Recent Content by David_A_Hughes

I'd been on metformin for the best part of twenty years. Last month it started to give me severe and uncontrollable bowel problems, whichever type I took. I'm now off metformin, but do take other oral meds and I have to inject insulin in the evening and morning.

11st 5lbs and at 6' 1" I'm happy with that, rarely changes more than 1lb. However, my 10.8 BG figure is not as low as it should be, though it has been as low as 5.5 last week and hovers around 7 to 8

One Staffordshire oatcake, three rashers of bacon, one mug of tea, on my second mug of coffee (11.00). Later I'll probably have a light lunch - salad, cheese, cracker or two, maybe a bowl of soup. Not sure about this evening, but a quiche with more salady stuff is most likely. I'll snack on a...

Good heavens! Are you guys sure you're T2 diabetic? I'm very rarely in single figures first thing and sometimes well into the mid-teens. I can only dream of some of the figures posted here - 4s, 5s and 6s! Mind you, I was diagnosed twenty-something years ago, so perhaps I shouldn't expect too much.

On rising, I drink a mug of weak, black, unsweetened tea - usually a green tea. This will be followed by breakfast and a mug of unsweetened coffee with cream. During the rest of the day, I will have another four or five mugs of coffee and a few mugs of tea—no coffee after around 16.00. All are...

11.9

I've had many weeks of high numbers - 10s, 11s, 12s, - but today a 4.6. No evening meal last night.

9.1 today, down from mid-teens for the last few days. How I envy all those 4s, 5s, 6s and 7s. With figures like those, I'd not be worrying.

Three scrambled eggs on a homemade oatcake, a cup of green tea and a cup of coffee with cream, not milk. I probably won't have much for lunch - maybe some cheese on a slice or two of rye bread. More coffee and/or tea. Later I will have some fish with whatever green vegetables my wife will...

A bit fed up with hearing about all these single digit numbers. Today I was 12.6 and I'm almost always around that figure, sometimes a bit more - last week I had two in the mid-teens. Oddly I did have a 9.9, a 7.7, a 9.8, a 7.1 and a 5.7 during the last few weeks. I've no idea why they fluctuate...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Far, far too high! Mid teens today. Has been as high as 21, often high-teens.