Ainssss another new one

Good morning, I am new in all this and I want to introduce myself.
I am 35 years old.In August 2011, I had an analysis where my glucose level was 152, at three months I started taking 1 metformin tablet.Strict diet to reduce weight because they believed that my diabetes was of type 2 (I lost 22 kilos) after 8 months and endless friction with social security, my endocrine diagnoses me an autoimmune diabetes, which explains me rather little.I climb the medication to 2 tablets and tells me that only if I have symptoms such eager to urinate, a lot of thirst, tiredness or weight loss with glucose levels of more than 250 go to the emergency so that they put me insulin.
Lost, distressed I have arrived here, where I have read lots of post and I have encouraged myself to register and ask for help because the truth, I don't know how to continue.
I exercise about 3 days a week (when possible) and daily walk of about 30 minutes.The endocrine did not leave me any type of diet or hydrates counting like Leo for the forum, only a 2000 guidance diet to know what should eat but without weighing amounts.He also told me that it was not necessary control, if perhaps one perfin every three weeks or so.
Yesterday I did that control and I have demoralized after breakfast 293 and all day with 200 and peak, except when I came from the gym that had about 154. Today I go along the same path 292 after breakfast and I don't know whether I go to the doctor orthat.
I am a disaster.

I have little time to answer you, but I would do two things:
Buy some acetone strips in urine (they are very cheap).Get an analysis if it is positive you are going to the emergency room and with that "test" they will put insulin already and it is supposed to begin education on diabetes.
If it does not give you positive, you also see the emergency room, if they ignore you, change hospital, doctor or whatever.They are very high glycemia and you can't have been like that for a long time, because it is dangerous.Even with acetone you should not play sports.Where are you from?
Surely someone explains something more or a link will happen to start training, but I am at work and now I don't have time, when I return home I look for that information

Well, it's what I thought about ... approaching the hospital this afternoon and seeing what they tell me.I am from Madrid.

Welcome ...... I think as a tica, stop by the hospital, you cannot continue with those values ​​...... you already tell us !!!!

Welcome to the forum.

Well, what they have already told you ... Emergency and that diagnose well.
A link:
It would not be strange that you enter a couple of days to study your case.

If you have lada diabetes that explain you on what they have been based, you have the right to know how you have been diagnosed even with a copy of your analytics.
If you have another type of diabetes, then explain it to you and justify it with data.

Once that is clarified and having the medication scheduled by the doctor, it is best to go to the educational disease in diabetes.
It is essential that you learn the base of diabetes and for that you need time and a professional who wants to teach you

You will tell us.

Well, I am already diagnosed and they also gave me a copy of the analyzes where they explained that they know that it is that guy for some antibodies that come out in the analyzes (I think Anti Gad).The doctor's instructions were 2 metformin tablets and that if it had symptoms such as urinating a lot, a lot of thirst, tiredness and weight loss together with more than 250 levels to emergency, but making it clear that it had to have all those symptoms.He also told me that it was not necessary to do controls since the medication does not give hypoglycemia that must be for what they take said controls but that if I wanted I could make a profile a month.That what they look at is glycosylated hemoglobin that I have 6.6 and that is not very bad, that having a day the high levels is not alarming because it can be due to a lot of factors.

He told me that I still had insulin reserves and that as long as that would continue like this, they would not put insulin, that there were people who insulin needed it per month or never used it.

The story is that they first treated me as type 2 and the diet made me lose a lot, but at no time they told me anything to keep control of hydrates.

Yesterday afternoon I was with the nurse who told me that the figures he was carrying were high, which could be due to many factors, such as eating too much, lack of exercise, viral process ... etc ... that I repeat the controls,I drank a lot, that I was going to consult with my header to see what I thought and that it should be around 180 levels.
Yesterday afternoon I was already in 164, 186 but after dinner and in the morning I return to 200, 215.

The problem of all this is that doctors (I do not know whether to generalize) "release" us to the street without almost information, without knowing if it is normal or not what happens to you and without almost possibility of being able to consult or inform you if it is not planting youin the emergency department for anything.

I do not know that it is that of a diabetological educator or have named me even, only yesterday they gave me a dwarf book in which four things that I had already read online come.

Anyway, this morning I was 205 and this afternoon I will see MMI doctor to see what advises me.:(

Thank you

According to your doctor we only have to measure glucose in case we have hypoglycemia: shock :: shock :: shock :: shock :: shock: and with hyperglycemia what do we do ???NOTHING?Anyway .....:-/:-/

I wouldn't know what to answer ... I just know that before telling me that it could be diabetic and then I was fatal ... cold sweats, nervousness ... well I took some chuche (before knowing what happened) and I passed me and thenI had a fight with the nurse and heart doctor to be able to get some glucometer strips that lent me ... they swore and perjurad that with metformin they could not give me hypoglycemia, but they did give me, days I had 55, 60 .. 60 .... (we didn't know very well the reason yet) in the end they accessed but since I was very old they had to give me a new glucometer in the S.Social and the strips rationed me ...
The reality is that when I arrived at the endocrine with the measurements that I had made, he told me that I was obsessed :( and that I did not need to do controls ...
What bothers me is that when you go to them that they are supposed to be the ones who know in the end they leave me with the feeling that I am a heavy one, that I become obsessed with all this ... and it bothers me.: (((

Metformin is not a hypoglycemic drug, if you have had or have hypoglycemia will be for other reasons ...

