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Hi @TrishMabey and welcome to the forum. The standard way to find out what your BG is doing currently is through a fingerprick test...

Hi - basically it depends on what your local NHS is prepared to pay for. As CGMs (and blood monitoring generally) are still not thought...

For some reason, while in the popular media they all suggest eating less and exercising more fore weight loss, that's not how it works...

Agree with the above. 15 for a standard reading is indicative of a BG issue. I used to go to sleep at any opportunity, always a risk...

I can't answer that - I have no personal experience of either medication, and this forum does not allow anyone to advise on medication...

Hi and welcome. I'm a T2 and have maintained normal blood glucose levels for over five years now solely through diet. I eat all sorts of...

Hi @SteveN1966 , from your profile I see that you're on gliclazide. This is a medication that can cause hypos so I assume you have a...

Sorry. I had the low carb beers in my head typing that - I think those are the ones roughly equivalent to (non-sweet) wines. Traditional...

Alcohol certainly lowers my BG, although it takes a bit of quantity for that to become evident. I've had one particularly nasty...

Hi and welcome. You seem to have got a grip of the approach pretty quickly. As far as drinking goes - in relation to the carb content -...

As well as the permitted max 15% variance in glucometer results, there is also an allowable standard for completely off-the-wall...

@KennyA highly recommend the Panda flour. Panda suet pastry makes a cracking pie !

While I had neuropathy I found nothing that really helped. Mine was the burning, plus stabbing, plus pins and needles, and always worst...

Hi Alan, and welcome to the forum. The experience of the majority of Type 2's is that in the UK most are offered medication without any...

I've had exactly the same experience - it depends which room in the practice I am weighed in. Neither agree with my cheapo home scales...