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I know that in the case of kidney transplants they leave the old ones in and put in one new one. A downside of transplants is that you are then stuck with anti-rejection drugs and resulting auto-immune deficiency for the rest of your life.

Certainly better than 7.1! If I hadn't eaten for hours, I would hope to see a bg of under 5.5 You will have to decide on your own targets. Are you testing your fasting bg every morning?

You can believe the nurse, or you can look at the label.

It might be interesting to see where your bg is now, and then test as I suggested hourly the next time you get a suspect low reading at 2 hours. Everyone is different. For me, your meal was quite high carb. Do you have a diet plan? Do you watch how many carbs you eat in a day / at a meal...

In a way that is good news! Losing weight seems to be much easier on a low carb diet, and lowering bg seems to happen easily as people lose weight. I think you might find it comforting to watch some of the Youtube videos by Dennis Pollock called "Beat Diabetes".

When you get a bg that is unexpectedly low 2 hours after a meal, it is always worth re-testing. I have had a big drop 2 hours after a meal and then a big rise up to 4 hours later. This can be due to several factors - lots of fat and / or protein in the meal, a very big meal, or delayed stomach...

Don't panic, there is lots you can do. Remember, this is the worst time of your diabetes journey. I think most likely all of us here went through a horrible time of partial ignorance, horror and dismay in the beginning. I am now sort of stabilised, but I have never forgotten how how wretched...

A lot of doctors teaching about diabetes consider the glycemic index a mistake. At all events I suggest you experiment by eating one or two dates and testing afterwards. It should make a difference whether you eat the dates alone or with protein and fat. It has been suggested that you can...

I heard a muslim say that it was usual to break your fast in the evening during Ramadan with dates. She said that by the end of Ramadan people were sick of dates! Is that your experience? If so, I'm wondering if the high bgs caused by consuming dates might have influenced your A1c. If you...

Hello Roy, I wish I did anything like the exercise you are doing. How would you feel about trying a very low carb diet? That is under 20 total carbs daily? (I eat less carbs than this and I still can't get down to the bg I would like to see, though nowhere near as high as yours.) For...

Nowadays metformin is more & more prescribed for T1s. I think part of the reason is that metformin is thought to help reduce insulin resistance, and many T1s (especially older ones) do have this. I take metformin(alongside a severely low carb diet) on the principle that any little helps.

Private C peptide tests, in my experience, are a bit far and few. I did manage to nag my GP into sending me for one on the NHS, but after my blood had been taken the highups vetoed the test. (I still feel indignant about my blood being taken and then thrown away.) After that I paid for a...

Hello, just a quick reply because it is after my bedtime. Metformin used until recently to be considered a med for T2s, but nowadays many T1s take it, to help with insulin resistance and keep their insulin injections as small as possible. It is thought not to have a huge effect, but it is...

As well as testing before meals, have you also been testing eg 2 hours after meals? It would be interesting to see if the post prandial rise is consistent eg 2 mmo/L, though of course the rise and its timing will vary according to how many g carbs / fat / protein are in the meal, and also any...

I was not citing the US A1c numbers. Fasting before testing is not required for an A1c test because that is supposed roughly to give an average of the last 3 months' numbers (though it seems that in fact the more recent weeks count for more). I was referring to the fasting test taken when...