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Jan 2024
5:55pm, 27 Jan 2024
3,530 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Hit post too soon…
Changing lifestyle is difficult, especially when the environment around you makes it easier to do the “bad” thing than the “good”. Then there’s the fact that much of the dietary advice given to people with diabetes is just wrong…… but that’s another debate, so we’d better not go there.
I’ve just got back from an all-day singing workshop. Now, I am tired…. but nowhere near as tired as I was the last time I did one. Could the exercise be making a difference to my fitness/stamina levels already? I also feel more nimble when moving.
Or maybe it’s stopping the statin, hee hee, since excessive tiredness is one possible side effect.
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Jan 2024
5:58pm, 27 Jan 2024
3,531 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Wow! Just googled side effects of statins, and came across something on an American site saying that Atorvastatin, the one I was on, should not be given to people with diabetes! Presumably because the effect on blood glucose was worse with that than other statins.
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Jan 2024
6:31pm, 27 Jan 2024
51,190 posts
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EvilPixie
Rev my dad had type 2
He hardly had biscuits and never had sugar on cereal
When diagnosed and given tablets he started doing those things because his tablets meant he could!
Mind you he also took extra when his sugars went up and I read that this could have lead to his kidney cancer. (The first cancer he was diagnosed with before it got him 9 years later)
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Jan 2024
7:05pm, 27 Jan 2024
3,532 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Why did he not eat biscuits before his diagnosis?
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Jan 2024
7:12pm, 27 Jan 2024
51,195 posts
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EvilPixie
Mum never bought them!
But after he was diagnosed he started buying them so she did!
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Jan 2024
9:21am, 28 Jan 2024
21,680 posts
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geordiegirl
Was it because the tablets meant he thought he didn’t need to worry about eating sugars then?
My nana had always been very overweight, could never lose weight then she was diagnosed as diabetic and lost so much weight as she cut out the sugars.
I need to get out of my rut of cooking same things because they’re easy to plan and execute.
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Jan 2024
9:41am, 28 Jan 2024
51,211 posts
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EvilPixie
In his head the tablets assumed he ate x amount of sugar so if he didn’t he’d be poorly
So he made sure he ate sugar!
Mum didn’t help, her idea was if she didn’t buy biscuits he’d just buy them himself so she HAD to!
She claims she tried to manage his diet but I never noticed it and given then kept increasing his drugs and were about to put him on insulin injections when he finally hit really ill with cancer I can only assume the efforts were poor!
She’s a feeder
Whenever we visit she feeds us and is insulted if we say no
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Jan 2024
10:53am, 28 Jan 2024
2,539 posts
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WtnMel
Hmm .. stayed the same this week. Not what I was hoping for. Harrumph! 
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Jan 2024
1:47pm, 28 Jan 2024
3,533 posts
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RevBarbaraG
I’m really sorry to hear that, Pixie. Sounds like a failure of the doctor to educate if he thought the pills meant he “had to” eat a certain amount of sugar.
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Jan 2024
1:56pm, 28 Jan 2024
51,216 posts
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EvilPixie
Yep
And he was supposedly intelligent
Mechanical Engineer who ran his own businesses for years
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