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I have been taking Jardiance (empagliflozin) now for over 3 years (May 22, 2019), and I have not had any problems with it. However, some of my friends have developed infections/thrush after starting Jardiance - none of them are circumcised though.

People need to be less busybodies. They should keep their noses out of what other people are doing! Be concerned with your own health period!

That's correct. I live in Canada, and we follow the same convention as the US. The point that I was trying to make is that avocados are actually quite low carb from a diabetes point of view. The variety of avocados that we get mostly here in Canada is a relatively small fruit, about 100-150 g...

Avocados have lots of fibre that need to be deducted to arrive at net carbs which is quite low. This makes it an excellent fruit for diabetics. However, because of CKD I need to to avoid avocados, stemming from its high potassium content.

I had been taking metformin for about 13 years, but my kidney doctor told me to stop taking it about 3 moths ago. Never had any side-effects that I know of.

Sugary snacks = Poison for diabetics! Avoid it, and your a1c should improve!

Keep in mind that all tests have a measurement error factor (albeit relatively small). I would consider the 6.3% on Apr 7th as a probable outlier. As the aic is an average measurement over 3 months, the drop of 0.5% over just 2 weeks seems tho be a little suspect from a statistical perspective.

Yip, some of these terms are quite confusing. When I first saw the term "TEA", I could only interpret it as alternative term for the evening meal from the context, but I never heard it during the years that lived in London, in southern England. My guess is that it is a term used in Northern...

I don't know how they made the calculation, but here is how I would do it: Take a random sample of people (say a 1,000) properly stratified among different demographics that may indicate a higher/lower prevalence for diabetes such as gender, age, ethnicity, income levels, regional, lifestyle...

This looks absolutely delicious. In my distorted view, this would pass as a "pizza in a bowl - a deep dish pizza!"

Hi M@, I was born in South Africa and grew up there. However, for nearly my entire adult life, I have lived and worked in several different countries. I am retired now, but have lived for the last 30 years in Canada. I am sure that rosemaree would be able to relate some of the practical...

I googled "pizza bowl", and it gave me the idea of making some fusion dishes, such as pizza meets lasagna meets quiche meets omelette. I'll do it first in the microwave, and then finish under the broiler for a cheesy crust!

I am curious about the 'dried sausage'. In South Africa, we had something called droëwors' (droge/droog ? worst in Dutch), but I don't think it is the same.

Something else must be going on with you (or this proves again that people are different). The 'general' consensus is that fat in one's diet does not cause cholesterol issues. That was certainly my experience - when I started eating low carb some 4 or 5 years back, many of my friends expressed...

The Libre reader is just but the messenger. Don't shoot the messenger if you don't like its message! :)

If some doctors don't even know that cakes are bad for diabetics, how can we expect lay people to be up to date with the fact that cakes are bad, bad, bad, bad for diabetics???

The picture of chicken salt looks very similar to a product we had in South Africa called aromat. In the early days of my abode in Canada, I usually brought some with me when I visited my relatives there. However, I have not been back to South Africa for 15 years, so I have forgotten how it tastes.

I am T2, and injecting 40 units of Tresiba daily. Sometimes, I feel a sting, but this happens when I hit a nerve. Other times, I don't feel a thing. Where do you inject the Tresiba - this might also explain it.

I made something very similar at lunch yesterday, but mine was probably more of a tuna melt: 1 xl egg, whole can of tuna, handful grated mozzarella and 2 teaspoons of tomato/pepper/onion salsa, also done in the microwave. However, I think yours is better, and will certainly try it next time.