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Welcome to the forums. Diabetes is serious but its also managable. @daisy1 info really helped so be sure to read it a few times. Im also somewhat new (diagnosed about 4.5 months ago) and this site has been invaluable. Read everything you can. Then ask as many questions as you want. Its a...

I feel so lucky here in Canada. My doctor had no problem giving me a script for strips. He knows I've cut out most carbs and is willing to prescribe any drug to help manage my diabeties, he wont until I need to. In other words, only if I don't control it with diet. He told me he wishes his other...

Thanks @Robbity. So it seems some testing is in order. I will have to use it in a controled way and see what it does. Sent from my SM-N910W8 using Diabetes.co.uk Forum mobile app

Thanks for the links and videos. I have gone to a mostly LCHF diet but need to work on the fats a little. My a1c levels have dropped from 7.4 to 5.5 in three months and dropped almost 2 stones of weight so it is working. I was just curious about by having a fatty liver and letting it dump...

I found a recipe for a black been chocolate cake that is moderately carby. I'm looking to do a black forest cake with this but don't want to use a regular tin of cherry pie filling. The sugar in a tin of pie filling would make any one diabetic (as my Mom would say). Does any one have any...

Yeah that's why I was asking. I know monk fruit isn't really low carb but I thought the erythritol would be so not sure why it's 100% carbs.

It was actually less then I normally eat and I skipped the dressing as most restaurant dressing can be high in sugar and salt. Since this is a small town I actually know one of the cooks. Turns out they put a glaze on the chicken. I suspect that is where all the hidden carbs are. Even though...

6.7 at 7:30, 6.1 two hours after breakfast and a short walk to work (1000 steps or so).

I found this erythritol and monk fruit sugar at our local Bulk Barn http://www.bulkbarn.ca/en/Products/All/Monk-Fruit-Erythritol,-non-GMO,-naturally-sourced, (you will need to add the comma manually to the end of the link to see the product). It's 100g carbs per 100g of sugar. I'm just...

I'm type 2 and have a fatty liver. I quite often suffer from a morning sugar dump which raises my sugars in to the mid 6's to mid 7's. Its been a few months now on metformin and trying to be as low carb as possible. That doesn't always work and I've fallen off the wagon a few times. What I'm...

This was me to a "T". I weighed between 190 and 210 pounds (about 6 feet tall) from about the age of 16 right until about 5 or 6 years ago when my weight started to climb. Had I not just thought that I was an over eating pig and actually went to a doctor now and then I might have found out...

It had iceberg lettuce, spinach, three slivers of red pepper (which that amount has never effected me before), green leaf lettuce, four quarters of cucumber, (which I didn't eat), some red onion and half a chicken breast grilled. I don't know where the carbs could be hidden in there but must...

After reading so many rants it's my turn :) So it was another birthday at work today and we all go out for lunch. This time to a chain restaurant and they have their menu online with nutrition info. We have to pre-order so I spend morning coffee looking over everything. Finally decided on a...

My doc ordered a 24 BP check for me also. I'm on meds for hypertension and my readings at home where always a little high (130/90s) with some times lows of 117/75. He didn't want to change my meds until he got a better picture of what was going on. It's a good thing too (and he said so). My...

My wife was a gestational diabetic with our last child. She was on insulin and the food guide they gave her had her eating all kinds of carbs. According to the sheets she should be eating 250g of carbs a day and at specific times of day. The amount of insulin she had to take was increasing...

I'm still amazed that they don't issue strips for type 2's in the UK but to hear it's spreading is even worse. At least for now, here in Canada I have access to strips that my private insurance pays for. When I told my Doctor my script said zero refills for strips he was shocked. He thought...

I'm amazed that you need a script for needles. I don't need insulin so have little use for them. But I do use them for other non person injection things. They can be really good for epoxy and such. Here in Canada I just go the the pharmacy and ask for them in any gauge I want. Usually if...

Agreed that my better half doesn't get the recognition she deserves. While she doesn't prepare all our meals, she's the one that keeps us all on track. Even when I've had a bad week diet wise she doesn't nag or say anything negative. She just tries to point me in the right direction again...

Canada (where I am) we use mmol/l for our meters and percent for our a1c. Just as an FYI.

I just got my Dario today. I love how compact it is. I only have two problems with it. One is the lack of any storage space for extra lances. Second is not being able to add blood if you don't get enough. It's not often that I don't get enough on the strip but it happened once today (first...