Type 2 Diabetes

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So I went to my GP yesterday and she told me the results of the glucose tolerance test. Normal blood sugar level is 7. After I had the glucose drink mine shot up to 19. That's definitely diabetes.

The good news is I don't have any symptoms like numb feet, kidney disease or vision problems which happen when there's long term diabetes. Bad news is I have to stop eating sugar. I had just bought ice cream on Tuesday. But I don't have to give up drinking Coke Zero Sugar which is my vice. I drink it often.

I also now have to take metformin, a medication for diabetes. It actually has weight loss listed as a side effect. I'm fat (probably how I got diabetes in the first place) so if I lose weight it's a bonus.

Anyone here have Type 2 diabetes? Or know someone who does?

Sorry to hear about this

Yeah the Metformin is supposed to be an appetite suppressor so I've heard

Thanks, babybird.

I haven't noticed any change in my appetite (yet). Hopefully that will happen. As it is, I've just had lunch and I'm already thinking about dinner.

It's hard to go without sweets because I like those more than savoury foods.

you're like me
I'm in for the next meal while I'm still eating my last one

Well here's hoping they kick in soon. Both my neighbours use Metformin and the weight has just melted off them. They actually look fantastic I'm jealous

Anyway it's the diabetes we need to focus on innit

Keep going kid

Hey, thanks again.

I've only heard of people losing weight on the diabetes medication called Ozempic. But it costs a fortune here. I'll just stick to the metformin.

So far I go #1 less and#2 more. TMI, heh. But those are the only effects I've had so far.

Tomorrow I'm going to Aldi to find some healthy foods I can have for lunch that will fill me.

Oh yeah they've got loads of choice in there

It's said that diabetes type 2 can be reversed, but it needs a lot of self-discipline.

https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/can-you- ... 2-diabetes

I've heard of people fixing it for a while and then letting themselves go and getting it back again. A bit like drug addiction only it's sugar.

I had been in the high range of pre-diabetes for a couple years & I wasn't on any diabetes meds but my blood sugar started slowly going down after I started taking a supplement called VirMax Blood Sugar Stabilization Formula. I didn't notice any side-effects on the supplement. I'm not entirely sure if the supplement is the reason why my blood sugar went down because I had made some other supplement & med changes around then as well. My psychiatrist put me on the antipsychotic Seroquel to help prevent meltdowns & irritability & he asked my GP to put me on a diabetes med because some of the side-effects of Seroquel are increased blood sugar & weight gain & I was more than a bit overweight. I got put on Ozempic & I did lose weight but part of the reason why is because I experienced gastrointestinal side-effects & the idea of eating made me feel worse. My insurance(I have Medicare & Medicaid) covered Ozempic for diabetes but not weight loss so I paid like $5 every month which was cheaper than the VirMax supplement. I had two other main issues with Ozempic bedsides the gastrointestinal side-effects. One was that Ozempic was out of stock a lot due to a shortage but that was a couple years ago so the supply might of caught up. My second issue is that I don't have good motor-skills to be giving myself injections & at least a few times the injection spot was sore for a week after but that was only sometimes & other times giving myself the injection went fine & I wasn't really sore after. My GP agreed for me to quit taking it after a year & a half because I quit being pre-diabetic & my blood sugar was on the slightly lower end of the normal range. If a doc wants me to be on a diabetes med in the future Metformin would be in my top two choices based on my research, I forget what my other choice would be.

I have gained some weight since quitting Ozempic a couple years ago partly due to binge-eating on snacks which was partly why I was overweight before. My blood sugar was in the higher end of the normal when I last had blood work done but I'm not pre-diabetic again yet. I haven't started taking the VirMax supplement again but I majorly cut down on buying snacks partly due to the cost; we have a lot of credit card debt & can barely afford regular monthly expenses after defaulting on the majority of our cards partly due to gov benefits not keeping up with the real inflation. I'm slowly losing weight due to not snacking as much. I'm also trying to be more active & I really need to start looking for a job & working would also help with my weight since the three jobs I had were menial labor.

ToughDiamond, that's a good link, thank you. Someone I used to know weighed 185kgs and didn't even have pre-diabetes. She was short like me, too. She ended up having a gastric sleeve but didn't change her diet. She still ate sugary, fatty foods and actually gained more weight.

nick, I was put on Seroquel while in hospital for depression. It was to help me sleep, even though outside of hospital I had no trouble sleeping. This was in 2013. Within 6 months I put on 40kgs and since then have had problems trying to lose that weight. I did stop the Seroquel as well. But I'm still on lithium and haloperidol and my psychiatrist said those medications would make it hard to lose weight. Like you, I'm unemployed but looking for a job. I do volunteering twice a week at a Salvos Store and that helps to keep me active.

I understand the idea that sugar is addictive. I've had so many cravings. But I haven't given in to it.

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Yes some people get away with having all the things that you'd think would give them a disease, but they don't get it. I suppose it's individual genetic disposition. The medical people talk mostly about the average person. I should be dead from tobacco-related diseases by now, and I might yet go down with one of those, but so far it's as if I never smoked. Didn't stop till a few years ago.

Heredity could be a factor because my dad has type 2 diabetes as well. He's been an alcoholic and I suppose that didn't help. When he got diagnosed he stopped drinking. I don't drink alcohol at all.

Smoking must be one of the hardest things to give up. As an example, I remember my first stepdad trying to stop smoking multiple times. He'd quit for six months or so, then he'd celebrate some event by having a cigar, thinking they were so different than cigarettes. Then he'd have another and before long he would be back smoking cigarettes. Last I knew of him, he was still smoking. Stay strong like your name, ToughDiamond.

Easter is going to be tough with all the chocolate around. I've tried diabetic chocolate a while ago and didn't really like it. If my family give me chocolate, I'll pass it along to my housemate, who will love it.

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Thanks for the good wish. Of course like all life forms I'll eventually crash and burn, but so far, so good.

Yes nicotine is horribly addictive, and it took me a long time to get off tobacco. How the health professionals can pretend it's just a matter of getting a box of gum and using a bit of will power, I don't know. Vaping was the only thing that worked for me, and I had to use a much higher nicotine strength than the regulations allow. Eventually the atomisers got filthy and the vapours started making me feel ill, so I switched to gum rather than buying new atomisers all the time. I keep cutting the dose and falling back again, but at least it's only gum.

Somehow I don't miss chocolate when it's not around, and I don't get much peer-group pressure to eat Easter eggs, not having much of a peer group.

Doctors and other health professionals make out that it's easy to stop smoking probably because they never got addicted to it.

It surprises me when I see young people smoking or vaping, I'm like, seriously? They must know the risks or they've been living under a rock.

An online friend of mine who's in her mid-30s used to smoke heavily but now she has COPD and so I think she's stopped smoking. Last I knew, she's chewing nicotine gum. Much better than inhaling chemicals.

I celebrate Easter with my family, we usually gather somewhere and trade chocolate. This time I'll just buy it for the others.

Used to know an elderly lady who reversed the process by eating natural edible plants that grow wild in the UK.

I know that it's possible to reverse it and go into 'remission', as my doctor said. My dad has had diabetes for over 10 years (he will be 80 in July) and he's healthy otherwise.

I wonder if the lady you knew used those plants as a supplement to other food, or she ate them exclusively.

My father-in-law reversed his diabetes II, mostly by cutting back on sugar, but after a while his resolve failed and now it's as bad as ever. Don't know whether it was boredom or that sugar-craving thing people tend to get when they get old.