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It's a great feeling. Congratulations.

Thank you very much:). It was also very motivational to get the perspectives of members of this forum since I joined two months ago. I really wish I had found out about this forum earlier. The first few months after the diagnosis were really lonely, albeit with firm support from my doctor who...

I am in America so dates in the screenshot of my lab reports are given in U.S. format, Month/Day/Year. HbA1c is in the "old" (NGSP) units. Today's reading of "4.9%" is about 30 in the units most commonly used in the UK. My GP here ("Dr. K.") said his goal, once I had "reversed" my diabetes with...

F'ing fantastic. I just got the lab results back, on the same day! They are so reassuring that I am starting a new thread here. I promise not to make a habit of this, but I'm "only" nine months into this T2D thing so you will have to cut me some slack. Sorry. See you over in the other thread...

The full derivation (from Wikipedia): Hoist with his own petard is a Shakespearean idiom from Hamlet meaning "to cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb". A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. It is of French origin and dates...

That's it, thanks. Sometimes my bilingual brain seizes up. (Edited to add: "Sometimes"! That is self-censorship.)

It's good to be on the Leading Edge of Research.o_O

I was born in France, spent the first 10 years of my life there, and a large part of my family still lives there including my 92-year-old mother, and brother. My first language is French, but I heard English during those first 10 years and then spent the following 12 years in the UK in English...

I think it runs in the family. My sister, who lives in London, had much the same attitude as me but recently (in her mid-50s) hired a "clothing consultant." Apparently they were given access to a department store during closing-hours and went in together, and she tried out all sorts of clothes...

I hope so. We are all so different. I actually found most of the carb-cutting not too hard (after the initial information-gathering). Apart from the beer. In a future heaven, I hope that I can get back to drinking a daily pint. In theory that is really not an issue if one is on a VLC diet, but...

I hope I will have the last laugh. I have yet another of those pints of Hefe Weissbier in front of me:happy:. I raised a toast to the lab gods, who had better not pull that trick on me again! (Seriously though, this time it is a one-off Weissbier, not a six-time-one-off.)

So today the doctor's office contacted me. Somehow, my regular blood sample for the HbA1c (taken two weeks ago) was "lost" and they needed to take it again (***???). So I trotted over there and they took more blood. After they took that first sample, two weeks ago, I then had some fun for by...

That's an interesting metric. In my case that would be 38" and that is a threshold I only crossed quite recently, judging from the trouser-buying. I would say, it was less than two years ago -- and topped out at 40" at time of T2D diagnosis. Now, after nine months on the low-carb diet, I am 34"...

I second @ObscureMH. I brought my wife to the appointment and it was just about essential as I am not sure I could have "kept it together" otherwise. The doctor, who is also her doctor, saw her walk in and said: "I see you brought the artillery!" Strangely enough his comment helped put us at...

I am 60 and it told me my heart age was 69. When I re-ran the calculator and lied, saying I did not have diabetes but leaving everything else the same, it said my heart age is 61. Given that my diabetes is fully controlled, with BG at non-diabetic levels, the calculation is probably misleading...

My dentist does a tongue check at every consultation now (this is in America). He added it a couple of years ago, and I think he said that it was a new general recommendation that had been made to dentists in this country.

Does he have any symptoms (http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-symptoms.html)? Lack of symptoms doesn't rule out diabetes, mind you. Many, in fact (I think) most, obese people do not develop T2D. The "bowl of chips" test does not sound worrisome. A visit to the doctor would help settle it, if...

It's great that you are losing weight and starting on the carb-counting process. It is a bit tedious to start with but gets easy over time. I would like to apologize for some of the things I said, earlier in this thread. In particular, that silly stuff about "people with diabetes" (and...

I disagree, but that's not surprising since I come from four generations of socialists:D. I am having trouble finding the forum rules (although I did read them when I joined in September). There is a "terms and rules" at the bottom of this forum page but this seems to concern the entire...

One of the equations in the standard treatment of diabetes is, how long is the person expected to live? If the answer is, perhaps, not extremely long then I think the standard medical advice that the T2 treatment should be milder than it would be for a young, healthy person makes sense. For that...