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    Type 2 2 Questions one about metformin reduction and the other testing after a meal

    Morlands Old Speckled Hen 500 Ml Bottle - Beer Servings: Calories 188 Sodium 0 mg Total Fat 0 g Potassium 0 mg Saturated 0 g Total Carbs 0 g *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. this was from a...
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    Type 2 2 Questions one about metformin reduction and the other testing after a meal

    My beef in ale was home made with no thickening just speckled hen ale which says its carb free and Oxo's butter beans 1/4 of a tin and 1 med sized sweet potato. cream was single
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    Type 2 2 Questions one about metformin reduction and the other testing after a meal

    Single cream, I find sometimes if I do that it reduces cravings for sweet things.
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    Type 2 2 Questions one about metformin reduction and the other testing after a meal

    Before dinner 5.2 I had beef cooked in ale butter beans and sweet potato mash
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    Type 2 2 Questions one about metformin reduction and the other testing after a meal

    My doctor has reduced my metformin down to one tablet a day, and I seem to be struggling to keep my levels down, should I go back to her or wait and see what happens, I have been on the reduced meds now for 1 week. Also I had dinner at 5 then at 7 had a cup of coffee tested my levels just now...
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    Anybody know how much accu chek cassettes are in the US?

    I am going to the US with in the next 2 weeks don't know weather to buy cassettes and take them with me or buy them there, things are typically cheaper there than the UK but I don't know on this one.
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    HbA1c

    B12 FBC HbA1c renal and electrolytes liver profile and fasting lipid profile
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    HbA1c

    How long do you fast for before your test? my doctor says 14 hours but the hospital told me 10 and that 14 was too long
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    funny feeling in my foot

    For the past week I have had a really weird feeling in my left foot, it tingles and I am constantly rubbing it, I can,t really explain what the sensation is its not painful just feel odd!!! could it be diabetes related?
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    Refused Flu Tablets at the Chemist

    wow I didn't know any of this.
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    Refused Flu Tablets at the Chemist

    I am, have been for a while, I had no idea I couldn't take flu tablets, I have always taken them and not given it a second thought, you say it can spike your blood pressure, does that mean all flu tablets?
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    Refused Flu Tablets at the Chemist

    I have got a stinking cold, and I went to the chemist to pick up my normal meds and asked for some Beechams Flu tablets, and the chemist refused to sell them to me, saying I cannot take Flu tablets with my meds, I know I can just go and buy them else where, but I was interested to know if any...
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    Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

    no breakfast lunch 2 crackers with stilton about 8 cups of tea with sweeteners through out the day and a couple of glasses of water dinner poached smoked haddock butter beans and 2 poached eggs and a glass of wine:)
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    6.5 this morning its coming down, happy days:)
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    cross and fed up

    I have been walking and swimming and doing what I can to improve my T2, and now I have just got in from A&E with a calf and leg that is so swollen and painful I can hardly weight bear, after an MRI I have torn meniscus, they are saying probably surgery. I am so cross with myself I don't even...