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My doctor has just prescribed me 15mg Of pioglitazone to be taken alongside 4 mg of glimipride as the glimipride on its own not working and metformin caused me stomach problems. But before I take the piogliazone I am slightly worried about the risks that I have read about the drug, France and...

As anybody taken milk thistle food supplement and has it affected your blood sugar levels. Apparently it helps your liver cleansing but can also drop your sugar levels so diabetics need to be careful when taking it. If you have an alcoholic drink it helps liver not to be damaged as much. But if...

Just thought I would post my latest HbA1c blood test results on 25/03/21 and I am well happy Having been diagnosed 11 months ago with a reading of 90 mmol/mol have had two subsequent readings after 3 and 6 months of 40 mmol/mol I have got latest results of 39 mmol/mol . The best bit is I have...

After been diagnosed with HbA1c of 90 I have got it down to 40 for the last 9 months, but from an average finger test of 6 mmol/l it has now crept up to 7 which would put me in prediabetes range. To be honest during winter months I have done little exercise and eaten not much but some foods I...

I have read in many other threads on here that metformin does little to reduce BG levels. I am taking 1000mg of metformin extended release tablets with evening meal as instructed. Usually my first test of day about 2 hours after getting out of bed and only having a mug of coffee is about 5.2...

Hi Have just received my third HbA1c results. When diagnosed at beginning of May it was 90 . Then beginning of September it was 40 . Yesterday’s results came back as no change 40 again . Do these results mean I am in remission or is it too soon to hope. Since being diagnosed I have cut my carb...

I know some people will say I can have a fairly low carb Christmas, but for just a few days I would love to be able to eat what I used to love eating at Christmas such as mince pies, Christmas cake, roast spuds, parsnips, chocolates, everything that I know I shouldn’t eat as a diabetic. I was...

2 weeks ago had my blood tests four months after been diagnosed type 2 with an HbA1c of 90 . The test results were an HbA1c of 40 , so I was quite happy. My total cholesterol was 2.5 My diet has been about 70 to 80 carbs a day sometimes lower, also 1000mg of metformin slow release. I have a...

Hi everyone Have just got my blood test results back having been diagnosed type 2 at end of April with an HbA1c of 90 mmol/mol . Started on 1mg of Glimepiride for 2 months but after finger testing I was going too low down to 3.5 , so doctor put me on metformin 1000 slow release for last 2 and...

Hi Diagnosed type 2 end of April 2020 with an HbA1c of 90 and was put on 1mg of Glimepiride daily for 2 months but after going hypo below 4 a few times my doctor took me off Glimepiride and onto metformin. Since then my meter testing has been between 5 and 6.5 averaging 5.9 . I have been low...

3 months in from being told I have type 2 with HbA1c of 90 . And With low carbing got my daily BG levels down to between 4.2 and 7.5 depending on what I eat . and converted the last 60 average to HbA1c of 34.6 . For the last 8 years I have not had a good diet and my favourite drink was Port ...

A little bit confused, I was under the impression that if I took BG reading before meal and then 2 hours after meal the reading would go up and hopefully not by more than 2mmol. I woke and got up about 7.30am and had a couple of coffees and did not take a reading until 1.00pm 6.1mmol before...

Just a quick question. I thought exercise was good for diabetes T2 , today I went out an had a game of bowls still social distancing so not what I call strenuous exercise just a bit of bending and slow walking across the green .About an hour after getting home I tested and got a reading of 7.8...

After reading the posts on this forum which has been very helpful. I have been given conflicting information by my practice nurse who said she didn’t do carb counting. She gave me a GlucoRX Q meter to use and in 5 days I have got my mmol readings down from 15.7 to 8.5 this morning fasting...

Hi everybody I have this week been diagnosed with T2 and been prescribed Glimepiride 1mg a day . My GP surgery have also given me a GlucoRX meter to use . Not started tablets until tomorrow, but checked my levels on machine just to get used to it , I did it on general about 4 hours after...