Recent Content by presidentholmes

What’s FH?

I meant to say 2 cholesterol lowering yogs, not 2 carb lowering.

Hi all, So diagnosed in May when my blood sugar was a crazy 113. It is now 46. Speaking to my Doctor yesterday about my cholesterol, in May it was 14.6!!! And today it is 6.6. So, a huge reduction thank goodness. Don’t know if this is due to getting my blood sugar right down, losing 21lbs...

When I was initially diagnosed, the doctor was going to put me on insulin but I asked if I could try tablets and dietary changes first.

I was taking 2 per day, one in morning and one in the evening. If I takeit during my meal, I am usually totally fine. If I take it after (I can forget to take it quite a lot), maybe an hour after or longer, I get chronic diaorrhea and digestive discomfort. Bad enough to have anytime, but...

24 Sep. 2019 Hba1c 46.

1 May 2019. Hba1c 113.

This is intriguing. I will have my bowl of porridge with bluberries, cinnamon, chia and skimmed milk and definitely check my blood sugar 2 hours later. Intriguing...most intriguing.

Yes, I have porridge with blueberries, cinnamon and chia seeds. A whole lotta health in that bowl.

Well done you, we both have very similar situations. I am intrigued by the hereditary diagnosis. My paternal grandmother, my father and his sister all had diabetes, type 2. They were all very thin, I am fat . I asked a doctor if they can tell if it is hereditary and he told me that there is no...

Hello everybody, Newly diagnosed Scotsman with type 2. On 1st of May, my doctor insisted on blood tests and I believed he saved me. He phoned me next day at 9am telling me to get to his office immediately and I was then to go straight to the hospital as my blood test was 113, he said one of the...

Huh? Did you mean to address this to the thread starter? I only made a comment, I did not post a problem.

But please remember that is 100g of chia seeds. That’s a big amount!

Newly diagnosed Type 2.

It is NOT GOUT. I have suffered from gout and if you had gout, you would be in no doubt about it. Gout is absolute screaming agony, as if acid is being dripped into your (usually) big toe joint. Even a bedsheet brushing against your toe is agony. I am recently diagnosed type 2 and have also had...