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I had my tests done with the diabetic nurse last week and she took a non-fasting blood test. The results are back today and my MMOL is 48 with a percentage of 6.6% - is this an HBAc1? I thought those had to be fasting? My meter has been telling me my sugars are really high recently (8-9)...

Ok, so let's say that 2 hrs after a meal you have BG higher than you want... But you are hungry, or it's lunch/ dinner time, or you are at a wedding or something where you can't control mealtimes, do you wait till levels drop before you eat again? Otherwise presumably if you add food on top of...

So, been on metformin (2 x 500mg) for just over a week, and apart from one dash to the loo the first eve haven't seemed to have any side effects. Been monitoring my BG and in the Eve's it's been high (10.8) so decided to really go for the low carb, so yesterday for dinner I had salad and steak...

I was diagnosed last week after a high fasting sugar reading (8.4) the week before and then last week fasting sugar of 7.1 and HBAC1 of 7.1 I would like to say it was a shock (which it was kind of) but not a surprise, I am very overweight and I have been having all sorts of weird symptoms for...