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Oh how I sympathise (and empathise) with you! My story has a few parallels - I have been trying to stick to the LCHF diet for sometime now - irrespective of what my GP might say (I didn't tell her) and I have to say I think I have had a positive result. It's not cured me (if that's ever...

I confess I was amused by the lady who, at the end of the report I saw, said 'If I can do it, anybody can do it'. She either had a very low opinion of her own abilities, or, more likely, she knows little of the problems diabetes poses quite a few of the rest of us.

85% cocoa and above, nibble a small piece, make it last, enjoy every morsel - then try and suppress the feelings of guilt you will no doubt find creeping in the corner of your mind. It won't matter a jot if you keep it to that once every few days or so. If you really want to test the...

Omelette for breakfast, a few crackers and some cheese for lunch (and a sneaky bag of crisps), a mug of tea, two mugs of coffee in between. Meds - 500mg Metformin, 80mg Gliclazide and 25mg Alogliptin for breakfast. 500mg Metformin for lunch and my BG is.............11.9 - OK, I've not done much...

With those figures I wouldn't worry anyway! Just keep on the low carb diet. If it makes you feel any better, I often hit the teens first thing in the morning (hence the cheerful avatar).

Point taken.

Well, to be honest I really don't care whether it's a disease or a condition. I've got it and I don't like it. I do my best to manage it - LCHF, a fair amount of exercise, prescribed medication and so on.....and I still don't like it.

I'm sure it's not a disease, it can't be caught or transmitted from person to person. It's a condition that can be managed, to some extent, by diet, exercise and medication. This is what I've been led to believe and, until I'm given substantive evidence to the contrary, it's what I'll continue...

I have Cialis on prescription, and was told I could have it because my type 2 is a 'blood related problem'. I rarely use it, because it's not me that's lost libido! (sigh)

12st 4lbs (172lbs (UK), 78Kg approx) - as usual. This gives me a BMI of pretty well where it should be (22.6) and it rarely changes. Annoyingly, the BMI calculator I used tells me I'm the correct weight for my age and height, reducing my chances of developing type 2 diabetes! Perhaps I...

There are, I'll admit, some real positives to the LCHF diet - other than the diabetes control thingy - I love black pudding! Therefore; Breakfast - black pudding and Camembert omelette, cup of tea (black, unsweetened) Mid morning - mug of coffee with cream Lunch - green salad (lots of leafy...

12.9 this morning and, thankfully, I've run out of testing strips - so now I can't frighten myself quite so frequently - until, that is, next Thursday, when my prescription gets attended to.

11.1 - Is there anyone else who wakes up with readings like this?

10.8 this morning, and I continue to get these far too high readings. That is except for last Thursday afternoon when I felt decidedly queezy for no apparent reason. This didn't improve, so I reached for my BG meter to find a reading of 3.8 and dropping (another 2 points over half an hour...

Well, if you don't hear from me in the next few....... . . . .

I confess I do find all these figures confusing. Probably because I'm too lazy to find out about them all. However, my 10 point-something reading first thing this morning has, after a half hour fast cycle on my trainer, dropped to 7.6! I've still to eat breakfast (10.45am - yes, I am that...

With my new medication, I find my average BG during the day has come down, but I still get readings of 10+ first thing in the morning. Depressing.

09.15 and nothing yet - I'm fed up with omelettes, but there's little alternative from what I see in my 'fridge today, however, I do spy one small rasher of bacon! I will try and resist the few remaining slices of rye bread. Lunch will almost certainly be, as it was yesterday, a salad with some...

10.3 and now, in addition to the Metformin and Gliclazide, I've been prescribed Alogliptin. This has made a difference to my readings during the day, but what are all those of you with readings below 7 worried about!?

I don't know which is worst - I don't touch bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and a whole host of other root vegetables and other carby type things and still I get BG readings in the teens. I eat a few crackers when I consume cheese, other than that I really try to keep carb intake to a minimum...