Recent Content by JayAmerican

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not losing weight (not a real goal), I'm at an acceptable BMI and have never had weight issues, I'm simply getting back into a more strict regimen of low carbs and also added metformin to the toolset. I'm concerned my doctors have too narrow of an understanding and...

I just got some of my panels back (for some reason they're incomplete at my insurance provider's site but did have some basic numbers I wanted to see). I have a follow-up next week with my primary. The A1C went down to 7.2 from 9.4. Only change was I got back to being more strict on carb intake...

Losing weight should be your primary goal and that should be done with lowering your calorie intake and adding exercise otherwise it will be hard to stick to. Then switch to foods with lower carbs as a follow-up effort. Avoid processed foods, avoid seed and vegetable oils, replace with extra...

I do still eat bananas on occasion and yes they do cause mild spikes, so here are tips if you like bananas and want to still have them: * Don't wait until they're ripe like browning. As soon as they're past being green and skin is yellow, that's the lowest glucose hit you'll see. * I now make...

My doctor prescribed one to me last week at 25mg but I've not taken it yet because the price at the pharmacy was $527 USD for 30 pills! No reasonably insurance coverage yet on it and I guess that might be the same with all the options right now. What is the price like in the UK if that's where...

It takes time & discipline. The first few weeks it may feel like nothing is changing because your body has stored too much glucose and when you first start taking it away from your food intake, it will dump from its stores thinking you might be on a nutrient deficit. Eventually that calms down...

I almost never use finger prick tests any more since I started using a CGM on my arm that tells me almost in real-time what my sugar levels are. If that's not an option for you, what I was doing in the past and reasonably accurate (though costly when done so often) was: * Check in the morning...

I go to an office where I will typically see the same doctor but sometimes it's another doctor. I don't know if any of them truly look at me holistically. I haven't posted here in a while and just looking for experience feedback. I'm 52. 5 years ago I got diagnosed with T2D. Had no idea, since...

Do you have any option of private insurance in the UK? I can't imagine being in such a ridiculous waiting line for critical medial diagnoses. Once I got my own T2 diagnosis from my primary GP, I quickly also got an appointment with a diabetic specialist to investigate the risk of LADA, and do...

I agree with this, though I usually am hungry and the reasons for sometimes skipping breakfast or catching it later is I get dragged into something unexpected for work. It's a little irrational, but I feel like I got to this point of T2D because of work and not balancing time to learn how to...

I don't personally, I have only read correlations that red meat and casein in milk and dairy products increase risk of cancer. BUT I know that cancer tens to be triggered based at least sometimes on antigen responses, so I think it's just a broad correlation. It probably matters more what type...

No doesn't make a difference. The body is definitely behaving differently by dumping a low grade amount of glucose until I eat. The low grade glucose is not triggering an insulin response but the insulin does come when I eat. I think I will try what another reply suggested, that if I know I'm...

Other than foods she has cut, is she tracking actual net carb intake? It's not just simply stopping eating of sugary foods, but watching literally everything being eaten, reading food labels, and paying attention to true net carbs. Body activity, like daily cardio, can also burn off glucose...

Same here. I have yet to try it. I don't even know how it works, I guess it's supposed to somehow increase insulin-sensitivity and liver dumps but the way I'm thinking is: If you're having liver dumps in the first place or have a bad diet, a drug will just hide bad habits and 2-3 years later...

Hello all, I haven't posted in a while, I had a period of time where I couldn't be on top of my diet as well as usual and stopped testing my blood all the time. I'm back on track now pretty strictly for the past 2 months (average A1C based on testing 6.5 American scale), just diet-based no...