Newcomer!Greetings to everyone!

Well that, chic@s, a newcomer in the issue of diabetes and delighted to be able to belong to such a useful and precise forum!

My name is Javi and I am 21 years old.3 weeks ago I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and they prescribed metformin to lower it, in addition to a diet.They told me to return at 2 weeks and this was last Holy Monday that I went and they made me control and I had climbed the blood glucose ... that's when they prescribed insulin with 16 measures to start while they call me from the endocrine to give me appointment.

For all this, I am something lost.In the control I got 317 and they have not explained anything about the measures or anything else, I suppose that is the thing of the endocrine so I will wait but I am glad to have found you because these days the forum hashelped for some of the doubts that arise.I do not know what places I can prick to make it less painful and do not leave Moratón, if I owe, I can or not eat some foods or food, etc. and I know that here I will find many answers to those questions for that, in advance, thanks!

Delighted to meet you and belong to the forum!All the best!: D

Welcome Javi: d

I join the welcome, delighted to meet you Javi!: D

Hello, welcome to the forum.

It is rare that someone so young has type 2 diabetes, although everything is possible ... but even taking the medication that your glycemia have told you (metformin) in a week of a week have been planted in values ​​above 300 mg/dl, I think you are badly diagnosed and that you are type 1, but hey ... that will be told the endocrine (or a doctor who without being a specialist is minimally competent ...).

Start with insulin treatment as they have told you and if you can monitor your glycemia do it (at least once a day, to be able to be fasting) if the thing does not fall from 300 mg/dl, go to the emergency room of the PQ hospital separatelyBeing quite high glycemia values ​​there is a risk of ketoacidosis.

You have not commented that Insulina is the one that has been prescribed, I imagine that they will have prescribed something like Levemir or Lantus, if one of these insulins the puncture areas for slow insulins are the thighs and the buttocks.
All injections have to be subcutaneous (between the skin and the muscle, in the fatty tissue) in the buttocks there is no major problem because there is enough fatty tissue but in the thighs it maybe you have to enter a little "side by side" not toClick directly in the muscle, although it all depends on the size of the needles you are using (5, 8, 12 mm).
Even doing the whole topic of the puncture (correct area and that the injection is subcutaneous) it is possiblealthough there are people who notice a little stinging with the lantus always).

Thanks for the reception and for the answer!

Yes, they already told me when they sent me the insulin that I was definitely of type 1 but they did not explain anything else and that of suddenly putting measures or explained to me.The insulin they sent me are pens called Insulatard flexpen isopan human insulin that I don't know what I want to say and it doesn't put anything else or I don't know how to look at it well, hehe.

For the rest, the same diet that for when they told me that it was of type 2 and that's it, neither controls nor how to do them or where to get the material to do them ... Waiting I am to have an appointment for the endocrine that they were going to give it to meFor the 25th of this month and my family doctor told me that it was too late and that I would put it in deferred to be before but with the holidays I have not known anything ...

With respect to the puncture area, right now I am on the buttocks and I do not have much pain, I get along but according to the day I have a little more stinging or not ... will I be doing something wrong?

I will wait and see what happens ... Thank you!

It seems that with that comment they made to you and the rectary insulin corrected the error of the diagnosis at least in part ...

"Insulitard" is the commercial name, you can also refer to it as "isopanethat everything related to the most recommended injection zones for a slow insulin are still valid (thighs and buttocks).

Today it does not seem like a good recommendation to a bad one can be prescribed an insulin like the levemir that is much more "flat" than the NPH insulin with what is reduced by the risk of hypoglycemia, but hey ... inNothing bad happens, it is better to be with an insulin (even if it is the NPH) than not to be with anything more than metformin.

Try to follow the diet that you have given you in addition to being with the Insulatard and with respect to monitoring a bad go to your primary care center and in the nursing consultation they can look at you.
I do not understand that if they are already smeared that you are type 1 and they are already recipeing you insulin because they have not given you a glucometer and glucometer strips, if they have not done so every day to look at a simple blood glucose (and if they saySomething that spabs a little, the glucometers occur in hospitals and in health centers and being type 1 there is no excuse, they have to give it yes or yes).

Thank you very much tnt , tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I will go to the infirmary of my consultation to see what they tell me.

Another thing that I do not know if I have done well is that I had a pretty strong cold when they sent me insulin and they told me that I would not take anything apart from it but I have taken paracetamol because I could not endure it anymore ... it recommended it to me by thePharmaceutical and that's why I took it.

I will keep you informed of what they tell me in nursing: d.

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As TNT told you, they should have given you a glucometer and reactive strips to control the blood glucose.
It is incomprehensible that they pale insulin, they do not explain anything, do not have glucometer and give you an appointment by the end of the month.
Not to mention a brutal error giving you metformin and diagnosing as type 2 (with 21 years: shock :)
If we got serious, this would be very close to a crime against health.

