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You can get lactose free milk in many supermarkets and I think cheese as well, or you could always use vegan cheese which has no milk at all.

Are you sure that isn't lactose intolerance?

Either that or the fat delays digestion and it outlasts the effect of the pre meal bolus. And if the fat increases IR then the effectiveness of the insulin you are taking could also be reduced. There is another article linked at the bottom about how they advise to deal with it.

It does say that in the article, but a significant number of people must have this effect, I know I do. Curious also that a low carb high fat can have similar results to a high carb low fat diet, when they would seem to be opposite.

This article talks about how protein and fat can affect blood sugar and cause it to stay elevated hours after eating. I have been seeing this happening myself on the CGM. https://waltzingthedragon.ca/diabetes/nutrition-excercise/how-fat-and-protein-affect-blood-glucose/ It also says that...

Thanks. My initial A1C was 97, so pretty high. I have had the antibody tests, but they just confused things, very high GAD antibodies but negative the others. That would suggest LADA, but then I also had quite a bit of IR and C peptide in the upper end of normal range (pretty much fasting)...

The normal range for C peptide includes stimulated, so presumably the upper end is as high as a non-diabetic person would go, even with a high carb meal. So I don't think that their number would go a lot higher, just that the body would respond much better to the insulin produced and that would...

Producing a strong amount of insulin as shown by the C peptide almost at the top of normal range but blood sugar not coming down would suggest insulin resistance surely? If the pancreas was not producing enough the C peptide would be lower. Having constantly high BS is not the same as a normal...

High normal as in the upper range of normal, some scales say normal is up to 1200 so not far off that. Pretty much fasting I hadn't eaten for quite a while. This was before any treatment so blood sugar was highish around 12, what difference does that make to the C peptide reading though? I don't...

I think it's just because when they were testing it, the sensor had to be in the same place so that the figures would be consistent. As they haven't tested it elsewhere, they give the disclaimer that it should only be put on the back of the arm. It's annoying on the arm as you can end up...

My Freestyle Libre 2 consistently reads higher than fingerprick, at times I have had 2 points higher (saying it is 7.5 when it's 5.5 at a stable point, not going up or down). I read someone else say that if you don't have much flesh/fatty area under your arms this can happen. Has anyone tried it...

I have been vegetarian for 40 years. I have had to cut right back on carbs recently to keep the blood sugar under control, so no sugar, normal pasta, potatoes, rice, bread etc. This has been OK, with a couple of substitutes like quinoa for rice, bean or lentil pasta for wheat pasta etc. and easy...

I just don't understand how insulin production can be strong (high normal C Peptide) yet the problem maintaining proper blood sugar is down to insufficient insulin if it's LADA. I think I am the same keeping it under control by limiting carbs at the moment, I'm sure if I started eating pasta...

I had pre-diabetes in 2016, then reversed it with diet (lost 2 stone) and kept in normal range and not overweight since then. I didn't have an A1C at the time of the C-peptide test, but had one about 10 days earlier at 97 and fingerprick on the day was around 12. I hadn't eaten for quite some...

All the GP can do is refer me back to the diabetes centre at my hospital, where I'm already registered. So I end up with the same nurse, who says that because you are GAD positive you automatically have T1, with no discussion.

I haven't been allowed to see a consultant, just a nurse who is very unhelpful. I was put on insulin as they didn't know which type it was/is (I don't fit the profile of either) and the test results take 6 weeks, so just in case I was T1. Now the results are back it's still not really...

Hi. Firstly 250 is not that high, mine is somewhere over 2000 (2000 is the max they can measure). I have read quite a bit of research on this. The neurological disorders are extremely rare. Stiff person syndrome affects 1 in a million people, and they usually have extremely high titers of 10,000...

I have recently had tests back, very high reading for GAD antibodies, negative for the other 2 antibodies. However, my C peptide level is high normal (1080) showing strong insulin production. I was put on insulin after the initial high A1C (97) but stopped taking it after 4 weeks, and BG better...