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@Chris24Main I do the Mediterranean diet, and I have to be honest, there are not that many carby recipes. If you take out Pizzas, which I have never liked and flat breads, which I cannot eat as they contain gluten, most of these med recipes use fresh veggies, meats, fish, dairy and olive oil. I...

@Sparkle fairy, same. I went on a very low carb diet for 9 months , lost way too much weight and ended up losing muscle. So I turned to what I know best, exercise. So now I eat, what I consider a normal balanced diet, and use exercise to maintain my blood sugars. I do seem to have plateaued out...

Hi @Sparkle fairy If I do some weights or if I hike and do a steep climb where my heart rate rises into the peak zone, my blood sugars go up. To be honest I’m personally not too worried about it. The over all benefits of exercise out weigh the negatives. Better all round to exercise than not. I...

I’m mindful that @Lamont D, who is very knowledgeable on RH has already commented on here. The thing with RH is it affects post prandial blood sugars. After eating carbohydrates / sugars the pancreas reacts by over secreting insulin in the presence of carbohydrates and sugars, this big response...

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Hi and welcome to the forum @chrysap . Insulin resistance (IR) is closely connected to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or PCOS. Very briefly IR is where your body‘s cells do not effectively respond to the hormone insulin and causes blood sugars to rise. It is one of the main components of T2DM. If...

@Daibell , my brother is LADA/T1 and takes Metformin to increase insulin sensitivity.

@Newrugbyfan , Metformin does not replace insulin. Neither does it lower blood sugars. It works by suppressing glucose production in the liver. The liver’s production of glucose is called gluconogenisus. One of the components in Type 2 diabetes is the over production of glucose by the liver, a...

Hi there @womaninthegarden and welcome to the forum. Years ago (around 25 years ago) my partner and I would test our fasting blood sugars with my mother in law’s meter. Just because we could. I was always in the 4‘s. My partner, who is thinner than I am, around 100lbs soaking wet, would be in...

“Also, my Diabetes nurse told me not to test my BS levels myself and just have them done at the reviews” @Devondumpling59 , I would ignore this advice from your diabetic nurse. How can you possibly know what your blood sugars are doing, if you don’t test. And getting your blood tested just at...

For those interested there has been a recent published study on the artificial sweetener Aspartame. The article highlights a link between aspartame and atherosclerosis. The study suggests that this sweetener triggers insulin resistance and inflammation by disrupting metabolic processes which...

Hi and welcome to the forum @cmt222. I’m sorry you have developed an allergy to dairy. Sheesh. Allergies are frightening as they can turn life threatening. Dairy is in so much food and that is a large food group that is not available to you, and taking gluten out as well, that makes for a...

Hi there @Andie7 , I have coeliac as does my daughter. I also have the gluten rash . I have been gluten free for just under 3 years now. It made a huge difference. I only get symptoms including the rash if I accidentally consume gluten. My symptoms would be stomach cramps, IBS, GERD, bloating ...

Thanks for the tag @EllieM

@greekqueen As I mention above I have coeliac and I’m lactose intolerant. I tried the lactase tablets after a friend suggested them to me. Within minutes I was violently sick to the point that I was projectile vomiting. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure it was the lactase tablets. So a few days...

@pinewood there is an interesting study titled ‘Blood Glucose Levels in Diabetic Patients Following Corticosteroid Injections into the Subacromial Space of the Shoulder’. Basically, the study concludes that diabetic patients with well controlled blood sugars <7% had an average rise of 38mg/dl...

@daski I would say that a rise to 14 mmol/Ls is marginally not normal. Not normal because a healthy response by the pancreas to carb/sugars consumption would see a lower peak. The pancreas has a biphasic insulin response to food consumption. The first phase , which happens quickly and comes...

Hi there @Jocenel777 and welcome to the forum. I’m going to take a stab at answering your question. There could be a couple of reasons, the most obvious is hydration, if you are slightly dehydrated then drinking water would cause a drop in blood sugars. By how much I don’t know. The other reason...

Is it just your back that itches @human being or does it appear else where ? Is your skin itchy with a rash ? I suffer with a ‘gluten rash’. Which is very itchy , but burns at the same time. The rash appears if I accidentally consume gluten. It always appears in set areas, either my lumber...

Hi and welcome to the forum @MrsAnne. I am not able to answer your NHS question as I don’t live in the UK. I can however, suggest you have a look around the T2DM diet and food forums here. Many members have brought their blood sugars down from very high levels on diet alone. We have low carb...