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I wish I’d had a nurse like her. Meanwhile, there are a lot of GPs who think they are are experts on diabetes. Often they aren’t.

Equally hba1c may not be accurate because the speed at which red blood cells die varies from person to person. We all know it’s possible for a stick and prick monitor to measure the last thing you touched. My cgm me gives results within 0.5% of my hba1c which seems reasonable. It shadows my...

T Thanks Jim

Good luck Claire

This is a bit contorted or Im being thick. What do you say is the reason?

NHS is penny wise, pound foolish with this. During a 9 week period when I low carbed, paid for libre myself and ate according to the information it gave, my hba1c went from 11.9 (107) to 7.3 (56). You could save the £100 a month it costs in drugs and consultations

Is this a GP or endocrinologist? If GP I would insist on seeing an endocrinologist or diabetologist - there’s a lot of gps who believe they are more expert than is born out by evidence. Good luck

Very interesting. I get high BG if I go for a fast bike ride - anything up to 15 briefly. I'm going to try your method.

The trouble is, what are you to do? Go around the world convincing every dunce you meet this is fake info? I feel like that at the gps, that it’s somehow been left to me to disabuse them of this **** one at a time. Of course I don’t do it. I am probably considered silent, sullen and difficult if...

I had short term memory failures while taking statins so I don’t. Doesn't stop new gps and DN asking me to do so. It’s such a bore. I think they’re just reading an on screen script

There’s a brilliant talk by the Canadian nephrologist Jason Fung about exactly this on YouTube. Some of it is counter intuitive which I expect explains the roomful of American doctors being rude to him. Insulin Toxicity - sorry I can't retrieve the web address from my phone

Exactly the same story here. I think lots of us have the same story. Keep low carbing. You will succeed

As others suggest, go to the doctor. Mine says he likes to rule out 'anything sinister.' This seems a good approach.

Peas make my BG rise, but not much - or perhaps I take a modest amount. Carrots ditto, but raw carrots not at all and I love raw carrots. Can't do onions. Sometimes replace them in cooking with spring onions. No oatmeal, no beans, no bread. No spuds. You get the picture. I think we are all...

This is quite uplifting to read. Congratulations

<<I'd focus on blood glucose first>> This is great advice. The trouble is for most newly diagnosed T2s diabetes presents a confusing blizzard of terms, requirements, definitions, acronyms. Most doctors and nurses are in a muddle over it, what is the poor patient to do?

I went the other way - black tea. But I love it in the coffee. Good luck

Protein is a great appetite suppressant, so a couple of boiled eggs for breakfast (whenever you have it) will make you feel much better than Weetabix or similar, once you acclimatise, and leave your blood glucose untouched. I've taken to avocados in the morning too - no effect on blood glucose...

It’s interesting the experience is so similar. I was a tea addict and therefore realised from the Libre I had been dosing myself with something that spiked my BG for 50 years - the milk. Nothing at all from cream. I also get the early hour deep dive in BG. Fasting and modest exercise sends my BG...