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    Exercise and type 2

    Hi Sue, Overall exercise does decrease sugar levels. Blood sugar is constantly changing minute by minute, so don’t get too granular about the numbers you post what you should be looking at is your average numbers via a Hba1c. Hope that helps. Simply
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    Exercise and type 2

    Hi Sue, Trust you are keeping well. [emoji3] Exercise and T2. (Non insulin injecting view) So any form of exercise will drive up blood sugar, that is normal for all. But as T2 we hav lots of floating around sugars in blood & muscles,so that will get used up 1st etc. Once it is, the body...
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    GD Freestyle libre sensor.

    Hi all, I just wanted to know how accurate the Hba1c side is on the libre sensor , compared to an hospital/GP Hba1c test result etc. Regards Simply
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    GD Freestyle libre sensor.

    Hi All, Hope we are all fabulous on this Sunday morning. [emoji3]. So anyone here wear the libre sensor long term. If so how accurate are they with respect to daily readings and their long-term predictions of Hba1c compared to A traditional blood sugar monitor and a doctors blood test for...
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    Type 2 Blood Pressure…

    Thank you all. Will have to take come reading of BP and see what is what. As it should be normal with everything I do etc. But I must be missing something.
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    Type 2 Does a Low Carb diet work for "normal" BMI Type 2?

    Low carb always works…. All depends on your individual bodies set point for carbohydrates. Before you switch to fat etc
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    Type 2 Blood Pressure…

    Hey all, Hope we are all keeping well. So has anyone noticed that over the years blood pressure just increases no matter how hard you Low Carb or how hard you fast. As mine is now 139/90 first thing in a morning… May need to visit doctors & think about some pills for it… Just wondered...
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    4.9 this morning. Not tested for about 2 years.
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    Type 2 Hello, it's been a while.

    Hi all, It's been a few years since I hav been properly active on our forum, how is everyone keeping. [emoji3] Cheers simply_h
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    Cialis

    So has anyone tried it? What were we're your thoughts views etc. Side affects etc. What did your partner/wife think and there views etc.
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    Cialis

    Thank you. Looks good etc.
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    Cialis

    Hi All, Has anyone tried Cialis daily for ED issues. Does it work , side effects etc. Cheers Simply. [emoji3]
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    Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

    Hi All, Hope you are all well, not been on this forum for a long while now, and I am so happy that this post is still going strong. Well my morning reading was 5.2. Cheers Simply.
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    Low carb Indian Food.

    Hello All, Need some help for someone else. My friend is 65 year old male, who has type 2 but is using insulin; he also has cholesterol and has rheumatoid arthritis. He has also had a heart by-pass around 16 years ago. Now I have been chatting to him about low carb, but as he is of Indian...
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    Lets all get back to doing what we do best

    Nice to have you back. Simply. X
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    Have YOU ALL lost your WAY??

    Dear All, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ALL ARGUING ABOUT! We are all different types of people, we all have our own minds, this is a faceless (by faceless I mean no one is going to turn up on your door step, telling you what to do) forum, if you don’t agree with a person’s view, then you don’t have...
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    Just Some thoughts.

    Hello All, Hope we are all keeping well. I have been thinking that I have had the dreaded D since feb 2011 and at some stages it really did take over my life, it simply consumed by waking thoughts (sound strange I know) I guess the stress of it all did not help and the massive learning curve...
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    Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

    Re: Type 2's : What was your fasting blood glucose in a morn Good Morning all, I hope that we are all well. I checked my BS this morning and it was 5.2mmol.. Now normally I check it 1st thing, but I decided to shower and get ready 1st. So I guess 5.2 is not bad, as normally when i check it...
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    irritable bowel

    Hey, When I dropped on to Low carb, I had some issues in that department ect.. I found that if I used Ground Flax (From H&B) in water before bed, everything very soon returns to normal ect. Now I only have it every other day ect. I know some poeple add it to food or cook with it, but I found...
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    BM levels...

    HI there, I was given the bad news from a fasting test of (morning) of 7.1mmol and an Hba1C of 6.6%. To make 100% sure they then gave me a GGT, which was boaderline.. But the doctor and nusrse decided that I was diabetic from my HbA1c and Fasting results. They then put me on the following...