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HbA1c: 38.0 mmol/mol (5.6%) was 6.5% Dec 2011 Blood Pressure: 140/85 mmHg Total Cholesterol: 2.8 mmol/L was 3.8 in Oct 2011 HDL Cholesterol: 1.24 mmol/L was 1.05 LDL Cholesterol: 1.6 mmol/L was 2.0 Triglycerides: 1.0 mmol/L was 1.2 Creatinine: 81.0 umol/L was 80.0 The only...

When first diagnosed Diabetic I changed a few shopping items, one being butter, twice I've changed what I buy and after my misconception with the 'light' tag on yesterdays Nestle Coffee-Mate thread I thought I'd have a shufty at the nutritional values on the three butters ....which brought me to...

I was just curious as to what effect stress has on your daily blood tests. The reason I ask is my bloods for the best part of yesterday were higher than normal. Early in the day I received some bad news, horrid would describe it better, that way where your gut is hurting and you feel sick. It...

Should I be taking any, and if so what? I've read a few mentions of vitamins in various threads to the point it is now a niggle in the back of my head, a distraction I'd like to see addressed and laid to rest. When it comes to Vitamins a common response would be to get all your vitamins...

I've embraced the illness that is Diabetes, made radical changes in eating / lifestyle, to the point I'm really quite chuffed with how things are progressing several weeks in but, there's always a but, can I get the motivation to exercise :roll: Promised myself last week that on Monday I...

Attended the nurse today [month follow up] to give fasting bloods and apparently I should have brought a urine sample (nobody told me), I was given a bottle to hand in a sample when I'm at the doctors next week. Q) Does this urine sample have to be fasting as well like the blood samples? I...

I'm curious as to what impact Metformin has on the numeric value of a BG test. I missed tablets twice today, lunch and dinner, the 2hr post dinner reading nudged into double figures, 10.6, how much would the medication have reduced that value. Did I read somewhere between 1>2?

Hi, big hello to the forum :D I've recently been diagnosed as Type 2 and having done a power of reading I'm still full of questions so thought I'd best sign up and get them all addressed, I'll post them up in the Q&A section when my heads sorted...that could be a while :| Tell a lie I'm...