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I have suffered from chronic fatigue like you , I would sometimes lay my head down for 5 mins an literally collapse for several hours hours. The doctors told me it couldn't be diabetes related and I had tests for everything, even went to sleep clinic. Everything fine. My blood levels were...

5.7 7am b/f 2 slices bacon, 2 sausages, 2 slices jam and bread. lunch sausage roll/ 500 ml coke dinner 2 can coke , 500g potatoes, 2 chicken legs snacks 3 cans coke , 500g sweets, 6 packets crisps It’s good to write this down, as its made me realise I’ve somewhat slipped off my low carb...

This is pretty much howI felt , until I started a low car diet and exercise at gym. Whenevef I fall of the wagon, far too frequently :( these symptoms come back. When I first started a low carb diet , I saw improvements in first week. Then it was about a month for all symptoms to go. However...

When I was diagnosed last year I wax told they would check annually, no 3-6 month checks for me, but as they had to close their list fir being oversubscribed no surprise. And of course due to covid-19 health reviews were the first thing to go out the window.

brewbags? do you mean the bags the teas come in? if so what about clipper teas, their bags are supposed to be natural and they are in all the major supermarkets and most health shops?

My test results give both but all the doctors(we don't see the same one) use the percentage both young and old.

with you there, do you measure blood sugar? before covid i had good diet and lots of gym time. stop measuring as blood was under very good control. during beginning of covid could only get comfort food so fell of wagon. After feeling sick started measuring, my readings where like 8 to 10...

Agree, im fifty and overweight and so i bet they assume type 2. To be fair i probably am type 2.

ok, well this is good as it sounds normal (i mean the symptons) and I know I can stop it by eating right. Using those strips (the accu ones) ones never seem to give any high reading even if im being naughty and drinking coke(i have a mild addiction To this) However my hb1ac to tend to go up...

thx all replies, wasnt away hypos could be from other things, i think that may be the case for me, because on the one occasion i was near a blood test strip my blood sugars were normal. TBH its just something Ive always lived with and never thought about until diagnosed with diabetes and...

Reading about diabetes type 2 one of the often mentioned symptoms is tiredness. However I’m not sure what this means, a little sleepy, very sleepy. If I eat too much carbs I will literally crash, what I mean by that is I will have to lay down, my mind gets very exhausted(but in a dif way to...

Doing some reading and one thin I keep reading is hypos occur in type 2 diabetics who are taking insulin. But I cant find any info on whether they happen in type 2 who arent taking insulin. Im not taking insulin, my hb1ac was i think 42 or 45. However all my life Ive suffered from what i...

A lot of the posts talk about having their type diagnosed, but that never happened to me when i was diagnosed last year. They just gave me the advice for a type 2 without ever saying it was type 2. The reason for me being diagnosed was failing the hb1ac test twice. Do you have to have certain...

Is anyone still getting the yearly diabetes checkups? My GP practice seems to have stopped any service that involves face to face contact?

At my surgery in England the receptionist will give out results, this is expected, . They wont obviously make any comment on the results. Sounds like this is a policy made up by your gp practice.

After reading some posts just realised I have never been told what type of diabetes I have. I was just told my hb1 was too high and I had diabetes. I just assumed it was type 2 (from symptoms). Is this normal?

beginning 98.7 last week 96.9 this week (wk3) 96.2. -.7 ( off the wagon on weekend, lack of willpower, I think mcdonalds/crisps/coke probably doesn’t fit into a low carb diet). Next week no reward days and will not skip gym, baby steps.

whats so bad? thats a healthy rate of loss.

wk1 98.7 wk2 97.9 -.8 wk3 96.6. -1.3 ( drat those crunchies/coke it was 2 kg 2 days ago) Must stop measuring as every time I see my figures 4.3 - 5.9 mmol I relax and scoff loads of chocolate. Need to take this more seriously!!! Edited by Mod

Or more realistically the vast majority of people a nurse will see are not going to have the level of commitment of the people who visit a site like this. No point advising low carb diets if most if the people they see probably arnt going to follow them.