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The stuff you're eating is similar to the mistakes I made when I was first diagnosed a few weeks back and thinking that stopping snacking and using sugar in my diet and eating what I thought of as healthy stuff like fruit, brown rice, brown bread, fruit juice and semi-skimmed milk was the answer...

The stuff you're eating is similar to the mistakes I made when I was first diagnosed a few weeks back and thinking that stopping snacking and using sugar in my diet and eating what I thought of as healthy stuff like fruit, brown rice, brown bread, fruit juice and semi-skimmed milk was the answer...

Despite collecting whiskies (I have about 100 bottles!) I think I've only had one dram since I was diagnosed - the next morning's fasted reading was actually the lowest I've seen so far, which may or may not have been helped by the whisky. I've stopped drinking beer completely for now (but...

8.4 this morning.

Well that's me 3 weeks on from my diagnosis and starting on Metformin, and about 2 weeks from switching to a low-carb diet (aiming for between 50 and 100g of carbs a day). I didn't have any issues with the first 2 weeks of 1 x 500mg Metformin per day, but in the last week of being on 2 x 500mg...

10/04/2023 FBG of 7.2 (07:30 on 11/04/2023) Brunch: - coffee with cream - 3 eggs, scrambled - 2 slices of hi-lo bread - tea with semi-skimmed milk Dinner - mix of riced cauliflower and white rice - chicken curry - glass of red wine Others - small glass of whisky (a 9-year old Whisky Castle...

7.2 this morning, which is the lowest by a fair amount in the 2 weeks since I was diagnosed with an hb1ac of 108 (and an 18.8 self-test that morning).

9.7 this morning (which while high is the lowest morning test I've had since I started testing).

The Hi-Lo just tastes like normal, decent wholemeal bread. 6.5 sounds pretty good - certainly a lot better than my 11.9 this morning!

Breakfast this morning (and most mornings this week) was: - 3 eggs, scrambled - 2 slices of Hi-Lo bread, toasted - 2 cups of coffee with cream

11.9

I've started using the Hi-Lo from Sainsbury and it's pretty good, however I'm also definitely going to try some of the even lower-carb options available online. It's definitely nice to be able to have a slice or two of toast with my scrambled eggs in the morning.

I'm 55, current BMI of 27.6 (so could do with losing about a stone or so in weight to get into the "healthy" BMI range) and work in IT. I do a fair bit of exercise, mostly walking 2 largish dogs although I'm also planning to start running and cycling again soon (I used to be in a cycling club...

Forgot to mention that beer is something else I've completely cut out for now - switched to drinking red wine instead (not that I'm drinking very much alcohol at all at the moment).

Sounds like I was diagnosed around the same time, in my case with a 108 hb1ac about 10 days ago - starting on Metformin (just 1 500mg tablet per day at the moment, but going up to 2 in a few days time) at the same time. After research (including on here) I switched to low-carb a few days ago...

Some movement today as I've now had a letter asking me to setup an appointment with the retinopathy clinic, so at least something is happening.

I am indeed in Scotland so prescriptions are free. I'm definitely going to arrange a follow-up with the diabetes nurse in the next few weeks as I think doing that again, with her actually having access to my info this time, is likely to be the best way forward.

I think my test was too high for that, however I didn't get a chance to discuss that as an option with either the doctor of diabetes nurse.

I possibly should have mentioned that based on my own research I've just switched to a low carb diet - just started yesterday (57g of carbs) in fact. I've also stopped taking sugar in my coffee. I'm planning to schedule a follow-up appointment but I think it'd be useful to understand what good...

My diabetes diagnosis wasn't the most straightforward because when I was referred onto the diabetes nurse after a very high (108) hb1ac the NHS systems were down so she didn't have access to my test results etc. So the initial advice was to wait 3 months for a re-test, then changed (via a phone...