Recent Content by Claire11

Thank you. I’ll start looking at my morning readings and see if there is a link to the previous evening meal, I did get a higher than normal reading this morning. Am going to have many tiny holes in my fingers I think - will be worth it to get an understanding of what works for me. Really...

Thank you. I have omlette for breakfast and my only coffee of the day, so yes it is low carb. I am now eating a low carb diet but it does appear as if my BG goes up significantly first thing in the morning and if I don’t eat for a long time. A low carb meal appears to bring it down, that said I...

Thank you so much everyone. I did low carb to get from 52 to 50 in 3 weeks so I think I will continue and hopefully will get some good results in the coming weeks. I do have a finger prick testing machine. Over the last 3 weeks I’ve been getting my highest readings when I wake up in the morning...

Hi, I’m a bit confused. I recently had a hb1ac (not sure if that’s correct) of 52 and GP said to go on medication which I didn’t want to do. I got them to agree to testing 3 weeks later so I could see what I could do with diet. Latest test is 50, so down by 2 but GP is still saying go on meds...

Hi About a year ago I was told I had pre-diabetes due to HB1ac result of 47. Twelve months on I had a result of 49 and was told I am diabetic. So, over the past 3 weeks I have followed a low carb diet and have had recent bloods of 45. I have bought a monitor and have found that my glucose levels...