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Hi Debbie, Well done on the weight loss - you must be thrilled to bits. How are the blood sugars going?

What sort of strict diet are you following? Get yourself a carb counting book and try avoiding bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, cereals etc. Low carbing will really help to reduce your blood glucose numbers - sorry can't advise on medication

We successfully followed a low GI Diet for almost 3 years to control type 2 with diet and exercise - unfortunately, this has now stopped working for OH, so we have progressed to low carbing - no bread, potatoes, pasta, rice etc. Buy yourself a carb counter book so that you are aware of what...

Cliff - what do you do to counteract the dawn phenomenem? Do you take a snack if your blood sugars are below a certain level?

Could really do with some inspiration on bedtime snacks to avoid dawn phenomenem.........please!

OH is also struggling with fasting blood sugars - have tried protein and fat snack before bed and reading is rarely dropping below 8. Ideas would be much appreciated guys!

Being sleepy could be due to high blood sugars

If you can sensibly control your blood sugar with diet andexercise, why would you want to start meds with their side effects?

Could be related to your gallbladder - have you eaten fatty or spicy foods at the time of these episodes?

Have had a 5.9 today!!! That is our lowest reading to date during the last 3.5 weeks. Still not happy with the fasting results first thing which tend to be around 8 - 8.5. Feel like I am constantly nagging with reminder to OH that he needs a little snack before bed to counteract the dawn...

No worries. It might also be useful if you keep a food diary alongside these readings so that you are able to ascertain what foods cause a spike and which foods are benign, if you know what I mean.

Try testing on waking up - a fasting test and two hours after each meal - these will give you useful/useable test results.

He has not started to take the Metformin as yet - he wanted to try and see what he could do with low carbing. He wants to try and avoid meds if he can.

Thanks Catherine, that is certainly interesting reading! It would seem to make sense and might explain why he is not getting readings lower than 7 so far with low carbing. Although perhaps I am being too ambitious this early on with the low carbing - how long does it take for it low carbing...

Thanks John for the link to your diet thread - I will start to wade my way through it. Handa, many thanks for your reply. Would type 1.5 not have caused a problem before now? It is almost 3 years since he was diagnosed as type 2. We have been low gi for most of that time and it has been well...