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<blockquote data-quote="miahara" data-source="post: 1364297" data-attributes="member: 256148"><p>Hi [USER=372620]@Nanny_B[/USER] ! Welcome. First I have to say you seem to be getting some good support from your health service and far better than I received at first or since, and I suspect many others here will not have had as good support as you are receiving.</p><p>You've probably been provided with the self-testing supplies because of the gliclazide you've been prescibed as it's a sulphonylurea drug and can lower BG sufficiently low enough to cause hypoglycaemia which is something to be avoided (I'm on it but have only had one 'hypo' and I know exactly what caused it so am unlikely to have another!)</p><p>Like Jay-Marc above, my initial HbA1c was well above yours, but the meds and probably more importantly diet have reduced it considerably and I'm currently approximately 47.7.</p><p>As had already been said it's the carbs in foods you need to watch - read the backs of food packaging and forget the sugars on the 'traffic lights'. Cream is very low carb, about 2.2/100g and double cream even lower at 1.7/100g. Spreadable light butter comes in at a mere 0.8/100g.</p><p>On the basis that 'A picture's worth a thousand words', the graph shows what happened to my BG levels when I went from 'lowish carbs' to 'next to no carbs' in October this year.</p><p>Hang on in here, you'll learn a lot and get all the support you want.</p><p></p><p>Dave</p><p>[ATTACH=full]21687[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="miahara, post: 1364297, member: 256148"] Hi [USER=372620]@Nanny_B[/USER] ! Welcome. First I have to say you seem to be getting some good support from your health service and far better than I received at first or since, and I suspect many others here will not have had as good support as you are receiving. You've probably been provided with the self-testing supplies because of the gliclazide you've been prescibed as it's a sulphonylurea drug and can lower BG sufficiently low enough to cause hypoglycaemia which is something to be avoided (I'm on it but have only had one 'hypo' and I know exactly what caused it so am unlikely to have another!) Like Jay-Marc above, my initial HbA1c was well above yours, but the meds and probably more importantly diet have reduced it considerably and I'm currently approximately 47.7. As had already been said it's the carbs in foods you need to watch - read the backs of food packaging and forget the sugars on the 'traffic lights'. Cream is very low carb, about 2.2/100g and double cream even lower at 1.7/100g. Spreadable light butter comes in at a mere 0.8/100g. On the basis that 'A picture's worth a thousand words', the graph shows what happened to my BG levels when I went from 'lowish carbs' to 'next to no carbs' in October this year. Hang on in here, you'll learn a lot and get all the support you want. Dave [ATTACH=full]21687[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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