I have been suffering from diabetic type 2 .although I respect a strict meals as advised by my Doctor I am Still unable to contrôle or bring to the normal level.
I Shall be very leased to contact people Who have type 2 and their advices.
I live in France.
In which range does your Endo. want your numbers to be? For either Type 1 or Type 2, some doctors want the person to be between 70 and 120. This may not work for everybody, so you should check with your doctor to make sure this is right for you. I have a friend who has Type 2 and their doctor wants her to be between this range and I feel this isn't a good thing for her. She doesn't know how to control the numbers and is getting lows every so often.
I've just been diagnosed as Type 2. My doctor hopes that things will go back to normal soon because we think it is steroid induced and once the steroids I have been taking are out my system I'll be fine. So I'm on 'diet and exercise' - no medicines. Saying that I was picked up because I was taking part in a pre-diabetes survey so I was probably heading in that direction anyway.
I discovered an amazing book called Reverse Your Diabetes: The Step-by-Step Plan to Take Control of Type 2 Diabetes by Dr David Cavan and it is absolutely amazingly helpful.
I also bought myself a glucose testing meter - there was no mention of me self testing - in fact I was told to carry on as I was because my diet sounded pretty healthy! It was I don't eat junk food, I eat gluten free, I don't eat sweets or snack - but I was eating my breakfast muffins every day sometimes twice a day and I often had jacket potatoes.
I really couldn't see how I could improve my diet without 'knowing' what was going on inside me. That has turned out to be a really good investment - for a start I discovered that my favourite home made oat-bran breakfast muffins, which contain very little sugar, spiked my blood sugar, as did jacket potatoes - alas another of my favourite foods.
I follow the advice given in the book and at the moment I'm testing before and after each meal to find out which foods keep me at a good level. I wasn't given any levels because I wasn't expected to self test - I was just to wait three months until they did another HbA1c test, at the moment I'm still listed as only being 'glucose intolerant' but I know if I don't get my levels well under control by then then I will definitely be T2 and I want t avoid that if I can.
All these books espouse low carb diets and testing pre and post meals to see what particular foodstuffs do to your blood glucose level - because most all foodstuffs affect people the same. Hi fat is OK too.
The normal UK GP has to follow NICE guidelines which still recommend plenty of carbs (carbs are just long chains of sugar remember) so the diet your FP is telling you to follow may not be the best for controlling your BG levels.
I am Type Two for the past 7 years and since taking control 6 years ago my Hba1c has never been over 6.0 (that's the old measurement) = 42 mmol, so if I was tested now I would be told I didn't have diabetes, but I know I do, the secret is that I am controlling it - it is not controlling me !
That is really good news Theziggy, Im aiming to be just like you and you are spot on - the diet recommended by NICE with 'plenty of carbs' is no good for me at all. In fact carbs have contributed to my downfall.
There is a third type of diabetes called MODY that affects about 2% of diabetics. There are a whole raft of sub-types and all respond differently.
MODY is genetic - and a dominant gene so if you have the gene you will develop diabetes. It is more closely related to type 1 than type 2 but often mistaken for type 2.
My family has a MODY gene - I didn't inherit the gene but my brother did - our particular variant develops between 30 and 45 and responds better to a different drug regime from type 2 - my brother found that he just couldn't control his levels and was continually being told that he wasn't following diets when he was.
If there is a family history of diabetes then it may be worth looking into.
Please have a look at our free NHS accredited leaflets drwf.org.uk/diabetes-leaflets all available as downloads or audio. We can send you some hard copies as well if you would like.
Medicine induced diabetes 
Steroid indused diabetes 
New to diabetes
