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Well been diagnosed for 10 months and just got my latest results, HBA1C 5.9 Cholesterol 2.29 Everything is where it should be, i am so happy about that, but the hard work starts soon, i will have a go at low carbing and see what happens, get this year out of the way. It has been hard work, but i...

Diagnosed end of december 2015, seen nurse twice, BG averaging 5.7mmol, got a call today from the diabetic clinic to say they had a cancelation this thursday, would i like to attend the coarse at such short notice? I said unfortunatly i am stock taking this friday so a day before that is...

I will point my work mate to this forum, but i can tell he is a worried man! He went to the doctors who wanted a regular check up including all the usual blood tests, he then received a call to say his BG for a fasting am blood test was a bit high! When i asked him what it waz i nearly fell of...

Or Doctor confused... i had a missed call from my doctor at 5.00pm today, phoned straight back and spoke to the receptionist, who said my last blood test was back (for colestorol). but she said they miss labeled it but my result where 'normal'. Normal how i asked???. Oh erh you need to re do...

Slightly bemused! Today i accepted was going to be a bad food day, not sugary but a higher carb'day, had a macdonalds big brekkie and half a small bottle of tropicana orange, did some light work and a sit down for a bit, then went to a pub for a sunday roast, turkey, three roast potatoes, loads...

On Tuesday coming is a three part program following around six celebs working on a farm and giving sugar for the two weeks while in there, probably be rubbish but may be funny seeing non diabetics going through for two weeks what we have to do for life. ITV 1 Tuesday 8.00pm

Well I am nearly 4 weeks into being diagnosed with diabetes and I am beginning to have an issue. I have increased my Metformin to 2 in the morning and still 1 at night, felt alright Saturday, Sunday morning got up had a small fried brekkie, low carb, went out for a walk with the dog, but on the...

Well as of Wednesday and my first visit to the DSN, I got my print out and my HbA1c which is 10.6%, is this good/bad or average? I have drastically changed my diet over the last two weeks and have seen a steady decline of my BG. At the moment I am only testing 3 times a day, 1st thing in the...

My wife is worried my BG is dropping too quickly, i have gone from high teens a week ago, to 6.2mmol/l before dinner today, i am being as sensible with my food as i can and lowery my carbs gradually as i learn more about food. I am not to worried but would like your thoughts? My BG this morning...

Well i am just back from my first visit to a supermarket as a diabetic, and wow has it changed, there are whole isles that i can not buy anything from and why don't they put carbohydrates on the front with the other serious healtb advise? That discrimination if ever i saw it! Took ages as well...

i am a member on another non related forum and have a paypal monthly payment set up to help with running of that forum, not a lot but every little bit helps, to quote a Supermarket, is there any thing like this on this site, always nice to give something back, and I can not give advise yet!

Over the Last year and a half, possibly longer, i had noticed that a few times when i sweat, i get a funny smell ! this was pre being diagnosed T2 and as i was having regular blood tests due to migraines i know i was not 'diabetic' at that time, but my wife said the smell was like the smell her...

I know for me its far too early to read anything in to my mmol/l tests but yesterday morning, I had a farsting reading of 17.8, two cups of tea, four Belvita breakfast biscuits (which will be stopping soon) which are around 37g of carbs (think its'g') did a load of manual work which i am not...

I have just purchased a nutri bullit blender, was looking at them before i was Diagnosed last week, in the book is a few recipes for diabetics, but has anybody got any do's or don'ts with this type of machine? and any recipe recommendations would be greatly recieved. Thanks Gary Bloods still in...

Seen on the news today that there could be a hand held molecular scanner on the market soon, with the technology available in smart phones is about 5 years, looking at what they can do, it would be a great tool for Diabetics, the ability to scan a food (or anything you want to scan) and get the...

Hello all. I was diagnosed two days ago with type 2, suspected diabetes just before Christmas, bought a self test kit from boots and tested myself Christmas morning with a result of 25, so I knew I was higher than the standard 4 - 6, played it safe over Christmas by not gorging on the sugar...

Hello, my name is Gary, diagnosed 2 days ago but had realised just before Christmas, no surprise really, have had too much of a sweet tooth for far too long! I live in Ipswich and work for a Large Builders Merchant as a manager. I live for the Norfolk Broads and spend as time up there as...