Struggling Type 2 Diabetic ... Please Help

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As the others have said it sounds as if you are getting unpleasant sensations because of diabetic neuropathy. This starts in the furthest away, from the middle, part of your body - so usually the hands and feet. Aim at getting you sugars down, and your weight too, and these will hopefully lessen. I found a low carb diet helped me get rid of the weight and get my weight down. I also found that soem tingly feelings I's had in my feet went away after that also. Good luck

I will send you a friend request when I am done writing this. Any other type 2 folks adding me as friends would be appreciated. I am type 2. Was at risk for years and then after having to be on budisonide for 90 days it went full blown.
A year and a half later, after a physical, the doc......... long story short, diagnosed me and tried to put me on meds. I was in denial, even though all I wanted to do was eat and sleep. I was, I guess, depressed. Dec 1 2019 I decided that I was either going to take control and get healthy or I was simply going to die.
I was 6'4 and 260 pounds, obese.
What I did is what I would recomend for you, in addition to regular doctor visits.
1. I became a daily regular here on MFP. I made it a point to log every bite of food I ate and every amount of exercise beyond daily life that I did. I sought out like minded friends as I am doing now with you, some of whom are still mfp regulars. This is important to keep you logging in on a regular basis.
2. I joined the highest end gym that I could find/afford and was near enough by where I lived. 10 miles away.
3. I immediately tried out a trainer recomended to me by the gym personnel and then hired him. For the first months, I worked with the trainer twice a week for an hour each time. I now work with him once a week. This is necessary to keep me motivated into using the gym and exercising hard regularly throughout the week.
4. I spent hours online learning how metabolism works, how the endocrine system works. I learned very quickly that following reccomendations by the american diabetes association or by registerd dietitians who claim to know about this stuff doesn't work for me.
5. I purchased without a prescription and against doctors reccomendations a glucometer, one that also tests ketones. I test my levels regularly when I think things might not be going right, meaning I have varried from my diet.
6. I am now on a very low carb diet. I am almost always in ketosis. I eat less than 40 grams of carbs a day with less than 30 my goal. Note: I look forward to when my weight gets into my ideal zone as then I will be able to play with the carbs a little more but always monitoring the intake making sure that I never exceed my glycogin stores with additional carb intake.
7. there are more steps, but enough for now

I am losing weight and bodyfat very slowly. It is frustrating and disappointing how slowly it comes off and how slowly my muscle mass is increasing. As hard as I am working in the gym I should think it would have had much better gains and losses by now. The fact is that my system fights it. High blood sugar just prevents all the good things from happening. Muscles are starving for energy during a workout and can't access all that sugar in my blood. The good news though is now that I am 20 pounds lighter (50 yet to go), my glucose readings are daily between 110 and 140 as apposed to from 150 to 210. I expect my a1c will now be back to around the 6.9 level. And I am feeling better.

Make the lifestyle change. Start watching Dr. Bozz on youtube, watch ketostephanie on youtube. Hire a trainer and make it a point to spend a couple of hours a day in the gym with only maybe one or two days off per week. No cheating yourself. You will fall, you will make mistakes as you go but pick yourself back up again and keep going. See that superbowl toyota commercial about picking yourself up again.

Finally, don't listen to anyone just because they have a title like MD, or RD or RN or anything. Listen to what they say and then do your own research. Make sure what you do makes sence to you. For example, if you are told to change your diet and then told to eat whole grains and brown rice and Whole grain breads and so on, realize that these foods though healthier than perhaps soda pop, turn to glucose and raise your blood glucose levels. Protein and fat for the most part, don't.
Do your own research, watch a workout video to get motivated and then get out and do it.

To add to what others said, starting good habits and making better food choices now and work on losing weight. Focus on getting most of your carbs from fibrous sources and consume those carbs with fats and protein. When you do this, it will slow down the absorption. Eliminate or reduce snacking. Eliminate candy and don't drink calories. If possible, do a little exercise. It's certainly possible that you might need to bring carbs down a bit until you get your glucose under control. This was the case in one of the people i trained. She maxed out at 35g per day. Hopefully, you won't need to get down that far.

And like others stayed, call your doctor asap to get their opinion on a path until you can see them.

My wife has type 2 diabetes for many years. Don’t be discouraged- it can managed!

As others have stated avoid carbs - in particular sugar (including soft drinks and fruit juices) and “white carbs” (ie pasta, white breads and most regular beads -whole grain only) including fruit (for now until you see doc and dietician). Also all alcohol. Drink lots of water and try to get lean proteins into your diet.

Compression socks help with the cold feet. They stimulate the nerve endings and aid circulation.

Don't give up! I was diagnosed 15 years ago and really did nothing about it, just took the meds they gave me. My A1C reached 10.2 this year. Now I know why my eyes were so blurry. It is the thought of losing my vision that has turned me around to taking control. See a nutritionist. Educate yourself. You can do this and so can I!

Oh! I use my blood glucose meter to track symptoms like you are referencing (One Touch Ultra) which go directly to an app on my phone that I can download and/or share with my doctor.

TheLastMrBig wrote: »

so glucose meter is different from blood sugar meter?

Glucose meter and blood sugar meter are two different words for the same thing.

Definitely get one you like, with inexpensive strips so you don’t hesitate to use it often! Sometimes the ones your doctor or insurance provides have very expensive strips, but it isn’t more than 10 - 20 dollars for a Walmart or Bayer meter if you pay for it out of pocket.

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Diabetes runs in our family. Ive always known I was in danger. Try to keep fit but this year havent done much and put on tons of weight.
Lately my vision's been blurry. Extreme thirst. On a visit to my parents house I asked to check my sugar levels with a glucometer they have.
Baam! My levels were 22!!!
Freakout. Im diabetic. Everyone wanted me on the meds ASAP.

I decided I would give it 2 to 3 days to see how much I could bring the levels down without medication.

So I've gone on an extremely low calorie low carb diet and swimming an hour a day (hadnt swam at all much of the year)!

The good news is first day the level was down to 17.5 The second day down to 14.5

It's only been two days and im down from 22 to 14.5. So im hopeful that I'm going to be able to get control of this thing without meds.

Pray with me!