porridge

  1. Susan Haines

    Measuring Blood Glucose and the effect of medication

    Every other day, I make porridge with 40g of rolled oats and 180 ml of skimmed milk. This morning, my fasting BG was 5.6 and two hours later it was 6.0. As many people here recommend avoiding porridge, I have two questions: 1. Would my medication help keep my BG level down so it didn't spike...
  2. M

    What (if any) wine or beer is it reasonable to drink.

    Hi, I'm waiting for a doctors appointment ( it takes 2 weeks here) to review a blood test from the local hospital after a routine check up at my GP showed high glucose in my urine. I bought a test meter from Argos which showed a high fasting level of 140 yesterday, today was 109 so no...
  3. B

    Huge BG spikes after porridge and exercise

    Hiya! I was diagnosed a year ago (Jan 2017, happy anniversary to me) with Type 1. I'm 26... So I've always been really active, however in the past year due to diabetes related complications, I had to cut down on the exercise. I've started getting back into training again (both running and...
  4. Greg1957

    Feeling annoyed!

    So, I took all of my tablets as prescribed, cut out all sugar, ate fresh vegetables and my meat mainly consisted of chicken minus skin, or fish. But my diabetes has only got worse, then I found out about insulin resistance, like many I went head first into researching this phenomenon only to...