Recent Content by Melgar

A very obvious question, are you drinking enough fluids, sounds obvious, but that could be the reason, especially if you are not peeing frequently. Meds , alcohol , excessive sweating from heat or exercise can cause thirst. Are you actually thirsty or is it a dry mouth? I sometimes have...

Possibly, your usual morning fasting readings of 7.2 are down to the Dawn phenomenon (DP) effect . It usually starts around 3am when your body starts to prepare itself for day time activity. It's governed by your circadian rhythm system. Hormones are released to startup this preparation...

Great news @Inchindown :)

I use a Freestyle Libre 2 @Johnianna . I live in Canada so the Libre 2 is actually the Libra 2+ in the UK.

Hi and welcome to the forum @Johnianna . A 5 month delay , that's not good. At least your husband has now been contacted. D2 members generally use a glucometer (finger prick device) to test their blood sugars. The best way yo get the most out of one is to test just before a meal and then two...

I agree with @Pipp don't accept the cramps. I get cramps, yes extremely painful. I get Restless leg in my legs too and arms, a recent thing. My Dr suspects calcium deficiency amongst other things from malabsorption. It of course be an issue with any number of minerals. Not diagnosing , but...

Have you thought of making your own @Geeps ? I make jams so I often have the left over skins and seeds from extracting the juice. I'm going to be drying these and adding nuts and seeds. I have attached a recipe. The only downside would be the carbs from the oats and the sugars from the dates...

Low potassium / electrolytes. I would strongly suspect either of those @Greymalkin

If I recall, it was 25 years ago, I drank something then a while later I had to blow in a bag. I was diagnosed lactose intolerant . But really, if you suffer after eating dairy, particularly milk, then that in itself is suggestive that your body is reacting to the lactose . It's quite common. I...

@peterb999 If your body is coping with the food you eat then your blood sugars should come down to within 2 mmol/s of your pre meal figure. What the cgm is useful for is looking at what your blood sugars are doing in that 2 hour pre and post meal time frame and throughout the 24 hours. It can...

Hi there henry2024 , I can't help you, but I'm going to tag @Grant_Vicat he may have a better idea.

Thanks @Lainie71 . I'm lactose intolerant, but I can eat some dairy before getting IBS. Are you lactose intolerant ? Fats, same. I can eat some, but I soon know when I've had too much fat, plus I cannot tolerate the texture. I tend towards chicken, fish and veggie meals . When my OH is home...

Hi @Lainie71 , sorry to hear you have had a rough year. I hope things are better for you now. I'm sitting here with my lab requisition forms. I have an appointment with the lab on Tuesday to take blood. I'm having a few health issues , I think they are minor, well I hope they are. So I have my...

@Phaid you are a type 1 and you are posting in a Type 2 thread. Type 1 means you are not producing your own insulin, as you know. Type 2 diabetes is a completely different disease with different causes. Type 2 diabetes means, in the majority of cases, you are producing too much insulin, but the...

Hi there @sgiossi . I sympathize with you. I was diagnosed prediabetic late 2019, then tipped over into the diabetic range. I brought it back down. I have no wriggle room weight wise, as my weight is at the very low end of normal. My HbA1c was for a time hovering around 6.3% then my last HbA1c...