Recent Content by KennyA

Hi - I don't have any relevant experience about the programme or insulin, but there are many other people on these forums who do. I'm sure some will be along....

Like many things, if left untreated Type 2 diabetes can be progressive. The important words are if left untreated. Nobody has to do that, and there's plenty that can be done. I finally got a diabetes diagnosis in 2019 - I'd probably been diabetic since around 2009/10 but had been firmly told...

Here's a link to the Quality and Outcomes Framework guidance for 26/27. https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/PRN02356-quality-and-outcomes-framework-guidance-26-27.pdf As an example, there's a relevant section at 3.4 on page 28 of the document. Percentage of patients on the...

Hello and welcome. i have no relevant personal experience of diabetic medication, so I'll leave that to others. Your question about insulin resistance though - yes, many T2 people do take insulin. And T2 is often characterised as being associated with insulin resistance (although the original...

Those numbers look perfectly normal to me. 6.2 mmol/l is not "high". Am I right in thinking that you have not had a diabetes diagnosis? I'm unsure why you're testing your blood. Blood glucose levels will naturally vary across the day in response to many things, not only food. Your liver will...

The only thing I can report is that day old potatoes fried up in the morning for breakfast with no other carb involved do not seem to have any appreciable impact on my BG. That said, it's possible that a) breakfast being a rarity or b) the quantity of animal fat involved or c) both the above...

Opticians are generally quite well clued up about diabetes, mainly because of identification of retinopathy.

I don't think it says that at all, and I can't find anything to that effect, or even that could be interpreted to mean that. The guidelines are really mainly about prescribing and have almost nothing to say about people not on medication. Would your DN be prescribing medication for me as a...

As you say, eggs have no carbohydrate content. I would suggest that the impact on your blood glucose is solely due to the bread you're eating, which is 60-70% carb. I'd expect anyone, diabetic or not, to show a rise in BG after eating bread, it's natural and to be expected. But it's nothing...

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Been using it for a while. Tastes OK, just a bit runnier than traditional ketchup. If you use (say) a 10g slug on a burger that's about half a gram carb from the ketchup.

I was offered metformin on diagnosis, didn't accept. Reduced my carb intake to next to nothing instead, which has worked.

The American College of Cardiology believes that limits on saturated fat in the diet are unnecessary. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109720356874?via%3Dihub=&utm_source=arrow.proteinpower.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-arrow-188

So here we are in April 2026. This year's HbA1c is 37, same as last year. That is five years of bang normal results with a start point in April 2020. I think this means I get coded differently by the NHS - will need to check that. Other points - didn't get weighed, no statin conversation, no...

That's not something I do. It's well known that you will make the cholesterol you need - about 80% of it is manufactured in the body. Statins are designed to interfere with this process - they have no impact on dietary cholesterol. There are some interesting recently published studies from (if...