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Seriously - burn that book. I watched my father's mother slowly dying from the complications of type 2 diabetes and it still reduces me to tears to think about it. It was horrible beyond words. A type 2 diabetic cannot cope with carbohydrate - at best it will kill them, at the worst they will...

I am on a ow carb forum and several people have had nasty falls, one life changing - due to ignoring symptoms of low blood pressure. Low carb normalizes so many modern ailments - you need to sort it out mod edit to conform with rules

Ah - I see what you mean - the sample needs to be stored correctly but I would expect that there are guidelines available on temperature etc. within every place that samples are taken, and those working there should know about it. I did have the situation where my results were all over the...

Honestly, Mr Martin - testing isn't all that important in your situation, as your wife is not deep into diabetic numbers. I think that simply stopping the high carb foods will do the trick. I used to have just two meals a day. I would have pork chops with mushrooms for breakfast, or scrambled...

I got into a terrible state with Metformin and Atorvastatin for just a few weeks after diagnosis. just before Christmas 2016 I stopped taking the tablets and was no longer diabetic in 80 days just by eating low carb. At 6 months I was in normal numbers. A low carb diet gave me control.

@Martin_ what a good thing it is that my PC is oblivious to sound - when I read what your wife has been advised to eat I have to confess that the air was blue. That dietician's ears must surely be burning. That advice encompasses exactly the worst possible food choices for an ordinary type 2...

Far better to fast than spike blood glucose. I often eat just once a day these days and feel fine, which is what I go by these days as there is only me that knows how I feel and I've had so many people tell me I should get by feeling pretty unwell. That got me to being vastly overweight and...

Hello @Roy Batty and welcome to the forum. I found that I just needed to go back to my Atkins level of carbohydrate, under 50gm a day to get my Hba1c from 91 down to normal numbers, but for many that seems a very small amount. I wonder if - having been told that carbs are part of a healthy diet...

A low carb diet is really easy to cater for and has the added advantage of reducing appetite so it isn't all that urgent to find food as quickly as possible. I just thought about eating for the first time today, it being 5pm, and so I took a tomato and some cheese from the fridge and ate that. I...

If you are not on any medication is is perhaps normal for you at this stage in your life. For me a diet with no more than 40 gm of carbs a day seems to keep me in normal numbers and I feel absolutely fine.

If you are eating low carb then your numbers after eating should show a good response, if they don't then you might be something more interesting than a plain type 2 diabetic and so require further investigation.

Two hours after first bite seems to give a good indication of how the meal affects and also how it is coped with - two slightly different things on the way to good results. I found that once I adjusted my menu so I saw under 8 after meals the same meals affected me less and less, so I dropped...

I am 72 now, and have increased my strength eating eggs meat fish and dairy products. Muscles are made of protein, brain and endocrine systems require fats for maintenance - they are the essential nutrients and elderly people are often deficient in them.

I've had bother with my feet since having the first AZ jab - but by using a hand held shower head to direct cold and hot water onto my feet and legs plus massaging my feet and all down my legs in order to get the blood flowing I have seen improvements. I am careful not to compress my feet at...

It is indeed - half that number would be good. Does your husband eat a low carb diet? That seems to be the way to treat ordinary type 2, as it tends to reset everything back into fairly normal numbers. To be left with numbers like that is not right. I suggest taking matters into your own hands...

I suspect that trying to do moderate carb might be the problem - you get all the same sort of problems and no great benefit. My diagnosis is coming up to 6 years now, and my eating habits are still changing - I was pushed and pushed to eat a 'healthy' high carb diet and it is obviously a long...

If you are eating a low carb diet and no seeing improvements that seems rather strange.

I get the impression that Metformin is insisted upon as some sort of punishment for becoming diabetic. I was distinctly miffed that I didn't even need it in the first place. I was no longer in the diabetic range of Hba1c in 80 days, down to 41 at 6 months.

I'm up late again - I stopped taking Metformin and Atorvastatin after just 5 weeks, I was beginning to have suicidal thoughts and was so miserable I decided it did not matter any more. Most things have improved now, but my circadian rhythm never re-established itself.

What you are experiencing is normal - it is the reaction to lowering your glucose levels and many people experience it. I had exactly the same, but in mid winter, so not so severe, as I think that dehydration can play a part in making the symptoms more severe. I found that eating just three...