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Hi Dazzle34, welcome to the forum.

How long have you been diabetic and how were you diagnosed?

There's lots of info on the forum and our main site. It might be worth having a look at our learning zone and the following link to get started

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Feel free to have a look around and let us know if there's anything we can help you with.
 
Morning

It was last September and it was a medical at work that highlighted it, then at my gp.

I will look through the site as I need to start looking after myself alittle better.

Thanks Darren
 
Hopefully they have caught things early @Dazzle34

Did you get an HbA1c result (which will be a number above 48)?
 
Hopefully.
I got the first number of 14 which was my blood sugar.
To be honest I been battling high blood pressure too so my heads been all over the place.

Darren
 
Dazzle34 said:
Hopefully.
I got the first number of 14 which was my blood sugar.
To be honest I been battling high blood pressure too so my heads been all over the place.

Darren
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Ah, sorry to hear you have been having a tough time. Did they give units for that 14? It seems most likely to be a spot-check BG level of 14mmol/L. Which is on the high side, but not astronomically so. The recommended range for T2 is between 4 and 8.5, though odd excursions to 10 or so are not all that uncommon for some.

Have you been given anything for your blood pressure now?
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Ah, sorry to hear you have been having a tough time. Did they give units for that 14? It seems most likely to be a spot-check BG level of 14mmol/L. Which is on the high side, but not astronomically so. The recommended range for T2 is between 4 and 8.5, though odd excursions to 10 or so are not all that uncommon for some.

Have you been given anything for your blood pressure now?
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Yes 2a day tablets for the pressure and metaformin for the t2.
 
Dazzle34 said:
Yes 2a day tablets for the pressure and metaformin for the t2.
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Be aware that a low carb diet, which is a very good way to eat to control blood glucose, can often result in reduced blood pressure - on the low carb forum I am on there have been several reports of falls - one rather serious - after continuing to take blood pressure medication when it was no longer required.
 
Hi Darren, I am relatively new too and don't have the experience and knowledge that many others have here but have learnt a lot since the start if the year. Its a shock at first and a lot to take in but knowledge comes, grab the bull by the horns and look after yourself, get a blood pressure monitor and do some random checks at home, I also found a glucose meter was a really useful tool to work out what foods work for you and the effects is has on your readings. I devised a simple daily log sheet and although it sounds a pain it soon becomes part of daily life and is no bother till you can remember whats what. Swap potatoes for low carb bread or rolls every meal, I use One carb a slice brown, its really good, makes a big difference in my case. There are many other things you can do food wise of course as well as exercise it really seems to work well for lots of people! Good luck!
 
Thanks for thr replies,
really appreciate your time.
I think it's gona to take a bit of time to get my head and heart into it.
But I need to adjust and make the lifestyle changes.
 
Hi @Dazzle34 and welcome to the forum.
It can take only weeks depending upon which route you decide to take for example a Low Carb way of eating, or Very Low Calorie diet followed by weight maintaining diet, or some other method. Though that partially depends upon how high your initial HbA1C is and how much you enjoy the food.
 
My GPS has said I need to lose some timber, I do eat healthier than before.
I try be wise through the week, I spend most of my working day driving so I sometime struggle with the meal plans for work.
we eat healthy for teas as my partner is on slimming world so I go along with that.
But we do treat ourselves on a weekend.
I've lost 6lbs over the last 3 week.
I need to give the situation a bit more of my time to create some structure to my eating habits.

Daz
 
Dazzle34 said:
My GPS has said I need to lose some timber, I do eat healthier than before.
I try be wise through the week, I spend most of my working day driving so I sometime struggle with the meal plans for work.
we eat healthy for teas as my partner is on slimming world so I go along with that.
But we do treat ourselves on a weekend.
I've lost 6lbs over the last 3 week.
I need to give the situation a bit more of my time to create some structure to my eating habits.

Daz
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Get wife to make some packed lunches based on Slimming World, don't have to be high carb.

Been on diet myself since Jan & managed to lose 8kg so far, wife did SW 4 years ago & lost 5 stone & still lovely follows SW plan so have adopted few ideas from her diet.
 
Dazzle34 said:
My GPS has said I need to lose some timber, I do eat healthier than before.
I try be wise through the week, I spend most of my working day driving so I sometime struggle with the meal plans for work.
we eat healthy for teas as my partner is on slimming world so I go along with that.
But we do treat ourselves on a weekend.
I've lost 6lbs over the last 3 week.
I need to give the situation a bit more of my time to create some structure to my eating habits.

Daz
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Hiya! Im 38 and was diagnosed in September 2021 my hba1c was ridiculous sitting up at 89 it gave me the fright of my life. I don’t have any other conditions luckily bp and other stats were all good but I was carrying way to much weight I was diagnosed at 18.5 st I’m 5ft7 I still have another 2 stone to lose but I’ve lost 5st since September and my hba1c is down from 89 to 38 this can totally be done. I went down to 800 calories for 12 weeks and then up to 1500 I never went super low carb either I stay around or just under 130g a day, different things work for different people. Have a read of professor Taylor’s book it’s fantastic.
 
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