Recent Content by thekeys46

Thank you, my thoughts exactly. Endoscopy is on Wednesday. My gut feeling is its autoimmune related.

I could understand if my readings were high whilst I was on steroids, but they weren't. It's only since coming off steroids that the high levels have occurred. Similarly my stomach issues only started after coming off them.

Unfortunately I live in West Wales where we only have a general hospital. The nearest large hospital is in Swansea 70 miles away and is in a different health authority. I have to wait 5 weeks here for an appointment with my GP. The situation is awful.

I am learning. If it's LADA then I should not be on gliclazide. A referral to the hospital would mean seeing an endocrinologist who is awful.( small hospital at the end of the world) I once asked him about my thyroid( knowing I had thyroid antibodies and that it was multinodular) and he was...

When I saw the Dr I asked her about the test. Her attitude was that it didn't matter whether I had the antibodies or not! She said I was doing well getting my levels from 20s to 10! I have been really strict with my carb intake to get them to this level.

9.5 this morning 9.3 before bed.

diagnosed with type 2 a month ago. Hba1c had gone up from 42 to 66 in the 6 months since coming off steroids. My blood sugar levels were around the 20s and I was extremely thirsty and nauseous. I saw the diabetic nurse and she gave me 30 mg gliclazide and 500mg metformin twice daily (luckily I...

Thanks. Will look them up.

Greek yoghurt and berries seems to suit me for breakfast. Hopefully my levels will soon come down.

Where would you go to have it done privately and how much would it cost? Thanks.

Thank you. Will make an appointment with my usual GP (6 weeks)

I was hoping for the GAD test but she sort of said it doesn't matter. Treatment would be the same. I have so many other ongoing health problems and nobody seems interested to look at them as a whole. It's down to me to manage them.

Thank you. Low carb high fat would definitely suit me.

thanks for the reply. I know it's not. I just wanted to see what effect it would have. It is now being given away.

Newly diagnosed with fasting levels of 20+, thirst and nausea. Now on gliclazide and metformin twice daily. I have been following a low carb diet since diagnosis and my readings seem to be consistently around 11(11.9 on waking this morning). Yesterday I wanted to see what effect having granola...