Recent Content by hippocampus

Yes, Diabetic nurses love porridge. May take longer to digest than a bowl of coco pops but is still going to fill your blood with glucose in the end!

I sympathise, high BS in the morning is driving me nuts as well. Type 2 and not on insulin yet, but BS is anything from 8 to 11 on getting up, and if it is at the lower end it will continue to rise, although it may not rise so much if high to begin with. Went up from 8 to 11 the other day two...

My GP wanted to put me on gliclazide (in addition to metformin) when my HbA1C went up to 54 from 48. I wasn't happy as I reckon I'm 1.5/LADA (but no tests to prove it) and I thought gliclazide would only do my poor old pancreas even more damage. I suggested insulin instead. He referred me to the...

Interested to know why you don't think metformin is a glucose lowering drug, because I was led to believe it was. My BG is lower since taking it but then I also eat less carbs and exercise more