I've been struggling with my blood glucose levels for two years now. In the past couple of months my levels have been at 10-10.5 mmol/l after fasting. For reference, the normal range is between 5.5-6.5 for healthy people. After eating it can go up to 16-18 for me which is kind of bad.
I recently got the official diagnosis that I'm a type 1.5 diabetic and I've been taking medication for type 2 treatments in the hopes of getting my levels down. So far they haven't helped yet. My prognosis is that I'm highly likely going to become insulin dependent even if the pills help for now. Diabetes runs in my family for both types so I always kind of had a high chance of getting it, but having it made official is something I'd hoped would never happen.
Even though I've come to accept it, I'm still nervous about what might come. I've no problem checking my glucose levels (stabbity finger!) but I'm not so sure about potential insulin injections. I was hoping maybe there are other diabetics around (or those with close family with the condition) who went through the same thing. I'd love to hear about your experiences and mablybe you have some tips to help ease the process along?
I recently got the official diagnosis that I'm a type 1.5 diabetic and I've been taking medication for type 2 treatments in the hopes of getting my levels down. So far they haven't helped yet. My prognosis is that I'm highly likely going to become insulin dependent even if the pills help for now. Diabetes runs in my family for both types so I always kind of had a high chance of getting it, but having it made official is something I'd hoped would never happen.
Even though I've come to accept it, I'm still nervous about what might come. I've no problem checking my glucose levels (stabbity finger!) but I'm not so sure about potential insulin injections. I was hoping maybe there are other diabetics around (or those with close family with the condition) who went through the same thing. I'd love to hear about your experiences and mablybe you have some tips to help ease the process along?
I'm going to guess there aren't that many on the site/using the forums with this condition!
Things are looking bad at the moment. My medication isn't working according to my own at-home glucose readings. I'm consistently above 10 mmol/l even after fasting. My doctor may bump me up to the max dosage for both my meds but my hopes of managing the condition with just the pills are dwindling incredibly fast. I'm terrified my pancreas is shot and insulin dependence is my only option.
I know it's a very manageable condition and people have gone through this before and turned out fine, but I'm having a hard time with it nonetheless. I'm quite needy to have someone to share things with and have it be someone I know rather than complete strangers.
My inbox is open, I hope someone's around who knows about this stuff.
Things are looking bad at the moment. My medication isn't working according to my own at-home glucose readings. I'm consistently above 10 mmol/l even after fasting. My doctor may bump me up to the max dosage for both my meds but my hopes of managing the condition with just the pills are dwindling incredibly fast. I'm terrified my pancreas is shot and insulin dependence is my only option.
I know it's a very manageable condition and people have gone through this before and turned out fine, but I'm having a hard time with it nonetheless. I'm quite needy to have someone to share things with and have it be someone I know rather than complete strangers.
My inbox is open, I hope someone's around who knows about this stuff.
I don't have any experience with this condition, but I hope you find someone to talk to soon. =/
While I am not a diabetic (you never know in the future though, I'd better watch my back), my grandfather does. He hasn't had much trouble with it so far however, so I cannot say I've needed to help him with his diabetes yet. I do wish I could give some advice, or anything rather than my well-wishes and desire for you to pull through this in one piece, but that's sadly all I am capable of giving. I really do hope you manage to get some extra help soon!
I was Type two Diabetic, I did the stabby fingure and had to take pills.. then I change my diet (a few little things really) like finding yummy low surgar snacks like hummus.. using avacodo instead of mayo, algave syurp for my sweetner and then almond milk and took out white surgar, and soda Quickly with just those changes I lost 100 ponds rather qickly and no longer diabetic and have not been for 3 years. Though I can strangely feel when my surgar gets high. but I have known many people that had to do insulin. I think personaly if you change a few things in your diet alittle excise goes a long way with this condition.
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I was Type two Diabetic, I did the stabby fingure and had to take pills.. then I change my diet (a few little things really) like finding yummy low surgar snacks like hummus.. using avacodo instead of mayo, algave syurp for my sweetner and then almond milk and took out white surgar, and soda Quickly with just those changes I lost 100 ponds rather qickly and no longer diabetic and have not been for 3 years. Though I can strangely feel when my surgar gets high. but I have known many people that had to do insulin. I think personaly if you change a few things in your diet alittle excise goes a long way with this condition.
