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At your early stage choose one of your two meters and stick with it. The difference was probably not one of the meters but site contamination. It only needs a trace of sugary or starchy residue on your skin to mix with the blood to give a falsely high result. Later, when you are more experienced...

Hi Ally. I just replied in another thread. You'll notice I mention one hour there. Is two hours your peak? What was on the menu at lunch?

What was on the menu, including snacks, over the past 24 hours? What were your one-hour post-meal test results?

Life is a matter of choices. Everything has a price. Some you pay for with cash. Others you pay for in poor health and misery.

Please consider that an absolute minimum, not a maximum. Read this to see why: Test, Review, Adjust

Have your read the details on that link yet? Until you have your test strips this may help: What to Eat Until You Get Your Meter. What are the meds and doses?

Presumably you are referring to my most recent "Do Doctors matter?" post. I'm not quite sure that's the way I put it, but I know what you mean. Balancing that, there is far too much bad advice given out by too many doctors and far too many dieticians who are yet to join the 20th century...

Please invest some of your sudden wealth in test strips :). I think you will be reviewing the portion sizes of the foods I have marked. Being a rebel in this case is rebelling against your own body.

As a traveller who takes a lot of photos I found the problem was not a lack of film years ago, but a lack of processing facilities. I switched to digital in 2005 and have not regretted it.

Consider hydrotherapy. I have not done it myself but watched as a group of others did when I was at a public pool. It is intended as low-impact exercise for people our age (I'm 67), but it is also a way to be comfortable in shallow water for half an hour while doing an activity and getting used...

Try a few tests one hour after your meals.

Always ask for copies of all lab reports. Apart from allowing you to discuss the numbers with experienced people on forums like this, it makes it much easier to get a second opinion if you choose to.

I'm not sure it works for all strips, try it and see. If you buy your own strips it could get expensive. I use a simpler approach. I never buy a drink dispensed by post-mix. Ever. I cannot control what is coming out of that machine, nor whether the manager connected the right syrup to it. It is...

G'day. Welcome to the club you didn't really want to join. Unfortunately it is not unusual for some complications to commence before type 2 is formally diagnosed. Possibly your past health checks were not checking for diabetes. Do you have copies of your old lab tests, including tests for...

Possibly you're right and it's stress. But this is more likely to be at the root of your problems in my lay opinion: "Found my test strips a few days back... buried amongst the house move items!." Don't lose them again - use them: Test, Review, Adjust You said "Sugars seem okish." Test at the...

For a long time many of us on various diabetes forums have known that the diagnostic criteria for pre-diabetes (or IGT and IFG) are well past the point on the continuum where the condition may be reversible. Thus pre-diabetics have already developed diabetes. Therefore I believe this is bloody...

It is a very individual problem which I suffer from myself. In my own case I used to be very concerned about it when it first started appearing. Often my fasting BG is the worst reading of my day. As the years passed and my post-prandial peaks and A1c remained good with no complications...

A few tips on meters and testing. Meters have an allowable official tolerance range which varies in different countries but is usually somewhere between 10% and 20%. In practice 20% means a test result of 7 on your meter could actually be anywhere between 5.6 and 8.4. In reality the deviation is...

I turned my affliction into my hobby. I spend several hours each morning on forums like this one; learning a lot and passing some of it on. My other passion is travel; I wander the world as often as I can. I blog on both subjects.

On the ceiling too. Amazing. Does anyone know the science behind that?