Nine years of type 2 and the first year numbers moved

Started 23 June 2025 · 16 replies · 148 hearts · read 2.3k times

SadieSalford, UK · 23 June 2025

about a year ago

Nine years of type 2 and the first year numbers moved Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

I am asking because the evidence for my particular combination seems thin, and I would rather hear that plainly than be reassured about it.

What has changed is small and I only noticed because I keep records, and I cannot decide whether small and consistent is worth raising.

I would like to compare notes rather than be advised, because the advice I have had has all been written for a simpler version of my situation.

Yes, 2. I know how that reads written down, and it is the number, so it is going in the title where people can see it.

Thank you for reading all the background. I know it is a lot and I think it changes the answer.

RomyVienna, AT

I asked what would make them want to change the plan, and having that answer meant I knew what I was watching for rather than watching everything.

BridieWexford, IE

Picking up Romy’s point rather than starting a new one.

Mine has been uneventful. That is a genuinely good outcome and it makes for a boring post, which is why the boring posts matter.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

Whoever comes back after the appointment and says what happened closes a loop that would otherwise leave the next reader guessing. It is a small thing to write and it is not a small thing to find.

CarlMiddlesbrough, UK

Coming back to what Romy wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

The community around this condition can be quite intense about numbers, and I found this circle a relief because nobody here compares them.

7me too 4

HarlanDenver, CO

I have found this circle useful mostly for the appointment craft rather than the clinical side. How to ask, what to bring, what to write down.

10me too 9

ZoëHackney, UK

Reading and nodding. Nothing to add, and I wanted you to know somebody had read it.

TressaSt Austell, UK

Zoë has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

What I would flag is that my other conditions did not stand still while this was going on, and treating them separately worked much better than treating them as one story.

NadiaCairo, EG

Something worth knowing: my medication review took a whole appointment of its own and was worth every minute. Two things were changed and one was stopped.

JontyOxford, UK

I would say that if you have been managing this a long time, your own knowledge is genuinely worth something in the appointment. Mine was welcomed once I offered it.

GillyWorcester, UK

#10

Nadia — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

The thing that surprised me was how much sleep affected my morning numbers. Nothing to do with food at all and it took me a year to notice.

8me too 5

HarriSwansea, UK

#11

My monitor showed the shape of my day in a way that no periodic test ever had, and that was the thing that changed what I actually did.

10me too 7

RonanBelfast, NI

#12

Building on what Gilly wrote rather than answering the original question.

Something I did not expect: the appointments got easier because I had something to bring to them. Before, I was being told; now, we are discussing.

ColNewquay, UK

#13

The long game is the actual subject. Everything I have got right came from doing something small consistently rather than something large for six weeks.

TaviaPalermo, IT

#14

I had to have a proper conversation about my other medications, because a couple of them needed reviewing once things started changing. Do not leave that to chance.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#15

I want to say plainly that nothing in this circle is medical advice, and with a long-standing diagnosis that matters more rather than less.

BunnyWeston-super-Mare, UK

#16

What I would say is get clear on what is being measured and what the target is, because I spent two years watching a figure I had misunderstood.