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I've only tried and tested beer and wine, so maybe I should give spirits a go? a good excuse for a night out methinks.

I can't eat carbs in the morning at all or I get the sort of readings you were, I also find that generally wheat raises my BG more than potatoes. I have eggs and quorn 'bacon' for breakfast with mushrooms or sometimes veggies such as mushrooms and peppers, microwaved with cheese. I can eat...

If it is the alcohol lucky you, as alcohol raises my BG for several days. I feel left out of special occasions when I can't join in.

Hi I'm T2 and it happens to me all the time, I was 6.2 on rising this AM and by the time I came to eat breakfast I was 7.6, 2 hours after a low carb breakfast it is now 6.5. It is something called the dawn phenomenon, it causes yor BG to rise instead of falling in the morning. There is quite a...

I went to the doctors over something else last week and she wanted a blood test, so I jumped in and said that as my next a1c was due in 3 weeks could I have all the blood tests at once. No problem; so I have been back to the doctors this Am and she did a mini diabetes review for me (except for...

I am an A level food technology student, and for my food technology coursework I have decided to investigate the use of artificial sweeteners in no added sugar/diabetic sweet products. I would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to answer my questions. 1) What is your age? 0-20...

Hi You said that you were not feelign well? If you are not well and have some sort of infection that can send your BG haywire? What are your readigns normally like. High BG can make youfeel ill but being ill can give you high readings. Your doctor sounds dreadful, I know you said it is a new...

As someone who is affected greatly by DP, I have to say if only it is as simple as eating breakfast. I have tried every suggestion that I could find to control it, from eating on rising to different combinations of food, eating just before bed, with different combinations of food. And found the...

As a veggie I use quorn a lot, my body seems to like it. I will even use the quorn slices instead of bread, I will pinch a couple of my families chips and make myself a quorn 'chip buttie'. Not quite the same as a slice of fresh bread I know, but it fills a need. I roll cheese in a piece of...

I have come across, the T2 it's your own fault attitude - people don't understand that while it is true that a most T2 diabetics might be fat, it is not true that most fat people are diabetic. The heriditory factor is unknown to the general public. People are always suprised when I mention...

I had the same fustrating experience with a salad dressing. The nutritonal content was give per 100gm, the bottle was measured in millilitres :? There was no way on earth I could convert grams to millilitres - what on earth is the justifacation for that?

I can't blame the nurse for my loss of control, that was life (I moved home town and job and lost my surving parent within very short time. And lost control myslef, but when I went for my check up in attemp to regain control, I was told in no uncertain terms I mustn't low carb and was referred...

My practise nurse asks "any depression" too at every review. There is some link between diabetes and depression and so it seem so tbe on her routine list - blood pressure, weight, wee, and depression.

Sorry I didn't explain the evening medication thing properly. Metformin has to be taken with or after food, and because as I said my evenings and meal times can be erratic I dlon't always get an suitable oportunity to take it. This means when I come in late at night I have to eat, whether I...

I managed with my previous doctor to stay as pre diabetic for some time, it was he who found out about the dawn pehonmenon - we couldn't understand why the the official fasting levels were way higher than mine. He went away and found out - which is fine I trusted him. He let me control it by...

Can anybody tell me if it is usual for diabetes to be managed solely by the practise nurse? I have been with my current practise for 3 years and have moved from Impaired glucose tolerance to metformin. In that time I have never seen the doctor about my diabetes, only the practise nurse, who is...