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After a year I think I have got a reasonable handle on carbs / blood sugar. I am normally 5-6 pre meal (Normally in the 5's), and normally 5-7 after a meal, depending on carbs. I never get an 8, unless I have a LOT of carbs, 100g +. However, my waking up level is fairly consistently 7.2...

Hi Lifesway I think it's called Burgen bread, and you can get it from supermarkets, I am fairly sure the bigger Tescos sell it. Personally, I can't stand the stuff, it tastes to me like cardboard, but I know other people love it... I tend to eat 2 things now. Tescos do mini brown rolls that...

I really wish people would not keep coming up with the 'blind, amputee, new kidney' bit on these threads. It is almost like a mantra of doom. These things do of course happen sometimes, but we are FAR more likely to die of heart disease or attacks than any of those things. However, I guess that...

Hi Dunkels Firstly, I would say that after a week you are doing brilliantly. It will take you a while of testing to work out what suits you, and what foods have what effect on your sugar levels. Your high reading was 10.8 I think in our readings (I think you divide by 18), so while high, is not...

Hi Maria Welcome to the forum. One of the moderators will be along with some basic stuff soon.. You don't say what your fasting level was, or if you have had an HBac1 test, which is a measure of your levels over 3 months, but that would be useful to know. Interestingly, your case parallels...

Hi Bronte Please don't think of some food as poison, that is not a good place to go. The diagnosis of diabetes is shocking and upsetting, and you have to give yourself some time to adjust, to read, and to learn how to handle it. Cutting out obvious sugar is a good place to start, but not the...

I find this an interesting thread, because my answer would be 'nothing, because people do not know I am diabetic' I am a well controlled type 2, on metformin. I do not have hypos, and am unlikely to. Nobody therefore needs to know I have it. The only person who does know is my wife. If I...

Personally, I would go. You are at a very early stage after diagnosis.You don't mention if you have adjusted your diet to reduce the amount of carbs you are eating, but as you have a meter then you are already taking an active part in managing your condition. This management will happen over...

Hi All, and Happy New Year... Over the last few weeks I have been keeping some careful records of the amount of carbs I have with my main meal, and the subsequent 2 hour post - prandial reading. This has proved really useful to me in managing my type 2, because, although the results do vary a...

You are doing really well. Keep going..

Hi Cobra Sorry to hear about your problems. Personally, since diagnosis the thing that has kept me slightly sane, after having to completely change my diet, is the fact that I can still have a glass or two of chilled dry white wine in the evening. I find this has no effect on my blood sugar...

Hi Martin Different to you as I am a type 2. I have pretty continuous thrush before I was diagnosed. Once I started cutting down on carbs (I have about 150g a day), it went away and has not returned.

This is an interesting thread, and I can see the various points, I think the key difference is about if you can tolerate carbs in any quantity or not. I joined the forum 6 months ago as a very depressed person, who had the standard NHS advise, and was still seeing high test results (I was only...

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 5.9.

Hi kcj2012 As a relative 'newbie' myself I don't usually offer advice, however I am a bit confused as to why you stop taking metformin when you start eating chocolate? Do you get stomach upsets if you take chocolate and metformin? Like you I was a chocoholic, used to eat loads. I made a...

Those are great figures Fraddycat! Well done.

Thanks for the comments. Might have a glass of white wine tonight with my chilli! Interestingly, the doctor offered me statins even though my cholesterol was 4.9. Refused for the moment.

Got my results today. From an horrendous HbAC1 of 16.3 in March, to 9.2 in June, to 6.0 now (42) Cholesterol 4.9, everything else fine. I think proof (if more were needed) that lower carbing (130-150g per day in my case) works. I also would like to thank people for the great advise on...

I would totally back up what xyzzy said. Prior to diagnosis in March I had thrush all the time, one infection would clear and the next one would start a day later. Since going on Metformin and changing my diet it has not recurred. Caterham

Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn 6.2, pretty normal for me.