Recent Content by BobHewitt

I have only had one finger test given to me at an eye hospital as I had a period of double vision. The result at about 10:00 am was 8.1 and I thought that was higher than expected and was told that I had just had my breakfast so it would be high. I left a little confused and as stated before...

No meter used here. Surgery and X-Pert course tutor told me not to bother getting one.

I was diagnosed as having T2D end of April 2016 as my blood glucose was 6.7%. I had been warned that I was pre-diabetic before that but we still celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary in Barbados early March 2016. This was all-inclusive so the alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails were being...

Basically in Aug 2015 a regular annual blood test (pre-diabetes) was 6.2% and I was then warned that I was close to the 6.5% threshold that triggers T2D. In March 2016 we celebrated our 50th anniversary and spent 2 weeks in Barbados. Here we were on an all-inclusive basis and naturally we were...

I have had one session with my Diabetic Nurse and she has left me confused. She talked about the need to reduce my carb intake for my recently diagnosed T2D. She gave me some rough guidance that Breakfast and Lunch should be 45 grams each and Dinner up to 75 grams of Carb. What I wasn't told...

You asked about the blood test: I have always had an annual blood test for my PSA risk and I knew that my sugar blood levels were rising. I did fast for 12 hours before the test and in a year (actually 14 months) it rose 0.5 taking me over the recognised T2 threshold. I have another blood...

No I'm not - I have hair on my head!

Thanks to all who have replied. I saw the Health Nurse at my surgery after two weeks of worrying since I was given the news that I am Type 2. I had an overflow of information and I go back in two weeks for another session of information. She put me right about ignoring the traffic light signs...

Hi, I am a 70 male and I took an annual blood test that told me that my sugar level had moved from 6.2 to 6.7 and I was put on Metaformin 500mg. One week at one tablet per day and now at 2 tablets. I will be seeing the surgery nurse tomorrow after two weeks waiting and worrying what is...