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In November last year my GP noticed a fairly high fasting reading on a routine blood test and said "I think you have got diabetes and I'm prescribing Eucreas tablets.. Take one a day and come and see me in a year" Obviously wanted to keep a close check. My fasting readings had been higher than...

I've just read the Express article about the patch you wear for a week with a needle stuck in your arm for that length of time. Sounds lovely. Not. And the article said people are failing to control their blood sugar level because they are failing to test four times a day or more. Why does...

Yikes !!! Eating fudge and werthurs was a really great idea then !!! Even more reason to hate my fool of a GP. I do have a meter . Mornings are about 6.2 and after food about 7.3 . My after food readings are now the same as my fasting early morning readings were before I started my low carb...

Thank you Mo. I agree. I apologise--my post was rubbish. It did not make at all clear that this drowsiness problem had not existed before about 4 years ago and during that 4 years I had high BG readings that my GP completely ignored. It was only in November last year --around the time of...

This may be a strange question to ask. But here goes. Does being Hyper or Hypo (which one) cause drowsiness when driving? For the last three or four years if I set off on an 8 to 10 hour drive in France or Spain after about 3 hours I get very drowsy and use tricks like whistling or pinching...

I've been doing well with my low carb diet. My morning BG is consistently about 6.3. Before it was 7.6. Yesterday was a normal food day--Cheese and sliced salami lunch and dinner green beans and broccoli with fish baked in a bag with butter melted in the fish juices to make sauce. Where are...

OK so I'm a twerp. I've got an AccuChek Aviva kit. I thought the pricker blade automatically changed to a fresh one after each use. When it didn't I thought it was bust so moved it myself. Then I realised the same pricker can be used many many times. I suppose if it gets blunt it will just...

Thank you all very much -very encouraging. That all makes sense. I got so used to losing a pound a day as I did at one stage that a stall has got to me. The lack of progress on the reduction of BG is annoying though. It tumbled to start with and now it is slow progress. My first ever session...

After 4.5 years of high Bg readings (118 to 155 --top limit should be 110) and not a word said by my GP I had a 159 and she took notice. Ordered another test which was 139. She said she thought I had diabetes and straight off prescribed Eucreas tablets at half dosage for some reason. So I...

Is it Diet OR tablets or is it Diet AND tablets. In other words if I start taking the tablets I have been given can I go back to eating like I did before I was told " I think you have diabetes" by my GP. This question has come into my so-called mind after talking to a neighbour who takes...

I think I've lost you here. The only carbs I eat are carbs that sneak in inside sausages, baked beans, green beans, mushrooms, eggs, gammon, bacon ,steak ,fish, sardines etc etc. I have no idea how many carbs there are in an egg or a rasher of bacon. Like i said I eat NO bread, pastry, pasta...

On 7 November GP put me straight on Eucreas ( Metformin +vildagliptin). No talk of diet first followed bu Metformin alone. So on 7 November I put myself on a low carb diet. From then NO self administered sugar, no bread except Ryvita, no pasta, no pastry, no potato. And no cakes no puddings...

A month ago having been told I might be diabetic and having been put on Eucreas (missing out the diet and Metformin alone stages) I decided to delete sugar, potatoes, pasta, pastry and bread from my diet. It worked very well. So far i've lost about 10 pounds. I can't see where it has gone from...

Exactly what I said at 9.23 above. Hear Hear.

<<<So why is it that so many on here want to take a break from looking after themselves because it is Xmas, a birthday, a bad day, name another reason.>>> How about because if you spend every single day obsessing about spikes, pricking your finger ten times a day, swallowing the lucrative...

Viv thank you for your reply. I think your cauliflower tip is very intriguing. Luckily I love the stuff but then I love every thing except idiot food as I call it---like chocolate covered cockroaches and fried ants. I will admit I'm trying to play games with carbs now. I've just had cod in...

On 7 November I stopped eating bread except Ryvita,I have no pasta, no pastry, no potatoes, no added sugar, no rice. This was because my GP saw a reading of 139 and with no talk of diet or metformin put me straight on half dosage Eucreas tablets. I have decided to go the diet route. Twelve...

If anyone is interested here is an update. I still eat no bread except Ryvita, no pasta, no pastry, no potatoes, no added sugar, no rice. Twelve days after my last blood test gave 139 BG my reading was 120. In 20 days I've lost nearly 8 pounds weight. Next stage will be finishing off all the...

Can I clarify who manipulated me ? Of course not !! I've googled diets for diabetes and got offered 104,000,000 hits. I've spent about 2 hours a night reading ,reading,reading to try to find out all I can. Just about everything anyone firmly states on their website is contradicted within ten...

Wonderful news Since 7 November when my GP reacted to a BG reading of 7.72 (139) and put my straight onto Eucreas (at half dose), missing out diet changes and metformin on its own, (after ignoring high readings for four years) and then said "come back and see me in a year", I have been very...