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Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 5.7 pre-bed, had a small glass of S/S Milk, awoke at 8am to a BG reading of 6.1 9.3 2hr after breakfast (testing out the effects of one of those variety packs of Cornflakes).

Thanks for the replies, first widdle in the morn it is then. Hope the wife's got a steady hand :P

Attended the nurse today [month follow up] to give fasting bloods and apparently I should have brought a urine sample (nobody told me), I was given a bottle to hand in a sample when I'm at the doctors next week. Q) Does this urine sample have to be fasting as well like the blood samples? I...

Interesting YouTube clip, might source myself a B1 supplement. Found this from the same fella in the YouTube clip Clicky

Hi Douglas, I'm a fairly new T2 myself and that is pretty much how I'm addressing it, having said that I've no cholesterol issue. Welcome to the forum.

Interesting read that.

Thanks for confirming that daisy1 I'll take that 10.6 to be around 9.0 then :)

:lol:

I'm curious as to what impact Metformin has on the numeric value of a BG test. I missed tablets twice today, lunch and dinner, the 2hr post dinner reading nudged into double figures, 10.6, how much would the medication have reduced that value. Did I read somewhere between 1>2?

In contrast I missed two of my three Metformin tablets today, getting to be a common occurrence, I'll ask for memory tablets at my next clinic visit, that should sort it.

Ah well, there's always the afterlife

That fair cheered me up :(

Hi Eck, I know where your coming from with getting your head around things being recently diagnosed myself. A breakfast I would have tagged as healthy like 'All-Bran with S/S Milk and Fresh Orange Juice' raises my BG quite a bit (carbs I take it), yet '3 Rashers of Bacon & 2 Fried Eggs' which...

Hi Viv, I was going to give the flu jab a miss but I might just attend that drop-in on the 8th...just in-case :wink: Believe it or not the flu was my nemesis for decades, it would floor me for weeks (or was that kryptonite?) Anyway, gave up the smoking early 98 and haven't had a sniffle...

I could have worded that better, the obvious answer is 'the flu' :lol: disclaimer: I was tired What I was meaning was what is the relevance of the diabetic being offered the flu jab whereas the non-diabetic doesn't get that option. My mindset is the flu is the flu regardless, but I'm...

Thanks for the heads up ;) Details submitted.

Got a letter about the flu jab the other week, said I was in an 'at risk' group and a free jab was available at an open day on the 8th. Being new to T2 I have to ask , 'at risk' to what??

Thanks for the welcome daisy1. I'll be making an appointment tomorrow for a diabetic eye test and I'll also arrange an appointment for the nurse for bloods seeing as we are now a month post diagnosis. Its been a very strange month, lots of mixed emotions, many hours, nah days absorbing...

Hi, big hello to the forum :D I've recently been diagnosed as Type 2 and having done a power of reading I'm still full of questions so thought I'd best sign up and get them all addressed, I'll post them up in the Q&A section when my heads sorted...that could be a while :| Tell a lie I'm...