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Just had my annual checkup. Over the past year, A1C has dropped from 42 to 36 and I have (deliberately) lost several kilos. This marks 6.5 years of Type 2 controlled through diet only. For four of those years my A1C has been in the 30s, for two of them, in the low 40s. I hope this provides...

Greetings, I haven't posted here in a long time. Things have been quite stable although my HbA1c did creep up during the various lockdowns, while still at acceptable levels: 42 according to my annual check earlier this week. More than five years after my Type 2 diagnosis, I feel fortunate to...

I had my first officials "diabetes consultation" with the DN today. (For some reason it took two years to get to this point, after moving from the USA to UK two years ago. I suspect this is because my HbA1c has never been found to be high by the NHS: by the time I moved here it was under control...

Greetings, My last post was about 15 months ago and that was also the last time I'd had an HbA1C check. I have been a bad boy because it was not until this week that I had a new blood test. Even worse, I have if anything increased my consumption of beer to something like four pints a day...

Just had my second HbA1c test on the NHS since arriving in UK from America nearly six months ago. It comes out at 34 which is toward the bottom end of my typical range on a low-carb diet. Three months ago it was 37, but I have managed to push it down to 30 or 31 in the past (see signature). I...

Had fun watching the Lenny Henry birthday special last night. I hadn't realised that he has T2 (and that his mother died of T2 complications after a double amputation). There have been previous threads about him on this forum but they were a while back. Just thought, "Happy Birthday Lenny" and...

Hello All, I successfully moved from America to England, arriving at the beginning of May and moving into my new home. The past few months have been very stressful (fairly normal for any move, let alone an international one) and I have not been a good boy -- food regime remained low-carb but...

Greetings, I'm moving to the UK in early May after 38 years outside the country. Seven months ago I joined this forum because I already knew about the move and wanted to find a UK place to get advice about diabetes (I never mentioned the move on the forum because the timing of the move was very...

After a few months eating one square of Lindt 85% chocolate (4g of carbs) per day, today I tried my Valentine's Day present which is Montezuma "100% Cocoa Solids Absolute Back Chocolate with Cocoa Nibs." Well, that is a really strong (bitter) taste and the texture is almost sandy. However I...

On the one-year anniversary of my Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, time to take stock. First, an update: my annual medical was today, and within hours the HbA1c results came in at 31 (5.0%). My last two tests (three months ago, and six months ago) registered a 30 (4.9%) which is statistically the...

We know that Type 2 can be controlled with diet and drugs or insulin. But we know that even with good BG levels, we still have the disease and the high BG levels would come back if we stopped the "treatment." So what would count as a "cure"? It would have to eliminate a chronic and progressive...

Stumbled across this: http://www.glasbergen.com/diet-health-fitness-medical/diabetes-cartoons/nggallery/page/1.

Since diagnosis and going on a low-carb diet in February, I have suffered two kidney stones (in May and November). The first one was a "normal" calcium-oxalate stone. The second one is being analyzed, but the doctor says my urine is acidic and the stone may be a "uric acid" stone that diabetics...

Hunger is not what we think it is. Medically speaking, its characteristic symptom is contraction of the stomach muscles: "hunger pangs" that can cause considerable pain. These cramps are especially severe in children and young people but affect older people too. This is associated with...

For whatever reason, people with diabetes sometimes want to reduce their alcohol consumption. I'm starting this thread not as a discussion of the why's and wherefores of that goal, but rather, a place for practical hints in achieving it. I have several tips for the wine-lovers out there; things...

This is one of the most common terms used in this forum and other places where diet is discussed, yet I am still very confused. "Ketosis is a metabolic state in which some of the body's energy supply comes from ketone bodies in the blood, in contrast to a state of glycolysis in which blood...

I wasn't someone who paid much attention to my health until getting the Type 2 diabetes diagnosis nine months ago. This had a powerful mind-focusing effect and I became determined to pay attention to all major aspects of health, in part because being ill and having diabetes can be no picnic...

A member of my family developed diabetes about 10 years ago. He was on a trip to Egypt and caught hepatitis (not sure what kind of hepatitis -- edited to add: I now think it was hepatitis A). After he got back to the UK, the doctors told him he had developed diabetes because the hepatitis...

I am in America so dates in the screenshot of my lab reports are given in U.S. format, Month/Day/Year. HbA1c is in the "old" (NGSP) units. Today's reading of "4.9%" is about 30 in the units most commonly used in the UK. My GP here ("Dr. K.") said his goal, once I had "reversed" my diabetes with...

So today the doctor's office contacted me. Somehow, my regular blood sample for the HbA1c (taken two weeks ago) was "lost" and they needed to take it again (***???). So I trotted over there and they took more blood. After they took that first sample, two weeks ago, I then had some fun for by...