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By the end of day in the evening I get tired and my vision get very blurred and when I wake up in the morning I have a headache. I am 64 yeay old and have retired. I have had diabetes for about 10 years. Am on metformin 2000 ml slow release at night. 6 months check 8.6, 3 months 7.9 and recently 7.3 going the right way. What could be wrong?
If you see your eye doctor they can check you for cataracts just in case that’s causing your vision to be blurry. I have them in both eyes but not yet bad enough for surgery. I often get a headache… read more
Hi @A DiabetesTeam Member
How are you doing today.
The guidelines that most doctors use will leave you with diabetic complications and comorbidities over time.
The CDC, the American Diabetes… read more
I don't know if there is an "official answer" to my question
What I do know is the EASD (EU's version of the ADA or the Commonwealth's "Diabetes XX - (UK, Canada, South Africa etc) recommends that Pre-Diabetics treat with low dose Metformin (typically 500 mg)
Their studies have shown that it delays onset of Type 2 by "greater than 10 years" IF the patient ever gets over the threshold at all
So I can only talk about what "I" plan to do
I was diagnosed in Aug of 2016 and was in Clinical… read more
@A DiabetesTeam Member I agree with you 99.9% of the time and your reasoning is excellent. I also realize the thread about statins was for example purposes. However, I recently read an article that… read more
I have 18 diseases with no cure and 5 are autoimmune, so it makes diabetes a little trickier. But I am for 2 hrs after 1st bite of food to be below 7.8 (USA 140 as above this you cause damages to… read more
I have some anemia and have prescribed medication by the good nurse practitioner too. I don't have cancer too.
People with type 2 are at higher risk of developing cancer of pancreas,liver,womb, bowel bladder or breast
Diabetes is associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer.Type 2 shares risk factors in… read more
Everyone here lives in a well developed country with decent medical systems in place.
So how is it that a Type 2 that has been dealing with the disease for about 6 years, who has seen multiple doctors and is now seeing yet another for a (known) Diabetic Complication (Frozen Shoulder) that they have NO CLUE what a Carb is?
I spent an hour today talking to this individual in person. I was asked if I would spend a bit of time with them to give some "basic information".
They were diagnosed 6… read more
Graham, it happens because like you said he didn't ask what is a carbohydrate (carb)? When you ask questions the doctor (speaking for myself) gives me documentation which states how much as a diabetic… read more
my eyes are foggy all the time. this due to eating to much in the past. is there any epair can be done?
I will bear in mind these suggetion of side effects of statins I never wanted to go on but was told that by not ttaking them the possiblity of ome debis coming of tmy veins may then travel to brain… read more
Until about 15 years ago nobody in the Diabetes world talked about remission for Type 2 Diabetics
Then a bunch of researchers in the US (Look Ahead Study) and the UK (DiRECT Study) went on a mission to see what would happen if you "forced" Type 2's to lose weight, eat properly and get some exercise
What they found was that fully "half" could achieve remission if they met some basic criteria and actually stuck with the program
Today "Remission" is clinically defined as - maintaining an A1C… read more
Simple: deflects obsession to another matter. That’s a victory for sure…
I am never sure what to eat for breakfast, how many eggs a week? Which bread is best?
@A DiabetesTeam Member I think it depends largely on your own circumstances. It a good idea to reduce carbs significantly though to lower bg. In the beginning I did away with all bread. When I did… read more
