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https://www.slimlinewine.com/ A link to the SLB low-carb beers featured above. Also low carb wines.

People report different things. My BGs are low to begin with but tend to be substantially lower in warmer (>30c) weather. I have no idea whether that's because of the heat in itself or because my behaviour and eating changes. Most of my evidence comes from abroad....I probably drink more...

In my opinion 130g/day is sustainable. I've managed around 20g/day since December 2019 so a sixfold increase on that should be easier, if you want to eat some carbs. The point about carb reduction is that you have to want to do it. Carbs are pushed at us constantly and it's very easy to find a...

Don't know about the blood strips, but I get my urine ketone dipsticks from amazon. Last order, 100 sticks for £11.55.

Hi and welcome. They might run a second test just to confirm diagnosis - ie to check that the first test wasn't wrong, they can be - but in the UK these days an HbA1c of over 48 is usually the main and often only method of diagnosis. The main thing I wish someone had told me earlier is that...

Everybody's blood glucose varies, all the time. It's perfectly natural. The big variations are usually post-meal due to carbohydrate being eaten and converted to glucose. For these the highest BG point is usually around 45 minutes after eating, as the glucose hits the blood stream and before...

Food-related carb intake should be processed by the body in a couple of hours. What seems to last longer is the message received by the liver about what "normal" blood glucose should look like. Aside from the carb in the beer there's the fact that alcohol tends to lower blood glucose in many...

My neuropathy was pretty bad for six or seven years - I had the burning feet thing regularly at night from 2013 onwards with rising BG and it ruined my sleep. That all went almost immediately in 2020 as my BG became normal again. I have some residual tingle which I accept is probably permanent...

There's an acceptable variation in fingerprick testing machines of 15%. That means that a true BG value of 6.0mmol/l could be shown by your machine as anything between 5.1 and 6.9mmol/l and be good enough to meet standards. In practice however the readings will almost certainly be closer than...

My knowledge is probably a little out of date, but up to 2017 I can be sure that there were no specific training/registration requirements for the role of diabetic nurse in a general practice. Most practices appointed a nurse to do the things that the Quality and Outcomes Framework (for general...

You can download a copy of the latest Handbook for free. I have the fourth edition bought from a charity shop for £1, and the fifth edition as a PDF download. Hope this link still works https://www.perlego.com/book/2584369/handbook-of-diabetes-pdf

If you take 37 mmol/mol as the mid-point for normal BG, one standard deviation from that figure gives you (at the upper bound) 42. Encouragingly, this is borne out by the evidence - ie that most non-diabetic people are somewhere within the 34-42 range but clustered strongly around 37. Bilous...

If I recall correctly the change in definition happened around 2022 or 23. It causes confusion on the forum as posters from the US will say things like "I am pre-diabetic my blood sugars were 5.7" - meaning 5.7%, which would not be anything other than normal BG in most of the world. To UK and...

I eat kimchi occasionally and it has no discernable impact on my blood glucose whatsoever. Don't think I could face 130g of it every day.

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