Recent Content by David_A_Hughes

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    New with Insulin

    Interesting. I've known I'm T2 diabetic for around 20 years and I've progressed through lots of medication regimes, usually increasing dosages at regular intervals. Recently I've started injecting insulin. At first it did make some difference to my fasting BG figures, lately, however, they've...
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    What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

    Breakfast today was my usual 'Staffie' oatcake, but with 5 fish-fingers. A cup of tea and a cup of coffee - well, mugs really. The coffee with cream, the tea as nature intended. Since then I've had a bowl of veggie chilli with extra mushrooms, another cup of coffee and then another. I'm...
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    16.4 this morning. I have an appointment with my nurse later today and I expect to be put on insulin injections soon. I don't think I can go as far as keto, but I do try and go as far low carb as I can, but nothing works. I am far from overweight (right in the middle of the green section for...
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    Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

    One cup of green tea (no milk or sugar), one Staffordshire oatcake with three chipolata sausages. Later, I'll have another cup of coffee or two and more green tea. Lunch will probably be spinach soup with some sort of cheese and my evening meal will be in the hands of my wife - likely to be...
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    Far, far too high! Mid teens today. Has been as high as 21, often high-teens.
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    What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

    Some grilled bacon wrapped in a Staffordshire oatcake (the carb I won't/can't give up) a cup of green tea, a cup of unsweetened fresh ground coffee but with a dash of cream (and another, similar one, later this morning). My waking BG was annoyingly high (as it always is) despite the intake of...
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    What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

    Three rashers of bacon, wrapped in an oat cake and a cup of gunpowder tea. I'm currently (just past 11.00) on my third cup of coffee. I may have a piece of fruit or two during the day and then whatever my wife conjures up for our evening meal. I will TRY and stay as low carb as I can. (sigh -...
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    Changing from Metformin to slow release

    I was switched to slow release Metformin by my GP several years ago. Within weeks I was back on the standard tablet. Slow release turned my stomach to mush and I couldn't dare be more than a few minutes from a loo at any time. It was a disaster. As soon as I returned to the standard tablet...
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    What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

    Started the day with a cup of black tea, 6 half rashers of bacon wrapped in a Staffordshire oatcake. I'm now on the first cup of coffee (there'll be another 3 or 4 later). Lunch will probably be a couple of rounds of cheese on rye bread and later I'll have whatever my wife will dream up -...
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    Do you weigh yourself every day?

    Not every day but every few days. I usually know pretty well what the scales are going to tell me and it's almost always good.....unlike my blasted BG! I am working on that, making slow progress with tiny little baby-steps...less and less carbohydrate, more and more exercise, less and less...
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    Help please, can't bring levels down

    I try and follow what I think is a comparatively low carb diet (I don't weigh what I eat, but I do steer clear of the obvious things - rice, root crop veg, bread, beer, pasta - in fact pretty well everything with refined flour in it (or ANY flour for that matter) and anything else I find is on...
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    Can I get drunk?

    Depending on how frequent your sessions are, I doubt you'll be alive for much longer! However, good luck. P.S. - I'm a whisky man myself, but I can't afford to drink a litre at a time.
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    Can I get drunk?

    You can do a litre of vodka in a session, and you're still alive!?
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    What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

    So far this morning, two sausages wrapped in a Staffordshire oatcake, one cup of gunpowder tea and one cup of coffee. Yesterday's breakfast was fairly similar, but for lunch I had a bowl of spinach and mushroom soup, some cheese and a few crackers. My evening meal was a vegetable curry with no...
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    Cant find a cereal that doesn't shoot my blood sugar right up!

    If you can get them (Sainsbury's seems to be the only supermarket near me that supplies them) try Staffordshire (or Derbyshire) oat cakes. A little butter and 30 seconds in the microwave and eat. Marmite, if you like it, wrap up bacon, sausages, etc in them. I love them, but maybe not for...