Andy 🙂
 
Hi AnnW and AndyHB

I have to say I feel tons better this morning and am looking forward to getting back on track with my meals, especially the Saturday morning breakfast. 😉

Thanks for your comments, it's reassuring to find others with similar symptoms. The more I read, the louder the "wake up call" becomes! I think I was treating the diagnosis matter-of-factly but am now realising that I have to take regard of advice more stringently, not that I dis-regarded it - hard to explain but putting it down in words helps.

Another downside - since being diagnosed, I keep a few Metformin tabs in various jackets as I eat out late at least one night a week. I took the old 500gr out as I had these new 850gr jaspers and forgot to replace them last night. Hence no dose last night. 😱

During my temporary absence last night, Lindale Lass printed a doc from Diabetes UK "Eating well with T2 diabetes" and thrust into my hands this morning! Just the thing to read over a bacon, egg and mushroom butty!

p.s. the egg was missing - I didn't have the courage to complain!!
 
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Interesting about not having your tablets last night, I was wondering only this morning what would happen if I didn't take mine.. Some people are just diet and exercise controlled and I wasn't given this option. I wonder why quite often. So, if I didn't take my tabs ... What then?
How did you feel today after doing that? Interested to know !! 🙂
 
Fiddlesticks - I've just lost a long post due to getting distracted!

I can't detect any difference, AnnW, after missing one 850gm dose.

Having forgotten to take the original 500gm evening dose on several occasions, I can say that I've never had adverse indications.

I was told that taking Metformin up to 30 mins after the meal is OK, I must admit to taking them much longer than that in an attempt to salvage the situation.

When folks forget to take a tablet, is it generally the evening one? I don't think I've ever missed a morning dose.
 
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When folks forget to take a tablet, is it generally the evening one? I don't think I've ever missed a morning dose.
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Hi Lindale Lad

I'm a relative newbie now and can empathise with you greatly on this. I really struggled to remember my evening tablet.
My Diabetic Nurse told me not to panic but to have it with supper. So when you remember that you've forgotten to take it (hopefully later in the evening) take it with some food as soon as you remember. That's helped me, but I have to say the best thing that's helped me remember is that I've left a Metformin box (even if it's an empty one) where I sit down to eat as a visual reminder - looks a bit odd to visitors but it helps me a lot!
I'm afraid I still often need my hubby or daughter to remind me if we're out! It's become a family joke🙄
Anyway - welcome and hope this helps!
 
Hi Shopaholic

I hoped I would remember as I have a curved blue see-through plastic pill box, day of the week type. I still forget when it's right alongside me!

It must be the distractions! 🙂
 
im on two a day too ...but its the morning one i generally forget ...evening is fine as ive got it into a routine and always take them after i eat but thats cos i take 4 differnt ones at night...the morning is just the one ...
 
Hi am64 - that "handle" sounds somewhat impersonal but I'm sure it isn't as you live in the woods! :D

Do we work at different ends of the day or is there another reason why we forget morn or eve?

I'm getting paranoid about missing doses although I don't think that's the right word to use.

Left home at 1700 before normal tea time and ate a chicken leg, radishes and tomatoes on the hoof whilst driving (please don't tell anyone) and took the tablet when pulled up at 1830. Due to time restrictions due to workload, I had a plate of bread, cheese, toms and peppers for supper when I came home at 2100 - a treat indeed. It remains to be seen how this departure from the normalised diet affects this mortal frame!
 
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