Recent Content by Rstanton

Thanks for your reply, that must have been quite frustrating having to wait that long for a diagnosis..! The 3.9 may have been impacted by not eating from 20:00 the previous day until 13:40 the next day (I skipped breakfast as I was hoping the meter would be delivered earlier. I then tested my...

Thanks Sno0opy - That's a good tip! I called my GP Practice and spoke to the Nurse giving her the above figures, she did not seem concerned about the figures, but I pushed for a HbA1c, she did not think it would show anything though, From my limited amount of reading I believe the above...

Hi so just reporting back my initial results and findings, I am not sure how accurate the device is. The device I bought was the Sinocare Blood Glucose monitoring kit (from Amazon). 28/04/2020 Last meal eaten 20:00 29/04/2020 I had skipped breakfast as I wanted a fasting BG reading but the...

Thanks Jo, no not on any medication (at the moment..!) Checking the other symptoms I do get pins and needles in my arms and legs (I work at the computer all the time so not sure if this is due to poor posture or diabetes). Hopefully the blood glucose machine will help shed some light one way...

Thank you both very much for your replies...! I should have a meter arriving tomorrow. As my frequent urination has been a long term issue (I have had other checks to see if there were any issues but nothing came back) - so I am less concerned about that and was mainly curious about the...

Thanks for your reply Searley. I have just ordered a blood glucose test kit so will see how I get on and report back, from a bit of research I guess a normal range should be 4.0 to 5.9 mmol/L before meals and under 7.8 mmol/L around an hour and a half after meals. I have suffered with an...

Hi Jo, Thanks very much for your reply - I have been reading many posts on here and see you are a very active and helpful member of the community, so thanks for taking the time to reply. I am not currently aware that I have diabetes, but it is the sweet taste and in mouth that made me...

Hi, (hoping someone can help with my query. For the past week I had been getting a strange taste in my mouth, sometimes salty but mainly sweet, this seems to be localised to the top back upper section of my mouth. Everything seems to taste sweet, even water. I had also been peeing more (but...