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I do understand that nowadays kids pretty much dictate what they eat - not so back when i was a child, though back then (for me at least there was no/little advertising of food) just in the newspapers perhaps. No TV (at least not for the poor like us, and no commercial radio. I could hardly...

Did you just halve the Metformin dose, or did you also reduce or cut out one of the other medications? I've never taken any diabetes medication - went straight to Low Carb way of eating, but for over 2 years I did take Cardio vascular medication including Statins, Beta Blockers, something to...

I don't consider any Jaimie Oliver food I've seen as being healthy for Type 2 Diabetics - they all tend to have far too many carbs. I too was slim (BMI of 21.5) until I started eating a so-called 'healthy diet' of low fat and complex whole grain carbs on my GP's advice. It took about 15 yrs...

Unfortunately the body doesn't like big changes, in BG or in weight for example. This is why desirable changes are hard to achieve. It also means that although the vast majority of diabetic complications happen when BG rises quickly and are often reversed when ot goes back down, in rare...

For many/most of us, GI is irrelevant so having it on packaging wouldn't be of use. We are all slightly different in the way that we digest different foods into glucose and how fast and large our Insulin responses are. For me it is total carbs that gives the best information, but it's only by...

My personal opinion is that there is nothing special about low carb or low calorie shakes. To have better control of what you are eating just eat fish, meat, cheese or eggs. Eat until you eel full and you will have had very few calories and very few (if any) carbs with a really good spectrum of...

I feel you are overthinking the sauces/spices. They should only be used in relatively small quantities - so hardly any carbs or residue. I always fasted for the last 36 hrs because I found it easy to do. The earlier part was a little harder, but a bit of gravy, or soy sauce or chilli sauce (or...

Electrolytes help many people avoid cramp. I take extra Potassium and Magnesium. I get enough sodium without needing to supplement.

I learned which foods are best for me using just an ordinary finger- prick blood glucose meter. Initially I was jabbing myself 8 times per day, but soon just 6, then just 4 and by 3 months in only once per day (mornings for the trend) unless I ate something unusual. It's no good trying to rely...

@Lainie71 By good cholesterol I presume you mean HDL. If so, then, I don't understand why you seem concerned that it may be too high at 1.8 . I have read that the optimum level is around 2.0 and that there may be problems if it is much over that. Last time mine was 2.1 but I'm not concerned even...

Hm... I'm not sure if this: about getting better advice from a dietician - than presumably from the Diabetes.co.uk forums, is true for more than a minority. And "All diets need to be properly balanced." - Well, that is something we can all agree on; except that humanity has survived just fine...

Hi @Sadsac@21 As Melgar said above, apart from food, there are many reasons for a higher Blood Glucose reading- about 40 of them. They include infection, injury, stress, lack of sleep, medications such as Steroid and statins, vigorous exersise ..... Fasting doesn't always reduce Blood Glucose...

I was prescribed Pregabalin when I had sciatica (because opiates have no pain-killing effect on me). It eventually worked/sciatica disappeared just as I got up to max advised dose. Got sciatica again a year later, took pregabalin tablets I had left over from first time - it worked/sciatica...

Mine were just the usual ones. I didn't even know there was a sugar free version. However as has already been said - it won't be inside you for long

While I'm sure that for the vast majority this is just temporary, there are 2 or 3 members in the 'other forum' who say that changing their blood glucose too fast caused permanent eyesight changes. Perhaps they are mistaken, but just in case, I never advise such sudden changes. In most cases...