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They put me on symvastatin because when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes I had cholesterol readings of 23 and 24.5 (they did a second one because they thought the first might have been a lab error.) After my cholesterol went right down I got the dose halved from 40 mg to 20 mg and I have...

I will definitely try the before/after meal testing - I did wonder whether it was the dawn phenonimum. Will that affect my Hba1C too? I have one due next month. I do not want to be put on insulin.

I am having great trouble trying to get my morning fasting blood test down to at least 7. It is lowering (very gradually) since I was getting readings of 12 last November and I was down to 8.5 this am. I am attempting to eat low carb (although I do occasionally lapse e.g. I had one piece of...

I don't like dark chocolate and the emotional content of a square of high cocoa chocolate is almost zero . Compare that to a Thornton's diabetic choc- it is like telling someone to eat a Ryvita instead of a choclate digestive!!!!! I have never eaten chocolate as such, preferring choclate covered...

hello, I was diagnosed with type 2 dibetes in 2009 and have got increasingly frustrated with the lack of real help i can get from the NHS. Their diet doesn't really help me and I have to buy blood testing strips and needles etc for myself. I do not understand why we are advised not to eat...