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If you’re a very high BMI the other possibility (although it’s a myth that LADA’s *have* to be slim) is that you’re very, very insulin resistant. When you say “very high”, how high? Sorry, I know that sounds a bit intrusive, but women in particular are so often shamed about their weight that...

Although the maximum dose is indeed 320mg a day, 160mg per day is still a pretty whopping dose to be having essentially no effect on your blood sugar at all in the context of a low carb diet. Like others, I’d be wondering about the possibility of Type 1/LADA. (Just anecdotally, I’m a...

If you’ve been provided with enough strips: I would say On waking (before even getting out of bed) Before first bite of each meal 2 hours after starting each meal I’m assuming you’re not on insulin: insulin users probably have a different routine

This is a really old thread but I’m bumping it because I’ve just seen that the book being talked about is on offer (Kindle Edition) for 99p on Amazon at the moment Deal: The Diabetes Weight-Loss Cookbook: A life-changing diet to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes...

Yes both of those look normal. The second one shows that you have a mini “second spike” with meals which I also often get - I *think* that’s cos insulin comes in two bursts - an initial one when you first eat and a second “mopping up” one. Obviously that doesn’t apply to people taking exogenous...

I’m attaching a couple of my Libre graphs from last week, which are completely typical for me. I don’t know if by “yo-yo” you mean this sort of thing. If you do, then I promise that is not out of the ordinary. Some people may have smoother graphs than this, others more bumpy, particularly Type...

Absolutely, and those figures are better than mine: I’m usually high fives or low sixes through the night, rising to mid sevens on getting out of bed and dressed, and mid to high eights after dog walking.

I have a Libre so can track these things fairly specifically so all I can say is *for me*, yes, absolutely. Moving from bed to bathroom in the morning will (or I should probably say “can” - it varies a little from day to day) raise by about 1-1.5mmol. Back from bathroom, dressed and downstairs...

There’s a lot of evidence that it’s high carbohydrates that cause raised cholesterol, not dietary fat. I haven’t had a gall bladder since 2016 and I have no problem with eating fats at all (a gall bladder is just a little storage pouch for bile; not having one doesn’t mean you don’t produce...

Yes, I’m one of those people that need not only 48 hours, but 72! So I put my new one in when the old one starts indicating “Sensor ends in 3 days”. The only downside of putting in so early is that I tend to need two Tegaderm patches over the course of the life of the sensor: I find a patch...

They probably wouldn’t be very keen on offering Gliclazide to someone eating low carb, as Gliclazide can cause hypos (and weight gain, and IIRC Lucy is somewhat overweight? Forgive me if I’m mixing up with someone else). Empaglifozin, on the other hand, can promote weight loss, in addition to...

Here are a couple of mine - they’re fairly typical for me. I’m on about 30g carbs per day, also metformin and dapaglifozin.

I’m so sorry to hear this, Mark, it must be a very stressful situation. My impression has always been that institutional diets, whether hospital or prison, tend to be quite high carb, so that may be tricky. I don’t want to sound defeatist, but maybe if what you’re looking at is only 18 months to...

Is that per 100ml of the concentrate? Or of the made-up drink? If it’s of the made-up drink I could really see how that could mount up quick if you drink a lot! (If it’s of the concentrate then I guess it would be negligible)

I use a phone not a reader, but I’ve definitely noticed it taking longer - like you say it’s not really a problem as such but just slightly irritating. I don’t generally seem to have a problem at the *end* of sensor life, apart from one that dramatically failed on me on about day 10, having...

The same day each week, but the time probably doesn’t really matter (I tend to take mine first thing in the morning). Any medicine that lasts a week is very forgiving. And it doesn’t hurt, at all.

Hi Zoe! There’s a very very good chance that it’s the steroids and the chest infection that are making your BG readings so high. An HbA1C of 62 would suggest that your average BG for the last 3 months has been more like 10. Now that is of course too high, and so improving your diet is a great...

Buy a set of US measuring cups from Poundland. I’m not hugely keen on cup measures either but a LOT of low carb recipes online are from the US and unfortunately we’re stuck with it! For what it’s worth, I think a “cup” is about 260ml, but you don’t need to guess, you can like a say just buy a...

Obviously we can’t do diagnosis here, but I’m sure you appreciate that and were just asking for thoughts. So, mine are: I think at “worst” you might be what’s called “pre-diabetic”, ie some of your fasting blood sugars are a bit higher than ideal, but not to the level that would give you a...

I am not normally a “vitamins/supplements/health food shop/probiotic” sort of person, in any way at all, but I started taking Magnesium Oxide 500mg about 10 days ago and I have been completely blown away by the results (blood sugar wise).