[possum220]

Marilyn you are doing great. 4kgs in a month is a sustainable and healthy way to do things. Improvement in your eyes is commendable. You rock.

[Guiness187055]

Congrats Marilyn. Keep up the great work!

[Marylin]

Thanks for your encouragement folks! Today my readings are 9.1mmol/L or 163mg so going in the right direction.

[Marylin]

By the way can you believe it? The diabetic nurse told me to have cakes and chocolate at Christmas, cos it's Christmas and I need to enjoy myself. WTF!!! Why is not overeating sweet treats and not having alcohol and sweet sugar laden drinks the road to misery. She insisted I wouldn't have fun and enjoy myself without those things. I told her I didn't want them,that I had been addicted to sugar and that it's a poison that made me very ill and that it had affected my eyes and I could lose my sight. She said she understands that scared me but doing it over Christmas wouldn't cause harm. I think she is totally mad.

The medical profession do not understand that the wrong foods, junk foods, make you ill and that to be well you have to exclude bad food from your diet. They have no idea what causes chronic illness and how to heal it, they only know about drugs and surgery not how the body actually works the biochemistry. I learnt a lot just watching the two hours liver documentary on how the liver works and how to reverse liver disease. I was ignorant for years, then I learnt about what to do right but still ate the junk and sugar, now the penny has dropped I won't get better if I don't make the changes to my diet that are needed to get well physically and heal. Also physical health affects mental health . If I don't do what has to be done and actually eat right and exercise and stay off junk and sugar then I am not going live longer. I have chronic illness, mental illness and I am 55.If I carried on the way I was I was going die in the next few years or go blind and die or have liver and kidney failure.

Anyhow I do what I am meant to do and stop sugar and the diabetic nurse is encouraging me to get addicted again cos it's xmas. Go figure!

[possum220]

@Marilyn I dont think the nurse is actually saying go and binge on the sweet things more that if you want something have it. So if you want some fruit cake or sweet then have a piece. All within moderation on one or two days.

My dad was a diabetic and he was so good at testing himself and exercise and being the recommended weight. He always ate what he was supposed to during the year. For one day, Christmas, he ate things he wouldnt touch at all during the year. He might have some ice-cream, or savoury snacks and fruit cake. The food would normally be at another persons home therefore the temptation to continue eating the left over food was gone.

Having the occasional treat is not bad, its when the treats are everyday and sometimes many times a day that we create problems for ourselves. Denying ourselves forever and a day can be the downfall and result in us falling off the wagon so to speak.

Right now you are in a good place. If you really dont want to eat food that is going to make it hard for you then you dont have to have it. It might help you to feel safer and stronger.

[Marylin]

I got a reading of 5.4mmol/L that's 90mg...today so that's made me so pleased, the other readings were 10mmol/L ,that's 180mg before a meal and 12mmol/L 216mg,two hours after , just before bedtime I got the reading of 5.4.I am doing so well and the key is stay off of sugar, flour and lots of carbs and eat less, eat a lot less. That way the sugars stay low.

[Marylin]

Have any of you heard the news about metformin.I am on it and am worries as I had womb cancer in 2016 and recently was told I had precancerous cells.I can't just stop metformin yet or my sugars in the blood will rise sky high I am worried though and need to speak to my diabetic nurse, I will ring her tomorrow.


Metformin under scrutiny for cancer causing chemical contamination - Diabetes

[possum220]

Yipee Marilyn you are doing great with those readings.
Thanks for sharing the information about Metformin. I had not heard anything about it where I live. I suppose we will just have to sit tight and wait and see what happens.

[Marylin]

Yep Possum, there is no point in panic over the metformin scare, it's dangerous to just stop taking it.

I am doing good again today with the sugar control.I just did my before dinner reading and it's 109mg which is 6.1 mmol/L.

I am worried about my blood sugar getting too low and me going unconscious so I am going to stop taking the Gliclazide, it was the last medication they
added to my regime so I will deduct it. I tried to ring and ask my diabetic nurse they wouldn't let me talk to her I have to book a telephone appointment and they haven't got any until 30 December which is ridiculous cos I am booked in to see her on 2 January. It is stupid cos they didn't tell her what I wanted to ask properly so they dismissed that my blood sugar has dropped a lot saying that doesn't happen. I was so annoyed. So I just have to adjust my meds without their advice. It's not my fault they wouldn't let me talk to her.

