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Sorry bit late to this, my testing heart rate is the 40s or 50s, bear in mind your watch will count heart rate during the night which drops. Also, I checked mine with the manual method, and using blood pressure monitor and the watch is always low compared. This is with s good quality Garmin...

I was told it's all controlled based on medical records. They have grouped everyone already and are contacting in order. This may change based on how many new vaccines are produced, but group 6 is going to be into the summer. It doesn't matter where you are in the country, small or large its...

What is suitable for some one to eat is what they can eat and manage their condition properly. That's why we test, to find out and understand what gives a suitable response. Testing after eating, and monitoring your Hba1c is the part of this every one can agree on. The things that are not...

To answer the question, the more hole grain it is the better. So thinks like Shredded wheat are not too bad, rough porridge. Best to eat and test to see how it affects you, when i first started Shredded wheat didn't give me a glucose rise but Porridge did for example

Metformin can be pretty harsh on your guts if your taking it. Allot of people struggle with it, especially if your on a high dose (1000mg or higher) and it's not the slow release variety. It seems that what ever diet your on, if your taking it there is a risk it messes with your guts. I have...

The general advice from my Nurses and GP's is not to test if your on diet alone or diet and metformin. The view here is that is bad advice as you don't know how what your eating changes your bloods so you can make changes without testing. That aside, 12.3 is high and suggests your taking in...

I just tend to do the same dishes for the family and just mess with the proportions for my self So if im doing sausages, mash and veg. I give every one two sausages, the kids a load of mash and a bit of a veg and me a shed loads of veg and no mash. Boiled eggs with toast dippers, i serve both...

Metformin is usually given to support the major life style changes you need to do to avoid the more agressive medications. Generally if your levels don't drop faiely quickly due to life style changes and Metformin they will put you on the next set of medicine at your next review. I think they...

It totally depends how your approaching things. Yes they contain sugar, a single measure contains around 10 to 12 grams of carbs . So a single or double for me would be fine, for others on very low carb would be most of the carb allocation for the day. If your not on ultra low carbs, try a...

I haven't read anything that your more likely to get Covid with diabetes. there are studies that suggest you are more likely to develop serious complications with diabetes once you get covid, however most of the studies suggest this is often tied in with either very poor glucose control or more...

The only other alternative depends entirely on your situation but is not easy either. Depends on your Bmi and activity levels from what i have seen from here. If your BMI and activity levels are High/low, then you may be able to improve your levels while still having some carbs but...

I don't get the indignation i must admit? im not a fan of the mail don't get me wrong but in terms of this "study"... They took a group of people, they gave them coffee then a sugary drink - then tested the blood glucose... They the gave the same people just the sugary drink without first...

Yea they put those statements on everything. Like if you have diabetes which increases your risk of a heart condition and very high blood pressure and you use the machine and it clamps your arm and that tips you over the edge to have a heart attack and you sue them and then aliens invade and it...

I tend to avoid the "low fat" standard yogurt as it often has quite high carbs compared to full fat. However I don't want the calories or fat from the full fat. I tend to go for the Skyr, or Skyr style "extra thick" greek style yogurt. Lower calories, zero fat but i find it quite satisfying...

Glucose testing is key, if you run on fat (LCHF diet) the lower the better. if your running on carbs, then the lowest amount of high quality carbs that work for you and don't raise your bloods. I get about 150g a day, but all whole wheat, none bread/potato/pasta type carbs so (whole grains...

Just be careful if he does a fasting test and its ok and drops the diabetes thing that you stay keto or at least keep testing after meals if you relax away from it a bit. The problem is that you may be getting high results after eating that go back to normal over time. You will have to be...

I had a consultant appointment at the hospital after my HBA1C dropped from 87 to 33. The consultant put my from 1000mg a day to 2000mg a day as he stated it had the best long term outcome for patients. Generally in his view the long term studies show that mortality rates for diabetics even...

Yea it's one of those as with anything, try and test. They don't touch mine and if I'm in pain with a head that feels like it's going to explode I'm reaching for them heh. As with anything it's all choices choices.

As a note the main thing in Lemsip is phenylephrine hydrochloride outside of the paracetamol. I tend to take it if i have a heavy head cold. It does really help me as its primarily a decongestant and helps reduce the pressure and swelling in the back of the nose and sinus. I only bother if...

One thing i found is that if you can avoid it you should avoid the pad of your finger any way. The more you prick you slowly kill off the nerves, so if you use the pad of your finger you may end up loosing sensation in it (If its away from the middle this is less of an issue as you dont use...