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There are two main types of dementia - Alzheimers, which is related to abnormal clumping of protein fragments around the neurons - I don't know if there is a direct diabetes connection, though there might well be. The other is vascular dementia which is related to circulatory insufficiency -...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 4.6 again today - a really good run since Christmas culminating in an A1c of 4.9 the other day. Sad thing is that I know I have to stay on the straight and narrow forever; previous illnesses I got well, back to normal and life went...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn The meter you can see in the left of the picture is an A1c Now meter - costs around $25 for the meter and two test cartridges. I tend to use those once every month or six weeks rather than quite such frequent BG testing; easier on...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn Thanks - best of luck hitting your next target too. Like you, I was caught early and although I've actually put on nearly a dozen pounds (of the 8-1/2 stone I lost initially) I'm still finding a very slow and slight improvement...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 4.6 before a very late breakfast today and also took the first A1c reading of the year; pleasantly surprised with it bearing in mind it covers Christmas and New Year. MarkD.

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 5.1 this morning - very late at 11-30 and no breakfast. Perhaps I shouldn't have eaten so many chunks of the chocolate-covered crystalized ginger after dinner last night... MarkD

A friend of mine has just been diagnosed with T2 (great timing just before Christmas, huh?). His fasting is consistently just high enough to be diagnosed, but his post meal figures seem to be OK - at least in the week or so of testing he's been doing, always around 4.5 at two hours. He's not...

I endorse borofergie's comments, his reasoning for buying the A1cNow tests is pretty much the same as mine. I fill in the gaps between official A1c tests with the home meter - it is always within a small fraction of a % to the 'real thing'. I only test BG occasionally and when my eating...

I know one or two other people buy these in the US; today, I found that Walmart are selling the A1cNow meter (two tests) discounted at $20-95 - down from the usual $29-95 that Target or Walgreens charge. I've snagged a couple extra to take home with me tomorrow, that'll do me for the next year...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 3.4 this morning! Repeated 10 mins later with the same result. Woke with a bit of a hangover after reunion party last night and had a few drinks late after we got home. I already know that I'm not very hypo-aware, since I've dipped...

I'm glad to see this subforum appear. Like some other members here, I tested just a fraction short of a 'formal' T2 diagnosis, but for all intents and purposes, decided to treat that as a full diagnosis and replan my lifestyle accordingly. With substantial weightloss and more activity, I'm...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 4.6 Back to normal after it had shot up a bit due to a gum infection, I think. mark

In real terms, I guess it is - but on the graph plotted by the OneTouch software it looks huge! Since I started using the A1CNow at home test kits, I've cut down testing my BG a lot, but this just happened to coincide. I've heard that a lot of GPs actively discourage non-insulin T2s from...

A couple of people have mentioned some otherwise unexplained jumps in their BG - and it is often said that even a small infection can cause this. My BG is normally pretty stable - fasting around 4.5 and 2Hr pp perhaps as high as 4.7, until late last week, when my fasting soared up to 6.0 and my...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 4.3 at 10-30 this morning, rather late to be before breakfast, but had a lazy start to the day.