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Are you drinking coffee before taking your morning reading as this can raise your blood sugar by one or two points..

By following a low carb diet and a bit of daily exercise I have brought my HbA1c down to 42 from 92 and have been taken off a number of pills. It is hard at times but I feel such a lot better and hope to avoid all the complications caused by poor blood sugar control. The upside is that I am...

I’m sorry to hear of the distress caused by ‘diabetic snobbery’ and a number of very good points have been made in this thread. I’m Type 2 myself, but have come accross a number of type 1’s in the outreach work that I do and have consequently got a great deal of sympathy for the plight of people...

Good Evening Laura I’m a 59 year old company director and diagnosed with Type 2 in 2009. Having a family history with Diabetes, I immediately cut sugar from my diet and over six years lost about four stone in weight (20.5 stone at diagnosis!) However, this did nothing to sort out my HBA1c...

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Diolch / thank you E

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hca- good evening- sorry to hear about your experience and the anxiety that it has caused you! Please don't panic as you are doing the right thing with your LCHF diet- keep at it and your levels will stabilise... I have also found that an hour of brisk walking every day helps to keep me on...

Good evening Alunke82- beeing ill in the morning is a regular feature of my diabetes and remains the case even though I have lost a lot of weight and reduced my HBA 1c to 46. You are ill for a reason and you need to get to the bottom of it- give your doctor a call and insist on a diagnosis!

I have decided to give lipoic acid a try to help with pain in my feet after consulting my GP- can anyone recommend a supplier as I am a little nervous of buying medicine online?

Marion- good evening! You have reached a very significant point in your life, one which I reached in 2009 at the age of 50. I'm sorry to say that I didn't take it too seriously at the time and now realize what a mistake that was- hence my answering your post! This is a very serious disease which...