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That is so helpful! Thank you. I had googled to see if it was a standard range and somehow didn't find the answer. So I suppose even non-diabetics can reach high levels but they will quickly normalise whereas we may struggle to? I've had the Libre 2 on since 21st December so all over Christmas...

I have just put on a Libre 2 for the first time in a bid to keep an eye on trends and so on. I'd been doing really well and had got to pre-diabetic and thought I'd got the measure of what I needed to eat but my last bloods showed I'd gone up so I'm keen to sort things out, What better time than...

I've been following GlucoseGoddess on Instagram - her byline is "Biochemist sharing easy hacks to help... cravings fatigue skin diabetes moodPCOS …" and she has a book coming out. She posts a lot of infographics about how to curb sugar spikes by eating things in the right order and so on and I...

Well maybe, but I find it convenient. I certainly wouldn't faff around with slicing a loaf that thin and then cutting it. This is easy. And, I was only trying to be helpful by sharing something that has helped me with my own missing bread.

I was really missing bread and hated the low carb options I tried but found that Warburtons Medium Sliced Wholemeal Bread isn't too bad for me. It's low sugar, 55 cals a slice, 9.0g carbs. It's very small and thin but allows me to have eggs on toast a couple of times a week as a breakfast treat...

I've been struggling with the same thing. My fasting blood is consistently 8.4. The rest of the day I can go as low as 5.5, have an average of 6.4 ish which goes up to 7.7. At my last diabetic review, I was told I am now prediabetic so it all seems like it's going well. I agree with catinahat...

I have just had my annual diabetic review phone consult and I am officially in remission and pre-diabetic which is great. We had a chat about statins and I said my cholesterol has actually come down a bit and I'd like to try without meds for now and see if I can reduce it a bit more. She...

This is very interesting to me. Zoe suggests bedtime between 10 & 11 pm results in a more stable morning blood sugar. One of my perimenopausal issues is insomnia which is being helped with HRT. However, I find I often don't sleep until 2 am and have rather got into the pattern of making up the...

Thank you so much! Yes, I definitely want to continue with this diet and need to get back to exercising more often too. I really would like to manage as much as possible without medication as side effects are always tricky and I'm already struggling with HRT. I think they have marked things as...

eGFR using creatinine (CKD-EPI) per 1.73 square metres > 90 mL/Min [60.0 - 120.0]

The fasting? Yes, I only had water with a tablet at about 10 pm and nothing else. HDL up is good? What does the triglyceride number refer to? And yes, I'm low carb not kept. Thanks for taking the time - it's much appreciated.

Thank you so much! I was having a big wobble! And google kept leading me to kidney failure relating to diabetes and freaking me out.

I had fasted from 8 pm to 8.45 am when the test was. I have spent ages going in and out of my online records (you can only search 60 days at a time and I had no clue when I last had full blood work) but some success! LIVER FUNCTION TEST Serum total protein level 73 g/L [60.0 - 80.0] Serum...

So back in May I posted this: And last week I went for full blood tests prior to my first annual diabetic review which is in 2 weeks time. I can see my test results online and I was anxious to see them. I relaxed my low carb eating a little bit and I suspected my blood sugar would go up a...

Brilliant :D

Honestly, it's so irresponsible to have a headline like this! Makes me quite cross. And I would like to add that I don't read the Express - it popped up in a news feed.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1515381/diabetes-type-2-symptoms-diet-raisins-treatment-blood-sugar The headline here is "The cheap snack that causes blood sugar levels to plummet within minutes" This can't be true can it?

Fab, thank you. That's reassuring.

Ah! That makes sense then. Silly body! It's an unpleasant feeling and when I check my readings I've been so baffled - like, come on, this is normal! Hopefully, it'll adjust. Thank you.

I have become familiar with how my blood sugar is behaving in the last few months. So much so that I can tell if it's high or low. The issue I have is that what seems low to me is what is normal! When my blood sugar hits 5.6 or lower I get this trembly feeling inside and can be quite shaky. It's...