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Good morning everyone. I have a question....... I have been watching my diet very carefully for the last 3 months ( low carb) to try and bring my bs levels down and reduce my IR. I have lost nearly 2 stone in that time and am testing before and after meals and also on waking ( fasting) and...

Quick background....Found out I was T2 after a heart attack December 2019. Hba1c 81. I joined this group and did lots of reading. Changed my diet ( although I didn’t do lots of carbs anyway before just wine and chocolate!). Retested middle of Feb and hba1c had come down to 69. I have lost 20lbs...

Hello again, My first HBA1c was done after my heart attack ( bloods done 2nd week of Jan) and came back as 81 so Doctor wanted to do another test to confirm Type 2 after 2 weeks, however, I have been back in hospital ( sandwiches or nothing!) since then and only was able to really look at my...

Hello again, I have read how and when to test blood sugar but am a bit confused as I seems that you test before eating a meal and then 2 hours afterwards. As long as your reading doesn’t go up by more than 2 points that meal should be ok for you? I have been testing my blood sugars and mine seem...

Hello again, I have a question regarding Blood sugar numbers. I just started testing today and not really sure what I am doing or what is good, bad or ok ish. Tested for the first time this morning before eating ( about 10.30) reading was 12.1. High I know. Tested again 2 hours after brunch...

Hi, me again. I am reading the posts that you have been kind enough to send but for some reason I can’t reply? It just says it might be spam or the content might be innopropriate but it still says that even if I just put thank you! Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

Hello, I am new here so please excuse any waffling! Short story is I had a Heart Attack 2 weeks before Christmas and ended up having 2 stents put in a 94% blocked artery. They checked my blood sugars on admission and they were 10.5 but we had been out for a meal just before and had dessert and...