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I wouldn't be at all happy with those readings if they're consistent. The problem with the NHS targets for blood glucose management is that they accept quite abnormal levels of blood glucose as being "good" and something to aim for. So assuming your doctor is using those, you will be told you're...

Thanks for that. A problem I have with discussing "scientific" approaches is that the crunch isn't anything theoretical: the crunch is what "X" does to my blood glucose. So - to give a current example - I find that bread in Italy has a completely different BG impact on me compared to bread in...

Are you diabetic? What sort of results do you get in real life when you follow this advice? Personally I've managed over six years of normal BG levels simply by greatly reducing carb intake, full stop.

Alcoholic: Low carb beer, red wine esp Italian, whisky, rum, grappa, gin. Occasionally a traditional normal carb beer. Non-alcoholic: Coffee (via Moka pot) often with double cream: iced tea: soda water: filtered chilled tap water: coke zero: other zero sugar caffeine drinks. Plus...

The decision is com[plex in the UK. The NHS uses a number of standards to judge whether any surgical procedure is justified or justtifiable. One is the "Quality Adjusted Life Year" (QALY). Basically this is a way of trying to assess whether a procedure might be worth carrying out, based on the...

Depends really on what you do now. Back on the wagon, or pizza every day? Treat it as an opportunity to learn. You have just confirmed that your system, at present, cannot handle that level of carb. Move on.

The main character in A Spy Among Friends was T1. His condition played absolutely no part in the story, so no idea why it was included. Anyway, he has tea and buns with colleagues - camera zooms in on his eating the buns as being "significant".....and sure enough he has to leave the room and...

Assume you're not looking at CGMs as a direct alternative to fingerprick tests? Otherwise there are lots of gadgets advertised on the internet as "non-invasive" BG meters. People are usually advised not to waste their money. I've always asked people determined to buy one of these things to...

Thing is, for us T2s our pancreas does work, but the insulin it produces isn't as effective as it should be. The idea behind low carb is that you reduce the glucose produced by eating starches and sugars and therefore reduce the load that the insulin needs to carry. You might want to take a...

Really well done. Why not start a thread in the "Success Stories" section?

T2 here. BG at 1.6 mmol/l is extremely low and I'd expect to be feeling very ill at that sort of level. Individual results can sometimes be very wrong, though, and I always double check anything unusual, high and low. If a pancreas loses function so that no insulin is being produced you would...

Do you have any kind of diabetes? and are you on any medication? The figures of themselves are ok in terms of a low bg - pretty much where I am right now according to fingerprick. CGMs tend to read a bit lower than fingerpricks, and fingerpricks are also a bit more accurate, but not precise...

It's not the activity of itself - it's that your liver will start making glucose in response to the activity. The body's system is dynamic and always changing.

It is very unlikely that something I ate at 7pm would be affecting my BG 12 hours later. I would expect my BG to be at or close to the pre-meal reading two hours post-meal. So even if I had a meal late I would definitely not expect it to be affecting my BG in the morning. For example - we ate...

Hi I have no personal experience of any of the flozins but I do understand from current NICE guidelines https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/chapter/How-to-introduce-medicines (see 1.21) that because both flozins and low carb reduce BG levels, it is advised that patients should stop low...