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I haven't posted for a while but I thought it might be useful to some of you to hear of a recent experience with raised BG and HbA1c levels and my GP surgery response. I was diagnosed T2 about 7-8 years ago and 1g of Metformin + diet and exercise had always kept me around 45-48 HbA1c. My GP...

If it's of any reassurance, my BG has been fine for the past 4-5 years and the regular blood tests have confirmed that, so I've not been too concerned about my T2 and BG, or felt the need to test much. Having felt rough for a week or so I decided a couple of weeks ago to restart testing and...

Yes, I'm having trouble getting my BG down over the past couple of weeks but I think I've had a low-level cold (minimal but definite symptoms) too.

It's just a thought, but have you felt this way at this time of year before? If you're anything like me, it's just about the worst season for feeling down - short days, and cold, wet, miserable weather, but my overall mood tends to lift in the very early spring, as the days begin to grow...

I'm in a similar position in that my HbA1c is quite low - and generally always has been - but like you I work at keeping it that way. If I slip, various symptoms come back and my BG levels rise again. My GP takes the other view to yours and says once you're diabetic, you're always going to be...

I was exactly the same - a day later I wouldn't have known I'd had it.

Suggest you pop down to the pharmacy, ahead of needing to go to the GP's, and see what they think and might have for it. I get similar and they can be red, big and sore but I've found they always heal up OK after a couple of weeks. With me, they seem to happen around pressure points, around...

I hope you don't mind me dipping into the middle of this thread for a moment: Whilst trawling the site I came across this post on the thread from a few months ago and clicked in the link. Very interesting, serious and scientific until I came to the colour chart. On scrolling down through the...

Well, the results are in and my HbA1c is 42 (6%) compared to the 35 (5.4%) that my average readings suggested it might be. It also represents a leap from 6.0 to 7.0, in what the calculator suggests the average of the readings should be. A bit disappointing I think, but I shouldn't have been...

Thanks, Nosher. I'll have a good look at that later on. I've recently noticed I'm getting quite a few low readings (some <4) so I wonder if I'm similar.

Sorry Nosher, I missed your reply. Yes, I test at various times throughout the day, not just post-prandial, and I did test after I was diagnosed and found that my BG during those post-breakfast dizzy spells was 14-16. I was also quite hot and sweaty during those bouts too. By experimenting...

I've got 3 of them - all acquired in April this year in a village initiative which has now turned what was part of a farmer's field into plots. It's been great fun, quite exhausting at times, but a marvellously useful way to stay fit and, far more importantly for us, lose weight. Don't worry...

I've had a look on e-Bay and drawn a blank on my search for a spare pricker (!) but, if all else fails, new kits aren't desperately expensive (unlike test strips) and it always helps to have a spare meter. Before you go down that road, though, I suggest you contact Accu-Chek at...

It's a good analogy: I found it impossible to give up smoking until two and a half years ago, when I suddenly 'felt' I was being stupid and I really had to stop. I went cold turkey, just said no to various crutches (such as e-cigarettes) and I'm still smoke-free (given the number of people I...

I was diagnosed the same way - I experienced dizziness (especially 2 hours or so after breakfast, and again in the early evening as I was going home from work), together with heart palpitations, sweatiness, brain fog, almost falling asleep after a meal. All that's gone after I got my sugar...