Recent Content by chillijo

This is me too, I have been losing steadily for months even though diagnosed T2 in May. Am now at 7 stone and don't wish to go any lower. I will read all the advice later, off to work now. I have been struggling with the idea of what can I eat and do for a few weeks, hopefully the answers will...

Good luck at the doctors and I hope you find something more suitable.

6.6 Still new to all this but learning as I go. Great site!!!

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Diagnosed in May this year I take Gliclazide and haven't noticed any real side effects, sorry, but I am only on half a tablet once a day. First check up with Doc due in a week or so.

My Fathers' side of the family was rife with Diabetes, in both parents families, and I have heard the gruesome tales of death and amputations of a couple of generations ago. My Father was diagnosed T2 in his 50's, I have been prediabetic since my 30's and now at 59 seem to have crossed the...

Thanks for the advice, will be phoning doctors on Monday.

Yep, have tried cauli as an alternative to rice before now and eat a lot of it anyway, thanks for this.

Cheers, I know my spuds and crisps are evil hehe. Will try to find something else,.

Thanks "And Breathe".and also 4ratbags (love the names people come up with ) You have been helpful. There is such a great amount of info here, still wading through links which people posted for me previously. I will phone the surgery again next week, they only have "certain times" too give out...

My Hb1Ac was apparently "ok", (Doc didn't tell me the figure) but my cholesterol was high he said, 5.6 and since all this started a few weeks ago it has become more apparent that I have been drinking more, weeing more, been tired and have lost a few pounds over a short period of time. The...

Thanks for these.

Thanks Dak, Doc just said the reading was 7. Hoping that, if I am, it should not take much to control it. They did double checks a couple of years back but I was found to be ok then.

Hi folks, I have been "pre diabetic for 20+ years and recently had a full range of bloods taken, fasting. The sugar one came back as a figure of 7, I don't know which test they did though as looking on here I see there can be a couple, yes? I have had to go back for further samples, the hbA1c...