Recent Content by Strasppang

I have just written a letter to my diabetic nurse to ask her advice. Living alone makes it easy to not have temptations like bread at hand. I can probably lose another stone...Then I will be back to my weight as a young woman but then there's nowhere to go. I never had a weight problem until I...

I don't religiously count carbs or. monitor my bloods. Initially it took a while just to achieve single figures. As I mentioned in my original post I don't have a sweet tooth so it wasn't a case of giving up cakes, biscuits or desserts as I never ate them. I also didn't drink alcohol.. Thus I...

I think dropping 25mmol in the initial seven weeks I had expected far more than a drop of just 5 in the following three months...But I am new to all this!

I was first diagnosed in July after routine blood test showed my HbA1c was 84. I was prescribed metformin and then two months later empagliflozin. was added. As I have never had a sweet tooth I had to ditch bread, rice, pasta and potatoes. I had a second blood test 7 weeks after the first and...