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Hi, I had the same dilemma recently but decided to give it a try, and I have to say that after my initial fears and a lot of good advice from the people on here it seems to be doing some good, especially with the morning phenomenon. Bloods are down from an average of 13 to a steady 8.0 an waking...

Hi and thanks for all the great advice, I've seen what I think are some good changes over the the last 6 days since I've had access to a meter, ( accu chek aviva nano, kindly lent by my daughters fiancee, being his sons spare whos 4 & type1 ) which has been really helpfull in seeing what foods...

Thanks all for the Mine of information, have got myself a meter and have just done my first one which comes back as 9.0 mmol/L pre food. My question is how does this relate to my results of 84 then 72 on my HBA1c tests. Confused:woot:

Thanks I Will try cutting out the bread and spuds from today then and see how we get on and look at getting a meter off my own back, I wasn't keen on the statins as have had them before when I was diagnosed with angina and did get on with them at all, in fact refused to continue with them. In...

Thanks mep, I had thought that with a drop of 12 in 3 weeks from just cutting out most sugar and fairly small dietary changes was a reasonable indication that it would be worth going down the diet only route for now, although the diabetes nurse seemed to think that with my initial result of 84...

Have tried to reduce them by doing things like swapping from brown bread to whole grain and reducing things like potatoes but still finding it a bit confusing as to what's good and what's not at the moment. I've not been offered a meter as yet but have been booked onto the education course and...

Hi, I was diagnosed with type 2 3 weeks ago with my initial bloods coming back at 84! with cutting out sugar and changing my diet the second lot have come back yesterday at 72 and cholesterol at 5.2. The nurse is wanting to put me on metformin MR (4 x 500 a day) and statins. After reading up on...