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Type 2 new diagnosis

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Great news @Mike P , great reduction in your HbA1c and progress with your GP in referring you to a diabetes education course. It would likely be an X-Pert, or DESMOND or could be something specific to your local area. Glad that the support you have had online has provided some positive feelings about everything.
Enjoy your holiday!
 
Wow - I am impressed that you can eat oats, toast and sweet potato and get those results - high carb foods are just not on my menu and I am just on the very top edge of normal for Hba1c.
 
Had my appointment with the Diabetes nurse this week, not as bad an experiance as I was expecting. She was happy with my bloods everything normal, liver and kidney function all ok, Cholesterol 4.7 (frankly I'm amazed at that number), slightly raised lymphocytes that she put down to being affected by my gallbladder.
DN said that I didn't need to test BG levels as I wasn't going to have a hypo, I told her that I needed to know that what I was doing was having the correct affect as I couldn't wait 3 months for the next HbA1c test without some indication that the situation was improving. Extremities were checked and sensation and blood supply to feet was ok, I have decreased sensation in my toes that the nurse hoped would improve as the BG level reduces. I await the call for diabetes education and diabetes eye scan and have been told that I would be called back to see the nurse in 4 months as I was newly diagnosed but normally would be every 6 months with an annual foot inspection and eye scan.
One thing she said that will stick in my mind, "Well done you are doing well, but don't forget to have a life". I took her advice and had a very large icecream whilst out with my daughter and her children - sheer bliss!. BG result the following day 8.4!
I think, no I KNOW,. I can get this thing under control
 
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I don't think that was what the nurse meant by having a life.
 
I realise that but they were just to tempting. It's only the second ice cream I have had since the end of May so just a treat! I was delighted that my BG hadn't spiked to much.
 
Drummer said:
I don't think that was what the nurse meant by having a life.
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Shush. *Looks round quickly and lowers my voice* We're pretending we don't know that and that is what she mean.
 
Ok so the system works, but very slowly! Last week I received a letter offereing me a place on a diabetes education course (DERIK Diabetes Education and Revision In Kent). I had to ring to book a place. Phoned up and yes they could get me on a course on November 22nd! I will be interested to see if they can teach me anything that I haven't already found out from this fine forum. I realise that type 2 diabetes is a long term illness but things happen so slowly that it's easy to think that you have been forgotten.
Following on from my last diabetes nurse appointment I was told to phone in for a diabetes blood test in early October and to book and appointment with the nurse two weeks after that. So 10 mins waiting on the phone for someone to answer only to be told "I cant book diabetes appointments that has to be done by my colleague, I will email her". It would appear that I cannot book blood tests or diabetes nurse appointments I have to wait for them to contact me!
Oh well, I suppose I will learn the system one day.
 
Wow, what a year it has been so far. Just about coming to terms with gall bladder problem and T2 diabetes. Last weekend I ended up in hospital with pericarditis (inflamation of the sack that encloses the heart). My heart stopped in the catheter lab during my angiogram, thankfully restarted quickly after CPR. My Bg spiked to 16.7 and was placed on an insulin pump for a day to help me through the "crisis". When I left after 5 days Bg was back down to 8.4 after a meal, best reading was 5.4. So back at home now after 5 days on a cardiac ward and I find that they have found I have a multinodal Thyroid that may need further investigation. I am waiting for a call from my GP for a Hba1c test, a followup appointment with the cardiac team and eventually an appointment for the removal of my gall bladder. Whoever was it that said that retirement was fun, I have spent more time in hospital since retiring than the previous 65 years. Mentally this is becoming a hard year to cope with. One thing I do know is It's great to be alive!
The NHS need to look hard at their menu, if you are gluten intollerant there are loads of options however there is little to assist a diabetic. The "healthy eating options still contain plenty of potatoes, white rice and white pasta. The sweet options have almost nothing that I felt I could eat. It was suggested that yoghurt would be a good option. The full fat youghurt on offer had 13.9g suger! Not exactly diabetic friendly. Now back to the hard work and my low carb diet and hope that my Hba1c hasn't been blown sky high by the hospital spikes.
 
I've never found hospital food to be that helpful to anyone if it's more than a day or two. Luckily I was diagnosed in high summer and the salads were good at that time, but weren't on offer at all this time last year where I was.

How is a high carb plus sugar meal helpful to a cardiac person or anyone else at all even when they haven't got a medical problem?
 
Fed up today. The hospital managed to get my bg to around 8 when I left. Not had that much to eat and following my low carb diet that had reduced bg from 15 down to 8 over the past few months. Just checked my and got a result of 18 after breakfast. Looks like my body is still fighting the infection and I will have to start from scratch again.
 
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What was for breakfast?
 
I had a bowl of Jordans Country Crisp Nuts. That has served me well in the past often dropping my bg but never raising it more that 1.5 points. My system is all over the place at the moment and I feel absolutely awful. My wife is trying to persuade me that I should go back to the hospital but I'm not sure.
 
Ah - they are over 50 percent carbs - no wonder you feel bad.
They would not feature on my menu nor would I think that they were low carb.
 
Sorry for the delay in responding, I lost the argument and ended up in hospital for 3 days being treated for pneumonia. Back home now but not entirely sure the infection is cleared yet as still have a few days of antibiotics to finish off. Am back testing Bg but not expecting anything reasonable until the chest has completely cleared up.
I have a feeling that the recent high Bg levels were increased due to the infection and worry now that the HbA1c test, that I am expecting to have any time around now, will be skewed by the higher levels because of the infection. This will of course affect the decision to refer me for my gallbladder op and could well delay this.
I will be happy when this period of health problems is consigned to history. Just really frustrated as I thought that things were going well and I had a grip, if only slightly, on the control lever for my blood glucose.
 
Following my bout of pneumonia I was at home for 3 days and felt really unwell, was persuaded to visit my doctor who took usual obs, blood pressure etc. and put me in an ambulance direct to A&E with suspected sepsis. It turned out to be a chest infection but gave me another 4 days in hospital on antibiotics. Back home I decided that I wouldn't test my blood sugar until I was feeling well again as the results, if high, wouldn't help my mental state whilst recovering. Iv'e been home now for three weeks and feel much better. I have been on the DERIK course, very enlightening! I knew a lot from what I had gleaned from this forum but it was very interesting hearing from a dietician and being able to debate diet was fun. I would recommend it to anyone. I had to have a followup blood test and persuaded my doctor to do an A1c test at the same time. The results showed some raised inflammation markers (follow up blood test this week) the HbA1c result 50 and my current BG 7.0. Feeling much happier.
 
If ever anyone needed a reason to keep on top of their blood sugar levels I received mine this morning. The results of my eye screening. Apparantly I have some background retinopathy (small changes to the blood vessels in the eye) that don't require treatment at this time and if BG is kept under control shouldn't need any treatment in the future. The emphasis being on keeping BG under control. OK I get the message and will try to be good this Christmas.

May I take this opportunity to wish everyone on this forum a very Happy Christmas and a healthy, and BG spike free, New Year
 
Mike P said:
If ever anyone needed a reason to keep on top of their blood sugar levels I received mine this morning. The results of my eye screening. Apparantly I have some background retinopathy (small changes to the blood vessels in the eye) that don't require treatment at this time and if BG is kept under control shouldn't need any treatment in the future. The emphasis being on keeping BG under control.
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Ditto! The really *big* spur to getting things under control. Seems to be working for the moment; my 6-month exam a few weeks ago showed no progression. Phew!
 
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