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@midiman @HSSS has provided a good answer to your question on what is a LCHF diet. I can reiterate in my case it seems to have been greatly successful. You learn a lot on these forums. It seems to me ones chances of success vary a lot but I have had good results, possibly as I am pretty sure...

Update from my original post. Today (Monday 23rd March) I was intending to cancel my blood test appointment using my medical practice's website. Before I got around to doing this, one of the nurses called up to tell me they were cancelling the appointment (due in 4 days from now) as it is a...

Thanks @Chook and @Goonergal - but in fact I regularly monitor my blood glucose levels and use the MySugr app to track them. During last few months I am usually under 6, but several times a week up to 6.5, but very rarely higher. According to the MySugr I have a low 30s estimated Hba1C but in...

That is interesting that the policy at your doctors is to postpone reviews - my surgery sent me a text confirmation of my appointment a couple of days ago.

I have a 3 monthly a1C test booked in 5 days. My inclination is to cancel this as its not essential, involves going to medical practice, and it looks like there is going to be a big increase in Covid-19 infections in London, where I live. Some background - I was diagnosed 9 months ago with a...

Thanks @porl69 and @Rokaab. I had no idea about the 15% tolerance. That would explain why I occasionally have seen post-prandial readings lower than the before-meal ones. I know of course HbA1C is a different test but it did get me thinking if that was always 100% consistent (I have reason to...

Some months ago I purchased an Accucheck Performa Nano for testing my BG. Although its not the cheapest device I purchased it as it is made by the medical device division of Roche, the enormous pharma company - and I thought if anyone should be able to produce reliable monitors it would be them...

@xfieldok I record typically 4 - 7 times a day and I HAVE now started recording exercise, but this is recent. But (thanks to other forum posters)I have realised what is significant is WHEN you record. First thing in the morning is easy, doing it before eating and 2 hours later is much more...

Updating this thread for the Greater Good: Here is a summery of my Hb1AC: 117 - July 2019 (diagnosis) 51 - October 2019 44 - October 2019 (privately paid test done 2 weeks after previous one, as I did not trust the result - because of my own BG readings) 38 - January 2019 (results posted on my...

I was diagnosed with T2 in mid July 2019 (HbA1C=117) and immediately went onto low Glycaemic Index diet with greatly lowered calorie intake) and lots of exercise. I lost about 10 kilos in 3 months (9% body weight) and started monitoring my BG regularly about a month into this regime - it was...

Here is a follow-up to my original post when I reported that MySugr was estimating my Hba1c ro be in the high to mid 30s but my HbA1c in mid October was 51. Since then I have been much more rigorous and frequent with my testing, as suggested on this forum, though I have also have reduced my...

I went on a DESMOND course. A co-ordinator telephoned me offering it within a few days of my being diagnosed as Type 2 which was very nicely proactive. I have to say I found it pretty basic but then I am an assiduous reader of online materials. There were some nice visual aids (e.g...

Thanks @xfieldok @Rachox and @ChrissiStar for your helpful comments! In fact I have been inputting into MySugr pretty well every day except for the first two weeks following diagnosis (so 10 weeks in all) and I have just checked - I have 387 logs which averages about 5 readings a day. I...

I thought I would put my own experience of estimating HbA1C via the glucose monitoring app MySugr. There has been a number of threads on this recently. But here are my own experiences to throw into the mix. I would be also interested to have feedback from those more experienced than me to...

I was 6.7 this morning. However the fasting reading is often the highest reading I get during the day (typically I have daytime readings of 5.0 to 6.2, while fasting readings typically 6.0 to 7.0 ). Not sure what this means - I guess for most people the fasting reading is the lowest in the day?