[Tamster]

i had my A1C checked last week and its down to 7.9 from 8.6 . So the endo should be happy when i see her next week.
I started my diabetes education on Friday and have 2 more 3 hour blocks the next 2 fridays.
It is making me so tired they want me to eat every 4-5 hrs. and i am not used to that. There is so much i need to change and do now, it seems i am always tired.
Tams

[possum220]

I hope you can sort things out soon Marilyn. If you are going to stop taking that medication is it possible to halve the dose so that things dont swing back too much the other way? Just a thought.


Maybe you can get more tips to help you in the next few sessions Tamster. Hang in there.

[Marylin]

Tamster, high blood sugars make you tired, try eat less and leave longer between meals, don't eat a lot of carbs and avoid white flour products and pasta, try not to eat too much bread, eat more vegetables and some protein. If you are overweight try and lose weight.

[Marylin]

Possum,I rang our NHS advice line and a doctor was meant to get back to me on the phone tonight to advise me but they didn't call. I reckon I will stop the med they put me on when my readings were sky high ,the Glicazide and carry on with the Metformin and sitagliptin which is what I was taking last time my readings were where they are now. Then I can discontinue the metformin and sitagliptin when I lose more weight. The NHS advise line bloke said the doctor would probably tell me to reduce a tablet at a time so I guess what I am going to do is going to be ok. Thanks for your input though much appreciated. The last thing I want is for my readings to go sky high again! But the NHS advice line guy said I'd done really well and if I carry on like I am I am heading towards reversing my diabetic state, he said a friend of his did what I'm doing really low carbs and low fat and moderate protein and he reversed his diabetes. He said as I lose weight I will have normal blood sugars and greatly improve my health.

[Marylin]

It's 6am now, the out of hours doctor rang me tonight, early hours at 4.30am,asked me questions about how I was ,said I did the correct thing to reduce the Glicazide and said to only take one a day of that now and he said I was to ring my diabetic nurse tomorrow ,which is today now, and insist she review my diabetic medications. So I will do that.
I feel so much better, I am pleased with myself. The doctor said I had done well but to be careful with the diet so as not to cause more problems. Not to restrict my eating any further he said.

[possum220]

I am glad that you persisted Marilyn and got some clarity for the way forward.

[Marylin]

I am still doing well with my blood sugar, today it is between 8mmol/L and 11.0mmol/L which is 144mg to 198mg.Not the ideal normal but still within normal range and ok not a risk to my eye sight....I feel relieved that my diet is back under control and I have eliminated sugar and stopped my sugar addiction. I am losing weight which I am pleased about.

[Tamster]

I started Trulicity on Tuesday night , its a once a week injectable. She kept me on the glipizide, and actos.
The bigger change is my pdoc agreed to stop the Seroquel, the likely culprit that got the DM2 rolling. I was put on Saphris in its place along with geodon.
The Trulicity made me fatigued fast but it passed, and i feel better now.
I took my 2nd of 3 classes for diabetes, today label reading yikes!!

[possum220]

Hi Tamster. I have been taking Trulicity for a few months now. The nausea was really bad at the start but seems to have lessened as time goes on. I find it has been really good a keeping me feeling fuller for longer. Plus it did decrease my BSLS.
Only issue I have now is forgetting to take the top off before injecting myself. That normally means that less that a full dose gets in. Grrr. Silly possum.

[Tamster]

Possum i am sorry you had nausea but good to hear it got better. I watched a youtube vid on doing the injection so i knew to take the top off. I had no nausea with the first shot but was fatiqued for that night and the next day. But at the same time i was withdrawing from seroquel and introducing saphris, so its hard to be sure what caused that feeling.
my fasting this morning was much better, about 120 and the day before it was 223 so maybe its helping.
Warmest regards, Tams

[possum220]

Today I spent time with my chosen family for christmas. I was given two large boxes of chocolates and a box of fudge. Oh and I forgot two jars of homemade jam.

As a chocoholic and a diabetic it makes it hard. Grrr. There is so much of it around. I suppose it's the same with alcohol this time of year. Surrounded by it and not able to say no. Ai Ai Ai.......... it's hard enough to control what I eat without the added food in the house.

Previous times I have thrown food in the bin....... then hours later I go bin diving.