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I have been known to wander around my kitchen with a spoonful of peanut butter stuck in my mouth :wideyed::p

I am on metformin but that is not what is causing good readings. Low carb at 20ish grams per day. My A1c came down from 10.4 to 5.8 in less than 6 months. I have lost 30 pounds. My daily numbers reflect what I eat.

That is for blood ketone levels. Ketostix won't tell you where you are on this chart

I use an Abbot freestyle precision neo meter to check blood ketones. The strips are expensive but you only need to test once a day or less. I check before bed.

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Finding out how much insulin you are producing is a very important first step. If you have lost the weight and are low carb but your sugars are still high even with medication that increases insulin production, the gliclazide, I would suspect that you are not producing very much insulin any...

Cook up a bit extra cauliflower and puree it. Add it into the sauce to thicken. Also start with heavy cream instead of milk.

Can you get physical copy of your prescriptions to carry with you?

I hope everything settles down quickly and you are feeling better :depressed: ------> :p

Sounds to me like you should be asking your doctor for a c-peptide test and maybe a GAD antibody test to test how much insulin you are making and also the possibility that you may be LADA. You are showing the classic signs. I am not trying to diagnose you but if I were you I would push for these...

If you are talking about your own testing with your meter it would be when you wake up in the morning.

It seems to be a very fine line between bringing DP down or pushing sugars even higher for me. 2 or 3 grams can help bring things down in the morning but 5 will send me higher. It is very frustrating.

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Yes we still produce insulin but our bodies are not using it properly. In addition our livers are not functioning correctly with the signalling that is needed. For many, our first phase insulin response is weak or missing. I actually think type 1 is much more straight forward. I fully realize...

Welcome to the forum :)

Test test test. It is hard to be in denial when the numbers are in your face. This is what shocked me out of denial.

You could ask your doctor about taking magnesium supplements.

2000 mg ER split morning and bedtime

How many different health issues does a GP see in just one day in the office? They are people too with lives and families and only so many hours in the day. There is no way one person in a few spare hours a day can keep up with all the latest information in a hundred different areas. It is the...

I did not take things to mean that the broccoli and kale on the list are bad for diabetics. I took it to mean that not everything on that list is suitable for a type 2 diabetic which is what the article is aimed at, type 2. I certainly cannot tolerate the grains or fruit but I am not everyone. A...