Thanks! I already am on a low-sugar diet (though agave is a sweetener I absolute refuse to consume, as it contains more fructose than even high fructose corn syrup and the body doesn't produce as much insulin in response to fructose as it does to glucose - it's safer to eat regular table sugar than agave to be honest) and my overall daily intake is pretty leveled out. I barely drink soda (haven't for years) and when I do occasionally indulge it's diet. Almond milk is €2 per liter here which is wayyyy too expensive for me to make it a staple, so I'm just drinking regular milk, although if I could afford it I'd switch to almond or soy easily.
I've been put on a low calorie diet by my dietitian which I'm unhappy about because it's 900 calories under my daily maintenance intake and I'm not ready to feel shitty with that, so I'm making small changes for the time being. Mainly my portion sizes are small. I've got my hopes set on the medication working and next month I'm possibly getting a bicycle for my birthday, which will allow me to get more exercise in (difficult right now with my herniated disc). It bothers me that my fruit intake is so extremely limited too - half an avocado covers my total fruit allowance during the day, which means I have to rely on (expensive) vegetables to fill me up and provide me with my vitamins. This diet was has not taken my budget into account.
My diabetes will eventually become a full fledged type 1, which means it won't go away like type 2 because my pancreas will be completely useless for insulin creation, but I'm doing my best to adjust my lifestyle without going totally bonkers due to it lol.
I know this is a hard stressful condition and I hope you find your balance with it and it seem like your are 
about weight loss and cal. counting: i did not have to curb my cal, I am now losing about ten pounds a month when the requirement from the Dr is 4. but i just added walking not stress my self with the "diet" but when the walking stops working i will try another method so far i lost 300 pounds in the case of 3 years. i do wish the bust of luck to yah.
about weight loss and cal. counting: i did not have to curb my cal, I am now losing about ten pounds a month when the requirement from the Dr is 4. but i just added walking not stress my self with the "diet" but when the walking stops working i will try another method so far i lost 300 pounds in the case of 3 years. i do wish the bust of luck to yah.
I'm freaking stoked. I tested my glucose this morning and this is what came out:
Anything under 6mmol/L is considered the normal range, especially for diabetics. My meds are working for the time being so insulin dependency isn't quite around the corner yet as I'd feared. I have a bloodtest in an hour (drawn from the vein, not the finger) to chart my long-term levels so I imagine the results will be good!
On the 13th I'm going to the hospital for an eye-checkup, and I hope that will turn out okay too. I need new glasses but if I get a new prescription now and my glucose levels aren't properly stabilized yet, it will be a wrong prescription.
Either way I'm happy and relieved! Yay!
Anything under 6mmol/L is considered the normal range, especially for diabetics. My meds are working for the time being so insulin dependency isn't quite around the corner yet as I'd feared. I have a bloodtest in an hour (drawn from the vein, not the finger) to chart my long-term levels so I imagine the results will be good!
On the 13th I'm going to the hospital for an eye-checkup, and I hope that will turn out okay too. I need new glasses but if I get a new prescription now and my glucose levels aren't properly stabilized yet, it will be a wrong prescription.
Either way I'm happy and relieved!
Yay!
Congratulations!
Good luck with the eye checkup today.
My grandma is severely diabetic but ignores all diets and is really unhealthy as a result, she had a small foot injury that would have healed if she'd stop chugging sugar water, instead it worsened until it became a bone infection, which required treatment in a special pressurized chamber that hurt her eyesight, which in turn made her trip on something she couldn't see and break her arm. She still buys + drinks fat cartons of fruitopia "because it was on sale" so nothing is healing, girls just wanna have fun.
My grandma is severely diabetic but ignores all diets and is really unhealthy as a result, she had a small foot injury that would have healed if she'd stop chugging sugar water, instead it worsened until it became a bone infection, which required treatment in a special pressurized chamber that hurt her eyesight, which in turn made her trip on something she couldn't see and break her arm. She still buys + drinks fat cartons of fruitopia "because it was on sale" so nothing is healing, girls just wanna have fun.
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