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Hi Stillo, What are you eating because the drugs have limited effect, they do help but its mostly what you put into your body that causes the blood glucose to rise. Also are you getting any exercise I find that the day after I do cardio my BG levels are down. Also I find that stress drives...

Hi Everyone, Thought Id give you an update as you have been very supportive and I don't think I would have had such good results without the help, information and support from people here. BP now 145/85 whoohooo. Down from 195/105 originally. HBA1c is 48 down from 74 double wohoo...

My early morning readings are consistently higher than the rest of the day. I was a bit scared at first . Then I read this http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dawn-effect/AN01213 its from the Mayo clinic so it probably fairly recent research. I try to excessive before I work to burn off the excess...

@denise and nik442 thanks for the tip on the sausages . My cholesterol is high along with my blood pressure so trying to balance several things at once without getting freaked. @daibell, trying to get informed about loow carb diet, have cut out some carbs but still struggling making the...

Got my bloods taken today . HbA1c is one of the things being measured. Bit nervous about the results but its in advance of my first visit to the diabetic nurse. Its three months after my initial diagnosis so I'm not sure how accurate the results are going to be given I've only really been...

Hi Cuddles, Your being very hard on yourself and thats not helping. you had a slip but its not the end of the world. I can absolutely get that you are cheesed off with everything at the moment and all the bad things seems to be happening at once. The fact that your Son and daughter in law do...

Hi Cuddles, Got diagnosed before Christmas, so I can relate to the whole shock and denial thing. More importantly you are here and armed with the information you can manage this condition. I've gotten a lot of great advice and tips from the site and most importantly non judgemental advice...

Well done Susan, ate like a pig at Christmas but back on the wagon :) Put on 2kgs eating all the wrong things but blood glucose always under 7.4 so back to the gym and the salad bar :)

Pastel, thanks for that, seems to be a really good forum. Still struggling with the Diet but I'm under 100kgs for the first time in many years.

Hi Daisy , thanks for the info and the kind words.

Hi everyone, Looks like I've joined the type 2 club. Admission price , lifelong vigilance to what you eat and exercise. The only reason it got caught was that I went for a wellness check in work about two months ago. I found the leaflet , got my blood tested and I found out many wonderful...