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i've had this a couple of times, and it turned out to be due to a common infection rather than either the medications I was taking or some liver disease. The medical profession tend to take liver checking more seriously if you are taking medication known to sometimes cause liver problems. I have...

Source for Low Carb number is Dr David Unwin's Southport GP practice and yes, I have used the lowest number i.e. for those in remission after several (I think it is 3 yrs) taking all who try it, not just those who stick with it. You are correct that the success rate for those who like the...

Hi @GemP and welcome to the forum. Diabetes can be very frustrating, as can weight loss - because there is no one way of dealing with it. However there is at least one way which is the right one for you. That may be different from what it is for me or for other people because we are all...

When I asked about LDL rising on a low carb way of eating, the reply I got from the most well-known 'Low Carb' GP surgery in the UK was; 'We have never seen that.' Note both question and answer were in public on Twitter/X some time ago and at which time the surgery had over 100 T2D patients...

I look at the fact that drugs which raised HDL were not shown to reduce heart disease in this way: Are those drugs also shown to improve health in other ways? - No they are not, so why should they be used as evidence against Low Carb when the whole reason those drugs were developed was that...

We are all individuals and so even within Type 1's or Type 2's etc, the detail of what works for one person may well not works for another. For example I'm a slim T2 rather like Dave Feldman's 'Lean Mass Hyper-responders'. I was only ever overweight by 3lbs and even that after being pre-diabetic...

I felt no difference when I was taking Ramipril (plus another 2 BP meds). Though they were prescribed even though my BP has always been in the normal range, but they were part of a bundle of meds given as standard to all Cardiovascular patients ( I needed a 3x bypass - though didn't have a...

I attribute my (nearly) 5yrs of offficial Type 2 diabetes remission to my personal dietary advisor - which is my Blood Glucose Meter. It is completely unbiased and personal - so it lets me know which foods are OK for my Blood Glucose in my body, and which foods I need to avoid!

The BBC TV programs I mentioned above featured Dr Zand Van Tulekan, and I have posted about them before.

Yes, although nuts with yogurt (Full Fat Greek or Greek style) is low in carbs, the suggestions I made above are in the rage of 0 gms to 1 gms of carbs- so a fair bit lower. You also have several common misconceptions above: 1). Much of the carbs we eat are not obvious. For example many...

Not completely. While 8.4 to 8.7 isn't bad, it isn't good either. Many/most of us on here target no higher than 8.0 mmol at those measuring times, so not only is your waking Blood Glucose a little raised (which may be from Dawn Phenomenon), but your pre-meal BG is still raised (could be because...

In the UK they normally take 2 HbA1C tests about 1 month apart if an initial test shows results around 48 (the diabetes level). Also, despite thousands of Type 2 diabetics getting into remission from just changing to a low carb way of eating, many/most doctors still think T2 Diabetes is...

I don't have a reference to hand, but recently saw a Nick Norwitz video about C15 (saturated fat) which mentioned that the only evidence about saturated fat and Insulin Resistance is that Sat Fat improves (i.e. decreases) IR rather than making it worse. Certainly, if sat Fat was making my IR...

I'm slim enough, not active enough and slightly too low on LDL to fit the exact criteria that Dave Feldman et al are using for their LMHR studies. I have been low carb (20 to 40 gms carbs per day) for nearly 6yrs and in T2D remission for nearly 5yrs, but suffering from a little 'carb creep'...

That is only the case if you are on medication which need to be taken with a meal. Many in this forum control our Type 2 diabetes with mostly or even solely diet. For example, using a Low Carbohydrate High Protein way of eating or intermittent fasting etc. That said, I eat 2 meals a day on...

@Chris24Main Also a pedant here: Didn't you mean antiquity rather than iniquity? There isn't necessarily something bad about the past!

Clarification for other people reading this thread: There is/may be a difference in the way low Blood Glucose is handled between Type 1, Type 2 on Blood Glucose lowering meds + metformin (which 'discourqages the liver from putting glucose into the blood stream'), Type 2 on just Glucose lowering...

The forum rules don't allow us to give medical advice or diagnosis. However, we can relate our own personal experience - unfortunately I have no personal experience of any diabetes medications having been a diet controlled Type 2 (now in remission) since my diagnosis nearly 6 yrs ago.

@Neckarski_94 I'm a diet controlled Type 2 diabetic (in remission for over 4yrs), so I can't talk to you about insulin, but I am very educated about carbs! All digestible carbs turn into sugar when digested. In the UK when carbs are listed on a label - that already includes the sugars! Cream...

@speaker01 It is impossible to answer that question. Firstly, we are not allowed to be prescriptive in our replies. Secondly, there is so very much information missing when you ask that question. With a CGM, you know your blood glucose patterns better than anybody else - even your doctors...