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    Life insurance for diabetes type 2

    Thanks. Very helpful
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    Life insurance for diabetes type 2

    Hi Having a hard time finding life insurance at a competitive price for someone with Diabetes type 2. Any experience to share?
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    Constant Blood Glucose Monitoring

    Can someone please to know which products can ensure constant blood glucose monitoring? I know Libre Style. Anything else, please?
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    Oatmeal

    On the fence with oatmeal for breakfast. It does increase the sugar level and it seems to drop it also to a healthy level. And fibre content is a plus. Is this good or bad? Eat or ditch?
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    Oatmeal porridge

    Am using the freestyle libra sensor and this helps me to debunk all myths. I also remember that our metabolisms are different and we are all at different stages of the condition. Thanks for all the reply. just one question on the last reply. Is Apple not good for diabetic?
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    Oatmeal porridge

    Hi, When I have porridge glucose reading will shoot from 5.2 to 10.7. eggs at breakfast nlucose from 5.2 to 7.3. Both final reading 2 hours later why this increase with porridge? Is it not supposed to be good as breakfast?
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    Type 2 Low Sugar Level

    Thank you for all your reassuring responses. I am using an all day monitoring from Libre and discovered that many recommended food were spiking my glucose level. Got rid of these or eat very little of. Found what went well with me and stuck with it. Also doing short exercises all Day long. All...
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    Type 2 Low Sugar Level

    Current HBa1c is 5.3% or 34 mmol/mol. Average for a day is approx 4.6 mmol/L Am not on meds and have never been. Am D2. During lockdown due to better diet and exercise my daily av came from 6.5 to 4.6. However, when I wake up, my glucose level is 3.3. Is this too low? Can this be...
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    Adam Heller- inventor of the Libre

    Relate our experience using Libre? Anyone wants to start?
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    Hba1c - 5.5 % - 37 mmol/mol )

    Thank you for sharing your insight
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    Hba1c - 5.5 % - 37 mmol/mol )

    thanks Mike. I am now under 2.5. If I makes an exception and eat carbs, it can shoot to over 3/4
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    Hba1c - 5.5 % - 37 mmol/mol )

    Sorry. Please help my understanding. When you said It shouldn’t, what do you mean? It shouldn’t go over 8 or it shouldn’t peak Thanks for any clarification
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    Hba1c - 5.5 % - 37 mmol/mol )

    I know that there’s no empirical science on this, but am I wrong to think that having a meal with the right ingredients for diabetes will not increase the glucose level by more than 3 points? Eg if it’s 5.00 before eating, then it will be 8.00 at peak after eating?
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    Hba1c - 5.5 % - 37 mmol/mol )

    Do we minimise Insulin resistanc by keeping glucose level within 4 to 5.5 v
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    Hba1c - 5.5 % - 37 mmol/mol )

    Don’t think it will happen. Just one of these weird and unreasonable as well as unfounded worries
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