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clarejenkins

Not losing weight.Have lowish carb diet,plus low fat because of NASH and low quantity becasue of gastric reflux. Test with LIbre and need to test before driving (DVLA ) so restest with capillary if LIbre looks low, as usually actually ok. Libre reads lower than capillary usually.
Eat Huel for breakfast as it is all I can face. Take oat based shakes if I need a quick topup from hunger even if BS not low.
Really try to avoid carby sugary food. Not always with success.
Birthday
Jun 24, 1946 (Age: 79)
Location
Mid Wales
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Medication
levothyroxine 100mcg daily. furosemide 40mg if needed, tolterodine 4mg, movicol powder 1-2daily, lansoprazole 100mcg 1-2 if needed, Ventolin inhaler now and then. started on glyclazide 80mg on 12/5/17 because all forms ofmetformin made me vomit. Reduced to 40mg April 2018 because getting very low readings at times. Increased back to 80mg as blood sugars were really not low enough most of the time and in April 2019 went up to 80mg twice a day.October. October 2019 HbA1down to 60so not dramatically improving .
Exercise
walking all I can- atleast averaging 1.5 mile a day
Likes
Music, knitting, food, holidays, reading
Dislikes
Salad as makes me vomit, all raw vegetables, nuts etc give me indigestion
Occupation
Retired/part time own business

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