Recent Content by joninstjohn

Thank you all, I just need to maintain it now :)

After being diagnosed T2 at the end of December I just had my first blood test results. Hb1 was 131 its now 35. I started on 4x Metformin a day but got terrible cramps so I decided to halve it. No discernable effect on my glucose measurements. Nurse says if I'm still pre-diabetic at my next...

Hi thanks for the warm welcome, I'm 42 keytones??? Still very confused and can't get to see diabetic nurse until Monday. Alarmingly to me I just checked prior to dinner and my level has gone up to 21.5 in spite of eating next to no lunch and eggs with cottage cheese for breakfast.

Thanks Guzzler much appreciated :)

So a week of raging thirst leads me to buying a glucose monitor. My first reading was 27.4 mmol/l. When I presented this to the GP he booked me in for some blood tests and said he'd see me 3 days later. No real advice or anything. He didn't even take my blood pressure. 4 hours later it was...