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Hello everyone, from a forum newbie🙂
I was told I had; diabetes 2, over 10 years ago, depression 27 years ago and high blood pressure 36 years ago. I take lots of tablets for these.
What confuses, puzzles me is what does suffering from diabetes actually feel like?
I know when I have elevated BP, and when I'm depressed, I can feel it / sense it, but not with diabetes.
The nurse says bits of me will drop off or have to be removed eventually if left unchecked (hope they don't start from the head down!!). My diabetes level remains on the high side, most of the time, although I altered my diet and keep sugar intake to a minimum.
On the bright side, didn't Wales do well!

kind regards
Gary
 
Welcome to the forum, Gary.
The good news is that if you look after yourself, keep your blood glucose levels in check by appropriate diet, levels of exercise and medication, then bits will NOT drop off! If your levels are still too high, then you may need to have additional medication, and as you haven't mentioned exercise, perhaps do more.
 
Welcome Gary 🙂 Diabetes is a strange creature you tend to feel the strong changes in blood sugar, but the body adapts to blood sugar levels very well. This is why it can be so insidious, because you might feel fine at levels that are actually very damaging. In type 2 levels tend to creep up gradually so the body gradually adjusts. If your levels are a bit higher than normal now, you'd most likely notice only when they start to come down. You have to make a bit of a leap of faith and accept that lower is better and work to get it down. Those complications they talk about are much harder to ignore and once the damage is done it often can't be undone. I know it's a bit of a brain tangler but that's why it can be useful to get a testing meter, if you can see your blood sugar fluctuations it's easier to get your head around it 🙂

Wales are doing very well, the Welsh side of my family are positively thrilled, it's lovely 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum Gary. If your blood sugar is high you will feel slow & tired. If I were you I would try & go for walks after eating & try to keep fit. You will feel better. Good luck 🙂
 
Hi Gary and welcome to forum
 
Hi Gary and welcome to the forum.
 
Welcome from a fellow T2
 
Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome and all the replies.
I think my next step is to get a tester, I've had one before but didn't take things seriously enough.
I do feel slow and tired in general along with a 'can't be bothered attitude', I thought I was just being really lazy.

Gary
 
Welcome Gary,

The problem is that you don't feel bad, just not well...... As your BG comes under control you start feeling better.

Having said that, there are minor episodes as your body reacts to lowering of BG levels (shaky, confused, tired) these are known as false hypos (as opposed to the real ones which are way worse) but this is a way for your body to tell you that something is different.
Personally, I kind of have to remind myself that I am diabetic, particularly as I'm now well controlled. My FBG test gives me a sharp reminder if I fell off the wagon the previous day. (Happens about once a month when I go for a beer with my friends).
 
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