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A friend of mine has just been diagnosed with T2 (great timing just before Christmas, huh?). His fasting is consistently just high enough to be diagnosed, but his post meal figures seem to be OK - at least in the week or so of testing he's been doing, always around 4.5 at two hours. He's not...

I know one or two other people buy these in the US; today, I found that Walmart are selling the A1cNow meter (two tests) discounted at $20-95 - down from the usual $29-95 that Target or Walgreens charge. I've snagged a couple extra to take home with me tomorrow, that'll do me for the next year...

I'm glad to see this subforum appear. Like some other members here, I tested just a fraction short of a 'formal' T2 diagnosis, but for all intents and purposes, decided to treat that as a full diagnosis and replan my lifestyle accordingly. With substantial weightloss and more activity, I'm...

A couple of people have mentioned some otherwise unexplained jumps in their BG - and it is often said that even a small infection can cause this. My BG is normally pretty stable - fasting around 4.5 and 2Hr pp perhaps as high as 4.7, until late last week, when my fasting soared up to 6.0 and my...

.... is 4.9 Looks like the better weather and the more opportunities for exercise it brings have helped get back below 5 again. That's over three years now since DX and A1c bounces between 4.7 and 5.3, averaging 5.0 with no sign of any upward trend... I've put on a few pounds over winter and...

Staying with some friends this weekend and went out for a few miles walk - came home thirsty and we both headed for the fridge. At home, I keep a stock of low-everything chocolate milk in the fridge - it turns out that Mike doesn't; he keeps Marks and Spencer's 'Chocolate Milk Drink' - and I've...

Got stuck in the snow for a while this morning, I was fine in my 4WD bus, but it was the people trying to go up steep countryside hills in their small front wheel drive vehicles that caused the delays. Anyway, pinched a chicken fajita wrap and a Mars Bar off the friend I was giving a lift to...

Interesting article in today's Telegraph about the history of the low gi diet, which I hadn't realised has its roots in diabetes research, and not just weight loss. The article is pretty scathing about the weightloss organisation's sudden coversion to the low GI cause too. It touches on the...

Just had my first fasting reading in 5 months that was over 4.9 To be fair, eating a huge chinese buffet meal last night with 3 moderate servings of boiled rice, plus chocolate fudge cake with ice cream to follow *may* have had something to do with this morning's 5.1 Still feeling bloated this...

For me, times like 02-30 are things that only happen to other people, I hit the sack at 23-30 and stay there till approx 07-30 usually. Anyway, last night, I was up at that antisocial time (a spider had discovered that the burglar alarm sensor was a great place to go and triggered the alarm) so...

We are off on a hiking holiday to France next month, so decided to get in a couple months walking, hill climbing and a bit more time with the weights before going. Pushed my BMI down from 23.8 to 22.4 and another inch off my waist. After a month of that, started to test a bit more frequently...

As I mentioned in answer to a question in the review section, I recently bought (while in Detroit), for the first time, a Bayer A1cNow test kit that gives results in 5 minutes. It is very simple to use and around half the cost of the usual test kit that you mail to a lab. When I used it for...

I don't drink a great deal these days, but have just had a couple of pints of a medium heavy (5.5%) real ale. I drank them at 10pm, I'll be testing my GB at midnight - so, what does the team think - will I be higher or lower, and by how much? I had a normal low-ish carb meal at 8pm. mark

in all the packets of test strips, there is a paper insert with a mass of small text - including a warning that low hematocrit or anaemia will cause a false high reading. My fasting levels, usually 4.6 - 4.8 edged up over a couple of months to 5.4 to 5.5 so I restarted on Metformin again...

This is interesting: >A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to High-Fructose Corn Syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake...

This article: http://www.isletmedical.com/pages/define_diabphys.htm Is from a company seeking to create an artificial pancreas, but has some very good explanations and graphics of how glucose regulation works. One bit of quite surprising information: ..... In the healthy state the system is...

I see that the Bayer A1C-NOW home test kit is now available from a US company that ships to the UK: http://international.drugstore.com/prod ... atid=10018 Anyone used one of these? Mark.

Hmm, back up to 5.2 where I was last spring, having been down to 5.0 in early summer and 4.7 in November. On the other hand, I have had two holidays away, plus Christmas/New Year and I did slack off a bit - on diet and exercise both. Did have a nasty stomach bug for over a week at start of...

Does drinking Diet Coke after an overnight fast, but before testing have much of an effect on BG? I know there is no sugar in it as such, but there are quite a lot of odd chemicals. mark

a friend of mine forwarded this link to me, and as this very unfortunate story shows, even getting the paramedics to attend my not help: http://www.hpc-uk.org/complaints/hearin ... sp?id=1042 It is good, at least, to see that the professional body takes these things very seriously indeed. mark.