Recent Content by Redeye313

My HDL is 0.90 and LDL 1.75 and I’m taking 20mg atorvastatin once a day. I did stop gliclazide for a couple of weeks but my numbers stayed above 8 pretty much all the time. I have reduced my carbs as I used to have small portions of potatoes or pasta but have cut them completely now. It’s hard...

Just googled the side effects for dapagliflozin and doesn’t sound like something I would like to take. Thanks for the suggestion though. I will ask if there are any other options available before insulin. I just want to get it sorted as the length of time I’ve had high bg I don’t want to develop...

I have been talking to my practice nurse and she thinks that the medication I’m on isn’t going to improve my levels as I’ve only had a 0.1 drop on my HbA1c in the last 12 months and that is with cutting down carbs and swapping and changing medication and doses. As for dapagliflozin I have never...

I’ve already settled on the fact I want insulin. After 2 years of really high bg enough is enough. I am quite disappointed by the way my diagnosis has been handled. When I was first diagnosed I went to the hospital because I was having really bad stomach problems and they found that my levels...

My HbA1c for my last 3 tests has been around 74.9 and hasn’t really changed, lowest being 69.5 in the last 2 years. The finger prick testing I don’t find to bad so I guess I would find injections ok. Reading around the forum I see a lot of people using terms like bolus and basal for insulin and...

Hello. I posted a couple of weeks back and got some great advice off some of the members here about keeping a food diary and regular testing as well as before meals and 2 hours after. As I’ve been testing regular I have noticed that some foods will spike my bg really high to 11 or 12 then an...

Hi The numbers were taken before eating and 2 hours after. I have started to keep a diary of food, carbs and portion sizes and I’m already starting to see what things I’m eating which are danger foods. I didn’t realise that only a 2 mmol/l was to much so that will help me manage my diet a lot...

I use one drop. You can log meds food and exercise as well and it’s free.

I will drop the cashews and crisps and look for some low carb bread. I usually have the malted bread as it was suggested by my practice nurse. Hopefully the numbers will drop. I will ask for those tests as LADA does sound like a possibility.

I had a breath test a while back but that was for a stomach problem I was having. My numbers for today were 7.1, 13.2, 9.1, 8.2 and 10.2. Not a really bad day today. Other days it can go as high as 14 and as low as 4.

Yes to be honest it was pushing a lot of wholemeal versions of food like pasta and bread. They didn’t mention “eat well” but I’m guessing that’s the quarter of carbs, quarter of protein, half above ground vegetables. Typical days food would be an omelette or scrambled eggs for breakfast...

Thanks for the welcome. I have made a lot of changes to my diet. I used to eat a lot of carb heavy food and junk before I was diagnosed so when I had my diagnosis I switched to a healthier diet. I have also been on a DESMOND course to help too.

Hi. Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to ask about my diagnosis and see if anyone can shed any light on my situation. I was diagnosed in 2016 but I wasn’t diagnosed with type 2 straight away. I didn’t fit into the “typical” type 2 catergory as I have always been very active and eating...