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I can't remember how I convert my blood sugar level to the French rate. Can someone help me please, I have to go for my six monthly checkup next week and whilst my GP actually speaks very good English, when I told her my blood sugar had been around 7 she hadn't got a clue what I meant and I had...

It seems that when I read through these forums there seem to be no positive affects of Metformin. People say it won't help with weight loss, it won't help bring down your BG, it WILL upset your stomach. So why do we take it?

I need some new strips for my Codefree monitor. Someone kindly posted their own website address and the discount code for the strips before but I can't find it. Can anyone help please?

Constipation is not something I suffer from very often Usually quite the reverse in fact!!! However, I haven't been to the loo since Saturday now (and I usually go at least twice a day). I am bloated and have a very tender stomach - the cat jumped on me last night and I almost jumped through...

I find breakfast very difficult but now that I'm on metformin thought I should have something. For the first couple of weeks I was having a slice of toast and butter (17g carbs) which increased my BS by about 2 each time. The this weeks I started trying greek yoghurt (5.5g) with some DaVinci...

Can any of your French speakers out there tell me if Hb1AC is the same in French and if not, what is it? I am seeing the diabetic nurse next week for the first time and want to check that that is what the prescription I have from the doctor is for in 2 months time.

Something I've never bought before is brown rice. Bought some today in a health food shop here in France (they don't do it in the supermarkets). It has no instructions on the pack just says it's long grain brown rice. How long do I need to boil it for please? I presume it takes longer than...

I live in France and a couple of months ago we were offered a free health check as my husband is coming up for 60. It was in 2 parts, part one, blood and urine tests, part 2 1 hour medical examination with a doctor and a nurse. At part 1 it was discovered that my BG reading was 21.9 and I was...

I was wondering whether diabetics get free prescriptions in the UK as so many of you talk about wanting to get your testing strips on prescription but if you have to pay for the prescriptions an SD Codefree meter and it's strips would be cheaper to buy than having on prescription.

Since I started on the LCHF diet and metformin 3 weeks ago there has been a radical change in my eyesight. At first I was worried because my vision, even wearing my glasses (TV, driving) was gettting very blurred. Then I took the glasses off and discovered that I could see perfectly well...

I've been diagnosed for 3 weeks now and after initially being totally confused by so many conflicting views on how to manage diabetes I have settled on the lchf diet because it seemed to me the one I could most easily stick to. I decided to do lots of blood tests to determine which foods were...

I've just received my Collins Gem Carb Counter and it says that cream crackers are 07g caarb each as opposed to any other crackers, including water biscuits which are all WAY higher. Is this right or is it a typo?

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I started reading Dr Bernstein's book the other day and, if I have understood it correctly, he is saying that it's your net carbs you need to worry about and that this is the carb content of food less the dietary fibre content, so for example 100grams of potato is 17g of carb less 2.2g of...

I saw my GP last Monday, who confirmed that I am T2 diabetic and he prescribed metformin 850mg once a day for 2 weeks, increasing to twice a day after two weeks, so I am still on 850mg a day. He also just said cut out sugar (as in table sugar, jam, chocolate etc) and made no further mention of...

Hi I was diagnosed last week as being Type 2. It wasn't a huge surprise as I'm overweight, in my 50's and my dad and his sisters were all Type 2. Well it wasn't a huge surprise but I'm more shocked than I expected to be. I'm English but live in France. My view of the French health system vs...