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Thanks for the info-- sorry to hear you've been unwell and had stress. I hope you're doing OK. In response to people's experiences on the forum, I've done a bit of reading around I'll ess and stress and blood glucose and it's comforting. I also contacted my doctor and asked for 'possible...

Thanks Melgar and @EllieM. The information I'm building here on this forum will be very useful. It's kind of what I thought might be going on, so it's good to hear others have had similar experiences. I've also had lots of strange burning sensations in my body, which the doctor said might be due...

The first result was before I ate dinner. For lunch, I'd had some lettuce, cucumber, two small tomatoes, a smoked mackerel with a third of an avocado followed by full-fat greek yoghurt with a medium pear in it. I also had a wee plate with 24g of tallegio, 7g Brazil nuts and 20g chorizo. Trying...

Hi, I spoke with my doctor today about a chest infection I have. I mentioned that I'd had two high readings on my glucose meter, one before dinner and one two hours after (13.2 and 8.4). I said all my others were in the normal range and asked the same question I asked here--why would that...

Hi, sorry to keep posting in such detail. I did a pre-prandial test this evening. The only reason I did it was because I'd had such good results from the jumbo oats porridge this morning that I thought I'd try some white rice (basmati) with my curry. I fully expected a reading of 5ish but it was...

Is that what you eat when your fasting or when you're not fasting?

Thanks littlebrownbird. I tested before eating the oats (fasted as it was first thing in morning) and two hours later. I was 5.4 on waking and 5.7 two hours after the jumbo oats with lactofree milk. I'm going to keep.testingbwith different foods and find out what's been spiking it. It may be a...

How often do you fast, and what type of diet do you eat when not fasting?

Yes, in response to the earlier posts, I'm going to eat more calories but still be fairly low carb (not full low carb like keto). I'm going to make an appointment to see the doctor again as my resting heart rate is increasing on a daily basis. I have an ECG on Wed too. I also wonder if it's all...

Hi, I ate 30g of jumbo oats with 150ml semi-skimmed lactofree milk for breakfast. Fasting glucose was 5.4 and two hours after eating the porridge, it was 5.7. I'm thrilled, and will start experimenting with other foods. Thanks for all the advice. I expect at some point I'll find the food/s...

Thanks everyone, for some reason I got the idea that I needed to cut carbs and also count my calories. If I want to not count calories, I thought I had to go proper low carb (keto?). I've done that before and it didn't work for me. I think I had the idea that I'm maybe 'skinny fat' and that's...

Above is my highest carb day. Glucose readings seemed unaffected

Hi, I was very recently told I have prediabetes with only an HBA1C of 42. BMI is now 20.8. waist 79cm. I was also told I had low B12 and a positive Qfit for which I have an urgent colorectal referral. About 3 weeks ago I had two close faints. I've got an ECG next week for that. I wear a fitbit...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9677059/#:~:text=Vitamin%20B12%20deficiency%20anemia%20can,the%20same%20patient%20%5B12%5D. I was told I was prediabetic at the same time as I was told I have a B12 deficiency. I wondered if there might be a connection, and found the article above, a...

Thanks, I will do

Ah ok, well that's not what I wanted to hear in terms of a cure but it's good that remission is at least something that can be worked towards. I switched immediately from low fat strained greek yoghurt to full fat version but then I got a diabetes cook book and it suggested tiny amounts of...

Thanks ianf0ster. I'm realising I may have had slight misconceptions about type two diabetes, despite being aware people of all shapes and sizes get T2D. Good learning point and I imagine it's much harder for people who have higher BMIs as anyone I've told so far has met me with disbelief...

That's all really helpful --like a dummies guide to what I've been reading and struggling to summarise in my head! Thanks so much for taking the time. I had no idea about the c-peptide test and I see it's cheap for the NHS and I have a nice doctor so she may be able to get one done. If not, as...

Thanks so much--it worked using the warm hand and I realised I'd been pricking my index finger pad over and over so switched to the side and soaked hand in water for 4 mins and it worked. Also, lucky to have found a good reading--5 on waking. I've switched to a very low carb diet (all refined...

Thanks Redshank and Chris24Main for both of your very thoughtful and useful responses. My glucose.monitor arrived today but I've been unable to get blood. I e tried 5 times, using the different depth settings and keeping hand low, shaking it before piercing it, and even tried a bit of massage...