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If you've not eaten anything then something is having an impact on your liver which has decided to produce some glucose. That's assuming the readings are correct - 8.1 and 8.7 are so close together they would be covered by normal (and acceptable) meter error. As to what that something might...

There are. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/chapter/recommendations#drug-treatment You would want to look at 1.7.21 specifically for mention of GLP-1s. There are also a set of draft guidelines currently out for consultation. There's threads on these already. -...

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta1026 This is a link to the NICE guidelines for tirzepatide/mounjaro. It is approved as a weight management drug, rather than blood glucose reduction. Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Eli Lilly) is indicated for 'weight management, including weight loss and weight...

Hi and welcome. When diagnosed, my HbA1c was around where yours is now. Mine had been steadily increasing for around ten years and I'd been having diabetic symptoms from around 2009. I was eating the standard recommended "healthy" Eatwell Plate at the time. Because of information from this...

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/tirzepatide/#side-effects This link is to the British National Formulary and covers the known side effects of tirzepatide/Mounjaro.

Don't think so. If your BG is in normal range (as yours is), that would be an indication that your insulin was working properly and doing its job. With increasing insulin resistance, you'd normally expect to see steadily rising HbA1c levels (and I don't mean within normal range). There are...

Hi and welcome to the forums. What you might be seeing is a fairly common thing called (usually) dawn phenomenon. What typically happens for me is that my BG will fall quite low around 3-5 am (4 am this morning) and I'll have very vivid dreams/nightmares and heavy sweating. After that my BG...

Nothing ij terms of pain relief etc worked for me. I had burning feet, pins and needles and stabbing pains for around six or seven years. I had naproxen for other reasons which I find is very good usually for pain/inflammation: it had zero impact on the neuropathy. Bilous and Donnelly (Handbook...

You'll recall that Malcolm Kendrick and Zoe Harcombe won their libel case against the Associated Newspaper Group, publishers of the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday. The Mail's health editor (who claimed not to believe the accusations he had written) relied heavily on the opinions of Professors...

David Kessler has lodged a petition with the US Government on greatly reducing the amount of carbohydrate in the standard American diet. It is really well worth a read in itself, but is also a clear sign that attitudes are changing to carbohydrate, and the carb-heavy dietary recommendations that...

Ah, but that might generate a lower risk score....

For an alternative view to the "cholesterol is bad, everyone needs statins" line, you might try reading "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Dr Malcolm Kendrick.