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Life expectancy for people with type 1 is typically less than for people with type 2. The stats on this site suggest 10 years less than average for type 2 and 20 years less for type 1. This is because type 2 is usually diagnosed in people much older than with type 1. A lot of things have...

Statins raise blood sugars and may have given you diabetes. 56 is not that high. You should be able to drop below 48 if you cut out high carb food. My HbA1C dropped from 99 to 44 in six months after I started a low carb diet. Get a blood glucose meter to check which foods spike you blood sugars.

I watched “That Sugar Film” on Amazon Prime video the other day. He way saying that he was getting mood swings from feeling hyperactive after eating sugar to feeling ratty after blood glucose dropped a couple of hours later. The explanation for feeling ratty was that the body produces adrenaline...

Blurred vision can occur because of high blood sugar which causes the lenses in the eyes to swell. I had this, but it does get better if you can reduce your blood glucose levels. Best to get a blood glucose meter to test which foods spike your blood sugar. You can reduce your blood glucose...

All the information you need is available on these forums. When I was diagnosed type 2 last year I was told to eat less sugar, do more exercise and take metformin. Five weeks later I saw a diabetes nurse and got a blood glucose meter. My blood glucose had dropped from 13 down to 9.8. I then...

5.2 this morning :)

I use an Accu Chek Mobile. See https://www.accu-chek.co.uk/blood-glucose-meters/mobile It was provided for me by my diabetes nurse. Advantages Built in finger pricker Uses cassette instead of test strips Portable - has free carry case when you register Disadvantages Cassette has 50 tests...

Check out www.dietdoctor.com website. There is a lot of useful info there. Intermittent fasting is a good way to reduce blood sugars. The 16:8 method is where you eat only within a 8hr window and 5:2 fasting is where you eat less two days a week. Apart from the obvious high carbs like breakfast...

7.2 is not too high for someone newly diagnosed. If you want to reduce blood glucose then avoid high carb foods such as breakfast cereals, bread, potatoes rice and pasta. Also avoid fruit juice and fruit such as bananas and grapes. You can’t execise your way out of a poor diet.

It is quite educational watching "That Sugar Film". Damon Gameau swapped their low carb diet with one eating the same number of calories, but high carb for 60 days. The result was a extremely unhealthy. Another film "Fat Head" had someone eat 2000 calories/day junk food for a month, but mostly...

5.6 this morning :)

See https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fruits for which fruits are low/high carb

Dietary fat does not clog up your arteries. This is a myth. What does cause your arteries to clog up is glucose spikes which causes inflammation of the arteries which then leads to heart attacks and strokes as when the inflamation is repaired it narrows the arteries. About 80% of people with CVD...

Stop taking statins. They cause severe muscle pain and also dementia like symptoms. They also raise blood sugar, so not helpful for people with diabetes. See ...

Metformin affects the kidneys and made me get up in the middle of the nigh to pee. Since stopping metformin I no longer have this problem.

600mg per day is OK. Take after eating as it can lower blood sugars.

They asked me to take statins. I refused. They have many side effects and have no benefit unless you have actually had a heart attack.

Cholesterol does not impact all cause mortality unless it is very high or very low. However, high blood sugars and sugar spikes from eating high carb food does result in increased rate of heat attacks, strokes, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. So, in the great order of things cholesterol has much...

See ... This interesting documentary explains how you can get blood sugar spikes, what their effects are and how to reduce blood sugar spikes.

These calculators such as QRISK3 add a big risk factor if you have diabetes. In practice cholesterol is a poor indicator of all cause mortality. People who have heart attacks have lower than average cholesterol, not higher. The real cause of strokes and heart attacks is glucose spikes, which...