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After sticking to my new regime of low carb eating and trying not to eat after 6pm I have lost two stones and my HbA1c has dropped to 41 from the original of 76 to the extent of my surgery phoning me on my 68th birthday to check I wasn't experiencing hypos Very happy now as my meds have been...

Thank you, so pleased with myself.

I am amazed that my reading this morning was 5.9 this is after following fasting for at least twelve hours overnight and a low carb diet. When I started on the 22nd March my morning count was 13.7 and it has slowly come down since then. I am actually looking forward to going back to see the...

I am struggling to get my morning fasting levels lower by sticking to a low carb diet but I don't seem to be able to maintain a steady figure. They have come down form 13.7 in March to an average of between 6.8 and 8 but vary every day. it was 8 this morning but I was awake at 4am with such a...

Thank you Astle, I am not happy about the idea at all, and I am working hard to try and bring my BG levels down to a degree that is acceptable to the hospital. It seems it is a drug (or combination of drugs) that is still being reviewed. I am told to watch my weight and yet then told that this...

Has anyone here been prescribed the injectable drug Xultophy? The diabetic nurse at the hospital is convinced this will help but I am putting off the evil day as all the info that I have read worries me that it could cause me to have hypos and I live alone so this scares the living daylights out...

Does anyone have any experience of the injectable drug Xultophy? the hospital clinic is talking about me using this drug and I am concerned about the possibility of hypoglycemic attacks as I live alone. I would love to hear from anyone who has used this drug.

Hello Carol,thank you for your reply, I never see my GP about the diabetes only the diabetes nurse and generally like last time it was only the practice nurse and to be honest I knew more about things than she did. I find it quite annoying that they are happy to keep prescribing a large amount...

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum although not newly diagnosed with Type 2. I was diagnosed about nine years ago and although at first I controlled things with diet (the wrong one as it turns out) I eventually ended up on ever increasing medication. I was working on permanent night duty at...