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Probably more chance of it happening then!

Those are ketone test strips. If your machine will do it, you can check for the presence of ketones in blood. I have never used them, although my glucometer is compatible. The ketone strips are (iirc) more expensive than the blood glucose ones. I've always found that the pee strips are good...

If it helps, I eat around 20g carb per day and have done for over five years now. 99% of that time I have had ketones in my urine which is simply a sign that my system is using bodyfat for fuel - it's making the glucose that I'm not getting from carbs in food. These days if I have a blood or...

People's experiences on diagnosis vary. Quite often people are simply given a prescription for metformin and told they'll be contacted in 6 months. I was offered metformin in January 2020 and didn't take the offer. My next contact with the health service was April 2020 when my BG was normal. I...

Hi and welcome. The second test is needed because there is some "acceptable error" in standard HbA1c tests (but that is fairly small and wouldn't explain your high reading of itself) and there is a small possibility of a completely off-the-wall reading - I've had one in over five years...

no personal experience myself but here's a link to the NHS site: https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/pioglitazone/side-effects-of-pioglitazone/

It has a lot to do with how the payments are structured for GPs. There's no financial incentive given to GPs to prevent a diabetic diagnosis, or to maintain (or regain) normal blood glucose levels - the aim to make things better for the patient doesn't attract payment. The payment system is...

Don't forget that "normal" levels of glucose in blood total to around 4 grams or so. This means that a "low-carb" meal (which might mean different things to different people) is probably going to have at least as much glucose in it as is currently circulating. Rises (in the short term) in blood...

I'm not sure there's an official answer for this. My take on this is that it seems to be well established that the problem issue for T2s is high blood glucose levels over an extended period of time. So what's "high" and what's "an extended period"? For me I am reasonably happy seeing (via...

The "official" blood glucose level at which T2 diabetes will usually be diagnosed is >48mmol/mol. There are a couple of other ways to diagnose but they are less common. 48mmol/mol is some way above the "normal" range for blood glucose in people without diabetes. For these people, the range is...

I found the DietDoctor website has a lot of useful information on carb content and some handy visual guides. Link here: https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/guides

I endorse what @ianf0ster says above. I have had normal blood glucose now for over five years and have lost around six stone, thanks to a very low (~20g/day) carb diet. In that time I've eaten as much as I've wanted to and have never been hungry. It's worth giving it a try. People do get...

Fruit is generally high in sugar - there's about 20g carb in one apple, for example. Tropical/exotic fruit (pineapple etc) tends to be a lot sweeter. Tinned fruit is often sold in a sugar solution on top of the sugar in the fruit itself. When I do eat berries, this would usually be...

If you are monitoring/reducing carbs and sugars be careful with this approach. There's plenty of sugars in fruits and fructose has its own issues. I normally don't eat fruit at all apart from a few berries every few weeks.

The initial flexor injury was around 10-12 years ago, and was caused by turning round to the left, pivoting on the right foot. I was much heavier at the time and the flexor decided it had had enough. Possible design fault.