Recent Content by Robertgray30

Did you eat the whole thing:-0

Thank you, but slightly surprised by that comment. My comment was made on the assumption that people were looking for support from their GP and the NHS. Private medicine is a different topic altogether.

That was my confusion. Fasting to me was going longer than normal before eating something. Having read your response and other threads, people use fasting to describe the normal period of time between meals. Thank you for responding :-)

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I don't understand the original question. As far as understand things a uk resident has to use their local GP. A person cannot decide to find a more sympathetic GP from a different area. I recently paid a visit to my GP about a couple of things. ( I have never seen the same GP in consecutive...

Good to hear people achieving their objectives and beating diabetes. My bloods went up to 62 from 54 over the last year.., which Is a kick up the backside. So determined not to accept more medication. This means being strict with myself and resist the temptations. People keep using the term...

Because I had such a high reading I am testing once a day to see if the change in routine and diet has an effect. I will be moving to testing before and after meals

The comments on a number of the Blogs seem to focus on Weight Loss. While I appreciate the need to loose weight my understanding is that a low carb diet reduces the sugar intake and helps my body to cope with the need to process and control my insulin levels. There are obviously skinny people...

Your right. I tell people I need to loose weight and they say the same things. I think Diabetes should come with a rash so people will accept that something needs to be done to correct the situation

I could indeed. I have joined the local gym and got myself a push bike.Now Iv'e retired there's not enough hours in the day. :-)

Thank you for your replies everyone I was supplied with a GlucoRX meter a while ago but I stopped the receipt of the lancet'sand test strips because I got tired of the needle. Because of the the high HB1AC reading I have picked it up again and have been testing myself once a day to see if my...

Hi. I was diagnosed with Type 2 some time ago (2011 I think) and have sporadically tried to get to grips with it. My last checkup had my HBA1C at 62 which was up considerably for my annual checkup (HBA1C 54) last year. I think I convinced myself I was "being good" and took my eye off the...