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I have read the links thanks - any suggestions? - are H1AC tests which also test and factor in red blood age available? is this something I can ask my doctor for? or other accurate tests. I just checked my meter yesterday with a control solution - however this was pretty irrelevant as the...

I hva e the same problem. Have been diagnosed as diabetic for just over a year and my H!AC has gone down from 147 to 35 in that time. However my home tests have consistently been considerably worse than my H1AC results. I juts got a control solution to check my meter , but these allow sucgh a...

just over a year H1AC of 147 at diagnosis 35 last week. I have been pretty on off in terms of exercising so my body wont have got used to it. I instinctively feel that exercising should be the right thing to do even if there is a BG rise. However I hear people talking about the spikes being...

Apologies if this has been covered elsdewhere - thought I remembered a discussion but cant find. After I do some sports - usually games like badminton or squash - rather than lone exercise like jogging or swimming - my bollod spike. Juts now after an hour of badminton I am showing 11.5 from...

Thank for the replies. As to why the nurse thought I was type1 it was a bit vague about the sudden and severe onset, but when I questioned she said "look at the others in the room" which I assumed was a reference to me being normal weight (strong rather than slim). Could either off you expand...

Hi I was diagnosed last June as type 2 diabetic with a H1AC of 147 - I went through a process of lowering carbs and as I felt better increasing my exercise levels. which meant that by mid October my blood levels (morning and average of about 6 tests a day seemed good) after then I got a...

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Hi where can I understand the basis of Ketosis? I would like to educate myself. I currently eat a very low carb diet but have not sorted out my diet to be low in protein or to be sure how much protein I am consuming . one of the things I would like to understand is - do I need to be I n...

agreed so I ate some. However if I were eating something with a higher carb count out and about - that had fairly low carbs say 5 per 100 grams - but has sugar in it. Is it just the carbs that I should be concerned about as Sally and James says - or do some sugars added to foods have a worse...

so are you saying the opposite of sally and james? that the "sugar" ingredients such as Dextrose are worse than the simple carb count ?

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I avoid anything with added sugar - because I am affronted that sugar is added for no reason. However does the actual sugar content matter? or is it just carbs that make the difference. For example is chorizo with dextrose in it and carbs of 0.7 per 100g worse than chorizo with no sugar and...

by the way I have always been active and drank moderately and never smoked and eaten well and been of normal weight - except gaining about 2.5 stone in a few years which I then lost when my diabetes was at its worst just before I was diagnosed. Because of the negative perception - one of my...

I think that there is cause and there is managing. In terms of cause it might be tempting to label type 1s as innocent and type 2s as to blame for their illness - but actually this does not stand up to much scrutiny and could equally be applied to heart disease or cancer which in some cases...

Hi - I am 45 diagnosed type 2 in june 2016 with H1ac of 147 my last 2 tests were 40 and 39 respectively by some sites online these numbers are in the normal not diabetic range - however I suspect that the line is arbitrary and in fact healthy non diabetics have lower H1ac's than this. So...