Type 2 Diabetes

totheleft

Thanks for the replies. It has given me an insight.

For the person above, when I originally wrote the post, we had that discussion and he got me worried as he was worried himself.

But now I realised that there is worse side effects than that itself and actually he could be too young for that to happen anyway.

I am not actually that bothered now with him having Diabetes, as he is a lovely boyfriend. I just never met anyone with Type 2 that young.

DigForVictory

Just to chuck a handful of happy dust over the whole issue, on my mothers side, there is a lot of Type 1 diabetes & most of her relatives died from it. Usually kidney failure, long slow & painful. While living, their womenfolk carried dextrosol lined handbags & took no foolishness, but were handicapped by the whole chattel mentality back then (1900s). One cousin, born with Type 1, not only survived childhood (to the shock and delight of the family) but is now a strapping healthy 50 year old married living & working in the States, so we can see progress occuring over time.

My husband has type 2 and yes, the initial secretiveness is absolutely bog normal. Blinking irritating, as some of my family don't know not to leave temptation on the menu & then sulk to me that "he doesn't like my cooking". I'm not sure which to clock with the fryingpan first.

He's now being a great deal more sensible, and I'm not aware of any "Downstairs" issues (love the phrase!)

Sounds like you have your boyfriend's best interests at heart & are ready to study up. You don't have to change anything but you may choose to try a wider range of new things. Listen to the advice given & see if it helps.
(I've an Uncle who went onto DAFNE (Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating) & as he puts it "the bloody woman nearly killed him!" as he wasn't well enough to make sensible calls, so he went back to his old preferred methods and whilst limiting, he's much more stable & happy & last I checked, well over 70.)

It's not as terminal as it used to be, & if managed properly, it's one of those things you learn to deal with almost automatically. All the best!

margaretclare

It has a genetic component, apparently. Almost all DH's relatives on both the paternal and maternal sides developed Type 2, his brother and his first cousin have it. (Although, first cousin is likely to die from something completely unrelated, we hear recently). DH watched his mother go blind and die well before she was as old as he is now. She absolutely would not give up smoking and was not encouraged by her husband (n.b. smoking is an absolute no-no because of its effect on small blood vessels. Glucose plus smoking effects have a cumulative effect on every blood vessel in the body).

Having seen what happened to his mother, when he developed this in the early 1980s he was determined to take control of it. He gets his eyes photographed every year and, so far, fine.