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I saw a the doc today, he says I am not diabetic despite my average bg being 8+. I am on a low carb high fat diet and have been now for three months.. The last three fasting bg tests he has done have been from a vein and have been 6.3, 7.8 and 10. My HBa1c. Has also been done 3 times...

My main symptoms which have resolved massively, since going low carb, are a fast thumping heart... Heart rate down from 90 odd to mid 70's and a thickened mid section. Have lost just over a stone, all from round my middle...... Also, no longer hot all the time. This was the one symptom...

Tomatoes were fresh.... No sauces and I drink water, sugar free Riberna or coffee... No sugar, ff milk. Readings this week showed an average of 7.76. ( not including the fishcakes!). I think I am pre diabetic.... The 7.76 is on 50 carbs a day max. My doctor simply doesn't seem...

Grrrrr, suppose this is just a moan really. Doc wants another fasting blood test..... Just to be quadruple sure.... :-(. But in the meantime I have now been on low carb for about 7 weeks. My spikes have been getting smaller and smaller and I have been eating clean...., just a bit...

I have pretty well worked out that I may be on my own with this....... I am going to carry on for the next few months and I managed to shame the doc into giving me a prescription for testing strips....... Only he wrote the wrong ones down.... So today I have collected my revised scrip...

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7.3 and 6.8 were the fasting readings taken by the doctor using blood from my veins..... His rationelle for leaving it three months was because he said no harm would happen in three months and he wanted to see if .... Err.... Dunno.( maybe He just wanted to see if I stopped bothering him...

All of the charts have been since I went on to low carb high fat. I half wish I had monitored whilst eating carbs, but once I got hold of a meter and tested, I changed diet immediately.

The doc glanced at those charts and said would' re test the hba1c in 3 months.... Offered no advice. :-) I

I went to to the hospital for testing, then I went to my doctors on Monday for a repeat test. I called in to see a doc yesterday and took him a copy of my graph printed from my meter because I wanted him to prescribe test cassettes. Turns out my hbac1 is 42, so not diabetic until it...

I didnT know about the different measurements in veins and capillaries.... Wow! So the doctors tell us to test by finger prick but then they test by drawing blood through a vein..... Makes no sense at all. The guidelines give upper and lower limits for blood glucose but don't specify...

Ah! . Are some machines known to be more reliable than others? If I get over the magic number 7 then the doc says there is a problem and I get free testing strips and if its under then I don't and I have to buy my own.. I shall continue on the low carb... Its making me feel so much...

Hi all, I have been eating lw carb for the past three weeks, have lst almost a stone in weight and have just been tested for the doc by the hospital. I don't have all the results yet. ( I see the nurse on Monday). But it was a fasting test and immediately after giving blood, I tested...

I too have always craved sugar, ... Nothing has ever been sweet enough. And I used to eat icing sugar straight out of the box. ( half a packet at a time).... However I started a low carb regime three weeks ago... Carbs are working out at 65 a day.... And I haven't had a single sugar...