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Hello Roy, I wish I did anything like the exercise you are doing. How would you feel about trying a very low carb diet? That is under 20 total carbs daily? (I eat less carbs than this and I still can't get down to the bg I would like to see, though nowhere near as high as yours.) For...

Nowadays metformin is more & more prescribed for T1s. I think part of the reason is that metformin is thought to help reduce insulin resistance, and many T1s (especially older ones) do have this. I take metformin(alongside a severely low carb diet) on the principle that any little helps.

Private C peptide tests, in my experience, are a bit far and few. I did manage to nag my GP into sending me for one on the NHS, but after my blood had been taken the highups vetoed the test. (I still feel indignant about my blood being taken and then thrown away.) After that I paid for a...

Hello, just a quick reply because it is after my bedtime. Metformin used until recently to be considered a med for T2s, but nowadays many T1s take it, to help with insulin resistance and keep their insulin injections as small as possible. It is thought not to have a huge effect, but it is...

As well as testing before meals, have you also been testing eg 2 hours after meals? It would be interesting to see if the post prandial rise is consistent eg 2 mmo/L, though of course the rise and its timing will vary according to how many g carbs / fat / protein are in the meal, and also any...

I was not citing the US A1c numbers. Fasting before testing is not required for an A1c test because that is supposed roughly to give an average of the last 3 months' numbers (though it seems that in fact the more recent weeks count for more). I was referring to the fasting test taken when...

Well done! You might like to share a typical day's menus here, as there may be something you are seeing as very low carb but is not. Eg when I began what I thought was a very low carb diet, I imagined walnuts were carb-free, so if I still felt hungry at the end of a meal I would eat them by...

Very well-done all your efforts with diet and exercise. I watch all Richard K Bernstein's Youtube videos, where he replies to questions sent in. Recently, he was asked whether Ladas inevitably progressed to being on insulin. (This seems to be the general, depressing conviction of almost all...

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Hello Juders, I'm so sorry you have had to add your dismay at the appearance of your hands to the burden of T2 diabetes. The person who said you had the hands of an 80-year-old was spiteful/malevolent/ totally tactless and incapable of empathy. (I don't care if it was your mother, that would...

In the US, a random or a fasting bg of 5.6 or over are both taken to indicate pre-diabetes. The WHO & NHS set the bar higher. So a random test is not imo totally useless, but a fasting test recorded every morning before eating or drinking anything except water can be very useful, as are tests...

Geymalkin, thanks very much for this masterly account of the fructose problem. I learned a lot from it. I do already avoid fructose like the plague. I don't even eat berries, though I'm sometimes tempted, especially now that blackberries are ripe in my garden! It's good to be reminded WHY...

There are only 3 macro-nutrients: carbs, protein and fat. If you drastically cut the carbs and don't replace them with more protein and/or fat (preferably both) you are adopting a drastic low calorie, almost starvation diet. It is hard to eat more fat, as this is going against decades of...

Well done! You obviously deserve your excellent numbers.

Good grief, what an awful time you have had! Do you think you are on the way back up now? Good luck!

I think this may be the explanation for your higher than desired A1c. If you can bear to, you could try the experiment of reducing your carbs further. Everyone is different. Some can tolerate more carbs than others. Myself, I try to keep down to 10 net carbs = c. 20 total carbs daily...

Do you know how many grammes of carbohydrate you consume in a day? (Food and drink.)

Lots of questions - I hope you don't mind. Would you feel like experimenting with further reducing the carbs? I and a lot of other people here consume only 10 net / 20 total carbs in a day so perhaps only a few more carbs than in your one meal. Are you counting net or total carbs? What was...

I am so sorry you are having such a horrible time. Not being heard is, perhaps, even worse than not being helped. No wonder you feel desperate. Assuming you are in the UK, did you know that under the NHS you have the right to be referred once, free of charge, to any consultant you choose...

Jaylee, I was talkng about (my) ancient history (before the pandemic, and then some). Its no use living in the past. I only mentioned it to encourage Emily May. I have seen others report that their bg would keep on rising in the morning, and the only thing that halted the rise was...