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I am using dulaglutide which is a very slightly different drug to Ozempic. So I dont know if it is directly comparable. I havent had much weight loss. In 3 months about 3kgs. Nausea and 'morning sickness' type symptoms gradually fade or become less oppressive or become oppressive for less...

Good thinking Batman, not having to starve 10 hours on the regular would be a bonus! I guess you'd have to do the 10 hours fasting on the first one and then repeat it the next day with some 0 carb food and see if there is a difference in response

AndBreathe, that sounds like good advice. I had kind of not thought of it in that way before. It is a bit like over 25 years, something came up so they gave me something for it, then something else popped up and they did that too. It didnt really occur to me that they should be looking at a...

So Jaylee, am I reading this right? I use my Lantus and then make sure I fast for ten hours to cover a 1/4 of the day? So its min 4 or max 8 days of fasting? Ten hours being Time of Meal + 4 hours, then six hour fasting for the basal measurement period? During that period should I take...

Oddly enough, the Dr did say last month she could sqaueeze me into the parameters for a glutide but the side effects of UTIs and Candida are ones I have fought for a long time anyway and reading about gangrene freaked me out so I said no at the moment.

Thanks for responding Jaylee. Can you explain to me what a basal test is? And also insulin to carb ratio. Do you mean mine specifically? I get frustrated with the nurse who is diabetic whose idea of insulin to carb ratio is very different to mine I imagine because of my insensitivity to insulin.

Thanks for responding Ian Foster. Yes, I have been on the large size since age 24 when I switched from being skinny. But I do have hyperthyroidism but not sure why. I dont know if its inherited but I had a cousin with it, the whole marty feldman thing. I didnt know you are supposed to put...

Thanks Rokaab, you are quite right it is hyper thyroid not hypothyroid, I was getting mixed up.

Thanks Jim. I am somewhat disheartened to hear 100 - 120 carbs is too much for some T2's. I fought with low carbing for a while but at 28 - 38 gms per day measured religiously, I never lost any weight and never lost my craving for sweets. Hunger definitely wasnt an issue but boredom was. I...

After 17 yrs of diabetes, I am in diabetes fatigue and my health in general is not working too well. At first got good control through strict low carbing 40gms/day. After 18 months I got fed up (never lost any weight and if was very restrictive). Went onto metformin and reasonable carb...

I hear you. I get the same. I think the problem is that fasting BG is comprised of long term and short term influences and easily measured and unable to be measured influences.. Sleep, hormones blah blah.

Somewhere on the web there is a great recipe for a lo carb cereal mainly made from nuts and seeds and you eat it with berries. I had to give up cereal because of the high fasting BGs. It was painful but there was no way around it. Almond butter is expensive but its quite sweet for a savoury...

Don't worry about it is my advice. Easier said than done I know but as someone who has been Type 2 since 2006 and who has scoured the world for answers, the truth is for some of us that is just the way it is. My 'liver dump' mechanism will even dump glucose during the day if I go for 4 - 5...

Type 2 10 years, managed by diet then metformin and now need something else. Have always had a problem with the dawn effect. About 18 months ago, my HBA1C rose to about 60 when I had had fairly good control for a long while. I had let my lo carb diet go about 6 months previously and was kind...

I'm a Type 2 so I cant state this with any certainty in your case but insulin undoubtedly makes me put on weight. After 10 years of type 2, with completely stable weight, I have recently had to go on overnight insulin to help with the dawn effect. I eat lowish carb and my diet varies very...