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What I was trying to Say is my no.1 objective is to lower and stabilize my Blood Sugar by watching what I eat. Hopefully leading to a reduction of medicine (which Lantus is.?) If one says I Will Eat or drink something packed with sugar (Because I can increase my insulin medication intake ) I...

My View is if for years your body has reacted to sugar (sweet) it may take a while to adjust to a sweetener. I myself use Stevia and avoid chemical sweeteners but if you buy your stevia from a supermarket please read the label in the past I have found products labelled STEVIA containing Various...

Here in Thailand I am told you can also take blood from the fleshy part of your palm just below the thumb,I would confirm this with your doctor or nurse. Nowadays the amount of blood needed is less than it used to be because of the sensitivity of the strips so the needle can be used on a lower...

As we all know everyone is different . So I can only give my own experience I was diagnosed in England before taking early retirement and moving to Thailand with my wife. In the U.K. I stopped drinking Alcohol Not Easy when I arrived in Thailand I no longer had the N.H.S.to guide me nor my...

Personally I try to avoid sugar as I know that many things either contain sugar (like sauces you get in restaurants.) or are converted into sugar by our bodies ,that the only way I can lower my B.S Levels is to avoid sugar as much as possible. Living in Thailand a lot of Thai food is high in...

Do you use Ceylonese Cinnamon or other (Chinese) as I have read that they are from different types of bark and only the Ceylonese is claimed to help B.S....Ceylonese is more expensive (Go Figure ! ) no serious studies to confirm. yes I to Like the flavour. but wonder if I am the victim of an...

I Have just read a recipe which used cinnamon it claimed that cinnamon reduced blood sugar . now I have heard this claim before although not for all cinnamon only for Ceylon cinnamon Which I have tried my observation would be that I cant say it lowered my B.S. on its own I did how ever seem...

Changing any medication in my experience takes time to get your body used to it,if your worried talk to your Doctor or Diabetes Nurse, Normally when you change your doc. should schedule a blood test to monitor the change much sooner than you would usually have one. Why did the doctor change from...

5.9 good for me

What I meant by eating less is less than YOU normally do because portion sizes differ set your own level ,if your used to bigger plates use smaller ones etc. whatever was you Normal Serving Gradually Reduce it to half

My Doctor n Bangkok put me on 20mg of crestor after i had a stroke (already Diabetic) I looked up Statins on the internet and asked my doc if I could reduce dose she said no I reduced to 10mg then to 5mg I now have a different Doc who is quite Happy with my Levels. 15Yrs Later Of Course I...

One possible reason is that whilst concentrating hard on What we eat to lower our BG we loose track of the quantity. I always find that in spite of all the many diet fads around weight loss comes from Eating Less combined with exercise of course

I have the same problem in Thailand I buy my accuchek performa strips on line from India I can buy 100 strips for the same as 25 strips here but it will depend on your meter Incidentally they post them free world wide

I Wonder what the real figures are I don't think it is the USA that out of line I think Most of Europe and Asia us the same system as the USA I agree it would be sensible to have one system but if we cant agree about most things why should this be anything different

surely by now the World Health Organization should have negotiated 1 System For those who think the UK system is used worldwide apart from the U.S. Wrong a lot of countries use mg/dl including Thailand Finally My Accuchek meter Can be set to either system.

Fraudulent Claims are Fraud Illegal therefor a crime Getting Medicine from the NHS which you have paid into month after month Means you are getting what you have Paid for therefor if you Sell it its yours. Now if you paid into a heath insurance scheme that paid for your medicine who would it...