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Hi I'm currently on holiday at the moment. In UK. No sudden change in temp. In theory should be more relaxed. My numbers are usually really good and average around 5 or 6. Suddenly my numbers have jumped up and are around a low of 9. My freestyle libre is showing I've gone from and average...

Hi I am carb counting and reaching the lower target my dietician asked me to reach. That was the reason my levels have been so good recently. Before this my hba1c had got up to 97. I can reduce it down further and that would be my long-term plan but for the moment I would just like a few...

Thanks for the suggestion @Resurgam . Thankfully my fitness level isn't that bad. I'm doing more in bigger chunks of time here, as I don't have to fit around work, but normally at home I manage a good 45mins of walking a day and would do around 1-2 miles of walking every Saturday and Sunday...

Hello Wondering if anyone has any suggestions. My normal bg levels are around 6 fasting then averaging between 4.0 and 7 during the day. It has been like this for 4/5 months now. For the last 3 days suddenly my fasting is around 7.5-8 and I have been getting readings around 9 during the...

I've had a few hypos. A couple I had just thought I was sweating because of the heat and twigged quite late what it was. So much easier in winter :-) Today I had a bit of a turn on the tube and thought I was going to pass out. I think it was the heat. My levels before I got on were 5. By the...

Very glad for this thread today. Multiple injections and testing per day is hard enough but I find the attitude to type 2s the hardest thing to deal with. I refuse to tell people in the office because of the number of diabetes jokes I hear around me on a weekly basis. I've just been on the...

Thanks for the replies. I woke up this morning with tingly feet, so I have just come back from the walk in centre at the hospital. The doctor said they think the cause of the swelling is my raised sugar levels and that the swelling is having a knock on effect on my feet. I have to get the...

Can anyone help? I went to bed last night absolutely fine. Woke up this morning unable to bend my legs. Both knrrs are badly swollen and show no sign of going down. My feet feel a little hot this evening. My sugar levels have been consistently high for the last few months as Metformin appears...

Thanks Geoff. Much appreciated. Did you see a fairly immediate result with the switch to insulin? After having good control and feeling pretty well, I'm now really feeling how much the rise in levels is having all of the time. I feel awful. As much as I hate the idea of insulin, I really want...

From what I have read, I thought judging by weight alone was how LADA was easy to misdiagnose? In my case, I do have some weight to lose, but I have been losing it steadily over the past year using Slimming World and even though I'm losing weight, my levels continued to rise. The dietician...

My GP has tried to order the tests but he has not been able to, the Diabetic nurse has provided the name of another Dr at the hospital who has to authorise these. This is now happening. The original plan after the first raised hba1c was to try other medication before insulin, but the latest...

Hi I was previously diagnosed as Type 2 Diabetic 3-4 years ago. I have until now been managing this with Metformin and my hba1c was pretty good. At the beginning of the year, this rose from the 40s/50s to the 90s. At the time the hospital thought that this was due to stress, as my parent had...

Thank you. I should find out about the job on Monday, so hopefully that will help. I've had some more odd numbers today. I think you might be right on the relaxation techniques. I'll have a look into it and give it a go. xx

Hi I've read on the site that stress and illness can have an impact on BG levels. What I would like help with, is understanding if this can be a significant impact, or whether it is likely to just cause a small increase. I have been having ongoing sickness since before Christmas, with...

I like the sound of a LCHF diet. It seems like it would be easy to remember what I should and shouldn't have, which I would welcome right now. I think I'll give that a try. Thank you so much.

Hi Thanks for the replies and the welcome. I'm guessing diet is the issue and it sounds like specifically carbs. The initial advice from my doctor when I was originally diagnosed was to not worry about sticking to a specific diabetic diet but to focus on dropping some pounds instead. That...

I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes about a year and a half ago and it was dealt with diet only. I hadn't had any symptoms at that point it was picked up on a blood test for something else and a hba1c was at 52. Through diet I was averaging 47 for about a year until November when it crept up to...