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Don't know if anyone else has flagged this up but just noticed this in Radio Times and might be worth a look. Channel 4. Wednesday 31st . 8pm Extreme Diet Ward: A Food Hospital Special: Under the care of The Food Hospital team, six women with Type 2 Diabetes live together in a house, as they...

Does it look like this? http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/subconjunctival-haemorrhage . Happened to me last week. A bit scary at first but harmless. Probably best to check with your GP or casualty department to be on the safe side.

Will be interesting to see what the doc says. Although your fasting level is higher than it should be, your 2 hour result would be classed as normal. (7.8 is the upper limit for "normal".)

What did you eat at the carvery. Things like roast spuds and Yorkshire puddings have a lot of carbs. You may have experienced reactive hypoglycaemia. When you push your glucose levels higher than what is normal for you, your insulin response can over compensate and push you lower than usual. I...

Nothing wrong with the occasional piece of "research", as long as you don't become a full time researcher. However, the danger is that if things like pizza and chips don't effect your blood sugar too badly then the temptation is to eat more of them and this can lead to a gradual reversal of the...

My own experience has led me to question the "once a diabetic always a diabetic" mantra. When I was diagnosed as type 2 15 months ago my fasting level was between 7 and 8, my HbA1c was 7.2 and two hours after a GTT my level was over 12. After losing about a stone and a half in weight and no...

How long did the Pregabalin take to start working. I've been prescribed it for non diabetes related nerve pain. I've been taking it for a couple of weeks and although I'm experiencing some of the side effects it doesn't really seem to be improving my symptoms. However, given that you have to...

I've noticed this in the past. I work as a lighting designer. My work involves intense physical exertion rigging equipment, and then sitting and programming lighting effects at the control desk, usually to very tight time deadlines. A session of sitting and programming will always leave me with...

These days they only seem to take a fasting blood sample and another one two hours after the glucose drink. Your fasting level should be below 6. If after 2 hours you are between 7.8 and 11 then you will be considered to be glucose intolerant. If you are 11.1 or above, you will be diagnosed as...

One might also be tempted to ask what the law is regarding shooting while hyper :)

Saw my GP to discuss this result. She is also a bit puzzled by the readings. Although she agrees that the weight loss is responsible, she has never previously come across a case where weight loss has reversed fully diabetic measurements to "normal" readings. She was aware that it is possible to...

I think it varies from area to area. I'm very fortunate in that I have a local surgery within walking distance staffed by up to two doctors, but this is also linked to a larger facility 15 minutes drive away in the town centre with many more GP's. I may have to wait a few days if I want to see...

!!! Given that I pretty much eat what the NHS suggests is a healthy diet for diabetics and I now have a HbA1C of 5.5, I would have to over eat carbs and sugar and make myself overweight again to reach that target.

I had a 7cm water filled cyst on my kidney last year. About 25% of people over 50 have them but they go mostly undiagnosed. The vast majority are only spotted due to the increase in scans for other problems, which was exactly how mine came to be noticed. I elected to have mine drained under...

As posted last week, I had a GTT , using my Accu check meter to provide real time updates on my progress. According to my measurements I was 5.3 at the start, 11.6 at 1 hour, and 8.1 after two hours. The official results are back and I was 5.1 at the start and 7.4 after two hours. So based on...

Noticed that there is a programme called "Xeno: Diabetes Pigs and People" about to start (17:25) on PBS America (Sky channel 166). Apparently about a "revolutionery new diabetes treatment".

I modified my diet. Cut out useless calories like chocolate, sweets, biscuits etc (although I still have the occasional treat). Reduced the amount of carbs I was eating, but not to low carb levels, and brought my weight down by about a stone and a half to my ideal weight. As I mentioned before...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Mind you, I should take some consolation from the fact that an OFTT this time last year had me peaked at 19 5 hours later :sick:

I did an OFTT (minus mushy peas) last weekend. 8.6 @ 2 hours. 6.4 @ 4 hours I did a GTT earlier today. 8.1 @ 2hours. 4.7 @ 4 hours Do you think I can get fish and chips on the NHS next time? But seriously, it shows how lethal slow release carbs can be.

I'm not planning on going anywhere just yet, at least not until the official results are in. Even then I would be loathe to leave a site that has been so instrumental in helping me get my glucose levels under control. The reading that I took at two hours was about 4 minutes after the one the...