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I friend was diagnosed type 2 a while ago (2 years max) and they told him not to test his own glucose levels. As it was counterproductive, the hba1c test that they do at the clinic was much better as it shows a longer trend and not just a snapshot.
There are two types of diabetes;
Type 1 aka early onset diabetes. It’s an autoimmune condition and basically the body kills the pancreas, they don’t know why and there is no cure. It is an ex pancreas. They do spend money on trying to make it more manageable though and trying to find a cause. It is alway insulin dependent.Type 2 has two versions. Insulin dependent and non insulin dependent.
There are know causes for it and they include being overweight, a sedentary lifestyle and or having it in the family. Sometimes it is curable (reverseable) sometimes it’s not.Yes gels are the devil’s work!!!
@CasualLime your fainting style spells are very unlikely to be low blood glucose, that makes you fit not faint. It’s far more likely to be low blood pressure. Not enough water, salt etc. but I would go to the Dr as it could be anything or it could be nothing.
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Really don't know where to start without coming across as arguementative or a prick as in I know a allegedly know more than U bruv....from bitter experience and having access to private health care (London diabetic centre)
Your mate was told the last NHS short term money saving due to budgets. Long term ha1bcdrfthb tell you the square root of fuck all, especially if you are told it gives you a three month picture, it does not. At best six weeks...more like 4.
Those definitions of type 1 and type 2, as you are using the juvenile late onset definitions were out of date a decade ago. Last lecture I went to was 6...this old from abbot https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/diabetes-care/the-5-groups-of-diabetes.html not getting to lada and mody but think they have been superceded.
As yes I have to be fucking special diabetic, absolute shit for but brilliant for medical studies. But I do have a full listing of my DNA, and my DNA is used in many case studies of DNA which I stopped wanting to know about.
Maybe better to chat, stopped going the NHS endocrinologists as I knew more than them (yeah I know, more they said stuff and I produced copies of pier reviewed research that disagreed with them)
Edit: have had a beer and I'm not happy, so not trying to come across as a know it all cuntybollocks as I knew a little and the more I read and talked to people using me as a guinea pig it amazed me how little we know about our own bodies.
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Since when aren't meters recommended for 'type 2' diabetics? That is a genuine question, not being arguementative
Also it is now insulin or non insulin dependant. But that has been for the last decade (at least) but then I have heard lots of rubbish from diabetic specialists on the NHS.
Oh and gels are evil.