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Hi everyone It has been quite sometime since I have been on here ☹️ I am in need of help/advice kick up the backside! So I had a small reverse window back in 2023 got hba1c to 40. I had lost a couple of stone and felt really quite good. My gallbladder had been removed in the march before much...

My recent visit with the GP nurse ( not diabetic nurse) said I should never have been given a home testing kit. She also said that if type 2’s continually check by getting blood from their fingers it will make the finger tips lose sensation and have neuropathy in them. is this true?

I have just recently had HbA1c which is 50 think it was 49 a year ago . Also told my cholesterol is high serum 6.93 hdl 5.7 ldl 5.06 and also high blood pressure, which was done Friday. Have just been tested positive for COVID today. The nurse wants me on metaformin which apparently will help...

Hi I can’t remember what is good or bad for first bg test of the day ? mine today after fasting 6.6 thank you if you can help it’s been a while since I’ve done this but I have come to realise I need to take this more seriously. I lost 2kg last week so a good start.

It has probably been more than a year so hi everybody I am T2 and ‘should’ be diet controlled. It was a bad year last year and was my second year of being diagnosed T2 and no matter what I could not get myself into any sort of order to eat well. I am now back I have been doing low carb for a...

Hi It’s been quite a while since I’ve been on here as I’m ashamed to say that after being told not to test any more as I should know what to eat etc (3 months from diagnosis) I kind of pretended I wasn’t T2 and could carry on as normal bury my head and start again after a couple of weeks.. I...

Hi Ive not been on here for a while. I started low carb beginning of February started really well on and off . last couple of months had not been good so I have started fasting. Today my bg is 3.5 and my next one contour meter is red how bad is this? do I need to worry? I have lost 31lbs in...

I have just had my results of my latest bloods done for the desmond diabetes course I have to attend next week. It was asked to be a non fasting blood and my results were HBCA1 39 and cholesterol was 4.9. I dont know what the cholesterol was last time but HBCA1 was 48 on fasting. Feeling...

Hi Everybody Ive not been on here much lately as my depression has kicked me about some and have not been feeling social at all. Increase in sertraline meds will hopefully settle that. I am 1 month in to diagnosis and have struggled somewhat with the low carb eating lately. Ive now had 2 weekend...

I felt I had to share as i am sooo amazed. So I was diagnosed a week ago weds, the week before as I assumed I would be told I am T2 I have been trying to follow the LCHF programme. A few slip ups here and there as I have had roast spuds on sunday and some fruit in between which will not have...

Hi Sorry if this goes on a bit I am newly diagnosed last week but did know the week before that T2 is what I was to be told. So I came on here started the LCHF programme and my numbers are on avg between 7.9 before bf 4.6 today before lunch but mostly in the higher 5-mid to high 6. My question...

Hi I am newly diagnosed and understand i need to change my eating habits and have started the low carb programme which I am finding difficult as I seem to be hungry all the time now ive cut bread potatoes etc. My question is that as i also have an underactive thyroid, fibromyalgia, depression...

Hi this is me Gill quite nutty family, animal mad, lover of art and all things beautiful. Oh and i love everything i now must not have :-( I have an underactive thyroid, fibromyalgia, degenerative discs dodgey knee :-0 and now type 2 so feeling a bit overwhelmed and sorry for myself I have...