One of the most significant differences between a type 1 and a lad type is that in the lad type the "honeymoon" (initial period of the disease in which it still has its own insulin) is longer, once that period is finishedIt can be said that both types are equal at least at the treatment level (complete insulin dependence).

For most people that period of "honeymoon" is a fairly easy period because there is a lot of or their own insulin, the regulation of that insulin is usually perfect but there are always exceptions, particular cases where that period is not so "Easy, "some unusual cases say that this period reminds it as a very bad period, with many hypoglycemia, maybe you are there.

What you have to do when you have hypoglycemia is drinking or eating things that have carbohydrates to get out of that situation as soon as possible (liquid is absorbed faster than solid, I mean that things like soda or juices are better or at least morefast as solid things).

Regarding the medication that you currently have (metformin) is what it touches, without being now without external insulin (that sooner or later it is what your treatment will be, you will have complete dependence on insulin, I mean that you will have time to have timeto fight with insulin ...) you are having hypoglycemia and that you are only with an oral antidiabetic that is a sensitizer (its main function is to make your own insulin that you still have is much or little use better) if they put nowsame insulin would eat more hypoglycemia yet, you would have worse.

With regard to monitoring what they have told you are correct recommendations, without being with a treatment with hypoglycemic drugs (metformin is not) with doing some glycemia controls randomly is sufficient (if you suffer hypoglycemia will be for other reasons,Your "honeymoon" may not be as benevolent as that of the majority).Follow the recommendations that have told you.
Without having a treatment with hypoglycemic drugs you have achieved a glucometer and reactive strips for the glucometer, that is more than many people can say (especially type 2), you do not get an idea how is the issue of accessing the access to thestrips for those who are already within diabetes of all (with full dependence on insulin) the theme is difficult.Since you have achieved that, if for your tranquility you need to do more controls you can do them but paying you the strips PQ you will hardly get more system strips with your current situation/treatment (you can go to a pharmacy and buy strips for the glucometer,To make a quick idea: 1 box of 50 strips about 50 euros, to euro the reactive strip).

When diabetes takes you a specialist there is usually a group of people behind, it is not just one, the endocrinology and nutrition team usually form: endocrine doctors, educators in diabetes issues and maybe a nutritionist although everything depends on each hospital andhow the units have organized.
They are professionals other than those who have an appointment differently, with the endocrine doctor maybe you only see it 2 times a year but with the educator you can have enough more quotes.
An educator his work is to explain many of the things we are talking about here and many more, maybe you have already met your educator since educators are usually nurses and that appointment you comment that you have tended with the nurse maybeShe is the educator.
If you have doubts you prop up and when you have an appointment with him, he will open up questions, his work is to get you out of doubt.

Joe, Lada ... often you have a panorama!I am a novatilla in this diabtes, so I can't give you advice, I leave experts ..Jeje, but the most logical is what they are telling you.I guess as here (in the Basque Country) there will be a patient care service and the right to a second opinion of another specialist, use it if you need it!Here from the moment of debut, nurses are necessary.Some minimum so you know that the subject is going and you can "fix"

I have had to resort to the change of specialist (because I have encountered more than an uncompromising, incompetent specialist ...) at some other time for other pathologies and they have worked for me.The truth that what you accounts leaves any with your mouth open.

GUAPAAA ANIMO AND GIVE THE BRACE HSTA HELP YOU !!

TNT, totally agree with everything you have said.
I have been lucky (I think) with my header.I still don't know that nurse/or educator but they have told me that I will begin to be treated for it.
While trying to know more about my illness and get the idea that there will be many punctures in my life from now on.
For me it is all very rare now, as they say out there, change your life radically and those who say that in the end you can make an almost normal life ... Well yes but in the nuance there is the difference,In the almost.
I will continue learning from this forum ...

Thank you all ..: P And let's learn !!

It would be necessary to start by defining "normal";).I assure you that the punctures become so routine that it will seem to you even normal, we get used to everything.I say that I make normal life because diabetes has not prevented me so far to do anything I did before, I continue to take the same type of life, with the difference that I now measure glucose several times a day, that I count hydratescarbon ..... that I go to the doctor more times etc ..... but I don't stop doing anything that I want to do ......
Look around and surely there are many people who do not lead a "normal" life ..... either for one thing or another.
The important thing is to live it: D and do not let the diabetes dominate you, for that it is very important to know it well and try to dominate it although sometimes it seems impossible :)

Cheer up!!!!And yes, it is true what Prado comments, in the end everything is routine.

I encourage you not to run out of the world, try to catch the trick as soon as possible and do not get rid of you, think there are worse things that have no remedy, I have 40 years and have been since the 13 now I do not remember what it is to live without routine, and here we are giving war.