Recent Content by JimG

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    What are the consequences

    Following the advice on the site I have stuck reasonably well to the low carbs and have shed around 12lbs and my morning BS has dropped from 7 to around 5.5 over the last few days. If......I have a day off, have some rolls, fruit or even cake can I return to the diet and suffer no consequences...
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    Post Your Recipes Here!

    Re: Recipes. Anybody made Fergus's cake tel me how much sugar(sweetner) please
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    Just started to test

    Thanks Sue. It was the morning reading that had me wondering the tests that I did for the Doctor in December were reading 10 and 9.7. So it appears to have come down by a couple of points during the two/three weeks that I have taken the metaformin. The other tests today made me wonder whether I...
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    Just started to test

    Today I ran the first few tests as advised on a linked web site. I am Type 2 on metaformin for the past couple of weeks. This morning whn I woke the first result was 8.7, then I tested jsut before I ate at 11am and it was8.1. Lunch was a couple of boiled eggs and some smoked salmon bites that...
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    My first experience of the Practice Nurse

    Hi gardenfairy. It was the people on here who helped me take on the issue of the meter. As a new member and recently diagnosed I am so pleased that I logged on to this site and I am sure from what I have read so far that there wll be a number of people offering support and advice. All the best. Jim
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    My first experience of the Practice Nurse

    Thanks Karen, the support over the past week helped in going in and asking for some control over what was happening to me which I prefer rather that being seen as spectator. Yourself and others assisted that process by supportive statments and info which I managed to cite to the nurse and...
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    My first experience of the Practice Nurse

    Thanks Sue, your right. I cannot blame anyone alse if I cannot move this on now.
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    My first experience of the Practice Nurse

    As said by a few when I posted the other day the nurse followed what appears to be a standard response to my recently diagnose T2. You are metaformin therefore no need to test as we will test again in six weeks. Testing will not help ecause the meds will be bringing the blood sugar down. Yes...
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    Low- Carb What should I aim for?

    D Day approaches with my visit to the Practice Nurse tomorrow. Since the diagnosis in December I have done nothing in the way of changing my diet(not quite head in the sands) but have read various threads on here and articles about low carb diets. I currently take several medications for other...