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Thanks, everybody

Thanks, everyone for your thoughts. I'm on 2000mg of metformin a day (slow release) and generally eat 150-175 carbs a day. Occasionally it may be as high as 250 but not too often. That's normally when I'm at the "what's the point, I feel rubbish anyway" stage where I may have a packet of fruit...

Hi Geoff, I cut out sugars (not carbs - this was before I'd had a diabetes course) and the biggest changes was a complete removal of Lucozade from my life. Historically I'd had a bottle a day, often 2, for about 15 years. Thanks, Lucy

Hi there, I'm 41, 83kg and 5 ft 7. I was diagnosed as Type 2 about 15 months ago with an hb1ac of 103. Disappointingly, I had written a letter to my doctor some 18 months earlier with a list of random symptoms while investigating something else, all of which I now know are symptoms of...