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Read all the links here and try to follow them. Must be doing something as my waking bg was 6.3 and early evening before eating 5.5 but my eggs and cheese lunch took it up to 10 4 hours after eating. I didn't think that any shop-bought burgers were good, and my attempts at mince patties or...

Feta does keep for ages but my largest Tesco doesn't sell the real thing and often they don't have the things I want. The same for other supermarkets here. I love olive oil but olives must be black Corfu (only available there), Cretan or Kalamata. Most Greek olives are bought by Italian...

That cheesecake recipe sounds great, but everything is in US numbers. I don't know what a cup of something is and what size cup? Esspresso or mug. I'm in the UK and used to ounces or grammes. I've never made a baked cheesecake, only one where you mix the base with melted butter and refrigerate...

I can cook but have problems that cause a lot of stress. I can follow recipes too, but don't have a slow cooker, mine is the oven turned low. I know that an hbA1c of 57 is diabetic, but since August it went from 47 to 55 then 56 on gliptins plus topical steroids, cream with no diabetic med. 57...

I take BP readings at home, several times a day now. Usually they are a bit high, sometimes fairly high, but lower if I repeat them. Today I had one very low reading, one a bit high, average normal, but although I may be increasing muscle slightl I'm still losing weight. With low carbs my...

I went up from 50 to 55 in 2 months or so but couldn't but only got a meter a couple of weeks ago, so now I've been checking my bg after meals and all but the waking 'fasting' checks are 4 to 5 hours after a meal. My DBN said he didn't believe in 'fad diets' and he'd had 30 to 40 years...

I don't think I've been cheched for T1 and doubt I am as my changed diet is lowering my bg. I've tested for inflammation for yearsbut no other btests. TSH is normal. Many years ago after a period of high stresss I became anorexic but got out of it with no diet, just eating properly, but I...

I went from an hbA1c of 47 to 55 very quickly, why I was given lipigliptin. Before that it was diet, but no diet advice and so I was eating a lot of high sugar and carbs foods. The lipigliptin maybe slowed the rise, went to 56, then 57 on steroids but my diet didn't change. I'm now using a...

I was only diagnosed pre-diabetic last summer, then my hbA1c shot up from 47 to 55 and I was prescribed lipigliptin. I've had two hbA1c tests since then, each one increasing by a point on the last, and was taken off that med after getting bullus perhgould (blistering skin), and was given...

I can cook most things and worked as a cook in Greece. At home I only cooked weekend meals. But now I hate cooking any but the simplest things. I think the reason is that I'm alone after all my friends and close family passed away. I'm losing too much weight on a low carb diet and can't eat big...

Steroids make it hard or impossible to control glucose and being given a gliptin that caused ne to need steroids is annoying. I can't take statins, I'm allergic, but have been on a very low dose beta blocker for a couple of years. I had lots of yoghurt plus berries for lunch, think my carbs...

There's a tutorial on the site (not forum). I've only been testing for three days and find that you can get a good idea of the effects of food on glucose by testing 2 hours after. Your fasting test should be done as soon as possible after waking up, without eating or drinking anything. Good...

I've left all your quote as the meals look lovely. But I can't cook anything other than basic baked or stewed food, even turned the cheese in an omelette to charcoal yesterday. The soze of those breakfasts look huge, maybe bigger than main meals and I hate a lot of the ingredients, especially...

I've learnt that now, but it took me months to be able to check my own levels and I've only been doing that for a couple of days. I do as much research as I can and had to tell my DBN about bullous (autoimmune blistering disease as a side effect of gliptins) after I got it. The gliptin didn't do...

I know I'm eating too many carbs but a pure keto diet isn't for me and the steroids I'm on increase bg, can even cause T2 in people. I plan to cut out a lot of carbs but don't have the things I need yet. A dear friend passed away after steroids caused heart problems, T2 diabetes and then heart...

I was given the steroid tablets 10 days ago to deal with an autoimmune skin condition caused by lipigliptin. So I'm trying to control diabetes while taking something that causes it. As far as I know I'm supposed to just stop the steroids in3 days time after taking 30 mg for 2 weeks. If I can do...

I agree, but my GP and diabetic nurse are waiting for a letter from my dermatologist. I bullied the nurse into giving me the meter yesterday, before that he was planning to show me how to use it for monitoring 3 times a day before meals on the 10th February. Now the nurse said he'd have a phone...

Hi. Thanks for reading my long thread. I know what carbs are but the NHS says that complex carbs are OK as they're released slowly. Mow I can check for myself I know better. The huge spike is bad and I assume didn't show in my hba1c results. I probably will need meds as long as I'm on steroids...

I'm starting a new thread as my first is so long. I only was able to start finger prick tests yesterday and I have a little idea how my bg is changing with food. Most of my diet is high carb although from NHS advice I didn't think it was and and my weight has dropped so my BMI is now 21.4. My...

I wish I did, but the closest Lidl would cost me more in petrol than anything I've saved.