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I also eat porridge made with water and cinnamon for breakfast...on the days I know I will be busy, out longer and doing more exercise as just seems to keep me going. Other mornings I have eggs or Greek yoghurt with sprinkling of nuts, seeds berries. Like you test 2 hours after to see levels...

I think you will always have diabetes, think they are the same... reversed as in = normal range again and remission as in = you’ve got it back in normal range again. Like most things it’s keeping it there! P.S if you have yourself got normal levels massive congratulations as it takes lot of...

Thankyou for your help, yes that’s what I thought the results are shown within ranges usually? This figure of 1311 as she’s typed it, doesn’t make sense to me. I will email the team and see if they can give me more of the results. I’m currently prescribed Gliclazide, which lowers me too much. So...

Hello please can anyone help me try and understand the letter I’ve just had in the post, as it’s a Saturday I can’t call the nurse I don’t think...saw consultant month ago to review diabetes meds as my hba1c has steadily gone up over the last year despite trying 5 different meds. They finally...

Same only lasted one week! Burning beyond painful when urinating! Had so much sugar in my system apparently when dropped urine sample in to see if uti. Stopped the med, now on Gliclazide. Andy drug ending in flozin is that family, so it changes how your kidneys work and you wee out the excess...

I think to be fair, the title question on the post is about a drug, so if you are anti meds then maybe don’t post reply on this particular question. Not all type 2 can do the diet and reduce numbers enough to get off meds. I know I have tried! I think if you have eaten your way into diabetes it...

I took jardiance a flozin too and used the urine test strips to check for ketones. I wasn’t given any or advised to do this, but after reading the warning leaflet page the nurse gave I got some in. I stopped taking it as my body couldn’t cope with weeing out so much sugar. Think do what you feel...

For the first week I couldn’t see it working, my numbers where still high, especially by the end of the day. However the next week my numbers came right down, along with how well I felt. I had an upset stomach for 10 days and felt achy and shattered. I carried on for four weeks as had review...

Took this for a week...awful! I had to wee every 1/2 an hour, more you drink worse it is! I definitely did flush out loads of sugar! But the side effects simply outweighed any results, so after a grand total of 7 days had to stop. It’s a great theory, get the excess sugar out the body...but...

Was he getting hypos, too low levels whilst on gliclazide once his result was 43? That would be a possible reason to stop taking it. The diabetes nurse said to me if stop a med your numbers are likely to start creeping up again. Which is what happened with me! Despite watching what I ate. I was...

That was same as me in my first pregnancy, was picked up in the first blood tests the midwife did, I wasn’t expecting a call to say I had gestational diabetes! But it sounds like it is going really well, as you are controlling diet alone. Try and go with the flow, pregnancies are never a...

Hello, Please try not to worry, sometimes the more scans and tests we have done the more we start to over think with all this new information. Are you diabetic? Have you been told you have gestational diabetes from a blood sugar test result? If so then you should be seeing diabetes team, and...

Ah thankyou, yes the dr gave me test strips, with the Gliclazide prescription, I couldn’t believe it! Hmm that’s interesting, no one else has the tummy issues. No break today it’s the same, but I do now have an itchy chest? Little red rash looking thing, not really noticeable but very itchy! I...

That’s great info thankyou so much, I will try and reduce further on the carb side of things and maybe give it longer to start to work. I dont think I have the willpower to do keto (plus would be only me whilst cooking for the family) I would love to see reading a of 7! Sometimes my waking...

I think maybe seeing the consultant would help you make a well informed decision. I had surgery for an umbilical hernia, just over two years ago now. I was told all the risks and equally told the choice was mine. I left thinking I will wait and see, and after a few more months of worsening...

Thankyou for this info, very helpful. That’s what I’m slightly suspicious of now, that there isn’t much insulin to push out, hence the Gliclazide not really doing anything yet? I was first told had diabetes 10 years ago in pregnancy. Then same 5 years ago insulin pregnancy. After I stayed pre...

Ah interesting, ok so same meal but reducing amount made a great difference to your blood sugars. I’ll try reduce too, although I tend to try keep portions small, as I’m conscious of putting on any weight. But worth a try, if a little less in size helps it’ll be great. Seems like the Gliclazide...

Many thanks for your help. I will try and ditch the porridge totally and stick to more fats, square of dark chocolate sounds good! I think I need be stricter then. Do you find if you wander off low carb even a little bit your numbers reflect it? I still have to get my head around the fact I...

I have egg, spinach or Greek yoghurt nuts, sometimes porridge if hungry and know going be cycling/long walk/busy. I have salads, fish, ratoulle, soup, all homemade. Halloumi and grilled veg. Bacon and egg spinach tomatoes. I swapped to med diet few years ago and more veggies in place of potatoes...

Hello I’ve started taking 40 Gliclazide with breakfast, once a day. Since Monday this week, every morning I’ve had an upset stomach! Anyone else on Gliclazide experienced this? (Couldn’t take metformin or SR met due to gastric side effects!) I was expecting to see my numbers drop, but so far...