Recent Content by KennyA

No, you don't have to wait. As long as you're a) in the country lawfully and b) planning to stay six months or more you are able to register from day one. It's not been updated - this is how it's always been. It is possible that you've had the info from someone who didn't quite understand how...

Return to the UK is straightforward. As long as you are "lawfully and permanently" in the country you are entitled to register with a GP and full use of the NHS. "Permanently" in this case generally means staying/having stayed/planning to stay around six months or so - it's not formally defined...

There's a lot of Vimto drunk in this house (none of it by me) and the consensus is that the "no added sugar" is preferable. The sugar version is about 5g sugar per 100ml diluted as against 0.3g per 100ml diluted for the NAS. Given that (in this house anyway) the standard glass of Vimto is...

Hi DJTT1 and welcome to the forums. I hope you find what you're looking for. I'd just want to caution you and other members about asking for and recommending named clinical individuals - it's one of the things that isn't permitted on the forum. People are OK to recount their personal...

hello and welcome. I have also had severe pain in both big toe joints, but due to gout. Naproxen in large doses worked very well on dealing with the inflammation and pain. I've had no flare ups for four+ years since getting my BG back to normal levels, and I don't think this is a coincidence.

NHS England website says patients cannot choose which vaccine they get. Link: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination/about-covid-19-vaccination/

I can only speak for myself. I have never found any sweetners to have any impact on my BG level as measured via fingerprick. I've no idea how you'd go about isolating the impact of sweetners for an HbA1c. I have about a quarter of a teaspoon of stevia in a coffee, and apart from that I don't...

For me , that would be a very firm no to 95% of what's recommended here. I did eat what looked a lot like this diet once upon a time. My experience is that it increases your blood glucose levels, gives you a range of nasty diabetic symptoms and you get diagnosed with T2.

Hi and welcome. I think all these suggestions are attempts to allow folks to eat more carbs and avoid the raised glucose consequences. Some may well work for some people - I've not tried any of them myself, apart from looking at GI which makes absolutely no difference to me. Largely this is...

Hi and welcome. Yes, as you know it is possible to reduce your BG quite quickly. As you also know, some willpower is needed. You haven't wrecked your chances. Actually, you have first hand experience that what you were doing before works, and will work again. I'd suggest thinking from the...

Scotch eggs are boiled eggs plus sausage meat plus breadcrumb. Typical sausage meat might have 30-40% oatmeal or similar filler. Some are even higher in carb - I think Morrison's do a "sausage" that is only 30% meat. Bread is typically around 70% carb. Breadcrumb, being dried, may be much...

Technically you haven't been diagnosed with anything as "pre-diabetes" isn't a disease. It however means your blood glucose is no longer within the normal BG range - see the attached graph. In the UK the medics call anyone with an HbA1c reading of 42-48 "prediabetic", because they will no...

Hi and welcome. I certainly used to have the down days when nothing worked and I slept most of the time. For me getting my blood glucose levels down helped enormously - lots of energy, don't feel tired. I went to the extreme and cut my carb intake to about 20 grams a day. It worked for me.

That's correct, nothing out of the ordinary - 4.5 just now. Interesting point about RBC longevity. I haven't changed anything and either my "system" is changing, the test is on the edge of acceptable inaccuracy, or there is another, unknown, factor. I've had a couple of 38 results so a 40...

Hello and welcome to the forums.