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That is exactly what I am doing now. I am trying out different meals and plotting BG curves, I do this with and without exercise at various periods after the meal and repeat the experiments until I get consistent patterns. I am looking upon testing as a tool to help me learn what is going on...

In short, bad things! I'm not aware of any studies of the effects of a single cigarette smoked by a "non smoker". However, there has been lots of work done on the effects of chronic smoking on diabetes and glucose metabolism. In short, smoking reduces insulin levels and increases insulin...

If the "fat thing" is indeed cholesterol, then you might want to look into the wine ban in a bit more detail. Red wine is a good source of anthocyanin (that is what makes it red). Not only is there a lot of anthocyanin in red wine, but it is in a form that is easily absorbed by the gut. Now...

As far as I am aware, all stem cell therapy for diabetes (as with stem cell therapy for anything else for that matter) is still very much experimental. There is a lot of research being done (more for T1 than T2 - because that area is more promising), and it gets a lot of press coverage because...

A very interesting article, and the research comes from a world class lab. However, it is quite old news (the original work was published in 2005), and I can't find anything more recent on this. Given its importance if this is right, and the speed that this area is moving at, this lack of any...

Thank you very much for posting SAE - it is really important to hear alternative views. These sorts of forums are wonderful things, but there is a real danger of being swayed by the tyranny of the majority - or even the eloquent minority for that matter! Not nosy at all - this sort of...

Hi Cyclopse, I have been diagnosed barely any longer than you (three weeks tomorrow!), but I have spent a lot of time this last three weeks reading. I know that understanding the condition is the key to controlling it, and it is crucial that you control it rather than let it control you...

Do you find that timing of exercise after eating is important? I am a newly diagnosed T2, and I have just started monitoring the last few days - so it is way too early to draw any conclusions yet. However, one thing that I have noticed is that exercising half an hour after eating seems to...

Many thanks for the advice people, I am convinced - I have bought a OT UltraSmart and started testing (and I have already discovered some interesting things). I will try to persuade my GP to prescribe strips, but for the time being I am buying them myself. Can anyone advise of reliable online...

In the medical literature it seems to be quite well known that people with diabetes are more prone to infections than people without. What isn't at all clear is why. It is tempting to conclude that susceptibility to infection is yet another side effect of the diabetes (and that might be the...

I pretty much diagnosed myself. Almost all male relatives on my fathers side of the family have had T2 at around my age (mid forties) - so there has always been a kind of inevitability about it. For a few months I had been getting tired much more easily than I used to, and when I started...

Many thanks for this advice. The more I read the more I am leaning towards testing, and I shall try to use the NICE guidelines to press my GP in that direction. However, I am not optimistic about that - he seemed pretty adamant. The very first thing that he said after giving me the diagnosis...

Any of these are scary and depressing possibilities. I have a horrible suspicion that you are right and cost is at the heart of this. In particular, the way the nurse instantly came up with the same arguments as the GP suggests to me that she was following a "party line". However, to be...

I have only very recently been diagnosed (Type II), so I certainly can't claim to be an expert on this. However, I had to face this issue immediately - quite literally the day after I got the news I was planning to go to a friends stag party - and even if one accepts modest drinking, getting...

Hi People, I am new here, and this is my first post. Indeed, I am very new to diabetes - I was diagnosed with Type II a week and a half ago, and I have yet to figure out how this is going to change my life. So far, I have had one 10 minute appointment with a GP and a half hour chat with a...