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I just spent 15 minutes trying to find out any reliable source that would confirm this. The only source I found were some claims at forums like this. No official source seems to mention any special precautions regarding insulin or its "potency" and x-ray checks on the airport (unlike when it...

Apart from following what is now usually called intermittent fasting for several years (and I do need to get back to it now, I stopped because it didn't work well with my medication at the time), I also did week-long fasts on multiple points in my life - not for any real reason apart from "I...

Blood sugar level certainly has an effect on vision because it affects the fluid content in the lens and as such affects the ability of the eye to focus properly (hence why you should only get a new prescription for glasses once your blood sugar levels are reasonably stable and controlled...

Waking up in the middle of the night is fairly likely to be connected to your blood sugar suddenly dropping either too quickly or just generally getting a bit too low. Either of those is fairly likely for a Type 2 diabetic - the first one is because your body keeps producing insulin to deal with...

Worrying about whether it's high or low is likely worse for you than anything you might or might not have happening in regards of blood sugar (not to mention that stress itself can also raise your blood sugar, and sometimes not insignificantly). As mentioned, 9.1 is generally within normal range...

You know what the absolutely key thing about "possibly carcinogenic" is? Dose/quantity. Many things that are normally consumed and considered harmless can be very harmful in large(r) quantitites. As far as I know, aspartame has never been reliably proven to cause any health issues (it also...

As already mentioned, what you're experiencing and describing is more than likely "just" you being depressed about the diagnosis, which is a fairly natural thing - even nowadays, a diabetes diagnosis, especially at a younger age (which I assume is your case, given the mention about studies), is...

You're probably getting nervous before the procedure, consciously or subconsciously (that one is always much trickier), and your body responds to it. Stress hormones inhibit the action of insulin in the body and at the same time activate the release of stored glucose to the body. The classic...

@JohnEGreen I'm really sorry about your friend, but I think that as far as your logic goes, there's a serious flaw. You say you are now glad he ignored your advice and didn't try to get his diabetes under better control and enjoyed the food instead, since he passed away from cancer. But the...

Granted, I'm not entirely familiar with current diagnostic criteria in the UK, but a fasting glucose of 7.5 would be considered diabetic (not even pre-diabetic) by healthcare systems in many countries, regardless of your A1C. They would probably repeat the test to make sure, but other than that...

One possibility how low carb could increase blood pressure is if your body was so used to high blood sugar levels that it now interprets your normal levels as too low (or borderline low). In that case, it will start releasing stress hormones to raise the blood sugar levels, and these stress...

I don't have direct experience with escitalopram, but I was on citalopram and was switched to sertraline, which are both also SSRI's. In both cases, when starting the drug or when increasing dose, they definitely made my BG drop down lower than before (without really affecting the highs). I...