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<blockquote data-quote="Blessedarethecheesemakers" data-source="post: 688521" data-attributes="member: 143273"><p>Hi, I'm newly diagnosed type 2 and have been low carbing since diagnosis in early October and feel great on it. Today I had my first diabetes check with the nurse in my GP practice and it went ok (my hba1c was down from 5.9 to 5.7 although my cholesterol is a bit high; my feet were fine). But - she pretty much scoffed at the fact that I fingerprick test my blood. She asked how often I do it and i explained I do it occasionally in the morning to see how my fasting glucose is doing (It was 6.2 on my postnatal GTT but is now between 4.8 and 5.5) and then sometimes 2 hours after meals (like I did in pregnancy) in order to see what effect different foods have. She said that it was people on insulin that needed to test, and when I explained about trying t work out what foods worked for me she said "but that only gives you your blood sugar at that one moment". Which is of course true, but i'm testing at that one money for a reason. I found this all quite unconstructive given I am actively trying to keep my sugars low through diet. Am I wrong to be testing? (I bought the codefree meter btw, following links on here - I'm not prescribed it or strips).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blessedarethecheesemakers, post: 688521, member: 143273"] Hi, I'm newly diagnosed type 2 and have been low carbing since diagnosis in early October and feel great on it. Today I had my first diabetes check with the nurse in my GP practice and it went ok (my hba1c was down from 5.9 to 5.7 although my cholesterol is a bit high; my feet were fine). But - she pretty much scoffed at the fact that I fingerprick test my blood. She asked how often I do it and i explained I do it occasionally in the morning to see how my fasting glucose is doing (It was 6.2 on my postnatal GTT but is now between 4.8 and 5.5) and then sometimes 2 hours after meals (like I did in pregnancy) in order to see what effect different foods have. She said that it was people on insulin that needed to test, and when I explained about trying t work out what foods worked for me she said "but that only gives you your blood sugar at that one moment". Which is of course true, but i'm testing at that one money for a reason. I found this all quite unconstructive given I am actively trying to keep my sugars low through diet. Am I wrong to be testing? (I bought the codefree meter btw, following links on here - I'm not prescribed it or strips). [/QUOTE]
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