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Hi petchy! Great news all that - you certainly are quite clearly on the right road! Keep it up! It sounds as though you seem well on track to avoid going down the medication route. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! John

Hi DannyB, A very nice message that - I like it a lot. A very Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year! May things goes as well for you as over the last twelve months. Very Best wishes - John

Hi mariancoral, My advice as another Type 2 would be to cut back dramatically on the satrchy carbohydrates - i.e. cereals, bread, pototoes, rice and pasta. That usually leads to a big improvement in blood glucose levels. Testing is a good idea so that you can see for yourself what different...

Whatever you say Ken! Whatever you say! I'm sure that you'll be right! Best wishes as always - John

Hi again Sue, Certainly, I know very little about the wider subject of diabetes. Also, as I have said before on very many occasions, I can only talk from very limited knowledge and having a detailed knowledge of knowing about what has affected my own non-insulin dependent Type 2 condition. As...

Perhaps Hana would help you to stuff it in Ken - the cling film I mean!!!!! :lol: Only joking! Only joking! John

Hi Fujifilm, I can fully understand your situation as a Type 1 - it is very different for you. It is very different to my situation and I have sympathy for you. However, the situation is very different for most Type 2s on metformin only. Basically, as I see it we are really no different to...

Hana, As suggested by Ken, I've just been reading up on hypos and I suspect that there are three quite different things that we are talking about here - i.e.: a) what level is hypo' b) what causes a hypo' b) when are hypo' symptoms experienced. The first thing I read was - and I quote...

Hi Catherine, Yes - he is! However, he is a well-respected-in-diabetes-circles doctor. He chairs at least on are diabetes groups within the local PCT and I do know that he used to chair another. Moreover, he is a doctor that I admire and the only one that I've ever gone to for about nine years...

Yes Sue - but there must be some other explanation as to why that is the case? It would seem that most well-controlled non-insulin dependent Type 2s do not have that severity of hypo' awarenes - it all sounds remarkably unpleasant to me. Haven't you ever thought that maybe would be better off...

Sounds very nasty Sue - I really do sympathise with you. Any idea why these situations arise in your particular case - i.e. a Type 2 on diet only? John

Hi greenliveforever - it's good to meet you! From your profile it would seem as though you are a Type 2. Is that correct? The advice that usType 2s get over here in the UK is generally considered to be very poor indeed - i.e. "do not test" and "eat plenty of starchy carbohydrate". How do...

Hi newsue, Yes - if you want to get your blood glucose levels lower quickly then cut back on the starchy carbohydrate - i.e. cereals, bread, potatoes, pasta and rice etc. I've cut out eating most of them especially the cereals, bread and potatoes and that's led to a massive improvement in my...

As stated earlier, I sound to be exactly the same as Hana, Graham and Clearviews inasmuch that I am a non-insulin dependent Type 2 with very good blood glucose control. My blood glucose levels spend a lot of time in the 4s and quite often go below and as low as 3.4 at the lowest that I've ever...

Interesting that Ken - I thought that might have been the case! .......and might 3.88 mmol/L been arrived at by converting from another well rounded whole and tidy looking number of 70 mg/dl?

Maybe so Fujifilm - but what a coincidence that the number they come up with is the nice and convenient whole number of 4! Why should it be such a nice convenient whole number? Wouldn't you have expected something more precise like a number of 3.76 or 4.24? Maybe you got it right and perhaps...

Hi again DG........and long may your blood glucose levels stay boring! I've never been very interested in food either. I've always simply eaten whatever was put in front of me. Then a few minutes later, I'd be asking the wife what I'd had for dinner - i.e. "Was it chicken or beef?" - it used to...

Hi DG, You sound to be doing just fine with your blood glucose levels where other diabetics would love their readings to be. Keep doing whatever it is that you are doing. As regards when you find yourself going low my GP simply advises that I take a bite to eat. Best wishes - John

Well done on the improvements in all areas Pavlos! Keep woking at it - you'll get where you want to be. Best wishes - John

Hi mojomax, You've had some great advice aleady from Sue. It's the usual simplified advice from me - to any Type 2 such as myself - is to cut down on the starchy carbohydrate that you eat - i.e. cereals, bread, potatoes mainly but also be careful of pasta and rice etc too. That usually leads...