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Well I am expecting my gp to want to put me on metformin when I go to see her tomorrow, which drug career I did not want to pursue. It often seems to get very complicated when one thing affects and nother and round and round we go trying to find a better answer. Your journey seems very...

Yes, I thought of this, and started taking Osteocare which has the right amount of calcium for a woman of my age. But this does not seem to have helped very much though I had been taking it for a number o months. I have stopped now. I also read that calcium tablets may not be as good for me...

well before, my diet was not particularly bad, but not very conscientious either. In the past 6 months in particular though, I really eat healthily - lots of kale, spinach, green smoothies, broccoli, avocados, carrots, chicken, fish, (hardly ever red meat), carefully chosen cheese with low...

Blood pressure has come down today though, ---the day before it was 140 (systolic), and then it was 133, and now it is 128. Pulse pressure 45. That's not bad. However sometimes blood pressure has gone down to 105 ! Very variable! Does anyone know what the relationship is between...

Yes, well at the moment I am drinking quite a bit of water today. You know, a strange thing happens to me, --when I drink water after 9 pm, the next morning I get a splitting headache! NOT if I drink a cup of tea, but if I drink WATER. In the morning also, the back of my head and back of...

Well, I am still alive and kickin' ! Now 14.38. Eventually a young male doctor phoned me back, two hours later (I did not go to bed), and told him what had been going on. He said I could wait until Thursday (tomorrow) when I will go see my GP. We did a blood glucose test, pre-prandial...

thanks for this, I have drunk some water and will have some more....I have phoned 111. spoke to the 'nurse' (she said she was) who did not even know what HbA1c is! They asked me lots of questions, tick box like, categories, impossible to answer!...and a doctor will ring me back within the...

No, I do not know anything at the moment about ketones, or at least very little, let alone how to measure them..? Really? I feel okay.... I am wondering whether three weeks of bronchitis during this (less than ) 3 month period might have influenced this result of 119. Do you know if that...

Yes, thank you. I was having a read about this LADA thing earlier this evening so was interested to see your reference to it here. I am seeing my doctor on Thursday to discuss this unexpected result! However, have just done my glucose (using Accu chek blood glucose system), and it was 27.9...

That is what I am hoping.....

My HbA1c was 51, and fasting glucose using Accu chek blood glucose system was Sept 2018, 7.2/8/1 or similar. And Hb was, in 3 month intervals, as I say 51, 52, 57, until this week when it is either 119 or 11.9 of an HbA1c system of some kind!? I am going to see my doctor on thursday. I got...

This looks like you are doing really well. Well done! ( I envy you!)

I feel I might just as well have continued to enjoy myself, stuffed myself with Mars Bars, and thrown the green smoothies in the bin!

Well the Diabetes Education Class, tutor taught us lot, and I have been exceptionally careful with my diet. I have been studying it in great detail. I have lost weight from around 14 stone to 11stone 4Ibs, and my blood pressure has gone down from being regularly in the 140 systolic range to...

Thank you for your responses. Well the Receptionist at my doctors when I rang today definitely said 119. but mmm. yes I wonder if what she said was wrong and that she did not understand it read 11.9%. It is still high, but certainly doesn't seem quite as bad...?!

I was diagnosed about a year ago with Diabetes, HBa1c 51, after 3 months, 52, 3 more months 57, 3 more months, after exercising 30 mins a day, totally changing diet, after attending Diabetes education group, I have just been informed I am HbA1c of 119 !!! What is going on?!! Cannot do...

I really appreciate this site as I have only recently been diagnosed as diabetic. I am presently not yet on any medication as my doctor is wanted to look at my status a bit more before prescribing. My HbA1c however was 52 last time, and the most recent result I will discover this morning. My...