Hello friends, my name is Juan, I am 44 years old, I live in Madrid and I am a conscious diabetic for a week.In a routine blood analysis of glucose and my doctor shouted in the sky.In principle I am being treated as type 2. Although the doctor at first had doubts about whether I would prick insulin for the high sugar measurements I gave, now the thing is going down and I think I will stay in type 2.
My trigger has been sedentary life and bad habits.Smoker of 3 daily packages, beer addict, fobia to exercise, overweight ...
I am taking metformin, following diet and exercising.I have taken it seriously.
They have given me a Breeze 2 meter from Bayer and I control daily, I give you an example of my measurements:
03/26/10: 200-197, 268-176, 159-229
03/30/10: 134-175, 225-170, 116-108
As you can see the values are going slowly, I only have a week of healthy life.The lowest value I have given has been 81. Mine is sustained hyperglycemia, I have not yet had any hypoglycemia episode.
The truth is that I am still disoriented with my new situation, I barely knew anything about diabetes and in the health center they have not informed me too much, you know ... massification, little time per patient.Nor have they still sent me to an endocrine.
In this circumstance to find your forum has been of enormous help.I carry several days reading the issues here and thanks to you I am placing myself in my new reality.You do a great support work and you are also very good people.;)