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Did you ask your DN what the results of your original OGTT was? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Are you due for an NHS health check? My surgery does the Hba1c test as well as a fasting blood glucose test as part of the NHS health check. Check if your surgery offers this too. I don't recommend going to a pharmacy or shopping centre that offers the NHS health check because they will only do...

Sid, I find that the carb content of different foods doesn't predict what my BG is going to be. I've had high readings with very few carbs and lower readings with considerably greater amounts of carbs. There isn't some neat little equation that tells me x amount of carbs = y on the meter. I...

Well,done, Gezzathorpe! Of course we all know there is no such thing as "cure"… if only! ;-) You have shown that it is possible to manage this condition well. If a T2 can turn it around, there is certainly hope for many people who in the prediabetic range. You know what works for your...

Well,done, Gezzathorpe! Of course we all know there is no such thing as "cure"… if only! ;-) You have shown that it is possible to manage this condition well. If a T2 can turn it around, there is certainly hope for many people who in the prediabetic range. You know what works for your...

My salt/sodium intake is not too bad though tinned fish and ryvitas probably contain the most salt that I consume. MyFitnessPal tells me I consume fairly low levels of sodium bearing in mind that the salt/sodium content of every food is not necessarily listed in the database. Never knew celery...

I miss my banana I used to have with my morning porridge most days :'-( I'm low on potassium. Kinda weird as I don't add salt to anything and my sodium level was right within thevmiddle of the range in my last set of U&E tests. I'm looking for sources of dietary potassium. Bananas are a good...

I will update but blogging every meal and meter reading isn't going help because it's highly variable and doesn't show an overall trend. I don't do 1 hour readings, I just can't face those spikes. 2 hours is all I can cope with. :lol: My readings are within 'normal' so far today, bearing in...

LW, I know too well what being confronted with disbelief feels like. I get it too from the GP because my fasting test was 'normal' and I don't have the usual risk factors. The only thing I can do is to try and manage as best I can in the absence of any support from my health care providers. Like...

I suppose I ought to rephrase—eating to my meter HAS helped in that I was able to bring down the large after dinner spikes by having carb reduced evening meals. Initially it seemed to work but then things started getting a bit weird, as I have explained. I don't appear to be a textbook case. I...

Eating to my meter hasn't helped me, I'm afraid. Initially yes, but after about a week my BGs jumped. Yes, I know it's counter intuitive. I had trouble getting my head around it at first, and as I have stressed, I don't know if adding carbs to my diet is going to lower my BGs or not. Bear in...

According to the Newcastle Diet study, some of the people who went on it recovered some of their first phase response. However, it's basically an extreme low calorie diet designed for substantial weight loss, and as I'm neither an apple nor a pear, but a "chilli" apparently, I'd be like a twig...

I'm sure my experience is at odds with others. I'm pre-d, not T2, so my metabolism of glucose may well be operating differently from others who have presumably less function. Cutting carbs has resulted in an initial drop in BG readings and then a sudden overnight rise in BG at approximately one...

I'll admit it, I'm venturing into the unknown. I've managed 103g carbs today but after a post lunch reading of 7.0, I nixed the idea of having couscous with my dinner for fear of spiking and opted to share an apple with my OH to bring my total carb count up to my target of 100g per day. That's...

Infection can raise blood glucose levels, but should resolve in a nondiabetic. Stress can play a role in the development of diabetes. Why not buy a meter from the chemist or online and monitor your own readings? In particular, measure your fasting/waking BG and before meals and after, which is 2...

OK, my lunchtime readings. Like yesterday, a bit of a disappointment. I ran out of Finn crisps so I had one less than I intended to. I topped up with some sweet cherries to 'carb up' to yesterday's level. I don't normally have these cherries. Although 'low carb', I find them a little bit spiky...

Well, I have three meters already. Do I really need a fourth meter? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Thanks, Neil. I've made a spreadsheet which gives me my weekly averages. I could see at a glance how the 'jumped up' readings were comparing to previous averages. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

This morning my fasting level was 4.7. I was getting into the high 4s before my BGs jumped up, but often in the low 5s. I'm not expecting 4.7 every day, and it could be a flash in the pan. 4.7 used to happen now and then, but I was trending upwards last week. I was awake slightly earlier than...

This is interesting—taking the wider view—though perhaps not relevant to people with established diabetes. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8777329 Looking at the bigger picture, with this study and others, it would appear that low carb intake can potentially (I stress 'potentially') induce...