MouldensChippy
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I was diagnosed earlier in the year with diabetes, I took myself for an NCD blood work up after suffering symptoms (I never realised at the time, just knew I wasn't anything close to right).
I had to stop driving around dusk as my eyesight was deteriorating, my normal reading prescription glasses were suddenly right for distance, but I could no longer read with them. I visited an optician but between getting a new prescription and collecting the new glasses my eyes had changed further making the new prescription useless. I then visited an Opthalmologist with no luck.
I was losing weight (23kg over a few months), and seemingly peeing every hour, on the hour in the night.
At the tests, my blood sugar level was way over 300. I was precribed a couple of textbook drugs which both made me ill, after a return to the hospital my meds were changed to Glipizide (which seems to work well for me). They started me off requiring three blood readings a day.I now hardly bother with my blood sugar test unless something is not feeling right, or I have done something completely different or new.
My doctor goes off the HbA1c test that I get every 3 months which is far more reliable. The other bloods are once a year.
Made changes to my diet, all my rice is now brown, and my noodles are whole grain, as is any bread etc. I always ate quite a lot of fruit anyway. The thing that made the most difference was walking, I go out for around an hour almost every morning.
So, any symptoms, get yourself checked.
I had to stop driving around dusk as my eyesight was deteriorating, my normal reading prescription glasses were suddenly right for distance, but I could no longer read with them. I visited an optician but between getting a new prescription and collecting the new glasses my eyes had changed further making the new prescription useless. I then visited an Opthalmologist with no luck.
I was losing weight (23kg over a few months), and seemingly peeing every hour, on the hour in the night.
At the tests, my blood sugar level was way over 300. I was precribed a couple of textbook drugs which both made me ill, after a return to the hospital my meds were changed to Glipizide (which seems to work well for me). They started me off requiring three blood readings a day.I now hardly bother with my blood sugar test unless something is not feeling right, or I have done something completely different or new.
My doctor goes off the HbA1c test that I get every 3 months which is far more reliable. The other bloods are once a year.
Made changes to my diet, all my rice is now brown, and my noodles are whole grain, as is any bread etc. I always ate quite a lot of fruit anyway. The thing that made the most difference was walking, I go out for around an hour almost every morning.
So, any symptoms, get yourself checked.