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Thanks for the replie, they are very helpful. No problem with ketones, it was 0.2 when she took the bg test of 25. No signs of any acidosis symptoms either. Fasting bg today was 12. It went up to 19 two hours after two slices of toast. After a lunch of a tin of cream of chicken soup, no extra...

Update 2….. After developing a raging thirst and many, many visits to the loo I saw the diabetic nurse and after a finger prick test (25 three hours after toast for breakfasts!) she felt I wasn’t responding to dapagliflozin well. So now I am startling on gliclazide along with my usual...

Hi Rachox, Thanks for the welcom. I would say my diet is usually pretty good and not too carb heavy. I was diagnosed about ten years ago and went through the usual diet changes and a few changes of meds to get me where I am now so I think diet is being managed ok. At least our diabetic nurse...

As an update to the above… After starting on dapagliflozin and my blood glucose shooting up to nearly 20 it dropped back down to around 10 to 12 which is around the same as it was three months after dropping metformin and before starting dapagliflozin. So after two weeks on dapagliflozin it...

Hi all, After a few years on Metformin I became fairly intolerant of it and it has been recently swapped for dapagliflozin. My blood glucose on metformin was usually around 6 ish. It rose to about 12 after a three month break. I have just started on Dapagliflozin this week and after three days...