Recent Content by Zoroaster

My PCT encourage T2s on met and diet to test, twice a day. Me and my GP have been conducting an experiment over the last year. No testing at all. My latest HbA1c exactly the same as this time last year, NICE qualify it as excellent. The first 12 months of testing were very useful, and for two...

Dunno if this'll help but one definition of high meds reads Which, if I'm reading that properly means that any medication you use while eating a "high" carb diet could be considered unnecessary, whilst any medication used while following a low carb diet is necessary. Therefore if there are two...

I considered posting this in another thread, but didn't want to go off topic - it looked so exciting... talking about diet again...So, here goes: Recommendation 16 in NICE Guidelines CG66 (published in 2008) says My reading is that the target should be personalised and that it will be the...

The National Library of Medicine (admittedly a US web site and therefore to be treated with the highest levels of suspicion) has a good article about ketones in urine. I won't quote huge swathes of the article, but this was interesting: Dunno about everyone else, but when I see the word acid...

Well in that case then I apologise to the OP for sending them in the direction of erroneous information found on this forum. We all know how up-to-date you like to keep things.

In that case, why is it a sticky?

Somebody far wiser constructed a useful post called "Self Monitoring of Blood Glucose for Type 2s" would have been more useful for the OP than arguing the toss over whether prescribing decisions were cost based or not. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7373 H.

This Medical News Today story from the beginning of August might shed some light on the availability or otherwise of Novo Nordisk's GlucaGen HypoKit. So, rather than just being an idle pharmacist, it might just be a pharmacist who's aware that there's an supply chain issue...

I don't have that access to that nugget, but I do have the possibly more recent Eating well with Type 2 diabetes - you should try it, its free to download! Not wishing to preempt any of your well considered and considerably well thought out counter arguments to the contents of this leaflet - it...

Yes, I agree too many carbs will cause hyperglycaemia. Once again you oversimplify the standard advice. Once again I ask you to stop it.

Stuff and nonsense. If something isn't innocent, then it isn't "not guilty". Your opening sentence may sound good but is worthy of an inhabitant of the Westminster village not a resident of a self-help forum. I don't recall receiving any advice to eat more white bread, in fact quite the...

What I'd like to know is what Ian thinks is a high carb diet and what Ally thinks is a high carb diet and let's compare the two. Ian oversimplifies the DUK advice, which is a really good way of making a point - whether it's the right one or not is another question. I remember seeing a post...

Hi there, Type 2 from Droitwich been diagnosed for around 4 years now. Me dad had it and his dad, so it kinda runs in the family. Doing so-so I have good days and then I have bad days don't we all? Anyway found this sight yesterday, thought it was time to say hello...so hello.