Because without scare, your health is in danger.
Danger for 2 reasons:
- Hypoglycemia ... it is essential that, until the endocrine sees you, in all the main meals carbohydrates carbohydrates (bread, pasta, potatoes, pizza ...)
Insulatard will make its effect and if you eat these foods in an adequate amount you will have a downturn of blood glucose.
Be careful with the exercise that can also work a decrease.

- Hyperglycemia ... As TNT has commented, the dangerous thing is to be in high values ​​(more than 300) because ketoacidosis situation occurs (something like that the body burns accumulated fat and that is toxic).

My opinion is that today you should not pass without a glucometer and a visit with the endocrine this week at most.
It is very convenient to also visit the educational nurse in diabetes (I imagine there must be in your hospital ... or not) to explain all this world of diabetes (food, insulin, glycemia, exercise etc ...)

But you would get the visit with the endocrine I would go to the emergency department of the hospital, regardless of the glycemia you have.
You can't spend 2 weeks without a specialist adjusting you a treatment.

As for punctures;
Never reuse the needle ... the used hurt more.
Use 5 mm needles (you can demand them in your health center) ... their size is more than enough for anyone.
Injection areas: http: //www.bd.com/es/diabetes/page.aspx ... 5 & amp; id = 32302
With the 5mm needle there is no need for pellizco, you can click on "straight"

Thanks Owash for the tips, they have encouraged me a lot.

This early morning I went to my consultation from my consultation to ask for glycemia control and they did it to me reluctantly.I asked about the glucometer and they told me that that had to be given through guidelines because the reactive strips have to be signed by the inspector to be able to deliver them to the patient and such and which but I insisted and they gave me one with their ten strips.For more strips they have summoned me on Wednesday to make the report and ask for them ...

I don't know anything about the endocrine and I am quite lost in everything ... I don't know what to eat, I don't know how much sport I do or how and in the gym I do what I think and maybe that is not quite good ...

At least, with the glucometer and the book of controls that they gave me last week, I have been pointed out the controls that I must make this week and on the 20th the nurse has summoned me to see the results.

If this week they don't call me from the endocrine to give me the appointment urgently, I will go on a direct Friday to the emergency room to see me a specialist.

Thanks and greetings!

What glycemia do you have now?
If you reach 300, do not hesitate to go to the emergency room to the hospital.
And here you have us.

Well, I have 233 right now. It seems that it has dropped me since the last time it was an exact week: d.

Thank you and enchanted, regina !

A glycemia a day is useless, you should make a full profile, that is, before each meal and two hours after each meal, for a few days to see the trend ...... and without hesitation I would go to emergency ifIt is the only way that an endocrine see you ... but do not expect any more:-/

That is what many people are telling me but I still do not have the strips and it is seen that they are going to give them to the dropper ...

Thank you, meadow !

Hello family !!!It is a pleasure to greet each of those who formed this forum, but I am in my house, although sick with diabetes, but happy to belong to a wonderful community, especially because it is very difficult without seeing them to know what kind ofWe are each one, however, I am 100% sure that all of us who participate are very special because we have sweet blood, and that is not easy to know.I hope to contribute something at least what I read because we all have certain knowledge but we do not share them, if in the past we have been silent, let's try to change and start a new life participating in something;We can give reasons to one of our brothers to feel better or absorb something new that I did not know.
I want to tell you that I am 64 years old, I am Guatemalan and 3 years that I was diagnosed with this sweet disease, but if with will and confidence in God we can each can overcome the days to make them more pleasant and pleasant.I hope in the future to also be able to receive from each of those who intrigued this wonderful group their help in every restlessness and feel every day and satisfied with the help we can contribute.
Once more, thank you first who deserves to be recognized that it is our beloved God, to all those who participated in the creation of this forum and to each of those who, as I belong for necessity and for the desire to learn and serve.

Atte: Chaly

Welcome and delighted, chaly !

Welcome both.

Javi ............ Do not hesitate ......... Go to Emergencies, and that they put a treatment in conditions as soon as possible.

What Autonomous Community you are ........ There are things that seem to me a barbarity.

Greetings.

Welcome Javi and Chaly!
Greetings

Welcome, Javi and Chaly !!!: D

Javi, one more that encourages you to make an emergency determination ... You must see you a specialist, if you are welcomed to the S.Social, you are entitled to a second medical opinion, as well as the change of specialist, but if all this takesA while, I would also go to the emergency room and that they look at what they have to look at.Keeping with high values ​​can lead to ketoacidosis, and that is already very very serious ...
Greetings.