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Hi all - hope everyone is safe and well. Haven't posted for a few years as nothing much to contribute. My eternally nice diabetes doctor is coaxing me into adding Gliflozin (STLT2 inhibitor) to my little cocktail of drugs. My instinct is always to avoid anything new if I have a basic...

If numbers are sticking at a high level and you're too busy to prepare a proper virtuous, non-processed low-carb meal, then try M&S chargrilled chicken & courgetti ready meal with a reasonable amount of veg -- quite filling and only 6g carbs. Knocks down overnight levels nicely and means you can...

My B12 injections don't make me feel better, but the continued nerve damage if I didn't have them would have made me feel a whole lot worse in the longer term (and after a year of injections I did get at least some feeling back - again, it's a gradual process). Are the injections actually...

My heart surgeon is emphatic that keeping BGs low is more important than anything else I can do. I would have thought that control is key, keeping numbers steady and avoiding hypos (it makes sense that massively fluctuating BGs and lost of hypos would damage the heart). The ACCORD study has been...

It means nothing, but I have been on low dose of aspirin (post-angioplasty) and gliclazide -- among other things -- for 5 years and not one HCP (including some top people) has batted an eyelid

Hi @WhiteCat27. I was diagnosed MODY nearly 9 years ago and DN said I would be on insulin within 12 months -- she's still wrong! Some MODY types respond well to gliclazide. If it has had little effect and your BGs are still sky-rocketing despite dietary changes it does sound a lot like LADA, and...

If Diabetes UK's advice on diet was less outrageous one might believe for a second or two that they subject their commercial links to 'rigorous scrutiny' and are not influenced by them. Actually I think the time really has come when the burden of proof from now on lies with Diabetes UK to...

All too true, alas. Nice to think we have made some progress since then...

I loved the bit 'Avoid hidden 'extras' such as butter on toast or sugar syrup on tinned fruit.' Yes -- that butter is far more dangerous than the toast it's spread on. Avoid hidden sugar syrup in tinned fruit -- best to go for unhidden maple syrup on a banana on a teacake (how many carbs...

Hi. Your nurse is simply wrong. Other types are 'recognised in the UK' (whatever that means), and the NHS certainly does test for MODY and LADA (as many of us can attest). Your particular surgery may wish to avoid the expense, but I suggest that you discuss this with someone else at the...

Sorry -- just a few tiny corrections: genetic testing does not always reveal precisely which gene is involved with MODY -- they are still identifying new ones (though it's definitely worth having the test done); gliclazide IS a sulphonylurea; there's no reason why MODY wouldn't be treated with...

Another option is to change when she takes her dose -- before evening meal perhaps? Increasing carb intake to cover glic is of course madness (which @Bluetit1802 meant, but was too polite to express bluntly!)

Don't feel down -- see it as a challenge! When is your next hba1c due? It would be good if you could aim for that 6.5 again -- do you have some room to tweak diet and exercise a bit?

My hba1cs mostly cluster around 42 (so 6.0 on your calculation) but last one crept up to 46 (6.4) -- wish they were lower but life keeps getting in the way. Where are you in Australia?

Hi mlmac -- good to hear things are going well with you. I was diagnosed MODY April 2010 but they have still not sorted out the precise gene. I was told when diagnosed that I would be on insulin within months -- nearly 8 years on and I'm still just on the sulfonylureas. On my last review at the...

Over 3 years ago I had 2 angioplasties in ten months and am fine (I am a slim, healthy non-smoker - these things can happen to anyone). A cardio surgeon will inevitably put you on statins if you have heart disease, not matter how low your cholesterol. Mine was a top surgeon at Papworth and he...

Hi -- I have MODY. Treatment will vary depending on which type of MODY you have (which depends on which gene is involved). Do you know what blood tests you were actually given?

Did the GP explain why they thought you were MODY? I would have thought the usual procedure would be to have GAD and c-peptide tests, and perhaps even genetic tests before such a diagnosis. There are different types of MODY, but in many cases it will respond well to even mild doses of...

Just passing by the forum as I do occasionally and seeing the goodbyes, bans and what not I have an awful sense of déjà vu. It’s impossible at a brief glance to work out what or who is behind it all, but some aspects seem eerily familiar. To stop the endless cycle of well-informed and...

I don't see why this should have even been raised as an issue -- seems self-evident (as one assumes is also the case with LADA).