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Grapes are high carb and I found it useful to have 2 or 3 when I felt wobbly due to my blood glucose levels dropping quickly in the early days after diagnosis. along with a warm drink it stopped the unpleasant feeling very quickly. It was at the time when I was most likely seeing a return to...

There are things you could add into the bread to reduce the impact - I use wheat gluten rather than all flour, add in chopped seeds psyllium flour coconut and almond flour - anything to keep the bulk but lower the carbs. The dough is rather 'tender' and collapses in a bread maker, so I mix and...

I am 72 years old, but decided not to act it, not to accept higher numbers for anything but enjoyment, and since the start of Covid, not dying at all but going out with the Morris dancers and being up before dawn on Mayday to dance up the sun beside the apple trees in the garden, which might...

As you are not a typical, ordinary case of pre-type 2 just by being underweight, I would have thought that you'd have been checked for other variants. If you can find a way to eat a plant based diet and keep your blood glucose levels down at normal levels I'd be quite surprised, even allowing...

No no no - you did not bring this on yourself - there is so much bad advice and insistence that high carb foods are 'healthy' when for many they are the exact ones to avoid. I find that the fizzy flavoured zero carb drinks are fine, also the sugar free squashes (not no added sugar) and of course...

Aren't these from the USA?

Dry wines and spirits are not high in carbs.

What is your diet? The low carb approach has been taken up by some of the medical profession now that it is so obviously working for many type 2s - it is almost a diagnostic feature of ordinariness that the low carb diet works for us. I started off at a Hba1c of 91 and seem to be maintaining...

Aw - it even gets the title of protein boost juice - however, I see no protein, it is , surely, smashed banana in nut/seed 'milk' with oxalates. Even if the carb hit is acceptable using insulin, I'd advise a glass of water to drink with a meal of eggs and cheese plus intact fresh salad stuff...

I'm on a low carb list and there have been several instances of someone with PCOS joining up and sighing about their lives, and then a couple of months later there is a sudden manic message half ecstatic and half in disbelief that they have a positive pregnancy test which is good to read, but I...

@empedia your symptoms are not at all usual with type 2 diabetes, more like reactive hypoglycaemia. We can't 'do' diagnosing or medical advice - but I would really advise showing your readings from the monitoring device to a doctor or nurse to get their opinion on going so low when only taking...

@donnadonna33 Do not be too concerned about numbers up to 8mmol/l after eating - once I got to that point I saw a change begin and I stuck to the same meals which did not cause above 8s as it felt right. Over time I reduced down to normal Hba1c - just, but lost weight regained energy and...

For warts on the hands nothing beats fishing rats preserved in formaldehyde out of their tubs, though they probably don't do that sort of Biology any more. It works for really bad athletes foot as well. We used to do some quite dangerous things back in the 1960s and 70s, and no one turned a hair.

I am right down on the south coast - maybe it is regional. Next time I am in Lidl I'll stock up - if there is some, of course. I could post some to you if you like - in a plain brown wrapper.....

Try a different Lidl perhaps. It did vanish off the shelves for a while, but it reappeared after a few weeks.

I bought a half dozen bars of 95% cocoa chocolate just before Christmas and there is still one bar untouched - it isn't the chocolate which is the problem but the loads of sugar added. If you find low carb chocolate it usually stops being a problem.

I have to add salt to my meals several times a week now as I was getting cramps as soon as the weather warmed. Low carb foods are often salt free, unlike anything processed, and we do need salt.

How about having a small bottle of water with a number of teaspoons of sugar or glucose in it for hypo treatment? If it is too sickly sweet then maybe a little sugar free squash would help with the taste. If not used then it is easy enough to dump and refill for next times. Does it have to be a...

For a plain ordinary type 2 the only thing that is really very dangerous is to ignore it. I don't need medication because I live every day as though I have to control my blood glucose (even on days when break my own rules) but because I am always aware of the carbs and my reaction to them, it...

That is rather odd as a Hba1c of 61 is well into the diabetes range. Pre diabetes is under 48. Metformin will not lower your BG level after a meal by taking an extra tablet, that is not the way it works. Usually high levels after eating are down to more carbs than you can cope with - that is...