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I generally test about an hour and a half before swimming session after an hour or two after breakfast, then have a snack about 45mins before swimming of say. Usually something like a Grapefruit, a sandwich or a couple of mini pork pies etc then test again about 20 mins before I start swimming...

Yes it’s been a battle which has so far seem me off work for four weeks so far which I could have done without and about to have a total elbow replacement in two weeks so it could have happened at a better time lol. As for the Team well that’s a whole different ball game if you pardon the pun...

I’m on one Glidipion (pioglitazone) 15mg in morning. Was on metformin then metformin SR then sitagliptin but had issues with them so dr put me on the pioglitazone.

Howdy folks, Just wanted some advice re blood sugars and exercise. I was under the impression we had to watch our sugar levels when we exercised as they have a habit in going up because the liver pumps more into our blood because we can’t produce it to well from the food.? Now exercise I am...

Please bare with me, I also have Aspergers so I may go on a bit but please bare with me on that front. Hi recently diagnosed and received some great advice from here which I have already started to implement and lost 10kg in 2months and greatly reduced carb intake, not quite to 50g but more...

Have reduced carbs massively to as little as 60g a day but av around 100g which as a fussy eater that’s good! Got my bloods to around 6.9 on Libre constant flash glucose monitor sys. My bloods were 52 then 72 so hoping my next batch are down in below 50’s hopefully!

Went to docs but wasn’t my normal one and didn’t really listen just said stop taking then come back in month! Not exactly helpful. Have diabetes nurse appointment in the morning so hopefully get some answers.

Thank you all for the advise, going to the doctors in the morning and get some advise going forward.

Yep as broke my back in the army, have mobility issues and quite severe pain so a varied range of meds sadly, blood pressure, baclofen, pregabalin, zomorph, amatriptoline (sure that’s spelt wrong, an anti depressant normal but given to me as a low dose to help with neuropathic pain) and another...

Hi, I’m two months into diagnosis, had metformin then slow release metformin but couldn’t tolerate either, now on 1tab of 50mg of Sitagliptin My first two bloods to use for diagnosis were 52 then 72, I’m now using freestyle Libre sensors and they saying averaging around 6.8 - 7.0 in the two...

Hi all, (I’m a Type 2 - last two bloods which gave my diagnosis, middle May 52 and confirming diagnosis just a few weeks ago middle Aug of 72. Was 141kg at diagnosis, 1 month in I’m now 133kg. Metformin and MR metformin didn’t agree with me so now on 50 mg of xelevia once a day. Use freestyle...

Thanks for all the advice, really chuffed to day as I had my first day of not moving out of my target range of 5.6 - 7.9 mmol/L apart from a slight spike after dinner! Using freestyle libra so while expensive, it does tell me a or about the foods I eat and their effects on my sugars etc. In...

Thanks for all the advice, really chuffed to day as I had my first day of not moving out of my target range of 5.6 - 7.9 mmol/L apart from a slight spike after dinner! Using freestyle libra so while expensive, it does tell me a or about the foods I eat and their effects on my sugars etc. In...

Well I am going to struggle eliminating carbs to the level that some do on here so it's going to be a bit of give n take with the battle of my carbs. I have Aspergers so I am very rigid in my ways so monitoring diabetes is not going to be an issue as I am now monitoring using a freestyle libra...

Hi I'm obviously looking to reduce my carbs as much as possible and already things have improved pretty decently and obviously want to improve even further but obviously new to the whole carbs world of understanding. So I see all sorts of foods with x amounts of carbs and then they say, 26.8g...