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My Libre is dead (long live the Libre.) I got a 7.1 out of the GlucoRx-Q this morning, which is just about back in my usual morning fasting range of high 5's through to low 7's. Today, I'm giving protein shakes a go as breakfast and lunch replacements, and staying low carb for everything else...

2 hours until my Libre expires, but my levels are much better today. I dared to get on the scales, and I've put on exactly 4lbs over Christmas and New Year. I was expecting considerably more, to be honest, and was afraid I'd have gone all the way back to my pre-diagnosis weight. Yes, I need to...

What's strange is that these are worse figures than I was getting 24 hours after going low carb in the first place. I was expecting things to get back to normal much more quickly. I suppose I've no choice but to give it a few more days and see if it improves. I may have to consider restarting...

So we got through the festive period, and I'll admit, I was naughty, though I kept to the low carb diet in the sense of avoiding chocolate, bread etc. I drank way more than I normally would (pretty much treating every night like a Friday/Saturday night for a fortnight.) I allowed myself a few...

We tend to forget that a non-diabetic can occasionally spike as high as 11, so I wouldn't worry about a 9.6 as a one off. Though it's possible you went past 11 and hit 9.6 on the way back down, if you're just testing 2 hours after meals. I bought a Libre for the festive season. Did a regular...

My Tee2+ consistently reads higher than my GlucoRx-Q. Typically anything between 1 and 2 mmol/l. My Rx-Q ranges are generally low 6's to mid 7's - I never see more than an 8.5 unless I've been very naughty carbs-wise or sample less than 2 hours after eating, yet I've had a 9.9 out of the Tee2+...

No side effects for me, other than slight tenderness of the injection site for a few hours afterwards. Worst case scenario, it'll give you mild flu symptoms for a couple of days. It's up to you weigh up the risk that you'll feel under the weather for a couple of days, for protection that you...

I'm sticking with the GlucoRx-Q for now, for morning bloods at least. I might use the Tee2+ for before and after meal readings, where I'm more interested in how high the 2 hour spike is. I bought about 200 strips with it, so I need to use them up. I've also just ordered another Libre for the...

I think this is just a body doing what it's meant to: it responds to heavy physical demands are being made of it, by making sure plenty of energy is available as sugar in the bloodstream. While using Libre, I noticed that light exercise (pedalling my e-bike) tended to spike me quite badly...

30g of carbs in a 48g bar, apparently. I'd say one isn't going to hurt you, if you cut the carbs elsewhere that day (from meals, for example.) It's not especially low carb as confectionery goes. A similar sized Mars bar would be about 35g of carbs. Then again, things like Haribos are practically...

From 1st December, they've started offering free flu jabs for anyone over 50, so presumably that's caused a surge in demand. I got mine done a few weeks ago at my local pharmacy, and had no issues.

This doesn't come with promises or guarantees, just the common sense that the better control you keep over your blood sugar, the less severe your complications will be, relative to what they would be if you didn't. But nobody can tell you it'll all be just dandy if you keep your numbers low...

Absolute truth tends to exist only by definition. 1+1 is 2, by definition. A whale is a kind of mammal, by definition. Everything else is an opinion or a belief, hopefully based on an objective evaluation of available evidence. Sometimes there's very compelling evidence for something, but as...

Getting rid of the thirst is a very good sign. Your figures are almost certainly on the way down. Bread is the enemy. Brown isn't much better than white. Rice is pretty horrendous. Pasta, potatoes and various other things are pretty bad, too. Basically, all of the things you were told were...

Non-diabetic or simply undiagnosed? I suppose we'll never know. Spikes of up to 11 are possible in a non-diabetic after high carb intake, so if those peaks above 6 coincide with consuming carbs, there's nothing here that should ring alarm bells. The 4.7 mmol/L average would predict an HbA1c well...

If that HbA1c figure is on a regular diet, then I reckon you've got this sorted going low carb higher fat. If you want to lose weight, then don't overcompensate with the fat, though. I have two meters at the moment, as well as running Libre sensors for 8 weeks or so over the last few months. In...

2 hours after an Iceland crispy duck to myself. Bit naughty, but I wanted to do it while I still had my Libre on (which hasn't gone above 9.9 the whole time) and I had nobody to share it with tonight. These 2 readings are a bit closer, but still over 1 mmol/l difference. The Tee2+ tested...

At the same time, from the same blood droplet again. I'm about to open the test solution pack for the Tee2+

On the final day of (maybe) my final Libre. I had a bit of a break between the last one and this, and seem to have lost the impetus somewhat. I'm no longer obsessively scanning it at less than 8 hour intervals, so I'm getting some breaks in my data. This was going to be my "Let's see what...

A friend's partner has a regular injection (I don't think as often as weekly) instead of diabetes medication. I'm not sure what it is, but this isn't the first time I've heard of such a thing. HbA1c is an indicator of average blood sugar over the last 2-3 months, with more recent weeks/months...