Recent Content by manxman66

Yes, quite possibly. I do not like deep-fried or fast food, but I do like curries and pasta. Actually, I like most world cuisines.

Yes, always a dessert or cheese. Maybe I should indeed start monitoring my blood sugars to ascertain the effects of different foods.

I eat in restaurants every day – usually a three-course meal in the early evening. Apart from that, I consume only water.

I've just had my annual HbA1c check and it's come in at 7.5, which is the highest I've ever had. I was diagnosed type 2 in 2006 and managed to keep my blood sugar in the prediabetes range for the next 15-odd years through intermittent fasting (OMAD). My blood sugar has risen since then, with a...

I'm now three months down the line, and things are back to normal. The sudden drop of six pounds over a couple of days seems to have beenthe result of some oddness from my scales, rather than representing a real reduction. Strangely, after showing me at exactly 14 stone for a couple of days (no...

The drop was over a couple of days, rather than a week. I checked again yesterday, and there was no change: 14 stone exactly. Today I'm a couple of pounds down, but I'd expect that as I started my 5:2 diet yesterday and ate only 675 calories. As you suggest, I think I'll try to arrange some...

Yes, that is certainly a possibility. It would be very interesting to know. Agreed that it's fairly unlikely. Whilst I haven't made any conscious effort to lose weight (my HBA1c was gradually drifting down by itself until the last reading), it is entirely possible that my calorie consumption...

In fairness, pancreatic cancer is probably not that likely, but it could account for the sudden increase in blood sugars after 13 years of consistent control, as well as the unexplained loss in weight. The lifetime risk of pancreatic cancer for a normal person is 1.6%, but I take Verapamil, a...

Sorry, just realised the question was directed to Rachox, not to me. My mistake.

We did a fasting blood glucose test a week after the HBA1c, and got a figure of 8.2. That seems high to me in conjunction with an HBA1c of 7.0, though a few years ago I simultaneously had FBG of 7.3 and an HBA1c of 6.3. Exactly what is concerning me. There are three conditions I can identify...

No, that was my doctor. This is precisely what my doctor said on the matter. She said that HBA1c can very easily go from 6.1 to 7.0 in three months – in fact, she said she's seen it go from 6.0 to 12.0 in that time. It was the nurse who thought it odd, as do I: my weight has been slowly coming...

This is the one that worries me. When I Googled weight loss and a sudden worsening of diabetic blood sugar control, several sites suggested that this can be an early indicator of pancreatic cancer. I already have a higher than normal predisposition towards the disease, as my father was an...

I've just been to see the diabetic nurse about these results, and she finds them as odd as I do. The sudden spike in HBA1c and FBG is particularly strange in that I'm slowly and steadily losing weight without dieting – my reading at the doctor's was 99.7kg in February 2018 and is now 95.4k (or...

That's pretty much what my doctor said, citing the case of her own mother, who "is 80, has been diabetic for 40 years, eats complete rubbish, and has never taken insulin in her life".

My real fear is that if I don't keep my HBA1c under control, I may eventually end up on insulin. My doctor said that is extremely unlikely, but I'm still concerned.